Crime scene: rat line
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Rat line |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 444 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | May 28, 2000 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hartmut Griesmayr |
| script | Raimund Weber |
| production | Studio Hamburg film production |
| music | Klaus Doldinger |
| camera | Hartwig Strobel |
| cut | Birgit Levin |
| occupation | |
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Rattenlinie is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and broadcast for the first time on May 28, 2000 on ARD. It is the crime scene episode 444. For the detective chief inspectors Paul Stoever, played by Manfred Krug , and Peter Brockmöller, played by Charles Brauer , it was the 39th and 36th case in which they investigate.
action
An old man is stabbed in the parking lot at the A1 at Hamburg-Stillhorn found. The dead person is identified as Otto Wissing, an animal keeper in the nearby St. Marien monastery. There he was not considered to be an easy contemporary and not only crossed over with Abbot Josef Zumbrink. Stoever and Brockmöller investigate separately: While Brockmöller officially visits the monastery as a police officer, Stoever disguises himself as a person looking for peace and quiet who is drawn to the monastery for a few days or weeks. There he gradually learns more about the relationships within the monastery - and outside too.
The role of the apparently respectable politician Alfred Löhden, a foster son of the abbot, remains unclear at first. Löhden was raised by the abbot as a foundling after the war.
Stoever finds out that something is wrong with the valuable Dürer collection of the monastery: Brother Manfred, Dürer expert at the monastery, and Gerd Löhden, son of the politician, who share a love affair, have apparently exchanged real Dürers for copies. Stoever puts the pistol on Brother Manfred's chest and not only demands to hear the truth about the night of the murder, but also the help of the monastery brother. And he learns: That night Otto Wissing staggered into the gallery with a knife in his chest and died there. Together with his partner Gerd Löhden, brother Manfred put the body in Löhden's car, the latter drove the old man to the motorway service station and left him there. So they tried to divert attention from the gallery and the fakes there.
The role of the old brother Erich, who only recently returned from abroad and now lives like a hermit in his hermitage, remains unclear at first. Stoever and Brockmöller intercept a blood sample that the abbot had sent to his foster son Löhden. The police suspect that the blood sample is intended to prove a family relationship. In a conversation with Father Viktor, who is writing a biography of the abbot, Stoever learns that the abbot helped "German fellow believers persecuted by communism" in Rome in the post-war period .
Brother Manfred confesses to the abbot the forgeries of the Dürer: he and Gerd Löhden wanted to start a new life by selling the originals. Abbot Zumbrink then introduces Gerd Löhden to his grandfather: Brother Erich. Since his son Alfred Löhden does not want to know anything about his father, brother Erich sees Gerd Löhden as his legitimate descendant.
Stoever and Brockmöller are investigating: Otto Wissing recognized Brother Erich as the Nazi who crushed his testicles as the local Gestapo chief after his arrest after an event by the Catholic Workers' Union in 1938. Ernst Suder, as brother Erich's real name is called, managed to escape to South America via the so-called rat lines after the Nazi era with the help of the abbot . The abbot took on Suder's son and renamed him Löhden.
Production notes
It was first broadcast on May 28, 2000. The ARD broadcast achieved a market share of 27.06 percent with 9.13 million viewers. As in many other episodes, the actors Manfred Krug and Charles Brauer also appear as a singing duo in this episode: They sing Ave Maria No Morro .
Web links
- Rat line in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Rattenlinie on the ARD website
- Rat line at the crime scene fundus
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.tatort-fundus.de: rat line , accessed on July 6, 2013.
- ↑ www.tatort-fundus.de: The songs from Krug und Brauer , accessed on July 6, 2013.
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