Crime scene: Bienzle and the confectioner

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Bienzle and the confectioner
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SWR
length 86 minutes
classification Episode 419 ( List )
First broadcast August 15, 1999 on First German Television
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Director Hans-Christoph Blumenberg
script Felix Huby
production Thomas Martin
music Jörg Lemberg
camera Marc Liesendahl
cut Christiane Krafft
occupation

Bienzle and the confectioner is an episode of the crime series Tatort . The first broadcast of the contribution produced by Südwestrundfunk under the direction of Hans-Christoph Blumenberg took place on August 15, 1999 on First German Television . It is the 419th episode of the film series as well as the ninth with the Stuttgart inspector Ernst Bienzle.

action

In this case, Commissioner Bienzle and his colleague Günter Gächter are dealing with a serial killer. In the past few weeks, three women have been killed and abused in the same way. The investigators have little evidence that would lead to the quick capture of a perpetrator and so it is to be feared that there will be more victims. It doesn't take long either, but this time the woman is lucky and survived. Theo Hasselt, who is found at the scene and was allegedly knocked down by the perpetrator, appears suspicious to investigators. There is some evidence to support this, but they can just as easily point to another perpetrator. So Hasselt remains at large, but also suspicious for Bienzle and Gächter. In addition to the police, the press is also extremely interested in new developments in the series of murders. The journalist Christine Stegmann made friends with Gächter, which is not without problems for him. Bienzle warns him not to reveal too much investigation results to his new girlfriend. But she can also help him and refers the inspector to a series of murders from the past that fits the current pattern. Gächter and Christine Stegmann research the documents of the old cases and find Theo Hasselt named as a witness there. The journalist really wants to write about it because she thinks the population should know.

Before that happens, the killer strikes again. As the commissioners suspect, it is actually the honest pastry chef Hasselt. However, Bienzle and Gächter cannot prove anything. In order to finally stop him, Christine Stegmann wants to observe him on her own. She follows him on his nightly walks and unintentionally falls victim to him. Gächter is devastated and determined to hold Hasselt accountable.

Bienzle is now able to find out that Hasselt has an illegitimate son and that he became a murderer at the time, out of disappointment over the broken love. The woman recently died and the old wounds opened again in him. Bienzle can find out from Hasselt's father the whereabouts of his son, but also that his colleague Gächter was there before him. He therefore arrives in front of Bienzle and actually wants to shoot Hasselt. But he gets ahead of him and takes the commissioner's pistol and judges himself.

background

The crime scene episode Bienzle and the Zuckerbäcker was filmed from September 29 to October 30, 1998 in Stuttgart , the Stuttgarter Funkhaus and in Esslingen .

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on August 15, 1999, 7.53 million viewers followed the program, which corresponds to a market share of 20.0 percent.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm only give it a medium rating (thumbs to the side) and Bienzle says it is "Tolerably exciting, but like a woodcut."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audience rating at tatort-blog.de, accessed on March 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ TV crime thriller with a clever Swabian commissioner. Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 4, 2016.
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