Crime scene: murder pit

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Crime scene: murder pit
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR , Colonia Media
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 463 ( List )
First broadcast February 25, 2001 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Christiane Balthasar
script Robert Schwentke
music Johannes Kobilke
camera Oliver Bokelberg
cut Claudia Wolscht
occupation

The crime scene: Murder pit is a television film from the crime scene crime series. The film is the 16th case of the Cologne team of investigators Max Ballauf ( Klaus J. Behrendt ) and Freddy Schenk ( Dietmar Bär ). The main guest roles are occupied by Peter Franke , Jürgen Hentsch , Florian Lukas , Peter Rühring and Martin Umbach . Ballauf and Schenk investigate in the environment of a university, whose law faculty is characterized by coldness and ambition, and come across a murderer who only wants to prove one thing: He is brilliant and above the law.

The contribution was from the West German Radio and Colonia Media produces and on 25 February 2001 at the First Channel of ARD first aired.

action

The law student Martha Dreher is shot dead in broad daylight on the campus of the Law Faculty in Cologne. The shot must have been fired from one of the windows on the top floor of the university. The detective chief inspectors Ballauf and Schenk look around there and come across traces of smoke that should also adhere to the perpetrator or his clothing. When Professor Hüttner, the head of the faculty, appears, he is not very cooperative and is primarily concerned about the good reputation of his house.

Michael Lindner, who has previously been convicted, is identified as the main suspect. Martha Dreher broke off her engagement with him shortly before her death. He is also considered irascible and was on campus at the time of the crime. While Ballauf believes that Lindner has caught the perpetrator, Schenk continues to research. He learns from Andrea Jahns that her fellow student Martha has recently started working with the lecturer Dr. Kögel was friends. That makes him suspicious for the investigators, because as a married man it could well be that the relationship became too close for him. But then Schenk comes across the arrogant student Alexander Grau during his investigation. However, the brilliant lawyer has no motive. Perhaps, however, he wanted to prove a theory: a simulation game about a murder without motivation. When smoke traces are found on Gray's clothes, he is arrested. His father, a renowned lawyer, is indignant and threatens the consequences.

While Grau is still in custody, a second shot is fired and kills Walter Ballauf, Max's homeless father. Although he hasn't looked after his son for 30 years, the father and son had only just found each other, so Ballauf is shocked. The projectile comes from the same weapon that Martha Dreher was shot with, and so Grau has to be released from prison. With his remark: “There is no shame in losing against me.” Schenk is certain that the second murder was intended to provoke the two investigators in a targeted manner. The commissioners are looking for an accomplice and come across Andrea Jahns, who is about to throw herself off a high-rise. The events overwhelmed her and so she admits to having shot Ballauf's father to exonerate her friend Alexander Grau. Ballauf and Schenk do not manage to prevent her from jumping into her death. So they now lack solid evidence to convict gray. They summon him as a witness in order to get him to make an unwanted confession through his arrogance. When Grau appears in the presidium with his father, Martha's father is also sitting in the anteroom. He inquired about the status of the investigation every day and now has to watch how helpless the police are in such cases. He shoots Grau when he comes out of the presidium - an act of desperation that he had been planning for a long time.

Production notes

The episode was filmed under the working title Bauernopfer in Cologne, Bornheim and Pulheim. The legendary Kelly tour bus was used in one scene during filming.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Tatort: ​​Mördergrube on February 25, 2001 was seen by 8.89 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.00% for Das Erste .

criticism

“It is thanks to the psychologically precise staging by Christiane Balthasar that the corpse-rich story (book: Robert Schwentke) does not break apart and becomes recognizable as an over-constructed plot. Bär and Behrendt are present in the acting like rarely. "

- The mirror

"The elaborate story with its various frameworks focuses entirely on the characters, especially since Dietmar Bär no longer just needs to mimic the rumbling proll with cowboy boots and a fat car."

- kino.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b crime scene: murder pit. Crime scene fund, accessed on June 30, 2013 .
  2. ^ Tatort - Murder Pit , accessed on August 12, 2013.
  3. ↑ Crime scene: Murderer's pit . In: Der Spiegel . No.  8 , 2001, p. 127 ( online ).
  4. ^ Tatort Mördergrube at kino.de, accessed on August 12, 2013
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