Crime scene: blood money

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Blood money
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SWR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 762 ( List )
First broadcast April 25, 2010 on Das Erste
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Director Martin Eigler
script Martin Eigler
production Nils Reinhardt ,
Sabine Tettenborn ,
Brigitte Dithard
music Oliver Kranz
camera Christoph Schmitz
cut Martina Butz-Kofer
occupation

Blutgeld is a television film from the crime series Tatort . For the Commissioners Lannert and Bootz , played by Richy Müller and Felix Klare , it is their sixth joint case. They expose the double life of an investment banker , which leads to disaster and includes everything from blackmail to kidnapping and murder . The main guest stars of this episode are Stephan Kampwirth , Lisa Martinek , Hans-Jochen Wagner and Michael Abendroth .

The contribution produced by Maran Film and Südwestrundfunk was first broadcast on April 25, 2010 in the ARD Das Erste program.

action

It is pouring rain when the bank clerk Marc Simon leaves his house and looks around before he gets into his car and drives away. A little later a hearse approaches the Simons' family home, the police and forensics are already there. Mother and daughter are lying in the living room, both shot. Everything indicates that perpetrators and victims knew each other. The women stood in front of the shooter, which indicates a planned act. The patio door was ajar, there are no signs of battle. The family man seems to be fleeting. When Lannert and his colleague Chief Detective Sebastian Bootz bring the bad news to Stephanie Simon's parents, the father, who has a heart condition, suffers a faint attack. Before he is taken to the hospital, he whispers that Marc is to blame for everything. The commissioners identify an André Lindner who claims to be a close friend of the family. He reacts in complete panic to the news of his mother and daughter Simon's death. The investigation shows that Marc is said to have loved Simon's wife and daughter very much. Simon's mother-in-law says that he can't handle money even though he works in a bank. He borrowed 170,000 euros from her and her husband and then suddenly repaid the sum a year ago. He justified this with profits from stock transactions .

In Simon's office, the inspectors find a picture of Cornelia König, who also has an account at the bank. When they visit them, they meet André Lindner, who is about to disappear through the patio door. König says that she loves Marc Simon. She couldn't say anything about the act itself, but she knew that Marc would never have done anything to his wife and daughter. Marc has led this double life for eight years, the son Florian comes from their connection. His family had known about Marc's second family for three years. Marc always looked after her as much as he did for his other family. The commissioners are wondering how Simon could maintain two families at such a high level in the long run. When a call comes in that Marc Simon has turned up at his workplace in the bank and the inspectors want to speak to him, he looks tense and confused at the same time. He keeps repeating that he did not do it and says that he was in the bank until just before 7 p.m. and that when he got home he noticed that he had forgotten the birthday flowers for his wife. He then drove across town to get some more. But he denies having been in the house. Lannert shows him photos of the dead women. However, Simon completely hides everything that has to do with the terrible deed. When he is shown the photo of Cornelia König, he claims to have never seen her. Lannert points out that they already knew everything about his second family. It breaks out from Simon whether the Commissioner can understand what it is like to get to know a woman you really love, just as love as the woman you already have. That is hell. Bootz insists that if he really loved his family so much, he must help solve this horrific crime. However, Simon maintains that he does not know who did it. The commissioners arrest him.

In the middle of the interrogation, André Lindner appears with the lawyer Siebert, Simon reacts defensively to both. The lawyer speaks to Simon in rather clauses, whether he wants to stay here and support the police directly, or whether he has more important things to do outside , is his decision. The investigation shows that Simon's statement about the flower purchase is true and that he is eliminated as the perpetrator. Lannert points out that Siebert has only worked for clients in the last few years who are related to organized crime . So why is such a lawyer working for Simon, and why is André Lindner so conspicuously concerned with this case? According to the investigation, a company has loaned Steiner Simon the 170,000 euros. When the commissioners want to look around, they find a dead man. Shortly afterwards she is shot at by two men. They shoot back and hit one in the leg while the other can escape in a car. They are Ukrainian contract killers . Meanwhile, Simon's phone rings and a voice he knows wants to express its sympathy for this terrible tragedy that should never have happened. Then there is a covert threat against his son. Simon knows that contract killers executed his wife and daughter.

A trail leads the inspectors to the Stuttgart Hotel "Excelsior" to a Mr. Morelli. Lindner is also spotted there again. A check of Simon's bank computer reveals that funds have been systematically allocated to other accounts. So that it does not attract attention, the amounts were always smaller, but still millions of euros came together. It turns out that Simon borrowed the missing money from the Steiner company when he could no longer cope with his debts and also to repay the money borrowed from his in-laws. The commissioners assume that Simon was forced into illegal transactions by means of his debts with the Steiner company. With the money shifts , Italian names appear again and again, including the name Morelli. Lannert and Bootz prick up their ears. Marc Simon managed the accounts of Morelli and Co., did he embezzle funds in the process ?

Simon wants to get Cornelia König to temporarily leave the house with Florian, as neither of them are safe there. When she told him that André Lindner had already suggested that to her, he said she shouldn't believe Lindner, that he was involved in the whole thing, that he had laundered black money for them by getting them real estate. They would blackmail him too. He himself took money from them and invested in stocks to be able to pay his debts, but lost everything and they now want the money back. When Simon visits Morelli at the hotel, he is taken to the basement, where he is beaten up. Then Morelli appears. When Simon asks him to leave his family alone, he sarcastically replies whether things are going so quickly with him, his family is dead and whether he has already replaced them with his lover and son. Then he explains in no uncertain terms that Simon would be much lonelier if he kept holding him up.

The police investigations reveal that Steiner apparently worked as a straw man for Morelli. As a private moneylender, he repeatedly passed on contacts to Morelli, including contact to Marc Simon. Morelli owns several hotels in Stuttgart, all of which are run by family members or straw men. Whenever he is in Stuttgart, he works as managing director at the Hotel Excelsior, which in turn belongs to his brother Roberto Morelli. Simon set up an account system for him and his accomplices, which made it possible to distribute black money across Europe. In fact, the gang succeeded in kidnapping Florian in an unobserved moment, as proof they send Simon a photo of the boy on his cell phone. Just as the commissioners ask Morelli why he had Steiner murdered and ask further questions, which are commented on by the man with condescending arrogance, he receives a call that derails his trains. His brother Roberto and his daughter and their daughter have been taken hostage by Marc Simon. The police want to get Morelli to make sure that Florian is released. If he doesn't do that and something happens to his family, it's his fault.

The king is brought in, and she too cannot persuade Simon to give up. The commissioners are sure that Simon got involved with the Calabrian mafia . There is almost no way of getting out of there, even in the witness protection program he has no chance of surviving. Bootz can be smuggled into the apartment. However, Simon blocks all attempts to at least release the little girl. He wants Morelli to feel what this is like. Lannert tells Morelli that Simon is now out of his mind and no longer reacts at all to normal speech. When Morelli continues to claim that he does not know where Florian is, Lannert yells at him that it is about the lives of his family members, whether that no longer counts in the "honorable society". Meanwhile, the MEK is on the way, which shortly before found the shot André Lindner in the trunk of a car. A while after Morelli called someone, Cornelia König hears her son's voice, first very softly and then louder. He was dropped off very close by. Simon is informed that Florian is free. He then apologizes to mother and child. He wants to use Roberto Morelli as a protective shield for his escape. As he approaches the getaway car, his eyes fall on his brother and, forgetting all caution, he runs towards him and screams angrily: "I'll kill you, you pig." Thereupon he is shot by a sniper.

Cornelia König is completely beside herself. It takes some time before she is taken aside and revealed to her that the whole thing was fabricated to make the mafia believe that Simon is dead. It should have been made as realistic as possible or Morelli and his people would not have believed it. In tears she whispers "Thank you" when she suddenly stands across from Marc Simon.

Production notes

The film was shot from April 21 to May 26, 2009 in Stuttgart , Baden-Baden and Karlsruhe . The production company is Maran Film on behalf of Südwestrundfunk. Brigitte Dithard was the editor. The working title of the film was The Banker .

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on April 25, 2010, Blutgeld had 8.47 million viewers and a market share of 25.1%.

criticism

TV fiction film judged: "Martin Eigler (script and direction) is constantly laying unexpected tracks - and thus continuously tweaking the tension." Conclusion: "Surprising crime thriller with a thriller finale."

Josef Seitz from the news magazine Focus came to the judgment “that once again a 'crime scene' dares to tackle a real case. Blood money [is] a real case, and that alone lifts him above the usual 'crime scene' program. "Seitz says that the investigative duo Lannert / Bootz, who so far only came in sixth on the list of the best -" lagged behind Bremen, Leipzig, Cologne, Münster and Hanover "- would have" deserved a promotion with the current Sunday appearance. "

Rainer Tittelbach summarized: “Organized crime does not stop at the Swabian region either. This 'crime scene' begins as an investigative thriller with many question marks about a suspected family tragedy and develops in the second part into a thriller with a double hostage-taking. There are also well-dosed interrogations & family feelings, speed & action, thrills & 'big trick'. ”Tittelbach gives 4 ½ stars out of 6.

Kathrin Buchner from the weekly Stern said: “Hearty ingredients for the Stuttgart 'Tatort' episode Blutgeld . It was really only about very big feelings and where they can lead. […] If in the first part the idyll of the past is reconstructed rather clumsily with interrogations of the in-laws, lovers, friends, colleagues and with the help of photos, the crime thriller clearly picks up speed in the second part. [...] Director Martin Eigler has staged a down-to-earth and exciting thriller, with a surprising highlight at the end of the showdown with hostage-taking, but because of all the action, he misses the close-up of the protagonist in his still 'perfect world'. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tatort: ​​blood money data on the crime scene episode at tatort-fundus.de. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  2. ^ Tatort: ​​Blutgeld TV crime thriller from Stuttgart: "An apparently family murder case takes unexpected turns". In: TV Spielfilm.de. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  3. ↑ Crime scene: Blutgeld Josef Seitz: "It swings to the climax". In: Focus on April 26, 2010. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  4. ↑ " Tatort - Blood Money " series by Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv. "Stephan Kampwirth's emotional roller coaster ride of a desperate banker". Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  5. ^ Tatort: ​​Blood Money Kathrin Buchner: "When love becomes torture". In: Stern.de on April 23, 2010. Retrieved on April 18, 2013.
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