Crime Scene: Heart Failure (1989)

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Heart failure
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 226
First broadcast December 27, 1989 on German television
Rod
Director Michael Mackenroth
script Hans Georg Thiemt , Hans Dieter Schreeb
production Telefilm Saar GmbH
music Jürgen Wolter
camera Klaus Peter Weber
cut Monika Solzbacher
occupation

Heart failure is the 226th television film in the crime series Tatort and the ninth Tatort produced by Saarland Radio . It was first broadcast on December 27, 1989. It is the third case with Commissioner Palu as an investigator. Palu is dealing with art theft in the Franco-German border area. The Scottish hard rock band Nazareth exclusively contributed the ballad "Winner On The Night" as the soundtrack.

action

In a French cathedral, an elderly lady has to leave the service prematurely because of a coughing fit. When she arrives home, she is astonished to find that the front door is open. Mon dieu - a valuable painting (an August Macke ) is missing on the wall. But she is not alone. The intruder suffocates her as cold as ice and takes the painting with him.

Chief Detective Max Palu visits the art dealer Alfred Stein to investigate a clue and is offered a Franz Marc for almost a million. Stein instructs his art expert Viebich to inquire about Palu. He has already caught up with them through his wife Renate and brother Wolfgang, who have had a relationship for a long time. Gaby, Wolfgang Stein's daughter, not only knows about it, but also about her uncle's criminal machinations. As the situation escalates one evening, Alfred Stein has a heart attack and Gaby quickly fetches the medicine. However, there are three vials next to each other ...

Wolfgang Stein goes to Metz that night, where he meets the art thief Raoul Pascal. When handing over the money and pictures, and later personally, he asked Alfred Stein to pay more than twice as much because there were “certain complications”. A short time later Gaby sits brooding in the garden shed and decides to ask Alfred Stein to part with Renate. He initially reacts gruffly, as usual, but repeatedly suffers a heart attack and tries to get his digitalis medication. Gaby pulls the bottle away from him and runs away. When she returns, Renate informs her that Alfred has passed away. An injury to the back of the head causes the family doctor to call the police, and thus Palu. The insurance agent tells Renate Stein that the high-value life insurance is not paid out in the event of heart failure as the cause of death.

Finally, the French police records come about the art thief Raoul Pascal, which confirm a connection to Alfred Stein. The house examination initially reveals nothing until Palu discovers a secret room in which the dead Pascal and Bargeld are. Palu has noticed for a long time that Gaby is depressed and is trying to get something out of her. Finally she tells how it was with the medicine bottles shortly before death. The examinations relieve Gaby, as her bottle was closed and the entire amount of the other with a cardiac drug led to death. Renate Stein poisoned her husband with it in order to collect the life insurance.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm show their thumbs up and give a laconic verdict: “Palu - a stoic eccentric is hooking”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: Herzversagen short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 5, 2016.
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