Crime scene: The Phoenix deal

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The Phoenix deal
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SFB
length 85 minutes
classification Episode 339 ( List )
First broadcast July 28, 1996 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Peter Ristau
script Frank Grützbach
production Angela Gillner
music Arno Fisser
camera Arthur W. Ahrweiler
cut Ute Rall
occupation

The Phoenix Deal is a television film from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by the SFB and first broadcast on July 28, 1996. It is the second case of the investigator duo Roiter and Zorowski and the 339th crime scene episode. Roiter and Zorowski have the murder of a supposedly homeless and its involvement in the GDR - art trade on the KOKO clarified.

action

After a horse race, the vet Dr. Despite the pleading of his assistant Susi, Hassler brought in an injured racehorse that was sent to the track despite the impairment. The homeless Persico, who lost money in the race, tells his young friend Dizzi about his fondness for Asian art, especially a Chinese phoenix amulet. Dizzi works as a “scout” for a talk show and has given Persico a place on the show. While the recorded program is being broadcast on television, Roiter and Zorowski are called to the television studio because Persico's body was found on the toilet during the recording. At first everything points to heart failure, but the forensics department determines that the body has been dragged to the place where it was found. The officials also find out that Persico apparently had a permanent residence in the inner city of Berlin, and the editors also tell them that Dizzi had put Persico in the show. The officers find many Asian art objects in Persico's apartment, and they also discover that someone must have already been in the apartment.

The next morning, Dizzi is looking for Dr. Hassler's assistant Susi, with whom he is in love, and tells her that Persico is dead. Now he wants to know from Susi what is true of Persico's talk. Meanwhile, Roiter learns in Pathology that Persico had a pacemaker and evidence that he was incapacitated by a stun gun , such as those used in slaughterhouses. The bestselling author and noble dropout Benedikt Florsheim, who was also on the talk show, is looking for Dr. Hassler and reproaches him, because he should have known that Persico died of the electric shock. Hassler assures that he did not know about Persico's heart disease and that you will only be able to detect heart failure anyway. Roiter and Zorowski go to Dizzi, who says that he doesn't know Persico any longer, that he left the show shortly before his death and went to the toilet. Persico had been invited to stand up to Florsheim on the show. Dizzi later visits the pawnbroker Brandwein and asks him about the piece of jewelry that he had bought for Persico before the broadcast, in order to bring it to Persico on the broadcast. Brandwein explains to him that it is the Phoenix amulet and that there was illegal trade in art treasures like these during the GDR era.

In the studio with his colleague Zorowski, Roiter is looking for the old NVA jacket that Persico had worn on the show and which later disappeared. The editor remembers that Florsheim took the jacket with her after the show. Dizzi meets with Susi, shows her the Phoenix amulet and wants to know the background. He tells her that Persico almost freaked out when he found out that Florsheim would also be on the show. After Susi explains the background to him, Dizzi calls Hassler and suggests a deal. He is ready to hand over the Chinese phoenix to him if he pays him accordingly. Meanwhile, Roiter and Zorowski learn from the talk show editor that Florsheim was brought to the airport, but that she saw him drive into town half an hour later. Florsheim, who overheard the blackmail call from Dizzi, is getting more and more nervous, but Hassler assures him that the matter is still under control. Roiter and Zorowski set their sights on Florsheim and determine that he was involved in KOKO's GDR art trade. The officials also determined that Persico was actually called Lamberz and was also employed by KOKO.

Roiter is looking for the lawyer Dr. Benedict tells Roiter about the collaboration between Lamberz, Florsheim and Hassler. Florsheim was responsible for the investigation of art objects in the GDR, Lamberz and Hassler then drove them in with brutal means in order to sell them to the West. This is how they came to the Asian art collection from private ownership. Lamberz had a remorse and became an alcoholic, Roiter suspected that he wanted to unpack on the talk show. One of the pieces of jewelry in the collection has disappeared, Roiter correctly suspects that Lamberz had it in his possession. Freck-Fraksen, the trio's former supervisor, is meanwhile being pressured by his Asian business partners to surrender the Phoenix amulet, they have an agreement, Freck-Fraksen assures that they will be able to deliver it soon. Hassler brings his assistant Susi under his control and pressures her to tell him where Dizzi has hidden the amulet. While looking through the files, Roiter and Zorowski come across Brandwein, who tells them about the Phoenix amulet that Dizzi had triggered on him the previous evening. When the officers found out that the piece of jewelery was worth half a million marks, they searched Dizzi's trailer. At this moment Dizzi receives a call from Susi, who begs him to hand over the amulet to Hassler and Florsheim, while Roiter finds the amulet in the caravan.

Roiter instructs Dizzi for a fictitious handover, in which the officers act in the background with a large number. Dizzi is overwhelmed with a stun gun at the handover of Florsheim and Florsheim takes the piece of jewelry from him. Immediately afterwards, Florsheim is again attacked by the Asian business partners Freck -Fraksens. The officers succeed in overpowering and arresting the Asians and Florsheim and securing the Phoenix amulet, only Hassler escapes, but is pursued by Zorowski. Florsheim flees to an office building in the city center, Roiter storms it and arrests Freck-Fraksen, who is currently threading the art deal with Korean business partners, the entire art collection can be seized. Meanwhile, Dizzi says that he initially only got to know Lamberz through his scouting work and that he only saw his chance to earn money after his death. He goes on to say that the talk guests find out half an hour in advance which other guests are there. Florsheim, who had already set up accounts in Spain during the GDR era and later concealed the funds through his writing activities, had enough time to call Hassler, who wanted to calm down Lamberz with the stun gun. In Hassler's stable, the officers discover Florsheim's certificate and NVA jacket hidden there, so that they can prove to Hassler that Lamberz was killed.

production

The crime scene The Phoenix Deal is a production on behalf of the SFB for Das Erste . The film was shot in and around Berlin . When it first aired on July 28, 1996, The Phoenix Deal had 4.96 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 18.05%.

The twelve films of the SFB with Winfried Glatzeder were not recorded on conventional film material, but with the help of Betacam video cameras, which resulted in a video clip aesthetic of the films that has been widely criticized. Police call 110: Seven Days of Freedom , produced by the SFB in 1995 , was also recorded in this format and also criticized.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film as mediocre and commented "Crime is also an art ...".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​The Phoenix deal at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ The Roiter era - 12 crime scenes from Berlin. at tatort-fundus.de
  3. ↑ The Phoenix Deal TV feature film
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