Crime scene: murder

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Murder
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MR
length 74 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 187 ( List )
First broadcast November 30, 1986 on ARD
Rod
Director Wilm ten Haaf
script Fritz Eckhardt
production Dieter von Volkmann
music Conti Eckert
camera Werner Hoffmann ,
Armin Alker
cut Elke Herbener ,
Sabine Gräfe
occupation

Automord is a television film from the crime series Tatort which was produced by Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) and broadcast for the first time on November 30, 1986 in the program Das Erste . It is the 187th crime scene episode and the second case of the chief detective Edgar Brinkmann, embodied by Karl-Heinz von Hassel . His assistant Robert Wegner, who was played by various actors between 1974 and 2001 as assistant to Konrad, Bergmann and Brinkmann in 27 years, does not appear this time.

action

The Japanese student Watanabe is murdered in a moving car on the street in Frankfurt. Brinkmann and his assistant question the passers-by at the crime scene, they can report that a blue car was shot out and that it drove away quickly after the crime. While the officers are investigating, the retired Chief Inspector Marek from Vienna arrives in Frankfurt to visit his neighbor's son. The small dealer Paul, who was arrested during a raid on the main train station, wants to talk to Brinkmann, he supposedly knows something about the murder of the Japanese student, which turns out to be wrong. But Paul promises to ask around in the scene. Meanwhile, Karl-Heinz Müller, representative of a Japanese automobile company, is preparing for the International Motor Show in Frankfurt, at which the luxury-class model of his Japanese concern is to be presented. The former gangster Guido Heck checks into the hotel where Marek's neighbor boy works, Marek meets Heck by chance and speaks to him. Marek had put him and his accomplice in prison for bank robbery years ago, and Heck had to serve seven years in prison. When saying goodbye, Marek notices how Heck meets another man. His accomplice asks Heck if it was really necessary to kill Watanabe. Heck assures that he received information from Tokyo that Watanabe had tracked them down, so he had to be eliminated.

Brinkmann visits the landlady of Watanabe, who describes him as a calm and nice person. As far as she knew, he had no acquaintances. Brinkmann and Marek meet by chance in the guesthouse, as Marek has also stayed there. Marek informs Brinkmann about his encounter with Heck and warns him, but Brinkmann dismisses Marek's resulting suspicion as a fantasy. Anita von Seilern, Heck's sister, calls Karl-Heinz Müller in the evening, he was her accomplice and Heck back then in the bank robbery. Von Seilern urges a meeting with Müller, Müller finally agrees after an initial refusal and does not notice that his wife overhears parts of the conversation. Müller drives from Seilern to their brother Heck. Müller confirms that he is now serious and no longer interested in criminal machinations. Heck wants to offer Müller a business, but Müller leaves without listening to Heck's suggestion. The next morning, Müller tells his wife about the conversation and his past. Heck meets with his henchmen who also killed Watanabe. He thinks he found the leak in his gang through which information flowed to Watanabe.

Meanwhile, Marek visits the car show with his neighbor boy and discovers the face of Karl-Heinz Müller in a presentation brochure. He immediately recognizes Heck's accomplices from back then and concludes that it is no coincidence that Heck is also in Frankfurt. Marek visits Müller at his booth, Müller assures that he is no longer involved in any illegal business. Marek tells him about his chance encounter with Heck, Müller is clueless about Heck's stay in Frankfurt. Meanwhile, a man called Watanabe contacts Brinkmann. He happens to be a namesake of the victim by his first and last name and claims to have been mistaken for him. He is a commissioner of the Japanese police and works in Tokyo in the narcotics department. He is after a drug ring that smuggles drugs from the Far East to Germany; thirty kilograms of pure heroin have been smuggled into Frankfurt. Inspector Watanabe was able to find out that the boss of the ring comes from Hamburg, which was probably the signal for the murder of him, who hit the wrong victim. The contact with his informant has since broken off, he called himself Toni and came from Munich, his stature must have been a boxer earlier. In the computer of the Frankfurt police, a Toni Kraemer can be found among these characteristics, who has a relevant criminal record. Brinkmann looks for him, but there they meet a henchman Hecks who pretends to be Kraemer's brother. He managed to escape, in the meantime Brinkmann found Kraemer shot dead.

Ms. Müller is meanwhile lured into a trap by Heck's henchman who has fled, kidnapped and taken hostage. Marek hears about a robbery on a money transporter on the radio and immediately thinks of Heck, his sister and Müller. In the evening he tells Brinkmann of his suspicions, but Brinkmann dismisses this suspicion again, although Marek reconciles the description of the perpetrator on the radio with Heck and Müller. Marek also tells Brinkmann about his observation in the hotel, Brinkmann now promises Marek to investigate the matter, although he is not convinced. Brinkmann finds out that the perpetrators have already been caught, there were two young men, Marek realizes that he was wrong. However, Brinkmann went to Heck in the hotel that same evening because Ms. Müller was reported missing. Brinkmann tells Heck about the murdered Kraemer and a murdered Japanese police officer. Heck is not surprised, although there was nowhere to be read that the murdered Japanese was supposed to have been a policeman, so it is criminal knowledge, but Heck is not unsettled by Brinkmann's bluff. Brinkmann says goodbye, but explains to Heck that the murderers confused the murdered man and that the Japanese colleague informed him about the drug smuggling. Brinkmann leaves an officer in the hotel to observe Heck.

When Heck leaves the hotel, officers follow him, they arrest Heck's driver and accomplices. Meanwhile, the police arrest Paul again. Brinkmann informs him that he is suspected of murder because his fingerprints were found in Kraemer's apartment. Paul denies the act. He was arrested after slipping a sachet of drugs into Marek. Brinkmann maintains Marek's disguise as a decoy and arrests them both. Meanwhile, Ms. Müller is held captive by Heck's sister by ropers. Frau Müller von Seilern promises that nothing will happen to her if her husband follows all the instructions. Heck calls Müller and tells him to do what he ask of him, otherwise his wife will die. The arrested accomplice von Heck is locked in the cell with Paul and Marek. Paul tells Marek, who he doesn't know is a retired police officer and who he trusts, that he overheard Kraemer and that Kraemer was involved in planning a big coup. Heck's accomplice recognizes the retired policeman from the hotel in Marek and attacks him. Brinkmann intervenes and gets Marek out of the cell. Marek only learned "something from a president" from Paul. In the night, Müller meets with Heck, Müller is supposed to give him the prototype of the Japanese luxury car "President". Müller is ready, but the building is surrounded by the police. Heck takes Müller hostage, but finally has to capitulate to the overwhelming force of the police. Brinkmann discovers the heroin in the lining of the prototype of the car and realizes that Marek was right. Brinkmann's assistant remarks that this is “the most expensive car in the world”.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Automord on November 30, 1986, Das Erste had a market share of 51.0 percent and was seen by 19.97 million viewers in Germany.

background

Automord was filmed between July 29th and September 15th 1985 in Frankfurt / Main. The screenplay was written by Fritz Eckhardt , who retired as guest inspector and who between 1971 and 1983 investigated a total of 13 crime scene episodes as chief investigator, Chief Inspector Marek in Vienna.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film and the interaction between the two Tatort colleagues as mediocre and judged: "Biedermann-Treffen Hessen / Österreich".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Automord . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2011 (PDF; test number: 130 811 V).
  2. ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de. Retrieved December 3, 2014
  3. ↑ "Short review of car murder in TV feature film"
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