Crime scene: fatal aperture

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Deadly aperture
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SFB
length 83 minutes
classification Episode 183 ( List )
First broadcast July 13, 1986 on German television
Rod
Director Horst Flick
script Rolf von Sydow
production Dieter Melzer
camera Lothar Elias Stickelbrucks
cut Friederike Badekow
occupation

Deadly Blende is an episode of the ARD crime series Tatort . The episode produced by the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB) was first broadcast on July 13, 1986 on ARD. It is the third crime scene with Chief Detective Bülow, who has to solve the death of a series of murders against women in the vicinity of a film team.

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Commissioner Bülow has taken on the task of providing a film team with expert advice on police work. At the same time he still has to solve the murder of a woman, Karin Ackermann, a young photographer who was also often active in the film and theater scene, was found dead. Bülow's superior chief detective, Stegmüller, releases Bülow from his job as a cinematic advisor so that he can concentrate fully on the murder case. When Bülow and his team went through the dead people's private and professional contacts, he noticed the name of the actress Maria Borck, who was involved in the film that Bülow had looked after the day before. The lady had wanted to meet him at the theater, but he had turned down the appointment because of his work. Now, however, he visits her in the theater to talk to her for a glass of wine. He informs her about her murder and hopes for clues from her. She says that she didn't know the dead woman, but that she liked her.

The film team's costume designer, Simone Hansen, is murdered in the meantime; she apparently knew the killer because she let him into her apartment. The next day, Bülow's team found out that the Ackermann murder case had parallels to two feminicides in Wiesbaden, and the assistants made inquiries about who were in the vicinity of the dead at the time of these murders. Bülow secretly suspects the driver of the production company, Heinz Borgelt, to have something to do with the murder. Bülow's assistant learn from the caretaker of Simone's apartment that a key to the apartment is missing. Water was found in the lungs of the dead, so she drowned or was drowned in the tub. The hair dryer in the tub must have been a bad disguise, she wasn't raped. Since the officers found out she had a relationship with director Martin Durell, he is the prime suspect. Bülow and his assistants receive information from the BKA about two similarly executed feminicides in Wiesbaden. Bülow visits the film team and takes Durell and Borgelt with him to the local appointment. Durell denies that he was in Simone Hansen's apartment on the day of the crime, that his traces in the apartment are several days old and that Simone's lack of orderliness is due. Borgelt is also involved in contradictions: after finding the corpse, he made tablets disappear from the bedroom that he had illegally obtained for her. Borgelt wanted to cover up the fact that he is trading in prescription drugs illegally.

Bülow and his secretary Sonja spend the evening with the film people celebrating the end of the shooting. There is an argument between the actor Möbius and the director Durell. Kriminalhauptmeister Rausch, who had taken on the advice of the film crew in place of Bülow, stayed with the film people after Bülow left and confronted Borgelt with the fact that he had a relationship with Simone Hansen and thus a motive for the murder. Rausch had found a handwritten note on Simone that indicated this. Borgelt counters that he was also at Simone's on the evening of the crime because there was a holster with her that Simone had asked him for as a prop. Rausch admits to have brought this over to her the night before he went to exercise. Bülow, who went with Maria Borck after Sonja left, spends the rest of the evening in Frau Borck's apartment. After he has said goodbye, a man in police uniform rings her doorbell who claims to have been sent by Bülow. He murders her in her apartment, and the next morning Bülow, who was trying to take her to the airport, finds Maria Borck dead in her bathtub. Due to Bülow's close contact with Maria Borck Bülow, Stegmüller officially withdraws the case, but has it internally investigated. Rausch had informed Stegmüller about the contact. In return, Bülow now informs Stegmüller that Rausch was in Simone's apartment on the evening of the crime.

Bülow's assistants learned from Maria Borck's neighbor that a man in police uniform had rang the doorbell. The neighbor could not see whether she let him into the apartment. He had two stars on his shoulder. When we said goodbye, Bülow had heard noises in the stairwell, which he reconciled with the observation. Bülow went to Rausch and asked him because he was at the BKA in Wiesbaden when the two feminicides were committed there. On the previous evening, Rausch stated that he had given a lecture to foreign guests about the police work of his unit and that he wore his uniform. When Bülow confronts him about the fact that a man wearing the uniform of a police chief inspector rang the doorbell at Frau Borck shortly before she was murdered, Rausch reacts gruff. Sonja called Bülow shortly afterwards; a man in police uniform wanted access to her apartment and said that Bülow had sent him. When it opened, he wanted to go into her apartment with a camera in front of his face in order to photograph her in the moment of shock. However, she was able to slam the door, he squeezed his wrist and the camera fell out of his hand. Bülow notes that the man could have photographed himself in the mirror behind the door.

Öllerink informs Bülow that a police uniform is missing from Simone Hansen's costume inventory, which was apparently stolen from Ms. Borck and Sonja before the crime. Bülow informs Hans Rausch that there is no longer any suspicion against him. Bülow visits the film team and asks Borgelt again about the evening of the crime. Then he goes to Durell and confronts him with the fact that Rausch saw him when he came out of Simone's apartment. He had a bag with him in which he could have transported the uniform. Then he takes on the actor Möbius, who has an alibi because the play “The Prince of Homburg” was performed every evening, in which he participated. A colleague of Bülow was in the theater performance, since Möbius only had the supporting role of Rittmeister von der Golz, he had enough time to leave the theater and commit the murders. In addition, the colleague found out that Möbius lives in Mainz and so could have committed the murders in Wiesbaden. Möbius drops a piece of candy, and Bülow found one in Maria Borck's stairwell. When Bülow confronts him with the photo from Sonja's apartment, which shows him as the photographer in police uniform, Möbius tries to flee. But finally Bülow and his assistants succeed in catching him after a short pursuit.

Background and audience rating

When it was first broadcast, this episode reached 15.41 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 42%. The episode was filmed in West Berlin between February 26 and April 7, 1986.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene positively and comment: “Police work in front of and behind the camera”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​Deadly Blende data for the 183rd crime scene at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on November 23, 2014.
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