Crime scene: Baranski's business

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Baranski's business
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 NDR
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 175 ( List )
First broadcast December 1, 1985 on ARD
Rod
Director Jürgen Roland
script Friedhelm Werremeier ,
Jochen Wedegärtner
production Arno Hildebrandt ,
Verena Eder
music Jürgen Wolter
camera Frank A. Banuscher ,
Rainer Stuhlmacher
cut Barbara Hennings ,
Manuela Wrage
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Baranski's business is the 175th television film in the Tatort crime series. Produced by NDR , the episode was broadcast for the first time on December 1, 1985 on ARD's first program. It is the third and at the same time last case of MAD - Lieutenant Colonel Delius, portrayed by Horst Bollmann .

action

The Contex company in Vienna trades in Eastern European luxury goods which they sell to Western Europe. Behind the scenes, however, the company also does espionage for the Eastern Bloc, this branch is organized by Maran Baranski. He wants to end his job and overflow to the MAD and uses the birthday party of his boss Dr. Tschirwa, to take pictures of top-secret documents from Bonn, which the local spy stole for Contex, and to take back to Germany. Before he fled, however, Baranski said goodbye to his girlfriend Anna, to whom he promised a more solid future as soon as he got his business done. Meanwhile, Tschirwa and his friends notice Baranski's absence and also that Baranski has photographed the documents. The documents themselves are not that important, but Baranski's information would reveal the East German spy in Bonn. At the airport, Baranski barely manages to escape Tschirwa's people and board his plane to Lisbon. He made a detour to Hamburg and contacted Delius, who he did not know that he recently finished his service at MAD and is enjoying his retirement.

Delius does not want to meet with Baranski and refers him to the MAD, but Baranski only trusts him and insists on a meeting. He mentions the name Lipski, which finally leads Delius to meet Baranski. Shortly before the agreed meeting in downtown Hamburg can take place, Baranski is picked up by Tschirwa's men who want to kidnap him. While trying to escape, Baranski is hit by a car and dies at the scene of the accident. From the agreed identifier, Delius recognizes that the dead person is the man who desperately wanted to see him. Delius then contacted his former employer and reported the incident. Delius had retired early because he suspected a spy was on the top floor of the MAD. Lieutenant Colonel Leiss, who is new to the top management of the MAD and is the only one in the group to take Delius' report seriously, is entrusted with the case from the MAD side. The death of Baranski is reported to the headquarters in Vienna from the Hamburg branch of Contex. A photo of Delius is also sent because he had clearly shown interest in Baranski at the scene of the accident. Leiss flies to Hamburg and meets there with Delius and Chief Detective Rothaus from the State Security Department, who was called in when Baranski died. While the driver protests his innocence and swears that it was an accident, the officers are still trying to identify Baranski, who was carrying false papers. The police finally believe the driver, but there is nothing tangible in Baranski's suitcase, on the basis of which Baranski's escape route from Vienna to Hamburg and indications of his activity as an agent can be found.

Delius concludes from found stamps in the suitcase that Baranski wrote to himself in poste restante and picks up the letter at the main post office in Hamburg. Thereupon he and Rothaus find a confidential internal letter from the highest armed forces level. No further clues can be found, obviously Baranski wanted to make the MAD curious about his knowledge in order to do business with the secret service. Since Delius knows Lipski, mentioned by Baranski, as a Polish liaison officer from the last NATO maneuver, Leiss sends Delius to Vienna as a "private man" to investigate. Delius is in Vienna by his friend, the senior inspector a. D. Viktor Marek, received. Marek informs Delius that Baranski, a man who fits Delius' description and who worked for Contex, recently disappeared without a trace. Marek passes Delius on to Chief Inspector Hirth, who locates Delius Lipski. Lipski is surprised to see his old friend Delius in the security office in Vienna. Lipski also works at Contex, Delius asks him about Baranski and the relationship and cooperation between the two. Anna calls the Contex fatally and asks for her boyfriend. The Contex people will guide you to a meeting point. Tschirwa has hired a killer named Turner to eliminate Anna. Delius searches for her after Lipski's clue and follows her to Baranski's apartment, which has been searched. Delius informs her about Baranski's death and asks her if he has confided something to her, but Anna distrusts him and runs away from Delius.

Anna rushes to her apartment and gives a film that Baranski gave her to develop. Anna is followed by Turner and Alex, another of Tschirwa's henchmen, and they visit her apartment. Since Alex and Turner pretend they don't know each other, Turner can gain Anna's trust. Alex follows Delius, who rings Anna's doorbell, while Turner, who pretends to have evicted Alex, stays with Anna. Delius quickly notices that he is being followed by Alex and can easily shake him off. Then Delius seeks out the photographer Anna gave the film to develop. But when Delius wants to buy the developed photos, the photographer throws them out. Meanwhile, Turner plays Anna about being sent by Baranski. He was lying in the hospital in Hamburg and asked about her. Under no circumstances should she contact other people because he was from the American secret service and Baranski had contacted him. He'll bring her to him in Hamburg, but he'll need the film. Anna trusts Turner and gives him Baranski's photos. Tschirwa is satisfied until Alex tells him that Lipski has now also disappeared, he knows just as much as Baranski. Tschirwa also plans to bluff Delius and send him back to Hamburg with false information.

Turner follows Delius to the hotel where Lipski lives under an alias and gives him a fake passport. After Delius leaves, Turner kills Lipski in his hotel room. Delius then seeks out Anna, who still does not believe him and denies having owned a Baranski film. Delius gives up and gives her the final advice to get out of Vienna quickly if she has passed the film on to the wrong people. Back at his hotel, Delius learns of Lipski's murder. The description of the perpetrator does not fit Turner, but rather him. Turner visits Anna that evening, she tells him that Delius was with her again, but Turner assures her that he is on the right side and that she should trust him. The film was completely worthless, Anna should give Delius the pictures. Then she was rid of Delius and could fly with him to Baranski in Hamburg. Anna brings Delius the fake photos to the hotel, before she reaches the hotel, Turner shoots her. As planned by Tschirwa's people, Delius takes the wrong photos. Then he and Chief Inspector Hirth go to see the photographer, who says that Anna was accompanied by an American to collect the photos. He did not provide any further information to the two of them, but after Hirth returned to the security office, the photographer Delius sold the photos, he had copied a photo set. As a precaution, Delius takes the photos to Bonn by train. From the documents he learns who the mole in the MAD is. He immediately informs Lieutenant Colonel Leiss, who receives him at the train station and congratulates Delius on his triumph. However, Delius informs Leiss that the photos had been manipulated and that he had got the real photos - these prove that Leiss himself was the mole. Delius has already notified the MAD and has Leiss taken away.

background

The North German Broadcasting turned Baranskis business in Hamburg, Vienna and Bonn. The crime scene was supported by the military counterintelligence service .

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Tatort Baranski's business on ARD on December 1, 1985 was seen by a total of 16.05 million viewers in Germany and thus achieved a market share of 42.00 percent at the time.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Crime Scene: Baranski's Business . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b Tatort: ​​Baranski's business location and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 31, 2015.
  3. ↑ Helmut R. Hammerich : "Always on the enemy!" - The Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) 1956–1990 . 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-36392-8 , pp. 451–456 ( limited preview in the Google book search - chapter: The “crime scene” episodes with MAD Lieutenant Colonel Delius).
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