Crime scene: sheet metal damage

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Sheet metal damage
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	NDR
length	105 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 8 ( list )
First broadcast	June 13, 1971 on German television
Rod
Director	Wolfgang Petersen
script	Herbert Lichtenfeld
production	Dieter Meichsner
music	Nils Sustrate
camera	Jörg-Michael Baldenius
cut	Karin Wagner
occupation
Klaus Schwarzkopf : Finke, chief detective Ruth Maria Kubitschek : Mrs. Breuke Friedrich Schütter : Alwin Breuke, building contractor Götz George : Joachim Seidel, engineer at Breuke Wolf Roth : Jessner, Finkes' assistant Volker Eckstein : Peter Reichert Horst Stark : Sergeant Brinkmann Dieter Traier : Sergeant Schult Eva Astor : Monika Spehr Giulia Follina : Gerdi Vogt Monica Kaufmann : Inge, Seidel's friend Horst Beck : Sallner, forest ranger Günther Jerschke : Henk Rudolf Beiswanger : Walter Schindler, gardener Jens Weisser : Harald Lossmann Volker Bogdan : Uwe Stephan, gas station attendant Herbert AE Böhme : Father Reichert Wolfgang Borchert : Rust, coin estimator Marianne Dietz : waitress Jo Wegener : Ida, domestic servant Christine Soetbeer : daughter of Sallner Gerda Schöneich : Head of the Hotel Strandblick Johanna Schmielau : Hanne, landlady Walter Richter : Inspector Trimmel

Blechschaden is the eighth television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by NDR and broadcast for the first time on June 13, 1971. With him, the NDR introduced the character of Commissioner Finke , who investigated six other episodes.

action

The building contractor Alwin Breuke and his lover Monika return to their home village of Sieverstedt from a weekend trip to the Baltic Sea resort of Travemünde at night . Breuke worries that his wife might have found out about the affair and drives too quickly and without concentration. On the highway, he rams the youngster Harald Lossmann, who also lives in Sieverstedt and is out on his bike that evening. Breuke commits a hit and run , leaving the victim lying in the street, where it bled to death shortly afterwards. When he arrives at home, Breuke tries to cover up the damage to his car by pushing the car against the gate. He does not notice that his wife is watching the maneuver from the window. She too is unfaithful to her husband and has an affair with the engineer Joachim Seidel, who is employed by the Breukes' company. The next day she tells him about the incident, has meanwhile also found out about the accident and hopes to be able to use the knowledge against her husband if it comes to the divorce she wants. Mrs. Breuke is not Seidel's only lover who, without her knowledge, also has a relationship with Inge.

Chief Detective Finke and his young assistant Jessner from Kiel are busy investigating the case. A blackmailer wants to take advantage of the events and demands 10,000 DM from Breuke over the phone in a female voice and always the same text. He suspects his lover and gives her the money, assuming that this has settled the matter. She takes the money, but the calls don't end. To get the money back from Monika, when he realizes that she is not the blackmailer, Breuke later knocks her down. Meanwhile, the innocent youngster Peter Reichert from Sieverstedt is suspected of being hit by a driver and arrested. Reichert has come under suspicion because he had quarreled with the dead on the night of the crime about a girl. Soon afterwards there is actually a murder in Sieverstedt: Seidel is found shot. Boot prints at the crime scene point to Mr. Breuke as the perpetrator. Breuke is provisionally arrested and admits in the interrogation that he has hit the road. He confesses that he was blackmailed and that he sold his coin collection for it. However, he denies having murdered Seidel when the inspector confronted him with the fact that Seidel was his blackmailer using tape recordings in Inge's voice, which he sneaked from her with the help of a trick.

Finke instructs his Hamburg colleague Trimmel to check out Breuke's lover Monika. Trimmel finds out that Monika was injured by Breuke in an argument in which he asked for his money back. The inspector has Breuke's wife come to the police station. During the interrogation it turns out that Mrs. Breuke knew about his lovers. Based on the depth of the imprint of the boots, Finke can show that the boots could not have been worn by Breuke, but most likely by a lighter person. He accuses her of murdering Seidel and she confesses to it. She saw herself betrayed and humiliated by Seidel, shot him and then tried to bring her husband to prison for this crime by using fake tracks.

background

Outdoor shots were made in the small Schleswig-Holstein town of Barmstedt , which also served as a backdrop in the episode Kurzschluss . Seidel actor Götz George became known ten years later as the crime scene commissioner Horst Schimanski .

The first broadcast of Blechschaden on June 13, 1971 achieved a market share of 60.0 percent for Das Erste in Germany .

Web links

• Fender bender in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Sheet metal damage in the online film database
• Summary of the plot of sheet metal damage on the ARD website
• Sheet metal damage in the crime scene fundus
• Sheet metal damage at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: sheet metal damage . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
2. ↑ Tatort-Fundus.de: Blechschaden accessed on September 9, 2015

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