Crime scene: murderous business

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Horrific business
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SFB
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 361 ( List )
First broadcast May 25, 1997 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Jürgen Brauer
script Andreas Pflüger
production Jürgen Haase
camera Matthias Tschiedel
cut Kerstin Kexel
occupation

Murder deals is a television film from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by the SFB and first broadcast on May 25, 1997. It is the fifth case of the investigator duo Roiter and Zorowski and the 361st crime scene episode. Roiter and Zorowski have to clarify the murders of a state real estate officer and an unknown American, as well as a Berlin department store owner.

action

The Berlin department store owner Lothar Studick shows investors his project in the Berlin city center, which has currently become the largest inner-city construction site in Europe in the former death strip as a result of reunification . He has bought back the property of his family’s old East Berlin department store in Schützenstrasse and plans to expand it at great expense. At the same time, Manfred Lilienthal, hobby hunter and department head at LAKEV (State Institute for the Clarification of Unresolved Property Relationships), was killed in an ambush with a head shot in the Tegeler Forst , the first evidence that the perpetrator was obviously a professional killer. While Roiter and Zorowski are making an initial inventory at the crime scene, another murder attempt is carried out, and an unknown American who was about to speak to Studick is also shot from an ambush. Roiter and Zorowski rush to the crime scene, but Roiter carries out the questioning of Studick and his partners on his own, he obviously knows the gentlemen. Zorowski can quickly determine that both murders were carried out by the same perpetrator within 56 minutes. Roiter tells Zorowski that he knows Studick, the tax advisor Jacobi and the architect Eichhorn, Studick is an old friend of Roiter's from the tennis club. He also tells Zorowski about his involvement in Studick's project, Roiter has bought a condominium in the shell. Studick holds 90% of the shares in the project, the rest is borne by investors, Roiter can afford his stake through an inheritance.

Roiter investigating the former GDR - border guards Gregor Paczula in prison on the charges of illegal arms trafficking seated and asks this after the projectile, but Paczula denied initially any cooperation. Roiter then drives to LAKEV, where he meets Katrin Mertineit, who is on her last day at work. Meanwhile, Zorowski has found out that Lilienthal has not been seen by the neighbors in his inconspicuously furnished apartment for two years. Roiter had found out in the LAKEV that Lilienthal had to decide on numerous claims worth millions and was thus able to easily make influential enemies. Paczula has meanwhile agreed to cooperate and in return gives Roiter the reference to a former French occupation soldier named Jean-Michel LeBlanc, who was a sniper and was one of Paczula's weapons customers as a killer. After a brief firefight, Roiter and Zorowski manage to arrest LeBlanc, and they also find the murder weapon in his apartment. Due to the overwhelming evidence and a bluff by Roiter, LeBlanc finally admits that he does not know his client and the background to the murders.

In the killer’s apartment, the officers find the photos of the unknown American and Lilienthal as well as one of Katrin Mertineit. Roiter goes to her and asks her if she could imagine who wanted to kill her, but she harshly rejects him and dismisses his suspicions as fantasies. Meanwhile, at the topping-out ceremony for Studick's project, the festival company is attacked by autonomous people who have nothing to do with the plans for the new Berlin city center. Studick then admits to Roiter that he had the Autonomists beaten out of his house, which leads to a physical argument between the two tennis partners. Meanwhile, Zorowski finds out that Lilienthal has lived in a villa for two years, which is very luxuriously furnished, Lilienthal could not possibly afford this from his official salary. He had kept his old apartment as a cover and made a request for redirection. While Roiter and Zorowski are looking around the apartment, they are called to Studick's villa, he was shot there with his own gun and he must have known the perpetrator. In his study there are traces that Studick destroyed files the previous night and a note that indicates that Studick was meeting on the construction site when the American was murdered. His supervisor shows up at the scene and explains to Roiter that he has withdrawn from the case because of his professional and private contacts with the murder victim and is now supposed to investigate Zorowski on his own.

Zorowski finds out that, according to the partnership agreement, Studick's share, since he has no legal heirs and no will , is redistributed to the other shareholders, so that Roiter owns a quarter of the multi-million dollar property in one fell swoop instead of a fraction. Zorowski reproaches Roiter for hiding this, Roiter feels attacked and throws Zorowski out. Shortly afterwards, Katrin Mertineit shows up at Roiter's house because she has received a subtle death threat. A few weeks ago Lilienthal gave her a briefcase to keep and picked it up two days before his death. Apparently someone thought she still had the suitcase, Roiter promised her police protection. The next morning Roiter reports the clause from the contract to his supervisor. Since he has no alibi , Roiter is suspended from duty and henceforth followed by colleagues. Roiter seeks his tax advisor Jacobi, from whom he receives a hint that Eichhorn could have something to do with the murder. Zorowski, informed by Roiter, then visits Eichhorn on the construction site and confronts him with the fact that he got caught in a real estate deal and therefore asked Jacobi a few hours before Studick's murder to manipulate his tax return in order to avoid back payments to the tax office. When Roiter meets with Katrin, a stranger attacks her; Roiter can put the attacker to flight at the last second. Katrin finally confesses to Roiter that she and Lilienthal were a couple.

Zorowski receives a call, secretly drives to Roiter and with him to a luxury hotel in the city center, where the unknown American's suitcase has arrived. Meanwhile, Zorowski has found out that Eichhorn is ruled out as an immediate perpetrator, since he was in his office at the time of the crime and thus has a watertight alibi. The two officers then drive to Katrin's house, whose apartment was broken into and searched. Roiter tells her that the dead American's name was Roman Testorp and that he had documents on the property on Schützenstrasse with him. His letters to LATEV, however, were never put on record and Katrin had entered the Schützenstrasse file into the computer. Katrin then says that the department store belonged to both families, the Testorps and the Studicks, the families had been expropriated during GDR times and the Testorps emigrated to the USA. Since the Testorps could not be found, Studick could not get to the property, Lilienthal forged the land register for Studick, Studick had paid him and the clerk well for it. Katrin found the Testorps letter and asked Lilienthal about it. He then ensnared her so that she went along with it. The clerk's name was Schneider, Katrin hardly knew him. Zorowski can find out that Schneider has meanwhile married and the tax advisor is Jacobi, the officials put Katrin on her ex-colleague. She meets with him in Lilienthal's villa and offers him the evidence. He explains to her that Studick had fobbed him off with his job as a tax consultant and a small share and that he therefore wanted to secure a larger piece of the pie. When he notices that she is bugged, he draws a gun and takes Katrin hostage . Jacobi demands a getaway car and half a million marks, but is overwhelmed and slightly injured and arrested.

production

The crime scene murder business is a production on behalf of the SFB for Das Erste . The film was shot in Berlin . When it was first broadcast on May 25, 1997, Murder Shops had 7.09 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 23.07%.

The twelve films of the SFB with Winfried Glatzeder were not recorded on conventional film material, but with the help of Betacam video cameras, which resulted in a video clip aesthetic of the films that has been widely criticized. Police call 110: Seven Days of Freedom , produced by the SFB in 1995 , was also recorded in this format and also criticized.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film negatively as "Cutting your nails should be more exciting".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​Murder business at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ The Roiter era - 12 crime scenes from Berlin. at tatort-fundus.de
  3. ↑ Murder business tv-feature film
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