Crime scene: Atlantis
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Atlantis |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 546 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | November 9, 2003 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hajo Gies |
| script |
Pim judge Daniela Mohr |
| production | MDR |
| music | Günther Illi |
| camera | Achim Poulheim |
| cut | Gabriele Hagen |
| occupation | |
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Atlantis is a television film from the crime series Tatort of ARD , ORF and SRF . The film was produced by MDR and first broadcast on November 9, 2003. It is about the crime scene episode 546. For the detective chief inspector Bruno Ehrlicher and his colleague Kain it is the 12th case in which they investigate in Leipzig .
action
The commissioners Ehrlicher and Kain are called to an unusual crime scene. On the grounds of the amusement park " Atlantis " the managing director Stefan Markowski was found dead in a ride. Tampering with the foundations of the roller coaster and threats he had received for some time indicate that the manager was blackmailed. During the search for clues, a GPS receiver is found, from which Kain expects usable fingerprints.
Meanwhile, the former demolition contractor Peter Radke, recently released from prison, meets Olaf Krüger to remind him of the outstanding € 20,000. Krüger had given up his activity at the university after he had inherited a larger property and is now taking care of its marketing. He wants to create a new Falkenthal New Lakeland housing estate, which should give its tenants a completely new feeling of living. In his distress, Krüger turns to his father-in-law Gerhard Delitz, the manager of the Leipzig city cleaning service, who advances the amount to him without asking too much. Krüger seriously considers reporting Radke to him, but then he wants to meet him and arranges to meet him on the west beach of the Cospudener See .
After the fingerprints found at the crime scene can be assigned to Peter Radke, the commissioners are sure that they are on the trail of the alleged blackmailer. They learn from the public prosecutor that the two million DM that Radke had embezzled from his building rubble disposal company and had to go to prison for three years had never been found at Radke. The investigators suspect that he had buried the money and that it was precisely on this site that the “Atlantis” was built in recent years. Therefore he wanted to find the hiding place with the GPS device and when he was discovered by Markowski he had killed him. With this theory, however, it remains unclear why he should have sent threatening letters beforehand. They can no longer ask him, because his body was discovered in his trailer by the lake. At first it looks like suicide, but an overdosed sedative can later be detected in the victim's blood. The fingerprints of two other people are secured. In order to know what these people might have been looking for at Radke, Kain goes to work and finds a large sum of cash and a self-made map on which the coordinates of the amusement park, a new housing estate and a disused open-cast mine are recorded. With this, Cain is certain that this is Radke's “treasure map” on which he noted the places where he hid the two million. As the commissioners found out, large amounts of building rubble that was stored on the current site of the “Atlantis” theme park were removed and disposed of by the city of Leipzig. The responsible disposal company was Leipziger Stadtreinigung (LSR), which Ehrlicher and Kain are now visiting. There they learn from the landfill manager Jan Schubert that there were small irregularities in the bookkeeping at the time and evidence certificates had disappeared, but the workers had not found any cash boxes or the like. Then the investigators go to the emerging Falkenthal settlement. There they talk to the client Olaf Krüger, who also declines that he has not found anything particularly during the earthworks. When the decommissioned open-cast mine is being examined as the third possibility to find the “treasure”, the officials discover large amounts of toxic waste such as lindane and PCB , which Radke had illegally disposed of here. After he was released from prison, he tried to monetize his knowledge of the contaminated properties and blackmailed the current property owners, knowing they would want to protect their millions in investments.
More honestly, it is clear that Radke could not have organized his machinations entirely without a confidante. When looking through Radke's old company documents, Kain noticed Jan Schubert's signature. He had acknowledged that the toxic waste had been properly delivered to the landfill. Ehrlicher and Cain visit him, and he admits that he is under severe financial pressure from his disabled son. But he has an alibi for the time of the crime, so the investigators now want to deal with Gerhard Delitz. More Honest can refute his alibi for having been sailing. In his previous position at the Leipzig real estate office, he came into constant contact with Radke and had slipped him lucrative contracts and got paid for them well, which explains why the two million remained. After Ehrlicher tricked Delitz and reveals himself to be Radke's murderer, he admits that he simply couldn't get rid of Radke.
criticism
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave this crime scene a medium rating and wrote: “Down-to-earth crime thriller about dirty deals”.
Web links
- Crime scene: Atlantis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Atlantis on the ARD website
- Atlantis at the crime scene fund
- Atlantis at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on November 23, 2015.
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