Crime scene: black pudding waltz

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Black pudding waltz
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SFB
length 117 minutes
classification Episode 248 ( List )
First broadcast September 22, 1991 on German television
Rod
Director Wolfgang Becker
script Horst J. Sczerba
music Kai Reinhardt
camera Martin Kukula
cut Dagmar Bläsing (as Dagmar Blaesing)
occupation

Blutwurstwalzer is an episode of the ARD crime series Tatort . The episode produced by the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB) was first broadcast on September 22, 1991 on ARD . It is the third case with chief detective Franz Markowitz, who has to do with the murder of a young man in the milieu of gun freaks in the vicinity of a pub. At 117 minutes, the episode is one of the longest in Tatort history.

action

The allegedly former Foreign Legionnaire Randy guides his friends Hansi and Alex during target practice in a basement. Because they urgently need money, they steal from a taxi driver shortly afterwards. With the money they have a duplicate key for an illegal warehouse made by Alex's employer, the restaurateur Horst Bannasch, in a junkyard. Then Alex drives to his work at the choleric Bannasch; who also pretends to have been with the Foreign Legion at some point. Meanwhile, Randy chases after Hansi, who is having a relationship with his girlfriend Lizzi. He watched them both jealously. After Lizzi leaves, Randy breaks into the apartment, knocks his rival in the bathtub and sets the apartment on fire. Hansi comes to and takes refuge on the scaffolding. But since Randy had previously loosened a fastening, Hansi breaks through the railing of the scaffolding and falls into the depths. In the hospital, he is transferred to the room of Chief Inspector Franz Markowitz, who is there for follow-up treatment for a biliary operation that he has survived. Hansi, still dazed, reports fragments of the attack on him. That same night, Hansi steals from Markowitz and escapes from the clinic. In front of the clinic, however, Hansi is deliberately run over by Randy in his car and there succumbs to his injuries.

While Markowitz and Pohl are in the hospital to identify Hansi's corpse, Randy drives to Alex and Lizzi in Bannasch's bar unmoved. Because of the personnel problems of the homicide squad, Markowitz investigates despite his hospital stay, seeks out Hansi's father and questions him. The father threw his son out the year before and has not seen him since. He says Hansi had a gun trick. He went into the armed forces voluntarily, but was released after a short time for theft of comrades. He only had one friend whose name he does not know. In the burned-out apartment, Markowitz finds evidence of Hansi's break-in. Hansi's employer, a drinks delivery company, cannot give Markowitz any further information, as Hansi didn't talk to him much about private matters. However, Markowitz accompanies him on his delivery trip to the Bannasch restaurant and meets Alex there, who answers his questions dismissively. Markowitz later visits the boxing club that Hansi has visited and asks the coach Hermann, who is his friend, about him. There he sees Alex again during boxing training. Hermann tells him that the victim and Alex were friends.

Randy is still a big influence on Alex and gives him military lessons. Alex is suspicious of some clues in Randy's behavior and checks his car for signs of an accident in the evening. The next morning Markowitz visits Alex, who is still living with his mother. There the inspector noticed that Alex obviously had expensive consumer electronics, even though he couldn't actually earn much in the pub. However, Markowitz does not find out anything about Alex's relationship with Hansi. At Hansi's funeral, Markowitz gives Alex Hansi's earring in hopes of getting him to talk, but Alex remains silent and seems to have other plans. Alex discovers photos in Randy's clothes that show Lizzi's relationship with Hansi, and since Randy had the pictures with him, he probably knew about them too. Markowitz visits Bannasch's Kaschemme to keep an eye on Alex. While he happened to look out of the toilet window, he notices that Bannasch is involved in stolen goods . Randy Markowitz goes home, asked by Alex, and he tells him that he's on the homicide squad. He asks Randy about Hansi; he pretends not to know Hansi. Bannasch, concerned about the presence of the police in his area, hastily has Alex and Randy take the stolen goods out of his bar.

Randy blames Alex for letting a cop take him away. In addition, they reproach each other for using Bannasch's stolen goods. Randy suddenly tries to run Alex over in Bannasch's illegal warehouse in the junkyard. When this fails, he shoots Alex, but misses him. Meanwhile, Markowitz carries out a raid on Bannasch's restaurant, but he can no longer find anything of the stolen goods. In the basement, Markowitz notices traces of Randy's target practice with the young men. Markowitz and Pohl also find war weapons in the cellar. Bannasch now refuses to testify and is arrested. Alex has not left the junkyard, sneaks up to Randy's car, steals his gun and threatens him with it. Randy, for his part, threatens Alex with a knife, laughs at him for having unloaded the gun and mockingly shows him the cartridges. But Alex manages to kick a cartridge out of Randy's hand and load the gun. He shoots Randy in the neck with it. He calls Lizzi and tells her that he killed Randy in self-defense . She advises him to let the body disappear, then their conversation is interrupted by a policeman in Bannasch's pub. Alex removes all traces and throws the murder weapon into the Spree. When he wants to dispose of the corpse, he realizes that he has locked himself out of the car. Two policemen arrive and help Alex open the car. Alex can drive on without the officers noticing the body. He finally wants to dispose of the dead body in a forest, but finds out to his horror that Randy is still alive. Alex decides to save Randy, but the door of Randy's car sticks again. The victim is too weak to get into the car. He finally dies on site. The next morning his body is found in the forest.

Alex goes to Lizzi; she wants to help Alex and washes his clothes. Markowitz also visits Lizzi. He asks her about her relationship with Hansi, because Markowitz has meanwhile found the confidential photos of her and Hansi. He thinks he knows for sure that Randy killed Hansi. Markowitz goes to Alex in the boxing club; he denies killing Randy. Markowitz announces that he also wants to examine Alex's shoes, which he certainly did not clean. When Markowitz confronts him with Lizzi's statement, Alex pulls out the knife Randy had threatened him with the previous evening and threatens Markowitz. In this threat situation, the commissioner sends all his colleagues out so that he can talk to Alex alone. Markowitz begs to give up and indicates to Alex that the expected prison sentence will not be very high, whereupon Alex finally gives up. The paternal Markowitz fails to report this incident and also swears his colleagues on it.

background

The episode was filmed in Berlin in 1991 ; With a playing time of 117 minutes, it is one of the longest in Tatort history. Ernst-Georg Schwill , who later played Hellmann and Ritter's long-term colleague and Ritter and Stark , Lutz Weber, made his first Tatort appearance here.

When it was first broadcast, the film reached 14.4 million viewers, making it one of the most successful in the series.

The title of the film alludes to the foreign legionnaire's song " Le Boudin ". Le Boudin (dt. The blood sausage ) is actually a blue wool blanket that was tied in the shape of a sausage on the backpack of the French Foreign Legionnaires . The legion's most famous marching song is named after this former piece of equipment. The (fictional) Berlin bar of the film character Bannasch ( Heinz Hoenig ), in which the film's protagonists frequent, is also called “Le Boudin”.

criticism

The television magazine TV Spielfilm assessed this crime scene positively and stated: “Despite the excess length, a gripping milieu study”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crime scene: blood sausage waltz data on the 248th crime scene at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ TV Spielfilm, issue 18/2017, page 146
  3. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on April 8, 2015.
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