Crime scene: act in the sun

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Act in the sun
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MR
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 351 ( List )
First broadcast February 2, 1997 on Das Erste
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Director Heinz Schirk
script Heinz Schirk
music Axel Donner
camera Werner Hoffmann
cut Carmen Vieten
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Akt in der Sonne is a television film from the crime series Tatort which was produced by Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) under the direction of Heinz Schirk and broadcast for the first time on February 2, 1997 in the program Das Erste . It is the 351st crime scene episode and the fifteenth case of the Frankfurt chief detective Edgar Brinkmann .

This time Brinkmann is dealing with a complex case of murder, robbery and fraud.

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Udo Bode is released from prison and has to find out that his wife has left him along with the furnishings. His seventeen-year-old daughter has also disappeared without a trace and Bode's accounts have been cleared by his wife. Having become so penniless, he immediately embarks on a “crooked” business. It is supposed to steal a picture from a villa: Nude in the sun .

Sigrid Gogel, the daughter of the wealthy and rather eccentric old lady who owns the painting, does not have a good relationship with her mother. Again and again she has to ask her for money, which she doesn't want to give her this time. On the contrary, Ms. von Fichtel wants to give all of her assets to a foundation so that her lavish daughter can finally take care of herself. Just that night, when Bode is about to steal the picture, an unknown person appears and shoots Frau von Fichtel. Afraid of being discovered, Bode flees without the picture and wants to get it a short time later. This time he is disturbed by the housekeeper who can see him but cannot recognize him because of his masking. When Bode wants to hand the picture over to his clients, he is betrayed by them. Without further ado, he flees with the picture and his buddy Karl in the car. His client's accomplice shoots the car and fatally hits Karl.

Inspector Brinkmann is called to the villa and experiences a guerrilla war between the housekeeper and the Gogels. Allegedly Ms. von Fichtel had promised the picture Gerda Sinkel for her loyal service, but she did not have this in writing. Brinkmann first tracks down the intruder. Since Udo Bode had previously worked for a security company that installed the alarm system in the villa, he quickly came under suspicion. The housekeeper, Gerda Sinkel, identified Bode by his eyes, which she could briefly see. He is arrested and interrogated. Brinkmann is able to prove the break-in, but he persistently denies and even manages to escape from police custody. Fortunately, his daughter has moved in with her grandmother and he can ask her for help. Little does he know that his clients are watching Evchen in order to find Bode and the picture. They kidnap the girl and force Bode to give them the picture. In his fear, he calls Brinkmann and asks for help. He informs him of his two employers and after Evchen manages to escape the kidnappers, he lures them into a trap. The police can arrest Rene Lieb Acher with the painting and his accomplices Arno Folleck and the latter based on gunshot residue of the murder of Bode's sidekick Karl convict.

Bode himself is still hiding and hopes that Brinkmann will also find Frau von Fichtel's murderer so that he can be exonerated in this regard. In the meantime he had admitted the theft during a phone call and said that he had seen Frau von Fichtel's murderer but had not recognized it. His buddy Karl would have seen a blue VW drive away with a little bitch on the rear window. When trying to find this car himself, Bode can be arrested by the police.

Sigrid Gogel finds a handwritten will in her mother's bedside table, which the housekeeper identifies as the heir to the painting. Without further ado, she burns it and takes a look around the housekeeper's room with her husband. There they find various items that their mother owned, which they had missed for a long time, and a household book, which shows that the "good" housekeeper had sold valuable items from the villa for years. They confront Gerda Sinkel with their discovery and throw her out of the villa. After Brinkmann showed a brief interest in her and took her to the presidium, her fiancé Alex Alkmann broke off her engagement. Disappointed, Gerda Sinkel moves to her sister, who owns a blue VW. In the end it turns out that Sinkel's fiancé had helped the old lady's death while awaiting the inheritance of the picture. Brinkmann arrests him after he also tried to kill Gerda Sinkel, who had since found out everything.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Akt in der Sonne on February 2, 1997, Das Erste had a market share of 19.10 percent and was seen by 6.95 million viewers in Germany.

Reviews

The TV feature film television newspaper points the thumb down and says: “Dramaturgically as well as technically simple and played almost like an amateur. Author and director Heinz Schirk mashed up a kaleidoscope of human aberrations to a true low point in the 'Tatort' series. "Overall, the film is" involuntarily funny and played wooden. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on December 10, 2015.
  2. ↑. An art thief is suspected of murder. short review at TV-Spielfilm, accessed on December 10, 2015.
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