Crime scene: bankrupt vultures
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Bankrupt vultures |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 208 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 7, 1988 on German television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pete Ariel |
| script | Bruno Hampel |
| production | Studio Hamburg film production |
| music | Franz Bartzsch |
| camera | Klaus Eichhammer |
| cut | Karin Baumhöfner |
| occupation | |
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Pleitegeier is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by NDR and first broadcast on August 7, 1988. It is the crime scene episode 208. For the detective chief inspectors Paul Stoever ( Manfred Krug ) and Peter Brockmöller ( Charles Brauer ) it is the ninth and sixth case in which they investigate.
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The master electrician Roland Krause is on the verge of bankruptcy. He carried out an order for 93,000 Deutschmarks, but not seen a penny of the sum. The money is owed to him by the discotheque operator Manfred Kaiser, whose business principles include not paying suppliers at all or only partially paying them. When Krause and his wife visit Kaiser's villa in Hamburg-Rissen , Kaiser's lawyer, Dr. Berger, dismissed. In his desperation, Krause chooses suicide and arranges it so that it looks like murder so that his wife can get the life insurance paid out. However, he makes several mistakes in the process, which the experienced criminal Brockmöller immediately notices.
For Harry, old Krause's irascible son, there is only one culprit, the bankruptcy scammer Manfred Kaiser. Without being challenged, Kaiser continues to live in provocative luxury, protected by a bodyguard and a lawyer, lovingly cared for by a docile woman. Krause junior visits Kaiser in his villa; he wants to collect the debt, but is also turned away by his lawyer. He meets the liquor dealer Anton Marek, who also wants money for a larger delivery.
Kaiser wants to flee to South America , as he now has enough money in foreign accounts, which - like the villa - can only officially be accessed by his partner Maria Moll. However, his lawyer advises him to pay the two most urgent creditors, Krause junior and Marek, a small portion of the debts beforehand, in order to gain time before the final escape. Kaiser invites Krause junior and Marek to his villa for the evening. Krause junior is knocked down by the Kaiser's bodyguard and laid next to the corpse of Kaiser, who had previously been slain by the bodyguard. Behind the perfidious plan are Maria Moll and lawyer Berger, who want to ditch the domineering and sullen emperor and get his fortune.
After several talks, Krause junior succeeds in making Commissioners Stoever and Brockmöller doubt his guilt. Instead, they target the trio in the Villa in Rissen, focusing primarily on the bodyguard as the intellectually weakest of the three. After the masseur and bodyguard (in personal union) has apparently made a confession, Stoever and Brockmöller drive him back to Moll's property, where Maria Moll and Dr. Berger are very intimate; They are already planning to move to South America; they wanted to leave the bodyguard as a pawn to the police. The lawyer recognizes the changed situation and serves the inspectors with the statement that he has just learned of the murder plot behind which Maria Moll was. Angry, Maria Moll stabs him with an ice ax .
Production notes
As a result there were two premieres: For the first time (and for the last time) the popular Hamburg actress Heidi Kabel was seen in a "crime scene" in the role of the faithful wife of a bona fide craftsman and the equally bona fide mother of her only son. Jürgen Roland was also seen for the first time as an actor in a crime scene episode in the role of the seedy liquor dealer Marek. Roland had previously worked as a director on several Tatort episodes.
Web links
- Vultures in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bankrupt vultures in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of bankrupt vultures on the ARD website
- Bankrupt vultures in the crime scene fund
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: bankrupt vultures . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ www.tatort-fundus.de: Pleitegeier , accessed on June 30, 2013
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