Crime scene: The Chinese method
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Chinese method |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Bavarian radio |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 251 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | November 10, 1991 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Maria Knilli |
| script |
Volker Maria Arend Andreas Missler-Morell |
| production | Jürgen Dohme |
| music | Roman Bunka |
| camera | Klaus Eichhammer |
| cut | Helga Kriller |
| occupation | |
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The Chinese Method is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk under the direction of Maria Knilli was first broadcast on November 10, 1991 in the first as the 251st episode in the series. For Commissioners Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr it is the third case in which they are investigating.
action
At a happy carnival party in the Biederstein dormitory , a Chinese student is stabbed to death by a stranger in a gorilla costume. The Munich commissioners Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr are called to the scene of the crime, where their colleague Carlo Menzinger has already started the investigation. When the commissioners look around the victim's apartment, they meet Mok, a young Chinese man. The survey turns out to be difficult because initially no suitable interpreter for Cantonese can be found. After this succeeds, Batic and Leitmayr find out that the murdered man belonged to a group of Chinese protection racketeers. With their Chinese method of renting exotic ornamental fish to Chinese restaurants, the Chinese restaurants are also being blackmailed.
The investigators' investigations are increasingly directed towards the Chinese Chow, whom they believe to be the head of the protection money mafia and who, after the death of his employee, is now demonstrating his power to the restaurant owners and demanding that the murderer be extradited. When Batic and Leitmayr offer their help to the locals, the owners are silent and are not very cooperative. Your clan is completely isolated and it is difficult for investigators to break through the wall of silence. Only when Batic helps the daughter of the restaurant owner Man Ki to find her father's dog does an understanding appear to be reached.
Meanwhile, Chow continues to terrorize his "customers" to find out the killer's name. At a gathering of Chinese restaurant owners, Man Ki announced that he was handing the life of his future son-in-law Lo into the hands of his colleagues. At the same time, his daughter speaks to Batic and confesses that her fiancé committed the murder. He also wants to eliminate Chow himself and the entire blackmail organization. Leitmayr tries to stop him, but Chow kills Lo in self-defense beforehand.
Batic and Leitmayr are now trying, although the murder case has been solved, to put Chow and his organization down. Batic therefore asks the Chinese restaurant owners' congregation to testify against Chow, otherwise he cannot help them. But they don't dare because they fear Chow's revenge. The commissioners are therefore starting a surveillance and wiretapping campaign to monitor Chow. This is how they manage to track down Chow and his backers. With a trick they get one of Chow's "errand boys" to talk and he betrays one of his accomplices. Shortly afterwards, the traitor is killed on Chow's orders. The betrayed man faces the same fate when the police interrogate him and the organization fears it will be betrayed. In his fear of death, which the officers secretly stir up, Wang testifies and the police then want to arrest Chow. Before that happens, Chow himself is killed by one of his backers, but the crime cannot be proven.
reception
criticism
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm say: “You always wanted to know why there is an aquarium in every Chinese restaurant? Here you can find out! "With the thumbs up, they state:" Chinatown on the Isar - really criminal. "
Audience rating
The first broadcast of The Chinese Method on November 10, 1991 achieved a market share of 29.0 percent for Das Erste among television viewers in Germany .
Web links
- Crime scene: The Chinese method in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of The Chinese Method on the ARD website
- The Chinese method for the crime scene fund
- The Chinese method at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Tatort: The Chinese Method . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ The Chinese Method. The Munich cops are reaching cultural limits. Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on June 23, 2015.
- ↑ The Chinese audience rating method at tatort-blog.de, accessed on June 23, 2015.
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