Crime scene: deployment in Leipzig

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Use in Leipzig
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	MDR
length	88 minutes
classification	Episode 432 ( List )
First broadcast	January 2, 2000 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Thomas Freundner
script	Fred Breinersdorfer
production	Jan Kruse
music	JJ Gerndt
camera	Frank Küpper
cut	Margrit Schulz
occupation
Peter Sodann : KHK Bruno Ehrlicher Bernd Michael Lade : KHK Kain Jürgen Heinrich : Josef Casati Hannes Hellmann : Richard Merz Gottfried Richter : Policeman Nadeshda Brennicke : Jenny Golenhofen Roman Knižka : Bob Vodenka Olaf Rauschenbach : Frieder Vodenka Wolf-Dietrich Berg : Lawyer Harald Effenberg : tax investigator Annekathrin Bürger : Frederike Walter Nickel : Walter, forensic scientist Holger Fuchs : Hans Karl Müller, tax investigator Aline Vasquez-Keller : Police officer Stanislaw Brankatschk : Police officer Kathrin Freundner : Police officer Annette El-Chanati : Lawyer Wilfried Keindorf : Closer Angelika Ritter : Policeman Hannelore Schubert : porter Christoph Lissmann : Gravedigger Christiane Zeiske : bank clerk

Use in Leipzig is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD , ORF and SRF . The film was produced by MDR under the direction of Thomas Freundner and first broadcast on January 2, 2000. It is about the crime scene episode 432. For the chief detective Bruno Ehrlicher and his colleague Kain it is the first case they investigate in Leipzig .

action

In Leipzig a bank is robbed again. As in previous cases, the perpetrators manage to set the wrong track in advance and to escape. Since the police department suspects an informant from their own ranks, officials from Dresden are ordered to investigate the incidents. On this occasion, district manager Josef Casati welcomes Ehrlicher and Kain along with forensic engineer Walter in Leipzig. However, the workforce is not very enthusiastic about having foreign officials investigate them, and they meet the three with hostility.

Meanwhile, the crook brothers Bob and Frieder Vodenka celebrate their latest coup, this time with one fatality. Her accomplice Jenny Golenhofen and friend of Frieder reproaches them, after all, the victim was a police colleague of hers. She visibly suffers from the psychological stress and wants to get out of the group.

Thanks to Walter's meticulous search for clues, he finds a police photo in which the young police officer Jenny Golenhofen can already be seen during an earlier bank robbery. The fact that she happened to be back at the scene of the crime strikes the criminalist as striking. He informs Ehrlicher and Kain of his suspicion, who then want to talk to her. They look for her in her apartment, where she is shielded by the Vodenka brothers. Nevertheless, they can talk to Jenny briefly and then have the impression that the three of them could well be bank robbers. As Jenny confirms her intention to quit after the visit, she is suffocated with a pillow by Bob that night. He explains to his brother that his girlfriend has run away.

When Ehrlicher is at the door again the next day, Frieder also becomes increasingly nervous. He pretends to have relationship problems, and that's why Jenny isn't there. Investigators have reasonable doubts and are trying to find out more. Since their guesses are not sufficient for an official house search, they take the detour via an unannounced tax audit. This gives them access to the house and more honest people can secretly look around. He finds Jenny's notebook and cannot imagine that she would not take it with her on a trip. Hence, he suspects that she was killed. In order to prove that, the investigators need the body. Honest and Cain manages to find them, they can use them to prove their deeds to the brothers. They now accuse each other of murder after admitting the bank robberies. More honestly, Bob Vodenka promises a reduction in his sentence if he announces the man behind in the ranks of the police. This involuntarily reveals himself and then wants to shoot himself. That fails and he is arrested. It's about Josef Casati. Since the position of the district manager has now become vacant in Leipzig, Ehrlicher should hold this post. He accepts - but not without his Cain. He also wants to move to Leipzig.

background

Use in Leipzig was produced by Saxonia Media Filmproduktion GmbH and shot in Leipzig. After 21 cases, Ehrlicher and Kain move from Dresden to Leipzig. Annekathrin Bürger as Frederike becomes a permanent figure in the Ehrlicher-und-Kain crime scenes.

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on January 2, 2000, the episode Einsatz in Leipzig in Germany was seen by 8.39 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 23.06 percent.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm rate the film only mediocre, but say approvingly: "Sodann and Lade iron out the inconsistencies of the story with their solid interplay."

Web links

• Crime scene: use in Leipzig in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the action taken in Leipzig on the ARD website
• Use in Leipzig at the crime scene fund
• Use in Leipzig at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 4, 2016.
2. ↑ The Dresden team Peter Sodann and Bernd Michael Lade go on a business trip. Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 5, 2016.

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