Crime scene: Fatal gallop
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Deadly gallop |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 364 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | June 29, 1997 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Panzer |
| script | Helmut Richter |
| production | Hans-Werner Honert |
| music | Filippo Trecca |
| camera | Edwin Horak |
| cut | Claudio di Mauro |
| occupation | |
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Tödlicher Galopp is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD , ORF and SRF . The film was produced by MDR and first broadcast on June 29, 1997. It is the crime scene episode 364. For the detective chief inspector Bruno Ehrlicher ( Peter Sodann ) and his colleague Kain ( Bernd Michael Lade ) it is the 14th case they are investigating in Dresden .
action
After a horse race on the Dresden-Seidnitz racecourse , the canter “Feuerteufel” and his rider Agnes Demrau are disqualified on suspicion of doping. A short time later she is found dead by the horse boxes. The coroner suspects poison as the cause of death and suicide is ruled out.
The commissioners Ehrlicher and Kain are supposed to investigate the case, but due to an accident Kain is out of action. Ehrlicher is alone in search of a motif that he associates with Demrau's much older friend Brekelsen. He is married in Leipzig and also lives there. After examining the sugar lumps he gave the horse, it was clear that this was the cause of the doping agent being administered to “fire devils”. Ehrlicher goes to Leipzig and wants to obtain an arrest warrant against Brekelsen, since he is definitely the murderer of Agnes Demrau. These assumptions are too vague for the Leipzig magistrate, after all, the suspect is one of the city's major economic promoters and cannot be locked up so easily. Honest should give him more facts. Brekelsen is the driving force behind a large construction project in Leipzig. For this largest European amusement park, investors are even planning to give way to the racetrack and move it to the outskirts. The allegations against Brekelsen would "stir up dust" and are not good for Leipzig's image.
During the interrogation it turns out that Brekelsen had received the sugar pieces from Kasunke, a horse connoisseur and regular visitor to the racecourses. The two always make private bets against each other and this time Kasunke wanted to manipulate that in his favor. In Brekelsen's eyes, Kasunke is one of those “forever yesterday” who opposes any progress and further development of the city. Kasunke has a similarly bad opinion of his adversary, who in his opinion only cares about success and his reputation. The commissioner gets a similar impression when he meets the investors from Liechtenstein. Consul Aust wants to bribe him so he can get Brekelsen out of the headlines, but Ehrlicher makes it unmistakably clear to him that he is not for sale. Shortly thereafter, he was shot at. Honest is not deterred by this and continues to investigate against Brekelsen. Although his wife tries to take on the act, Ehrlicher finds out that Alfred Brekelsen himself had silenced Agnes Demrau so that she would not make his plans for the racetrack public, which she had threatened after the doping affair . Before Ehrlicher can arrest Brekelsen, Kasunke appears at his house and accuses him of killing Agnes Demrau, whom he liked very much and who grew up with him. In his pain he shoots Brekelsen. Ehrlicher quickly finds the lead to Kasunke, to whom he makes it clear that completely different people are actually to blame for the girl's death. Therefore he persuades Kasunke to help him to set a trap for the real culprits who want to "destroy" the racecourse and the tradition of Leipzig. He also wants to hold the guilty party who shot at him accountable. That works so far, but there is an exchange of fire in Kasunke's house, in which Kasunke is injured and one of Aust's bodyguards is killed. He has Aust himself arrested at the airport, where he waited in vain for his "employees" to return.
Despite Ehrlicher's personal sympathy for Kasunke and his not harmless work in the service of police work, Kasunke has to answer for Brekelsen's death.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Tödlicher Galopp on June 29, 1997 was seen by a total of 5.53 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 18.1 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave this crime scene a medium rating and wrote: “It's a shame: Too many script hurdles prevent an exciting spurt.” As an overall conclusion, they drew: “This crime thriller is lame despite its horsepower”.
Web links
- Crime scene: Deadly gallop in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Deadly Gallop on the ARD website
- Deadly gallop at the crime scene fund
- Deadly gallop at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience rating at tatort-blog, accessed on February 16, 2016.
- ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on November 23, 2015.
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