Crime scene: On the warpath
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | On the warpath |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MDR |
| length | 85 minutes |
| classification | Episode 418 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 1, 1999 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Ristau |
| script | Wolfgang Hesse |
| production | Jan Kruse |
| music | Claudius Bruese |
| camera | Wolfram Beyer |
| cut | Kerstin Kexel |
| occupation | |
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On the war path is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD , ORF and SRF . The film was produced by MDR under the direction of Hans-Werner Honert and first broadcast on August 1, 1999. It is about the crime scene episode 418. For the detective chief inspector Bruno Ehrlicher and his colleague Kain it is the 20th case in which they investigate in Dresden .
action
The commissioners Ehrlicher and Kain are called to the Karl May Museum in Radebeul . The security guard Oliver Schmidt was killed there that night with a tomahawk. Schmidt was an avowed Indian fanatic and had incurred his wife's displeasure because he had just registered at an expensive Indian seminary. The members of his hobby Indian club settle on the Elbe meadows. Ehrlicher looks around there and learns that the Schmidt couple have been in a crisis for some time. Irene Schmidt had recently sold her husband's Indian things at the flea market because, in her opinion, he was more concerned with his hobby than with her. She also has a relationship with Professor Wolf Schmiedel, one of the hobby Indians. There is evidence that he was seen with Schmidt on the museum grounds.
Meanwhile, Cain tries to find clues to the motive for the crime at the workshop. The real North American Indian chief Schwarzer Falke is there on a long trip to Germany with his sister Alena and her friend Georg Fritsche. The inspector gets to know him and his meditative disposition, but he doesn't think much of the “ hocus pocus ”. Black falcon tells him that the victim offended the ancestors and that the spirits therefore took revenge. Since the inspector would also offend the ghosts with his research, he warns him not to investigate any further.
Ehrlicher observes his two main suspects Irene Schmidt and Wolf Schmiedel. When they are on their way to Schmiedel's hunting lodge, the two of them get into such an argument that Irene Schmidt has to fear for her life. The arrival of the inspector prevents worse and after a SEK deployment, Schmiedel is arrested, who has meanwhile been taken away without resistance. Cain finds this strange and suspects that the Black Hawk is able to get his way through mentally influencing others.
In the meantime the museum has been broken into again and this time a Sioux medicine bag is stolen and the warehouse is ransacked. The museum director explains that this item is only important to the original owner, who has been dead for over two hundred years, and that other Indians would rather turn away from it than get rich from it. As with the first break-in, the forensic technician secures glass splinters with particles of real bison leather. Ehrlicher now also considers the Indian chief suspect and has him summoned. Schwarzer Falke appears with his sister Alena, but Georg Fritsche is missing.
According to the Black Falcon , Georg Fritsche got lost in search of himself. Unexpectedly, this inspector kidnaps Ehrlicher and as a ransom demands an antique buffalo mask that has been in the Indian Museum for many years. He had already tried to steal this during the previous break-ins, but he had not succeeded and he had killed the security guard when he surprised him. Fritsche is convinced and obsessed that he must bring the mask back to the Sioux in South Dakota . Only in this way could he finally become a real Sioux at last.
Cain wants to get the mask from the museum, but he finds out that it is on the verge of decay due to its age and that the restorers have been trying in vain to save the part for some time. The museum director explains that there is a copy that is currently used in the plays on the rock stage in Rathen . Without further ado, Kain ordered Fritsche there. He thinks the mask is real and wants it at all costs. While he drives to the rock stage alone, Ehrlicher can be freed. Ehrlicher and Cain follow Fritsche to Rathen, where he tries desperately to get to the mask. He has to intervene in the middle of a performance. When he learns that the buffalo mask is an imitation and that he will not be able to keep his promise, he throws himself off a rock in his desperation.
background
The shooting took place in the Karl May Museum in Dresden , Radebeul , on the Felsenbühne Rathen and with the participation of the Indian studies group “The Buffalos” from Röderau and the Landesbühnen Sachsen . The Saxonia Media Filmproduktion GmbH produced the episode from August 1 to September 1, 1998th
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on August 1, 1999, the episode Auf dem Kriegspfad in Germany was seen by 4.07 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 20.50 percent. This “crude Indian story” is one of the weakest “Saxony crime scenes”.
criticism
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave this crime scene only a medium rating and wrote: "Tired Manitu crime thriller from the Wild East."
Web links
- Crime scene: On the warpath in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of On the War Path on the ARD website
- On the warpath at the crime scene fund
- On the warpath at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the war path (Tatort) at karl-may-wiki.de, accessed on December 16, 2015.
- ↑ Crime scene: On the war path at saxonia-media.de, accessed on December 16, 2015.
- ↑ Audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on December 16, 2015.
- ↑ 20 facts on 20 years of the Saxony crime scene at bild.de, accessed on December 16, 2015.
- ^ The Dresden investigators are looking for an Indian murderer in Karl May's homeland. Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 16, 2015.
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