Crime scene: Berlin bear
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Berlin bear |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SFB |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 466 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | March 25, 2001 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Detlef Rönfeldt |
| script |
Andreas Pflüger Pim Richter |
| production | Jürgen Haase |
| music |
Andreas Koslik Dirk Leupolz |
| camera | James Jacobs |
| cut | Regina Bärtschi |
| occupation | |
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Berliner Bärchen is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by the SFB and first broadcast on March 25, 2001. It is the first case of the investigator duo Ritter and Stark , after Dominic Raacke had previously solved six cases with Stefan Jürgens as Hellmann and Ritter , and the 466th crime scene episode. Ritter and Stark have to clear up a series of burglaries among Berlin art collectors and the murder of an art collector and end up in the milieu of illegal Polish immigrants in Berlin.
action
Chief Inspector Till Ritter is looking forward to vacationing with his girlfriend in Cuba; In front of the presidium, he clashes with a stranger about a parking lot. In the Grunewald villa of the art collector Jürgen Gawehn, the Polish craftsman Dariusz is working black when the doorbell rings. Two men pretend to be officials of the immigration office and tell Dariusz to leave the villa and Germany. As he is packing his things, Gawehn comes home unexpectedly. When he realizes that the alleged ID cards are forged, he draws a gun, but one of the two gangsters manages to shoot him. Dariusz is injured while trying to help Gawehn, but is able to get to safety. Meanwhile, Till Ritter not only learns that his old partner Robert Hellmann has become head of security at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, but also that the unknown opponent from the parking lot, Felix Stark, is his new partner. When Gawehn's body is found, Wiegand rejects Ritter's application for leave and sends the two new partners to Gawehn's villa. Ritter and Stark can quickly determine from the traces that a craftsman must have witnessed the murder and was apparently able to escape. Weber learns from the neighbor that Gawehn has returned from a trip earlier and must have surprised the murderers. The craftsman Dariusz was an acquaintance of Gawehn's Polish cleaning lady; Dariusz is written out for a manhunt.
Marco Köhler, who shot Gawehn, comforts his mute accomplice and brother Siggi, who seems shocked by the escalation. Obviously, the two burglars are under pressure to succeed in achieving a lucrative break-in. Badly injured, Dariusz visits his fiancee and compatriot, the nurse Theresa, who works in a kiosk in Berlin; she provides him with makeshift supplies. Meanwhile, Stark is able to find out that the murder weapon was used in another break-in into a Dahlem villa months earlier; A Polish cleaning lady worked illegally there too. The Köhler brothers visit Theresa, they know that they are providing medical care for the illegal Polish community and they ask about Dariusz. She can hide him and convince the gangsters that he has already fled; then she hides Dariusz in another place and has him treated by a doctor. The next morning, Ritter, who is a customer in Theresa's kiosk and feels like the lottery winner, comes to her kiosk to pick up his winning ticket. He and Stark find Theresa dissolved. She claims her kiosk was broken into, but she gets caught up in contradictions. Stark believes Theresa is trying to suppress the lottery win; he secretly takes a bloody bandage from the kiosk's garbage can and gives it to the KTU. The examination shows that the blood sample is identical to Dariusz's. Ritter and Stark visit Theresa; she reports that she treated the wounded Dariusz; out of fear, however, she claims not to know him better and not to know anything about his whereabouts. Later Dariusz wants to surrender because of his pain and go to the hospital, but Theresa, who is convinced that the officers believe Dariusz to be the murderer, keeps him from doing so because she plans to take Dariusz back home.
When looking through the burglary files of the last few years, the former art student Stark notices that pictures from the era of the Blue Rider were always stolen in the Berlin villas in which Polish cleaning women were illegally employed and suspects a series of burglaries. Ritter and Stark visit the Steinmüller Gallery because the owner is an expert on paintings from the era. He claims to have recently bought a fake from a Polish dealer. He is of Polish origin and therefore has business contacts there and private contacts in the Polish community in Berlin. Weber can trace the origin of the tiles installed in Villa Gawehn and thus determine Dariusz's address. Ritter and Stark seek them out and find that the apartment has been broken into and searched. There you will find a reference to Dariusz's contacts with the Tomasz Church, in which Jakob Steinmüller is also involved. Steinmüller then introduces Ritter to the priest of the church, Emil Sowa. Ritter makes it clear to Sowa that Dariusz is a witness to Gawehn's murder and that they urgently need to find him; his life is also in danger; but Sowa cannot help the officials. The Köhler brothers are well informed about the investigative steps taken by the police. In the evening, the mute Siggi visits Theresa, with whom he is on friendly terms. She learns from him by chance that Steinmüller is the client of him and his brother. Shortly afterwards, his brother Marco appears and threatens her because he thinks she is a police informant.
Theresa visits Ritter at the behest of Marco Köhler. She asks him if Dariusz had killed someone and continues to hide the fact that Ritter is Dariusz's fiancée, but secretly slips him a message before she leaves. She also claims that Dariusz has already returned to Poland. Back at Marco's, he makes it clear to her that his backers in Poland had Theresa's family in their power and could kill her at any time if Theresa cooperated with the police. That same evening Theresa confessed to Priest Sowa that she had been forced to provide the gangsters with information on worthwhile burglary targets and that she had facilitated the burglaries; the mastermind is in his environment. The next morning Ritter found Theresa's news that he should go to Sowa; he gives Ritter and Stark, bound due to his confessional secret, a hidden but obvious reference to Steinmüller by mentioning the "Blue Rider". Sowa then goes to Steinmüller with a real picture from the era that belonged to Gawehn and tells him that it was left outside the door of the church overnight. Steinmüller tells Sowa that it is a copy, but takes the allegedly not very valuable picture from Sowa in return for a "generous" donation to the community. When Sowa left, Steinmüller calls Marco Köhler and tells him that he now has the picture from the Gawehn villa; Dariusz must have stolen it and put it in front of the church. He sends the brothers to look for and kill Dariusz. In front of his gallery, Steinmüller is arrested by Ritter and Stark, who recorded the call with a bug in the picture frame.
Sowa then also tells the officials that Theresa had to act as a decoy for Steinmüller and that she is engaged to Dariusz. The officers drive to Theresa with Sowa. He wants to talk to her alone first, and the officers are supposed to follow suit. However, Sowa is taken hostage in Theresa's apartment by Marco Köhler; Sowa should lead him to Theresa and Dariusz. Theresa keeps Dariusz hidden on a barge that is supposed to bring them back home. Sowa has to take the Köhlers to the canal on which they want to watch the ship that has already cast off. Siggi Köhler prevents his brother from killing Sowa; Marco just knocks Sowa unconscious. While the Köhlers can jump on the ship, the police free Sowa. Marco Köhler threatens the crew and Theresa on board; Köhler tries to bribe her with Ritter's lottery ticket, which she has since found again, but Köhler throws it into the Havel Canal in front of the horrified knight who is following the scene from the bank. Marco looks for Dariusz on board to kill him. Ritter and Stark fall from a bridge onto the boat. When Marco threatens to shoot Theresa, Ritter and Stark drop their weapons. Theresa wants to tear herself away; Marco shoots her down and is then shot by his brother Siggi, who is in love with Theresa. Wiegand tells Ritter and Stark that Steinmüller has confessed and that the entire burglar and fence ring could therefore be arrested.
production
The Tatort Berliner Bärchen is a production on behalf of the SFB for Das Erste . The film was shot in Berlin . When it was first broadcast on March 25, 2001, Berliner Bärchen had 7.40 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 21.00%.
criticism
TV Spielfilm rated the film positively and commented “Not as strong as a bear, but as strong as a bear”.
Web links
- Berliner Bärchen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Berliner Bärchen in the online film database
- Berlin bears at the crime scene fund
- Berliner Bärchen at Tatort-Fans.de
- Summary of the plot of Berliner Bärchen on the ARD website
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: Berliner Bärchen at tatort-fundus.de
- ↑ Berliner Bärchen tv feature film
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