Tatort: ​​The silent business

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The silent business
Crime scene 081 brammer.svg
Country of production Germany
Production
company		 NDR
length 95 minutes
classification Episode 81 ( List )
First broadcast November 6, 1977 on ARD
Rod
Director Jürgen Roland
script Joachim Wedegärtner ,
Fred Zander
production Fred Otto
music Nils Sustrate
camera Bernd Schofeld
cut Inge Bohmann
occupation

The silent business is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by NDR and broadcast for the first time on November 6, 1977. It is the 81st episode in the crime scene series, the fourth with Commissioner Brammer .

action

The episode begins with an opening credits in which viewers are prepared for the espionage case. In a traffic accident one comes DDR - Agent with false passport killed. The police found a control module for the aiming system of the Leopard 1 in his glove compartment, which was stolen by Sergeant Ulli Meineke after a test shooting. However, he did not do this voluntarily. A few weeks earlier, the Stasi agent Jahn contacted his wife Ina under the guise of a textile representative . She runs a boutique and is in need of money. Jahn took advantage of this and was able to persuade her to photograph her husband's secret documents.

When Meineke discovered his wife's espionage, he wanted to inform the Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD), but refrained from doing so out of consideration for his wife. When Jahn then put him under pressure, he agreed to get the entire control module, believing that it would not be discovered. Now that the police have found the module and are investigating Meineke's tank unit, the couple panic. On Jahn's advice, Meineke directs suspicion on his deputy superior Lanz by hiding espionage material in his apartment. Lanz is arrested by Brammer and Delius in his apartment after he did not show up for duty. The evidence found in his apartment is overwhelming, but Lanz protests his innocence.

As soon as Meineke thinks he is safe, Jahn asks him to steal the module again. He again exchanges it for a dummy and leaves the barracks under a false pretext . After handing over the part, Meineke is certain that he will not be able to stay with the troops for much longer and plans to flee to the GDR. His wife is supposed to come and he thinks Jahn will help him. However, this is previously unrecognized by rail to the east.

During a target practice on the training area , the tank with the wrong module fails and almost hits one of its own tanks. The barracks are immediately put on alert. Meineke cannot reach his wife and therefore goes to the shared apartment. There he discovers her in the bedroom after she has taken her own life out of desperation. Shortly afterwards Brammer and Delius arrive and arrest Meineke.

production

The crime scene was filmed with the support of the Military Counter-Intelligence Service . In May 1977 , the shooting locations were Hamburg , the Lüneburg Heath and the Schlieffen barracks in Lüneburg . The tank battalion 84 presented the soldiers , tanks and film sets barracks and Technical Area.

Trivia

Web links

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December 4th, 1977: The girl across the street

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Helmut R. Hammerich : "Always on the enemy!" - The Military Shield Service (MAD) 1956–1990 . 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-36392-8 , pp. 451–456 ( limited preview in the Google book search - chapter: The “crime scene” episodes with MAD Lieutenant Colonel Delius).