Crime scene: Camerone

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Camerone
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 254
First broadcast February 16, 1992 on German television
Rod
Director Hans-Christoph Blumenberg
script Hans-Christoph Blumenberg
production Telefilm Saar GmbH
music Jürgen Wolter
camera Klaus Peter Weber
cut Monika Solzbacher
occupation

Camerone is the 254th television film in the crime series Tatort and the eleventh Tatort produced by Saarländischer Rundfunk . It was first broadcast on February 16, 1992. It is the fifth case with Commissioner Palu as an investigator. Palu is dealing with former Foreign Legionnaires and a thirty year old crime.

action

Colonel Paul Gavron, a retired secret service colonel, seeks out the former German Foreign Legionnaire of the OAS , Josef Kowalski, who once with three comrades killed Gavron's brother Gaston and his comrades in order to rob the garrison coffers of a regular French unit. Since Kowalski is terminally ill and his murder would even be a relief, Gavron leaves him alive, but wants to know the name of the accomplices from back then. Later Gavron travels to Saarbrücken, at dinner he receives an anonymous message that consists only of the word "Camerone", on the same evening Gavron is killed by a bomb in his hotel room. Palu and his colleagues find four passports with different names in the room. The bomb must have been built and installed by a perpetrator with military experience. Palu's French colleague Solange Vauguel can clarify Gavron's real identity, Gavron was security advisor to three different presidents of his country, and Vauguel Palu reports on the attack that killed Gavron's brother.

Shortly afterwards, Lothar Nachtweih is found dead in an old factory building, he was killed with a bomb of the same design as in the Gavron case, and the acts must have been committed that same night. Palu and his assistant Spies visit Nachtweih's widow Renate, who does not mourn because she was mistreated by her husband. Nachtweih was a Foreign Legionnaire and recently received a visit from Gavron, after which he wanted to panic. Meanwhile, forensic medicine finds out that Nachtweih was already dead when he was blown up, apparently two perpetrators wanted to kill Nachtweih independently of each other. Renate Nachtweih telephones her lover and implores him that there should be no more dead. Vauguel informs Palu that Gavron had never let go of the assault and murder of his brother and that he has been investigating on his own since he retired. Vaguel was also able to find out about Gavron's visit to the now deceased Kowalski, Kowalski had given Gavron the name of Nachtweihs, and the other two ex-legionaries also seem to live in Saarbrücken. When Palu Kowalski wants to take Kowalski's belongings to the presidium in Germany, he is knocked down by Richard Kessel, who steals his pocket.

Kessel meets with his ex-comrade Bruno Walz, who have since noticed that before Kessel's attack, Palu took a safe key from Kowalski's pocket, which the two of them need to get to the shared locker with some of the loot in Luxembourg. At that time, the OAS staff was not aware of how much money was in the vault of the regular unit, so that the four withheld the money and built their livelihoods from it. Palu, from whom the case was withdrawn, secretly meets with his assistant Schröder, who informs him that Richard Kessel was Kowalski's comrade and Nachtweih. Palu recognizes Kessel as the man who attacked him in France. Immediately afterwards, Kessel looks for Palu, Palu wants to arrest him, until Kessel informs him that he and his ex-comrade Palu's partner Jeannette in his power, the murders of Gavron and Nachtweih gives Kessel, who takes the key and then leaves want to be frank. Palu contacts his old friend Marcel Drechsler, who is hiding from the police because of a robbery he did not commit. Marcel was himself in the Foreign Legion, Palu asks him for help, since he suspects a leak in the police. Marcel informs Palu about the legion myth of " Camerone ", a hacienda in Mexico, in which legionnaires had fought a hopeless battle down to the last cartridge. Marcel and Palu suspect that the legionaries are imprisoning Jeanette in the now vacant fortress of Bitche in Lorraine, where they carried out the raid thirty years ago.

Palu drives to the fortress and actually meets Kessel there, Jeannette is not there, when he wants the key from Palu and threatens him with a knife, Marcel comes to his aid and shoots Kessel. Shortly afterwards the French police arrive, Marcel flees and Palu's colleague Vauguel also lets him go when he indicates to her that he mustn't waste any time. Palu drives back to Saarbrücken, in Kessler's wallet, which he was able to secure before his French colleagues arrived, he finds a photo that identifies Renate Nachtweih as Kessler's lover. He visits Bruno Walz's factory, where he meets him and his tied up girlfriend Jeannette. Walz threatens him with a gun, when Renate arrives, he can make her believe that Walz has delivered her friend Kessler to the knife, whereupon Renate attacks Walz and he is killed by a shot from his gun, Palu can free Jeannette.

Audience and production

When it was first broadcast on February 16, 1992, an audience of 12.24 million was achieved, which corresponds to an audience rate of 36.30%. The episode was filmed between March and April 1987 in Saarbrücken and the surrounding area as well as in Lorraine.

particularities

The US actor Robert Vaughn has a guest appearance in this crime scene , and the entertainer Hugo Egon Balder can also be seen as a radio reporter.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene only mediocre with "applause for all who have the perspective".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tatort-fundus.de: audience share and production
  2. ↑ [1] on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 16, 2016.
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