Crime scene: Borowski and the fourth man
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Borowski and the fourth man |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 785 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 26, 2010 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claudia Garde |
| script |
Daniel Nocke based on a template by Henning Mankell |
| production | Holger Ellermann |
| music | Jörg Lemberg |
| camera | Martin Kukula |
| cut | Ingo Ehrlich |
| occupation | |
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Borowski and the Fourth Man is a television film from the crime series Tatort and was first broadcast on December 26, 2010 on Das Erste . It is the 16th episode with the Kiel investigator Klaus Borowski and the 785th Tatort episode in total. Borowski has to solve a series of murders in which only one part of the victim's body is found.
action
In a wooded area, gamekeeper Timo Pross finds a man's severed foot in a bear trap. Borowski notices that the foot was visibly removed and the shoe that went with it was quite expensive. At the Berbecke estate, to whose land the forest belongs, friends come together who are all wealthy and supposedly want to relax over the weekend. Borowski visits the company. The host, Christian Berbecke, is allegedly on a business trip, so it says in the room that the foot could belong to Berbecke. Borowski finds out that the friends did not meet to relax, but to hunt. People claim to want to hunt rabbits, but Borowski finds a bear in a cage on the estate, so it is clear that the hunting party was trying to hunt bears illegally. Meanwhile, the foot is identified as that of Christian Berbecke. He was amputated post-mortem. Shortly afterwards, a furrier finds a severed hand, which was also amputated post-mortem, but comes from another corpse.
The hand belongs to a tanner named Schorhaben, who was also involved in the illegal hunt. Borowski speaks again with Maja Stevens, Berbecke's cousin. She tells him about a hunting accident a few years ago in which Pross lost a leg. He has been wearing a prosthesis ever since. She suspects that he killed Berbecke and Schorhaben because he blames them for the loss of his leg. In Schormengen's apartment, the inspector finds a record that refers to a pyramid system. Letters are drawn in the pyramid as abbreviations for names. With the help of his former colleague Jochen from the fraud department, who happened to visit him these days because he was looking for Frieda Jung, with whom he was just as in love with Borowski and who learned about the ongoing investigation, Borowski deciphered that Berbecke and another Man high up in the pyramid and have earned a lot of money. The letter "Z" is under Schorhaben, who was in third place and had to recruit someone. Borowski finds out that Schorhaben was able to recruit a chess friend named Zaumer for the system. The commissioner and his officers suspect him to be the serial killer who has lost everything and now wanted to take revenge. Borowski does not meet him in his funeral home, but is told that he has made extra large coffins for some customers. Borowski suspects the missing corpses there and actually finds them.
The hunting party, which continues to believe that Pross is the culprit, tries to get rid of him by inviting him to go on a bear hunt and wanting to let him shoot the bear. Your plan is to kill him while hunting and portray it as an accident or, in the event of an attack, as self-defense. The pregnant wife of one of the participants in the hunt informs Borowski that he has reached the forest area when two members of the hunting party target Pross and shoot him. Pross, in turn, aims the crossbow at Borowski because he thinks the inspector is the attacker. But Borowski can overwhelm him. The commissioner previously found out that a Gustav Euler was at the top of the pyramid. When the officers arrive at Euler's, he is already dead and his head has been severed. Zaumer is found at the scene and arrested. He confesses to the first two murders but denies the third. Borowski believes him.
An old assessment by the police psychologist Frieda Jung about his former colleague Jochen, in which it was recommended that Jochen be released from the police force, brings Borowski on the trail of the third murder. The inspector visits Jochen and confronts him with the fact that Euler was his biggest case, but that he allegedly did not remember this name when he presented him with the list. Borowski arrests Jochen for the murder of Euler. This confesses the act. He killed Euler because he could never confront him for his fraudulent activities. Because of the series of murders, he wanted to kill Euler in such a way that the suspicion of the serial killer had to fall.
background
The film was shot in Kiel , Kellinghusen , at Gut Wulfshagen in Tüttendorf and in Krummwisch in Schleswig-Holstein. The film was produced by Studio Hamburg and Norddeutscher Rundfunk . The script was provided by the Swedish star crime writer Henning Mankell , who was friends with Borowski actor Axel Milberg.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Borowski and the fourth man on December 26, 2010 was seen in Germany by a total of 7.07 million viewers and achieved a market share of 20.8 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm spoke of a macabre Schleswig-Holstein crime thriller that was played well, and summarized their criticism as follows: “You rarely see evil so relaxed” A point out of three was awarded for humor, ambition and action possible given, for voltage two.
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv spoke of a fascinating crime thriller in which the characters are more than functions in an enigmatic corpse puzzle. Tittelbach judged: “The new 'Tatort' from Schleswig-Holstein has a touch of Swedish crime thriller. The everyday horror is exaggerated existentially and implanted in a psychologically and sociologically coherent microcosm. "
Web links
- Borowski and the fourth man in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Borowski and the fourth man on the ARD website
- Borowski and the fourth man in the crime scene fund
- Borowski and the fourth man at Tatort-Fans.de
- Borowski and the fourth man - press booklet
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort episode 785: Borowski and the fourth man at tatort-fans.de
- ↑ Borowski and the fourth man A consensus crime scene on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on September 25, 2014.
- ↑ Borowski and the fourth man on tatort-fundus.de
- ^ Tatort: Borowski and the fourth man short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on September 25, 2014.
- ↑ series "Tatort - Borowski and the fourth man" in tittelbach.tv, accessed on September 26, 2014.
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