Crime scene: the journey to death
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The journey to death |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MDR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 349 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 29, 1996 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Panzer |
| script | Hans-Werner Honert |
| production |
Hans-Werner Honert Piotr Dejmek |
| music | Filippo Trecca |
| camera | Edwin Horak |
| cut |
Stefan Arnsten Claudio Di Mauro |
| occupation | |
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Die Reise in den Tod is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD , ORF and SRF . The film was produced by MDR under the direction of Wolfgang Panzer and first broadcast on December 29, 1996. It is the crime scene episode 349. For detective chief Bruno Ehrlicher and his colleague Kain , it is the 12th case that they are investigating from Dresden .
In this episode, Commissioner Ehrlicher has to solve the violent death of his own wife.
action
Bruno Ehrlicher's wife has gone on vacation alone and surprisingly calls from Krakow. She still wants to do something for a friend she met here in Poland and whom she would like to help. Immediately after opening a luggage locker at the Kraków train station, an explosive device detonates and Lore Ehrlicher is dead on the spot. Ehrlicher is supposed to come to Kraków for identification. There he meets Commissioner Halski from Warsaw , who is leading the investigation. In Ehrlicher's wife's suitcase there are video recordings from her vacation in which she can be seen with a strange man. This man can be identified as a tanner and is the head of an international smuggling ring. Accordingly, Lore Ehrlicher is now seen as an accomplice and her husband is no longer welcome. Still, he can't help it and wants to find his wife's murderer. Together with Cain, who has traveled to see him, he makes his way to the Tatra Mountains , where Lore spent her vacation. There they meet Gerber, who is still there and supposedly does not know anything about the attack. On her last phone call, Ehrlicher's wife spoke of a friend she wanted to help because their car had an accident and was burned out. The police were not aware of an accident and so Ehrlicher and Kain search for the wreck themselves, which they can actually find. Then they go back to Dresden, because the car had a Dresden number and was reported as stolen by the owner of a pet shop.
Meanwhile, Gerber meets with his accomplice and hurries away from the Tatra Mountains. He too wants to find the woman Lore had come into contact with. However, he knows that it is an Ingrid Merkel who wants to cheat him about his latest illegal shipment. The bomb in the locker, which was wrongly opened by Lore Ehrlicher, was intended for Merkel. She was supposed to find 100,000 DM in it and to return the shipping documents from Gerber's next delivery, which she had stolen from him. With a certain premonition, Merkel had therefore sent someone else.
The Polish police are gradually figuring out that the woman they are looking for must come from Dresden. So inspector Halski travels to Ehrlicher and is now investigating with him. In the meantime, Gerber has killed her father while searching for Merkel, while she manages to eliminate his accomplice. After Ehrlicher arrested her friend Volodja Gremtschuk, he managed to find Ingrid Merkel's hiding place through him. He and Kain and Commissioner Halski arrive just in time to save Merkel's life, because Gerber has also found her in the meantime. He is arrested and Merkel is also arrested.
background
The Journey to Death was produced by Saxonia Media Filmproduktion GmbH and shot in Dresden and Krakow .
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on December 29, 1996, the episode Die Reise in den Tod was seen by 6.48 million viewers in Germany, corresponding to a market share of 18.09 percent.
criticism
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm give their thumbs up and say: "The story surprises with unexpected feint [and is at the same time a] successful German-Polish rapprochement."
Web links
- Crime scene: The journey to death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Die Reise in den Tod on the ARD website
- The journey to death in the crime scene fund
- The journey to death at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 9, 2016.
- ↑ Inspector Ehrlicher mourns his murdered wife. Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 9, 2016.
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