Crime scene: Bienzle and the sweet death
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Bienzle and the sweet death |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 505 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | July 14, 2002 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Arend Agthe |
| script |
Felix Huby Zoro Solomun |
| production | Carl Bergengruen |
| music |
Matthias Raue Martin Cyrus |
| camera | Thomas Makosch |
| cut | Carola Hülsebus |
| occupation | |
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Bienzle and the Sweet Death is an episode of the crime series Tatort . The first broadcast of the report produced by Südwestrundfunk took place on July 14, 2002 on First German Television . It is the 505th episode in the film series and the sixteenth with the Stuttgart inspector Ernst Bienzle.
action
Ariane and Marcel Reimer have acute marital problems. Although Ariane is in a wheelchair, her husband wants to leave her and take their eight-year-old son Sascha with him. So she plays with the idea of killing herself, but then rejects it again. While she and Marcel are away on business, Ariane's sister, Sonja Brandstätter, takes care of Sascha, who complains of stomach ache towards evening. When the boy develops a fever and vomits, the emergency doctor is alerted. The child's condition is deteriorating and both parents are very concerned for their son's life. Marcel Reimer has to break off a delicate company because his boss is being blackmailed and, as the company's authorized representative, he was on the way to handing over the requested money.
Despite the efforts of the doctors, Sascha dies as a result of poisoning, which his parents cannot explain. The police are informed and Commissioner Bienzle starts the investigation together with Günter Gächter. After the forensic medical examination, high-dose digitalis is found to be the cause of the poisoning. Bienzle is clear that the cause is to be found in the family, which, despite its manageability, is full of problems. Ariane is jealous of her sister because Marcel decided in favor of her at the time, even though he was with Sonja before. Sonja was alone with the boy for hours and could have gotten revenge on her sister through the child. Ariana has digital preparations in house that anyone could have got hold of, even the physiotherapist. Bienzle suspects, however, that Ariane may have wanted to kill herself with the drugs that were saved.
Forensics has discovered a box of chocolates that has been opened in one of the Reimers' trash. After the analysis, it is certain that Sascha poisoned himself with it, because the digitalis was injected into the chocolates. So Sasha's father comes under suspicion. The box comes from the confectionery factory where Marcel Reimer works and this variety is his wife's favorite chocolates. It is therefore obvious that he wanted to poison her with it and that it accidentally hit his son.
Unexpectedly, a girl is admitted to the hospital who shows symptoms of intoxication after consuming chocolates from the same company. The doctor immediately alerts Commissioner Bienzle, who knows that he is dealing with a case of blackmail. He is looking for the confectionery manufacturer Dr. Markus Borchert, who admitted when asked that he was being blackmailed and said that he could solve the problem alone and only with Reimer's help. According to the blackmailer's demands, he should definitely be present when the money is handed over, which makes the commissioner suspicious. When he went “for a walk” with the dog of an acquaintance of his friend Hannelore at the end of the day, he saw Reimers leaving the house very quickly. Without further ado, Bienzle calls a taxi and follows Reimers. As he suspected, Reimers meets with his accomplice. To find out for sure, Bienzle tries to eavesdrop on the men. However, he is discovered by Heiko Plass, Reimer's accomplice, and knocked down. He locks him up with the dog in a boathouse and turns on a compressor so that the exhaust gases kill the inspector. Only by howling the dog can Gächter find his colleague in time and protect him from major harm.
Gächter was able to find out that Reimers bought an expensive apartment for himself and his lover, for which he urgently needs money. That's why he came up with the blackmail idea. While he and Bienzle are pursuing the fleeting blackmailers, Plass has taken his accomplice Reimers into his power in order to demand money from him, since their plan has now obviously come to nothing. When the inspectors arrive at Reimer's house, Bienzle meets the boy next door, who has played a lot with Sascha. From him, Bienzle learns that while playing in a tool shed on Reimer's property, they found a box of chocolates that Sascha took with her. He himself didn't eat any of it because of his allergy. Meanwhile, Gächter notices that something is wrong in the Reimers' house and so he and Bienzle are overwhelmed by Plass. When Ariane Reimers learns that her husband had poisoned the chocolates for blackmail purposes and is thus to blame for Sascha's death, she quickly grabs Plass's pistol, which is still on the ground, and shoots her husband.
background
The screenwriter Felix Huby has a supporting role as a taxi driver in Bienzle and the Sweet Death . The shooting took place from November 15 to December 19, 2001 in Stuttgart , Baden-Baden and Karlsruhe under the working title Bienzle and the dead child . The inspiration for this case is likely to have come from Huby, who was also SPIEGEL's Stuttgart editor for a long time , while reading the real, unexplained criminal case "Elisabeth Frederiksen", which took place in Tamm near Stuttgart.
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of the film was watched by 7.76 million viewers, which meant a market share of 24.4 percent.
criticism
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm judge the crime scene as mediocre and consider it a “tricky family show”. They say: "Cheers to the sober acting Bienzle - only the case is overloaded."
Web links
- Crime scene: Bienzle and the sweet death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bienzle and the Sweet Death in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of Bienzle and the sweet death on the ARD website
- Bienzle and the sweet death in the crime scene fund
- Bienzle and the sweet death at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bruno Schrep: KRIMINALITÄT: The unpunished death of Anna B. In: Der Spiegel . tape March 12 , 2000 ( spiegel.de [accessed June 12, 2018]).
- ↑ TV thriller about a case that really gets to the kidneys of the "Swabian Columbo". Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 1, 2016.
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