Crime scene: death
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Death |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Austrian radio |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 697 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | May 4, 2008 on Das Erste , ORF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Roth |
| script | Thomas Roth |
| music | Lothar Scherpe |
| camera | Hans Seilikovsky |
| cut | Bernhard Schmid |
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Exitus is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced for ORF under the direction of Thomas Roth was first broadcast on May 4, 2008. It is the 18th case of the Austrian chief inspector Moritz Eisner , played by Harald Krassnitzer .
Moritz Eisner has to prove a disrespectful and deeply immoral approach to an insurance company and solve a related murder.
action
In a puzzling traffic accident, five bodies are found in a wrecked van - three people were already dead before the accident. Special investigator Moritz Eisner is investigating the case and first asks the hospital from which the bodies came and may have been stolen. He works with a police officer in the region, Bernhard Weiler, who does not immediately reveal why someone is stealing corpses. From Dr. Paula Weisz learns from Eisner that a corpse had recently disappeared. As with the three “dead bodies”, she had no relatives either, so that the body would ultimately have been transferred to anatomy for teaching purposes. Unexpectedly, the young woman's body turns up in a teaching institute in Graz. Eisner has her brought back to Vienna and the examination shows that the corpse has innumerable injuries, such as those found in car accidents. From this he concludes that the body was very likely used illegally as a crash test dummy . This also explains the repeated thefts and the well-stocked bank account that the two students who were killed in the accident had. It is possible that there is an insurance policy behind it that is practically researching the cervical trauma , as their insured people annually cost them millions. Money that for the most part only has to be paid on the basis of information provided by the injured party, as there are no comparative data on the actual possible effects of an accident.
In his investigation, Eisner is Dr. Paula Weisz is on hand to advise. One day she is found in the hospital with her throat cut. This hits Eisner particularly hard, as he had also spent a lot of time privately with Paula in recent days. So he assumes that he is on the right track and contacts an automobile manufacturer. There he learns that recently a large insurance company had actually commissioned investigations with human bodies there.
Eisner succeeds in proving that the head Prof. Albrecht Gassinger from the anatomy department of the hospital organized the sale of the corpses and, as Dr. Paula Weisz found him, he silenced her. But Gassinger evades arrest and throws himself out of a window to his death.
In order to put an end to the insurance company, Eisner can persuade the wife of the local manager, Count Hagstock von Werfenheim, to testify against her husband.
reception
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv says about this crime scene: “Higher values without an expiration date play an important role in this film, in which Eisner excels as an upright person with ethical and social principles, without appearing as a daft do-gooder. From a criminalist point of view, 'Exitus' is not a great film. But in terms of entertainment value, a pleasant delicacy. "
“The 'Tatort' from Vienna is macabre and entertaining. [...] And it is probably also due to the slapstick, gallows humor and the Viennese shame that this deadly sad crime thriller with the actually strong message doesn't really want to get under your skin. "
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Exitus on May 4, 2008 was seen by 7.15 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.8 percent for Das Erste .
Web links
- Crime scene: Exitus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Exitus on the ARD website
- Death at the crime scene fund
- Exitus at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Tatort: Exitus Filmkritik at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 20, 2015.
- ^ Kathrin Buchner: "Tatort" critique. The stolen corpses. In: Culture. Stern, May 5, 2008, accessed on August 24, 2017 : "[...] the" Tatort "episode" Exitus "with Commissioner Moritz Eisner is a thick grusical from Vienna's pathology."
- ^ Exitus. Crime scene fund, accessed on January 3, 2015 .
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