Crime scene: fateful desire
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Fateful desire |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MDR |
| length | 85 minutes |
| classification | Episode 477 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 26, 2001 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Lähn |
| script | Pim Richter |
| production | Jürgen Haase |
| music |
Uwe Buschkötter Mike Robken |
| camera | Frank Bruhne |
| cut | Nicola Undritz |
| occupation | |
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Disastrous Desire is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD , ORF and SRF . The film was produced by MDR under the direction of Michael Lähn and was first broadcast on August 26, 2001. It is the crime scene episode 477. For detective chief Bruno Ehrlicher and his colleague Kain it is the sixth case in which they are investigating in Leipzig .
action
Karl Wasberg runs a small family business in which air conditioning systems are manufactured. His son works as a site manager and his daughter-in-law is responsible for purchasing. When he enters his motor sailboat with her, Sonja Wasberg is killed and he himself is seriously injured. An attack is evident and Commissioners Ehrlicher and Kain are investigating. The boat attendant had seen a motorcyclist driving away in a hurry, but suspicious car tracks are also found.
Commissioner Ehrlicher first seeks out Lisa Wasberg to bring her the news of the death of the daughter-in-law, who lived in the Wasberg's villa. Then the investigators go to the company to inform the husband of those killed. In doing so, they discover tensions that have built up between father and son, which are also encouraged by Stefan Holl, the new site manager. A motorcyclist was observed by one of the construction workers who had followed the senior boss. If the attack should come from a competitor of the company, the investigators want to look around in this direction as well. But you can't find a real motive here. Kain researches Stefan Holl, who has been with Wasberg's company for two years and is not particularly popular with the employees. Sometimes he is seen as an intriguer and obviously has high debts from speculative transactions.
Since the commissioners are not making any headway with their investigations, they also shed light on the private sphere and suspect that Karl Wasberg had a relationship with his daughter-in-law. An inquiry in the main hotel confirms this thesis. After Ehrlicher and Kain find out that Hajo Wasberg is most likely not Fabian's biological father and he recently found out about this, he is brought to the presidium and interrogated. He denies having anything to do with the attack.
The mysterious motorcyclist can now be identified. Stefan Holl had borrowed the machine and spied on his boss. When the commissioners want to visit him, they find him dead in his apartment and again believe Hajo Wasberg to be the perpetrator. Various photos that Holl took during his observations suggest suspicion. However, he was still in his company at the time of the crime and is exonerated in this regard. More honestly, it was noticed that Ellen Baumann, the secretary of the Wasbergs, is very worried about her junior boss and even gave him a false alibi. After a DNA analysis, he can prove that she was at the lake with the car whose tire tracks were found there. After trying to destroy another piece of evidence, Ellen Baumann can be brought in and she admits that she secretly loves Hajo. His wife would only have used it and he would not have noticed. She could not have known that Karl Wasberg was on the boat at the same time.
After Karl Wasberg wanted to return to his villa from the hospital, his wife met him with refusal. She too now knows about her husband's relationship and wants to remove him from the company, which in principle belongs to her, and from the apartment. The situation escalates when she learns that her husband is Fabian's real father and luckily Ehrlicher and Kain appear. Lisa Wasberg took the opportunity to admit that she hit Holl after trying to blackmail her with incriminating photos. She would have lashed out wildly and would not have wanted him to die in the process.
In the conflict between the Wasbergs, Ehrlich also has to think of his son, with whom he is now making contact again.
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on August 26, 2001, the episode fatal desire was seen by 4.07 million viewers in Germany, which corresponded to a market share of 20.50 percent.
criticism
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm only gave this crime scene a medium rating and wrote: “Unfortunately, Leipziger Allerlei lacks the pepper. […] Only stereotypes behind facades. What a shame!"
Web links
- Crime scene: Fatal desire in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Fatal Desire on the ARD website
- Disastrous desire in the crime scene fund
- Disastrous desire at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on December 17, 2015.
- ↑ TV thriller with investigators Kain and Ehrlicher. Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 17, 2015.
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