Crime scene: flowers from Werder
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Flowers from Werder |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SFB |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 436 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | February 13, 2000 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pete Ariel |
| script | Andreas Pflüger |
| production | Hans-Werner Honert |
| camera | Nicolai Kätsch |
| cut | Kerstin Kexel |
| occupation | |
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Blossoms from Werder is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by the SFB and first broadcast on February 13, 2000. It is the third case of the investigator duo Hellmann and Ritter and the 436th crime scene episode. Hellmann and Ritter have to clear up the attack on a young woman and the extortion of her father and get on the trail of a planned crime.
action
Robert Hellmann celebrates his birthday with his friends and colleague Till Ritter. Meanwhile, the young, dark-skinned student Helen Weinhold is attacked by two skinheads under a S-Bahn bridge and beaten to hospital maturity, a homeless man who wants to come to her aid is beaten to death by Marco Hoppe, his colleague Mischa Dirks tries in vain to stop him. Robert Hellmann happened upon the scene on his way home and intervened, but he too was knocked down by Hoppe. In the hospital, he quickly insists on his release, where he meets Helen Weinhold and her parents and decides to investigate the case. Meanwhile, the two skinheads go to their client Hans Grabner, Mischa, who joined in because they were only supposed to scare the girl according to Grabner's instructions, and tells him about the excess violence of his accomplice Marco. Hellmann has a phantom picture of Mischa made, which he saw exactly during the attack. Grabner, meanwhile, anonymously calls Lutz Weinhold, who works as head computer scientist at BEWAG , and makes it clear to him that the attack on his daughter was not carried out by skinheads . So that nothing happens to his daughter, he should cooperate. In order to underpin his threat that he could get to his daughter at any time, Grabner left a message for Weinhold in the bedside drawer in Helen's hospital room that Weinhold should wait for further instructions.
Grabner bought an old print shop in Werder near Berlin from the trust . In the clinic, Hellmann and Ritter find out that Helen had been injected with a sleeping pill, and a doctor's smock from someone else's is found in the clinic shortly afterwards, which the officers take with them to secure evidence. Grabner and Mischa watch the officers as they visit the Weinholds, Mischa recognizes in Hellmann the man at the crime scene who intervened, Grabner tells Mischa that Ritter shot his father. Spotted by the wrong doctor at Helen’s hospital, the officers asked the couple whether someone might be targeting Helen and whether the alleged skinhead attack was possibly planned. They also ask Mr. Weinhold why he was in the clinic today, but the nervous Weinhold sends the officers away without answering their questions. In the meantime, the officers have been able to clarify the identity of the homeless person who was killed and are looking for his best friend Erich, who is also homeless. He was present at the beginning of the scene and told the officers that the perpetrators had only disguised themselves as skinheads, received instructions via cell phones and waited for a certain person. Grabner, meanwhile, threatens Weinhold again, who confides in his wife. Grabner wants to take his daughter abroad, but Grabner overhears everything through a bug.
The next morning, Ritter and Hellmann find out the results of the DNA analysis from the doctor's coat, the traces come from the convicted Marco Hoppe, who shared a cell with the bank robber Hans Grabner. Ritter tells Hellmann that he stormed the bank at the time, his partner at the time was killed by Grabner, as was a hostage. Ritter, on the other hand, shot Grabner's partner, who died a few months later in prison in a knife fight. Grabner is unscrupulous and has been free again for three months. Ritter suspects that Grabner is planning a huge coup and is putting Weinhold under pressure for this purpose, he decides to put Helen Weinhold under police protection. The Weinholds, however, take their daughter from the hospital at the same time to rush to the airport with her, but Grabner's men intercept the car and kidnap Helen. The masked Grabner instructs Weinhold to turn off the power in the data center for a few minutes the next day, otherwise his daughter will die. Meanwhile, Misha, who feels sorry for the frightened Helen, promises her that he will protect her during the hostage situation. Then Hellmann and Ritter watch as the completely dissolved Weinholds come home. The officials ask for an interview and make it clear that they know that Grabner is putting them under pressure. They ask the Weinholds to cooperate with them, but they reject them in fear for their daughter. Hellmann suspects that Grabner has kidnapped Weinhold's daughter and that the couple are therefore under so much pressure, shortly afterwards they learn that they had booked a flight to Jamaica for their daughter that the daughter did not take. Weinholds receive a blackmail video in which their daughter begs them to follow the instructions of the gangster and not to involve the police. Frau Weinhold wants to go to the police, but her husband follows Grabner's instructions and drives to work, watched by Hellmann and Ritter.
Hellmann and Ritter, in turn observed by Grabner and Hoppe, go to Frau Weinhold, Ritter makes it clear to her that he knows that her daughter is in Grabner's power. When he tells her that he has murdered a hostage before, she tells the officers about the blackmail and that her husband should turn off the electricity in the data center. The officers are puzzling over what Grabner is trying to do with the power cut, Ms. Weinhold tells them that the blackmailer bugged their house and knows everything they are doing. The officers can locate the bugs and install a trap circuit at the Weinholds. The bugs had been placed in the house a few weeks earlier during alleged maintenance work by Telekom. In the meantime, a former employee of the printing works is preparing the commissioning of the old machines in the former printing works acquired by Grabner. The Weinholds receive another call in the secret presence of Hellmann and Ritter, Weinhold is supposed to turn off the electricity in the far west of Berlin for ten minutes at a certain time in the afternoon. The capture circuit fails, but the voice can be clearly identified as a Grabner with the aid of a computer. While Hellmann and Ritter are puzzling over what Grabner is up to, Mischa incidentally learns from Grabner that Helen should be eliminated after the coup. The suspicions of the officials are that one of the trains passing through the affected area is to be stopped and robbed by the power failure, the head of the central printing plant in Berlin gives the officials the information that blank sheets for the new euro notes are in one of the outgoing trains Belgium are to be delivered. If you have these and the right machines, you could print several hundred million euros in one night.
Grabner, meanwhile , had Marco Hoppe kill the former print shop employee of the GDR central printing company, who had restarted the cutting machine for him, his body was found and identified by the police shortly afterwards, Hellmann and Ritter then suspected that he was the coup in the former Werder printing company. While Ritter accompanies the train with an SEK, Hellmann drives to the print shop with another SEK . As agreed, Weinhold switched off the electricity, the gangsters hijacked the wagon with the supposedly blank sheets, they didn't notice anything about the SEK officials and knights. Meanwhile, Marco Hoppe is supposed to kill Helen, but he is knocked down by Mischa, who escapes with Helen. Grabner's people take the wagon to the former printing plant over long-disused industrial tracks. When they open the door, the SEK is facing them, after a brief exchange of fire the gangsters can be overwhelmed, only Grabner can escape. Meanwhile, Mischa and Helen are hiding, but Hoppe is on the verge of discovering them, Mischa escapes to the front and attacks him, Hoppe can shoot Mischa after a short fight and wants to kill Helen. At this moment Hellmann and his colleagues arrive, Hellmann shoots Hoppe, and the seriously injured Mischa is taken to the hospital. Hellmann lets his SEK move away and only then learns over the radio from Ritter that Grabner is still free. Single-handedly, he goes in search of Grabner, so that there is a duel between the two, which Grabner can win. When he wants to kill Hellmann, Ritter comes with his colleagues and arrests Grabner.
production
The crime scene blooms from Werder is a production on behalf of the SFB for Das Erste . The film was shot in Berlin . When it was first broadcast on February 13, 2000, blossoms from Werder had 5.90 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 16.00%.
criticism
TV Spielfilm rated the film only mediocre and commented "The self-love of the cops is annoying".
Web links
- Flowers from Werder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Flowers from Werder in the online film database
- Flowers from Werder at the crime scene fund
- Flowers from Werder at Tatort-Fans.de
- Summary of the plot of flowers from Werder on the ARD website
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: Flowers from Werder at tatort-fundus.de
- ↑ Flowers from Werder tv feature film
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