Crime scene: blind couriers
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Blind couriers |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MR |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 412 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | May 9, 1999 on ARD |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sylvia Hoffman |
| script | Sylvia Hoffman |
| music | Ralf Zang |
| camera | Jürgen Herrmann |
| cut |
Stefan Blau Birgitt Bosboom |
| occupation | |
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Blinde Kuriere is a television film from the crime series Tatort , produced by Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) and broadcast for the first time on May 9, 1999 in the program Das Erste . It is about the 412th crime scene episode and the 23rd case of the chief detective Edgar Brinkmann, embodied by Karl-Heinz von Hassel . This time Brinkmann and his assistant Robert Wegener are dealing with the murder of a travel agency employee and the associated drug smuggling.
action
Dr. Pit Faber meets with the travel agency owner Martina Dorn and explains to her that her deal, in which her employee Botho Steinbach abuses women traveling alone to secretly smuggle cocaine, threatens to break because Steinbach is doing his own thing, Steinbach must therefore disappear . Meanwhile, Steinbach heads to the airport to pick up Beate Kirmann, who is traveling alone and is returning from a trip to Florida. He is shot by a killer in the parking garage, so Beate waits in vain and lets her ex-boyfriend Nick Tedebach pick her up. Nick discovers a kilo of cocaine in her luggage and confronts her, Beate is amazed and wants to go to the police, but Nick talked her out of it because he was convinced that she had deliberately smuggled the substance. He takes the cocaine and promises to help her get rid of the cocaine. Brinkmann and Wegener are called to the scene, traces of cocaine residues can be found in the trunk of Steinbach's car, otherwise there are no usable traces of the murderer. Meanwhile, Faber's henchmen Pohle and Voight search Steinbach's apartment, masked. Voight brutally beats the caretaker who confronts her. While Beate tries desperately to reach Nick, fearing that the owners of the drugs will find them, the gambling addict Nick sells part of it to Tom, who often stops at illegal gambling. Pohle brings the things stolen from Steinbach's apartment to Martina Dorn, but the two do not find the drugs in it, as they had hoped. Dorn suspects that the travel agency customer Beate still has this with her. Brinkmann and Wegener meanwhile find the seriously injured caretaker in Steinbach's apartment. He tells the officers that the masked men mentioned a "doctor".
While Nick tries in vain to sell the rest of the cocaine to Tom, Wegener learns from an informant from the drug scene that Faber is known in the scene by the nickname "The Doctor". However, it has so far not been possible to prove that the respected entrepreneur has any connections to organized crime. The next morning, Beate nervously called the drug squad and inquired about the legal consequences for her of the unwitting drug smuggling, but out of fear she hung up again without giving her name and address. Shortly thereafter, while she was absent, Voight broke into Beate's apartment and searched it without success, while Brinkmann and Wegener were able to identify the Dorns travel agency as Steinbach's workplace. Pohle, who followed Beate to her workplace in the Frankfurt Zoo, went to see her and pretended to be the Commissioner of the Narcotics Department. Beate explains to him that she wanted to hand over the drugs and promises to give him the cocaine as soon as possible. Brinkmann and Wegener go to the travel agency, Dorn can provide an alibi for the time of the crime and says he does not know what Steinbach might have wanted at the airport. The officials notice that Steinbach's desk has already been emptied, although Dorn pretends to be surprised by Steinbach's death. Beate looks for Nick, shadowed by Pohle and Voight, and asks him to hand over the drugs to her so that she can bring them to the police, but Nick refuses to hand them over and indicates that he has sold some of them. Brinkmann is meanwhile looking for Dr. Faber, who, as expected, denies any involvement in the Steinbach murder and drug dealings. Pohle and Voight go to Nick, who wants to hand them over the drugs under threat of violence, but has to discover that Tom's henchman has apparently stolen them, but Pohle and Voight believe that Beate has the drugs.
Dorn contacts Pohle and indicates that all witnesses have to disappear because the matter is getting too hot for her. Shortly afterwards, Beate seeks out Dorn and wants to speak to Steinbach, but she sends her rudely away and instructs Pohle to eliminate Nick. When Pohle wanted to kill Nick, he was able to flee, but was stopped by Pohle in the zoo and killed. Brinkmann learns from his colleague from the drug squad about Beates' anonymous phone call, and shortly afterwards he is called to the zoo, where Nick was found murdered. When she comes home, Beate notices that someone is in her apartment and calls the police. Alarmed by his accomplice Voight, who notices Beate waiting for the police in front of the house, Pohle drives up in front of Beate's house, who, as she still thinks he is a police officer, gets into the car with relief. When the police arrive in front of Beate's house at that moment, Pohle drives away with her, Pohle and Voight want to know from her what she told the police. The two gangsters drive her to Dorn, shortly afterwards Brinkmann and Wegener arrive at Dorn because they found out that Steinbach's cell phone is in her office while she stated that she no longer had any of his private items in the office. Pohle and Voight hide with Beate in an adjoining room, but she can free herself and reveal Brinkmann, the officers arrest Pohle, Voight and Dorn. Since Dorn has any connection to Dr. Faber denies he's getting away with being the mastermind for lack of evidence.
Audience and background
The first broadcast of Blinde Kuriere on May 9, 1999, Das Erste had a market share of 21.04 percent and was seen by 6.03 million viewers in Germany. The episode was shot in Frankfurt and the surrounding area.
criticism
TV Spielfilm rated the film as mediocre and judged: "The lame coke crime thriller is old news".
Web links
- Blind couriers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Blind couriers in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of Blinde Kuriere on the ARD website
- Blind couriers at the crime scene fund
- Blind couriers at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: blind couriers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de. Retrieved May 16, 2016
- ↑ "Short review of Blinde Kuriere in TV feature film"
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