Crime scene: guiltlessly guilty

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Innocently guilty
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SFB
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 202 ( List )
First broadcast February 28, 1988 on German television
Rod
Director Thomas Engel
script Peter Scheibler , TV adaptation Thomas Engel
production Dieter Melzer
music Friedrich Scholz
camera Michael Marszalek
cut Barbara Herrmann
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An episode of the ARD crime series Tatort is guiltless . The episode produced by the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB) was first broadcast on February 28, 1988 on ARD. It is the fourth crime scene with Chief Detective Bülow, who has to solve the death of a young woman who is found on a toxic waste truck.

action

In a company for electronic devices, the head of security Dieter Meurer accidentally catches his young colleague Claudia Lorek taking photos of confidential documents after work, but does not show anything. In the evening Claudia passes these documents in a restaurant her liaison Bruno locksmith who for State Security of the GDR works. If the restaurant is overbooked, Bülow and Sonja are seated at the table with them. Since Claudia Schlosser pretends to be friends with Bülow and Sonja, she gets Schlosser to leave the restaurant without them. Schlosser waits in front of the restaurant and follows her. He urges Claudia to take him to East Berlin to see her clients, which Claudia refuses. Her friend, the married Arnim Denzel, watches Claudia and Schlosser in front of the house and reacts jealously. Claudia urges Denzel to leave his family and leave West Berlin with them . She must go urgently, otherwise she would be finished. Denzel makes it clear to her that he cannot give up his microchip company, which is currently expanding and which is a supplier to the company in which Claudia works, and that he is no longer dependent on Claudia secretly giving him orders.

Shortly afterwards, Denzel learns that the property he bought from the Senate for his expansion is contaminated with hazardous waste and needs expensive renovation. The Senate bears the costs, but the renovation costs time because of the hazardous waste disposal in the GDR, which Denzel does not have due to his mandate. Dieter Meurer, meanwhile, makes it clear to Claudia that he had seen her spying on her the previous evening and is now blackmailing her into going to bed with him so that he does not reveal her. She apparently agrees, but then meets with Schlosser and demands DM 100,000 from the Stasi so that she can go into hiding. Schlosser agrees and they arrange the cash delivery for the next day. Denzel, who has agreed with his client to have more time to complete the contract, meanwhile arranges that the renovation work can be carried out in a third of the time. Meurer tries to visit Claudia that evening, but she refuses him access to her apartment. Meurer increases the pressure on Claudia the next day. In the meantime, Denzel has discovered that the renovation work is proceeding far too slowly to keep to his schedule.

Schlosser, with whom Claudia meets on the Victory Column , did not raise the money for Claudia and wants her to overflow to the east. However, she refuses and insists on a handover of the money in her apartment, Schlosser agrees to hand it over in the evening. Even in the evening, Schlosser has no money for Claudia, but instead wants to forcibly kidnap her to the east. Meurer, who is chasing Claudia, intervenes. After Schlosser seems to have been evicted, Claudia leaves Meurer and drives away in her car, but Schlosser follows her. Claudia, observed by Arnim's wife Gaby, who has become suspicious due to the increased number of anonymous calls from Claudia, see her lover Arnim at his company late in the evening. Gaby now knows that her husband is cheating on her. Arnim finally breaks up with Claudia, but she demands DM 100,000 from him. However, due to his current financial situation, he cannot pay her anything. When she leaves the company, she is attacked by an unknown person. Gaby Denzel, who has meanwhile returned home, takes her daughters, who ran into the street while she was away, from a neighbor. Arnim finds Claudia lifeless in front of his company. While he is disposing of Claudia's body in the soil to be disposed of on his recently purchased property, while he is being watched by his employee Paul Gerlitz, a stranger breaks into Claudia's apartment and steals evidence of her espionage activities.

The next morning, when the load with the contaminated earth was being removed, Gerlitz, urged by his wife Anna, made an anonymous call to the police. The truck can be stopped and secured before the border. Bülow states that the fact that the corpse should be disposed of in this way significantly restricts the group of perpetrators, since only a few people knew about the disposal of toxic waste in the GDR. In forensic medicine, Bülow and Öllerink learn that the woman was killed and the blow was instantly fatal. Bülow recognizes Claudia as the woman from the restaurant, but he doesn't remember her last name. Meanwhile, the truck driver Günter Bauschke Leuschner testifies that he had picked up the load from the Denzels company, he cannot provide any further information. Due to traces of blood and grinding, the crime scene can be located in front of the Denzels company, Denzel appears concerned and completely clueless. Without knowing that his employee Paul Gerlitz was watching him and was the anonymous whistleblower, he reveals the name of his night watchman to the officers. The excavator driver Klaus Sachse told the officials that Denzel was particularly nervous the day before.

Gerlitz, who initially pretends to be unsuspecting, is confronted by Bülow with the recording of his call to the police, whereupon Gerlitz admits that he was the caller, he does not want to have recognized Denzel, but admits that Denzel was visited by someone on the evening of the crime Woman in the office and that Denzel had argued with her. Meanwhile, Leuschner learns about her identity from Claudia's employer. Claudia Lorek came from the east and was a migrant. In Claudia's apartment, the officers find her suitcase prepared for a trip, as well as evidence that someone had searched the apartment before the officers. The officers also find a love letter from Denzel to Claudia. Bülow and Leuschner temporarily arrest Denzel. In Claudia's bank safe, the officials find securities worth a quarter of a million D-Marks, they suspect that these were bribes for giving Denzel orders. Claudia Lorek also visited East Berlin over sixty times a year. Kriminalrat Stegmüller congratulates Bülow on the solved case, but Bülow still has doubts. Shortly afterwards, Gaby Denzel tells Bülow that she did not know anything about her husband's lover. However, she must admit that she left the house for a short time. In the evening, Sonja points out to Bülow that Claudia was with a man whom she wanted to get rid of with her help.

Denzel's lawyer Dr. Deyl informs Gaby Denzel that the client has withdrawn his order from her husband and that the bank has withdrawn the loan approval, so the bankruptcy of Denzel's company is inevitable. Meanwhile, Sonja visits Ms. Rente, Claudia's aunt, in East Berlin, to ask her about Claudia for Bülow. Sonja pretends to be Claudia's friend, Ms. Rente states that Claudia only rarely came by and that each time she gave her forty visit slips that she had to sign for Claudia. Bülow then suspects espionage for the East, since the company in which Claudia was employed also produces electronic devices for armaments. Dr. Deyl informs Denzel that he is nearly insolvent and that his wife has also filed for divorce. Claudia's boss, Mr Baumann, tells Bülow that the orders to Denzel expired anyway and that Claudia only had access to secret documents through the security officer Meurer. Meurer dismisses Bülow's suspicion that Claudia was engaged in industrial espionage. In the meantime, Öllerink has learned from a statement by the neighbor Denzels that Gaby Denzel was not out of the house for five minutes as stated, but for about two hours. Confronted with this, she claims that she saw Claudia with her husband on the night of the crime. Bülow takes another look at Denzel, who continues to protest his innocence. Denzel explains his behavior with panic, but that evening he had made a note of the car number of a man who had driven away, which he had forgotten in his panic.

Bülow and Öllerink follow the trail and, as the owner of the car, meet Schlosser, Bülow recognizes Claudia's companion from the restaurant, whereupon Schlosser flees. Bülow combined that Schlosser wanted to flee to East Berlin and had the border crossing cordoned off without further ado so that Schlosser could be arrested. While Stegmüller again congratulates Bülow, Bülow is still convinced that he doesn't have the right murderer. Bülow goes to Meurer, Schlosser's testimony and the fingerprints on the iron stake with which he killed Claudia have convicted him. Meurer admits with tears, while Denzel is relieved, but ruined economically and privately. When Bülow visits Denzel again, he finds him hanged.

background

The episode was shot in West Berlin from May to November 1986.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene as mediocre and comment: "Too many coincidences determine the case".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of release for crime scene: guiltlessly guilty . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2009 (PDF; test number: 118 699 V).
  2. ↑ Crime scene: guiltlessly guilty data for the 202nd crime scene at tatort-fundus.de
  3. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 24, 2015.
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