Crime scene: roses for Nadja

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Roses for Nadja
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MR
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 378 ( List )
First broadcast February 15, 1998 on ARD
Rod
Director Heinz Schirk
script Heinz Schirk
music Axel Donner
Roland Schneider
Helmut Scholz
camera Werner Hoffmann
cut Silvia Moehrke
occupation

Rosen für Nadja is a television film from the crime series Tatort produced by Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) and broadcast for the first time on February 15, 1998 in the program Das Erste . It is about the 378th crime scene episode and the 18th case of the chief detective Edgar Brinkmann, embodied by Karl-Heinz von Hassel . This time Brinkmann and his team are dealing with the death of an entrepreneur and the murder of his suspected daughter shortly afterwards.

action

Nadja Forster, manager of a small variety theater that belongs to her father, gets a pistol to get rid of her hated father Harry, but ultimately she lacks the courage to kill him. She meets with her lover, the married Dr. Peter Tale and tells him how she is constrained by her father and how he determines her life. When she was thirteen, her mother died in a traffic accident and he was unable to walk. Since then, he has had a sexual relationship with her that even made her pregnant. She feels hatred and disgust for her father and asks Peter to kill him, after all, as her father's doctor, he could poison him. Harry Forster overhears the conversation and discusses a tape that in the event of death the police should carefully examine the circumstances, as his daughter is trying to kill him. He also withdraws Dr. Tale puts an end to the patient relationship and assigns the small-stature employee of the variety theater, Ingo Möller, to keep an eye on his daughter. Ingo overhears in the theater how Peter explains to Nadja that he cannot participate in her murder plan, shortly afterwards Ingo tells Nadja that he should spy on her, but assures her that he is on her side and wants to help her with the murder plan, he hates Harry Forster as well as her. Ingo sneaks into Forster's swimming pool in the basement of his villa and wants to shoot him, Harry pleads for his life and promises to give Ingo the vaudeville theater, if he lets him live, when Ingo wants to agree, the handicapped Harry falls and drowns in his pool, Ingo escapes instead of helping Harry. On his escape, Ingo drops the planned murder weapon in the villa and, as he was parked, has to hit the front and rear bumpers when pulling out of a parking space, an indignant car owner notes Ingo's license plate.

Brinkmann and Wegener are alerted and question Forster's secretary Eva Sonntag, who tells the officials that their boss was very self-centered and that his kind could have made enemies. The first traces point to an accident, but then Wegener finds the weapon, Nadja is dismayed to the officers about the death of her father and explains that he did not have a weapon. When Nadja tells Peter about her father's alleged accidental death, the latter believes that Nadja killed her father and makes it clear that he will not be drawn into it. Brinkmann and Wegener learn that Forster may have been fell or beaten to death, and a heart attack is also possible. Forster's lawyer reports to the officers and hands over the tape in which Forster accuses his daughter and his doctor of plans to murder him. At the same time, Forster's neighbor filed a complaint for fleeing the accident, and Ingo Möller was identified as the owner. Brinkmann and Wegener go to the vaudeville theater, Nadja is not there, Ingo Möller, whose escape the officers do not yet know about, says that Nadja was present at the performance in the theater the whole evening, but Wegener finds Nadjas in the desk drawer Instructions for use that belong to the weapon found at the crime scene. The two officers look for Nadja, but find her strangled in her house, Nadja's neighbor Dröge says that he saw a blonde woman drive away who looked like she was on the run, Dröge noted the license plate number. There are no signs of burglary, the last number she dialed was that of Peter, and the car the woman drove away in was also registered to Peter Tale.

The officers go to Tale and see his wife Bea racing away, Peter Tale tells Brinkmann that his wife is jealous for no reason and is therefore dependent on pills and alcohol. The officers confront Tale with the recorded suspicion Forster, which he describes as nonsense, and he is shocked by Nadja's death. Brinkmann has a search for Bea Tale, who can be easily injured after a traffic accident caused by her. She admits that she was in front of Nadja's house to confront her rival, but she did not open the door, and she hysterically opposes the investigations by the police. Brinkmann and Wegener see Forster's secretary on Sunday in forensic medicine, she speaks to forensic specialist Prof. Meier and asks him to examine Forster's DNA. Asked about it by the officials, Sonntag says that her son Harry Sonntag, who works as a travesty artist “Harriette Dimanche” in the variety theater, is the son of her and Forster, she kept it from Forster during his lifetime and wanted to have now proven paternity so that their son can inherit. They had an affair at a young age, but Forster had then decided on a rich woman and resigned her. He had even given her money for an abortion clinic, but she had secretly given birth to the child. She had only been back in Frankfurt for six months and accepted the job as a secretary at Forster. Brinkmann now comes across the news of Forster's death evening about Ingo Möller's accident escape, he and Wegener also find a transfer from Nadja to Ingo Möller on the day Forster's death. Dröge reports to Brinkmann that many roses have been delivered to Nadja Forster, even though her funeral has already taken place. In the Nadjas house, Brinkmann and Wegener find Ingo Möller, who has built a shrine there for the dead, the officials announce that the skin particles found under the fingernails of the dead will be compared with his DNA, Möller then confesses. He was in love with Nadja and she had promised him not only money but also sex for killing his father, when he asked for it, she rejected him and mocked him because of his short stature, then he killed her emotionally, Möller was arrested.

Audience and background

The first broadcast of Rosen for Nadja on February 15, 1998, Das Erste had a market share of 18.05 percent and was seen by 6.81 million viewers in Germany. The episode was shot in Frankfurt and the surrounding area.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film as mediocre and judged: "A bit too conservative TV crime thriller".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de. Retrieved March 27, 2016
  2. ↑ "Short review of roses for Nadja in TV feature film"
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