Crime scene: Bienzle and the stone guest
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Bienzle and the stoning guest |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 571 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | July 25, 2004 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hartmut Griesmayr |
| script | Felix Huby |
| production | Brigitte Dithard |
| music | Joe Mubare |
| camera | Hans-Jörg Allgeier |
| cut | Katja Habermehl |
| occupation | |
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Bienzle and the Stone Guest is an episode of the crime series Tatort . The first broadcast of the contribution produced by Südwestrundfunk under the direction of Hartmut Griesmayr took place on July 25, 2004 on the first German television . It is the 571st episode in the film series and the 19th with the Stuttgart inspector Ernst Bienzle.
action
Commissioners Bienzle and Gächter are called to the Stuttgart Opera. At the celebration after the premiere of a new piece, the ENT doctor and close advisor to the ensemble, Dr. Arnulf Sontheim, found stabbed to death. Bienzle is immediately received by Intendant Bartholdy, who cannot imagine who could have killed the popular doctor. During the interrogation of those present, the lighting technician Conrad Lechner, who has a previous conviction for a violent offense, is initially conspicuous.
When looking for a motif, Bienzle treads on the spot. He hopes to get clues from Cassian Pfeiffer, one of the opera's singers, as he was very close friends with the victim. Gradually, however, Bienzle got the impression that the doctor's alleged popularity consisted more of relationships of dependency, which he exploited particularly in his female patients. He treated almost all opera singers and looked after them with remarkable care. Only Robert van Dahlen, who could not be successfully treated after a vocal cord paralysis and can no longer sing, has a bad opinion of Sontheim. His illness stems from botox poisoning , which he allegedly contracted after consuming spoiled caviar. According to Bienzel's research, however, someone specifically mixed the poison into his caviar. So he finds out that Robert van Dahlen actually wanted to take revenge on Sontheim and stabbed him. Little did he know that he was poisoned not by the doctor but by Cassian Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer's daughter Sarah attempted suicide with Van Dahlen because she was lovesick and has been in a coma ever since. Her parents haven't got over it to this day. After Sarah no longer wakes up from her coma and dies, her mother, who is the opera's dressmaker, drops a stage spotlight on Van Dahlen and injures him slightly. While Bienzle is investigating this assassination attempt, Cassian Pfeiffer appears openly in grief and anger before Van Dahlen and stabs him. Bienzle can no longer intervene in time and arrests Pfeiffer.
background
The shooting of Bienzle and the stone guest took place from July 1st to 28th, 2003 in Stuttgart , Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden .
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on July 25, 2004, 7.09 million viewers followed the program, corresponding to a market share of 23.3 percent.
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv says very soberingly: “Huby's thrillers have been more inspired and ambitious. Even his dialogues did not always come from the Handbook of Clichés. His criminal inventions almost (still) work as a network of intrigues with a cornucopia of false tracks and with an absolute rate guarantee. So if you only want to be on the trail of the perpetrators and actors like Jürgen Tarrach, Max Gertsch or Maren Kroymann - you are right with 'Bienzle and the stone guest'. But the younger audience ?! "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm see it similarly and say: "Unfortunately, I have to say: snored."
Web links
- Crime scene: Bienzle and the Stone Guest in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot by Bienzle and the stone guest on the ARD website
- Bienzle and the stone guest at the crime scene fund
- Bienzle and the stone guest at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filming locations at the Internet Movie Database , accessed on March 13, 2016.
- ↑ Audience rating at tatort-blog.de, accessed on March 13, 2016.
- ↑ Rainer Tittelbach: Inspector Bienzle: something for Mitrate fans, but "not suitable for young people" at tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 13, 2016.
- ↑ TV thriller with Dietz Werner Steck as a Swabian cop. Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 10, 2016.
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previous episode July 18, 2004: Dangerous silence |
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next episode August 8, 2004: The Guardian of the Source |
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