Crime scene: the brothers

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	The brothers
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	MR
length	80 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 204 ( List )
First broadcast	April 17, 1988 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Heinz Schirk
script	Heinz Schirk
production	Hans Prescher
music	Karl Eckert
camera	Werner Hoffmann , Armin Alker
cut	Elke Herbener , Sabine Gräfe
occupation
Karl-Heinz von Hassel : Edgar Brinkmann, KHK Hans-Werner Bussinger : Horst Falb, detective inspector Thomas Ahrens : Robert Wegner, police chief Wolfgang Mascher : Gerd Therkatz Barbara Magdalena Ahren : Hanna Therkatz Lutz Mackensy : Helo Schwartze Franz Rudnick : Wilhelm Ramm Ronald Nitschke : Mike Schulz Veronika Faber : Sonja Schulz Hans Wyprächtiger : Fred Berutzke Hans Clarin : Kalle Sofie Engelke : Erna Helga Kruck : Frau von der Golz Mogens von Gadow : Sand, lawyer Horst Bergmann : Chief Detective Konstantin Schirk : Student Manfred Boehm : Forensic Technician Silvia Tietz : Secretary Simone Kümmel : actress Maja Scholz : Therkatz's daughter Michael von Rospatt : theater director Jochen Rühlmann : Emergency doctor Eckart Rühl : Dieter Junck : Egon Reimers :

Die Brüder is a television film from the crime series Tatort , produced by Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) under the direction of Heinz Schirk and broadcast for the first time on April 17, 1988 in the program Das Erste . It is the 204th episode of the crime scene and the fourth case of the Frankfurt chief detective Edgar Brinkmann .

action

In the backyard of the illegal playroom "Schwarze Nelke" the corpse of journalist Dr. Hubert Rieber found. His throat was cut with a broken wine bottle. Sonja Schulz discovers him first and calls the police. Commissioner Falb takes over the investigation and questions the witness who works as a waitress in the "Black Carnation" and is married to the owner of the restaurant. She reports that the victim had an argument with her husband who accused Rieber of having acted wrong. She mentions Gerd Therkatz, who was also a guest at the “Black Carnation” the day before, as a witness to the incident. Mike Schulz admits to having thrown the man out after he had once again had too much to drink and refused to foot the bill. However, he would not have done anything to him.

Inspector Falb asks his superior to hand the case over to Inspector Brinkmann, because Gerd Therkatz Falb is half-brother and possibly suspect. Brinkmann willingly takes over and is the first to interview Rieber's partner, Helo Schwartze. This confirms Rieber's addiction to gambling and alcohol. He also knows of an old dispute between Therkatz and Riebers. This is confirmed after Falb speaks to his brother and he tells him that Rieber knew about Therkatz's untaxed business and blackmailed him with it. But there are other people who did not speak well about Rieber. When Rieber was still working as a film and theater critic, he had hurt the actor Fred Berutzke a lot with his reviews. The same goes for a young musician who took her own life after being criticized by Rieber. Her uncle, the antique dealer Wilhelm Ramm, is still suffering from her death.

Brinkmann finds out that Riebers owned a valuable necklace that he inherited from his mother and that he should not have sold despite his financial problems. There may also be a motive for the murder here. Brinkmann thinks Helo Schwartze is suspicious, but after he is found strangled in his apartment, he leaves. So Therkatz remains the main suspect and since he's hiding, that doesn't exactly speak for him. Commissioner Falb is also convinced that his brother, who had only worried her mother since he was a child, may now have gone too far. When he wants to confront him at the end of his private research, Therkatz runs away and runs in front of a car. When Falb phones Brinkmann, he has to find out that the real perpetrator has since been convicted.

In the face of overwhelming evidence against him, Wilhelm Ramm confesses that he ambushed Rieber in the backyard of the "Black Carnation" and fatally injured him with the wine bottle. Unexpectedly, Helo Schwartze saw everything because he wanted to pick up Rieber. Schwartze blackmailed him thereupon, and since he did not know what to do otherwise, he would have killed him too.

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv writes: "The staging is [...] only moderately exciting." The critic also says: "Schirk's staging is not particularly conspicuous, the music all the more because it sounds incredibly dramatic in the most inappropriate places seems extremely ridiculous three decades later. "

The TV feature film television newspaper says: "As usual, 'Fliege' digs slowly in the dirt."

Web links

• Crime scene: The brothers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the plot of The Brothers on the ARD website
• The brothers at the crime scene fund
• The brothers at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Karl-Heinz von Hassel in Heinz Schirks Schwulen- & Kritiker-Hatz anno 1988 film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 2, 2015.
2. ↑ Die Brothers short review at TV-Spielfilm, accessed on December 3, 2015.

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