Crime scene: look into the abyss

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Look into the abyss
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SFB
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 381 ( List )
First broadcast April 5, 1998 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Jürgen Brauer
script Andreas Pflüger
production Saxonia Media Film Production
music Hans-Wolfgang Bleich ,
Stefan Warmuth
camera Andreas Bergmann
cut Haike Brewer
occupation

View into the Abyss is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by the SFB and first broadcast on April 5, 1998. It is the ninth case of the investigator duo Roiter and Zorowski and the 381st crime scene episode. Roiter and Zorowski have to solve a series of murders of young women committed by a psychopath.

action

The prostitute Babs Juskoweit called the police because her “colleague”, the transvestite Martin “Monique” Wasdrak, disappeared without a trace after his shift. In caravans officials traces that indicate a crime, as well as find cassette with opera music in the recorder before, although the Disappeared never heard such music. Juskoweit also states that a now known police guy named Richard Höpke had been hanging around the caravan for two months and masturbating while he watched the prostitutes making love . Höpke spent two years in prison for raping a transvestite . The officials see the case as resolved when the laboratory reports that the fingerprints and sperm traces found in the trailer belong to Höpke. After a short chase, the officers arrested Höpke at his place of work on a coal dump, who promptly confessed to the crime and claimed to have acted out of a urge. Roiter asks Höpke urgently about the corpse, but Höpke is silent about its whereabouts. In Höpke's apartment, Roiter and Zorowski meet their superiors Huber and Dr. Maria Bubek, she is a forensic psychiatrist and wrote the expert opinion on Höpke that led to his early release from prison. In this case, she rules out Höpke's perpetration; against the will of the two officers, Huber instructs her to work with the attractive psychiatrist. Roiter finds photos of a woman's corpse in Höpke's apartment.

Shortly afterwards, Wasdrak's corpse is recovered from the Landwehr Canal , Roiter is convinced of Höpke's perpetration, Höpke confesses to the further murder of the woman in the photo, Dr. Bubek is suspicious that his alleged further victim should have been a woman and not a transvestite. Roiter later apologizes to Dr. Bubek for his harsh behavior towards her, she tells him that Höpke is out for pity and attention and confesses everything to get them. She believes that he accidentally overheard the murder and hitched up to the crime as a free rider. The next morning Roiter receives a package with women's shoes in it, he has them examined by the laboratory and is now convinced that the real perpetrator is running around freely, since Höpke could not have sent him the package from custody . The traces of plants under the soles of the shoes come from rare plants that are only found on the Pfaueninsel in Berlin. Dr. Bubek believes that the perpetrator wants to start a scavenger hunt with him while keeping control. On the Peacock Island, the officers finally find the body of the dead young woman from the photo, her throat was cut and her face was burned with acid. There is a secret message on the bag with which the corpse is wrapped. Roiter and Zorowski's assistant, Beckmann, finds out that the combination of letters and numbers on the bag probably indicates an address near Olivaer Platz.

Roiter and Zorowski go there and find an apartment without a name tag. They learn from the caretaker that a young, attractive stewardess lived there. They find the young woman's scarf in her mailbox, and the officials also find out that the woman has been absent from her employer for two days without excuse. In the woman's apartment they find traces of a fight and blood everywhere. Roiter learns from the pathology that a young stewardess was admitted there, who was probably killed in a fall. The corpse drivers Markus Engel and Norbert Zittnick testify that the police called them to the place where the body was found. While Engel was getting a newspaper, Zittnick heard a policeman in uniform calling from above in the dark that they should pick up the corpse, the policeman would have to go on another assignment. Since the death was obviously an accident, the colleagues did not think anything about not having found the police directly at the site. Dr. In an interview with Roiter, Bubek said that the stranger was definitely not a policeman, but the one wanted. Roiter notes that the deeds are happening at ever shorter intervals and are becoming more and more brutal, so he has to find him quickly. After Beckmann's hen party, Roiter goes with Dr. Bubek to her home, the two of them are watched unnoticed by a stranger.

That night the unknown psychopath got hold of a prostitute and called Roiter. He tells him about his upcoming new deed and makes statements about the murder of the stewardess and the other three women, then he hangs up, Roiter is powerless. Dr. Bubek suspects that he has a very specific woman in his sights for his last murder and is watching her. The next morning the prostitute is found on the Grunewald Tower. While Roiter and Zorowski are on their way to the site, Dr. Bubek, who stayed at Roiter's, was brought under his control by the psychopath in his apartment. Roiter finds a tape recorder on the woman's body, on which the perpetrator asks him in a distorted voice why he leaves such a beautiful woman at home alone. Roiter and Zorowski rush to Roiter's apartment and find her there tied up and gagged alive. The psychopath, whom she could not recognize, made marks on her body with the lipstick he stole from her house. A statement by the psychopath, which Höpke had also made, leads Roiter to the fact that he must know the murderer, Dr. Bubek knows that during interrogation it is imperative that they pretend that they are convinced of his perpetration. Roiter and Dr. Bubek hold Höpke against his alleged acts and question him accordingly. They lead him to the trailer where Wasrack was killed.

A statement from Höpke brings Dr. Bubek to the perpetrator, she had worked in an educational counseling service years ago, there came an overwhelmed mother with her then 12-year-old son, who had developed strange fantasies and tormented animals after his parents divorced. At that time he cut off the head of a rabbit. She believes that this is the culprit as a young man. Roiter realizes that a rabbit he found in the stewardess' apartment and took home with him did not belong to the victim, but from the psychopath for Roiter or Dr. Bubek was left there. Dr. Bubek made sure that the boy came back to his father against his will, but the latter abused him and the boy was taken to the home. In the documents she has kept, the officers learn that the boy is the corpse driver Markus Engel, the officers rush to his apartment and let their assistant Beckmann with Dr. Bubek back. The apartment is empty, there is a slide show with happy childhood photos of Engels and his mother. Roiter recognizes the caretaker of the stewardess's apartment in the mother. Dr. Meanwhile, Bubek suspects that the other women were just a foreplay and that Engel has planned even greater torments for them. While Roiter wrote the mother out to be wanted and went to Dr. Bubek hurries back, Engel gains entry to the house disguised as a policeman. Shortly afterwards, Roiter and Zorowski find their assistant there with his throat cut, Dr. Bubek and Engel have disappeared. Through a call from Engels, Roiter receives a reference to the furniture store where he recently ordered a new kitchen, there he meets Engels mother outside, inside Engel stops Dr. Bubek caught. Engel's mother testifies that her son, whom she has not seen for years, asked her to go there. While Roiter and Zorowski are waiting for the SEK, Engel arrives with Dr. Bubek out, he wants to kill her in front of his mother. Dr. Bubek hits him so that Roiter can shoot Engel before he stabs him.

Production notes

The crime scene view into the abyss is a production by Saxonia Media on behalf of the SFB for Das Erste . The working title was Die Schützen .

When it was first broadcast on April 5, 1998, Blick in den Abgrund had 7.75 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 19.05%.

The twelve films of the SFB with Winfried Glatzeder were not recorded on conventional film material, but with the help of Betacam video cameras, which resulted in a video clip aesthetic of the films that has been widely criticized. Police call 110: Seven Days of Freedom , produced by the SFB in 1995 , was also recorded in this format and also criticized.

criticism

"Silly dialogues and artificial atmosphere: unfortunately only a glance into the void."

- TV movie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tatort: ​​View into the abyss at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ The Roiter era - 12 crime scenes from Berlin. at tatort-fundus.de
  3. ↑ Crime scene: View into the abyss on TV feature film (with picture of the film)
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