Crime scene: The last rodeo
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The last rodeo |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SFB |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 446 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | July 9, 2000 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pete Ariel |
| script | Thomas Wittenburg , Horst Freund |
| production | Jürgen Haase |
| music | Andreas Bick |
| camera | Nicolai Kätsch |
| cut | Kerstin Kexel |
| occupation | |
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The last rodeo is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by the SFB and first broadcast on July 9, 2000. It is the fifth case of the investigative duo Hellmann and Ritter and the 446th crime scene episode. Hellmann and Ritter have to solve the death of a young woman and a series of cases of vigilante justice.
action
The pimp and restaurant owner Mahmed Samir throws his employee Nasin, who wanted to leave him, to her death from the balcony of a high-rise building. In front of Hellmann and Ritter, he portrays the act as suicide, which unfortunately he could not prevent. He claims to be a restaurant owner and Nasin his waitress, she was afraid of deportation, the officials are suspicious, but they cannot prove anything. Shortly afterwards, Ritter and Hellmann are called to a school where an intoxicated dealer almost died of his drug intoxication. A group of masked activists called "The Whipping Boys" had previously forced him to swallow his entire supply of drugs. Prosecutor Meisel, who is present when Ritter rescues the dealer, instructs the officers to provide “the whipping boys”, but the officers appear to have sympathy for the activists who donate the money stolen from the criminals to charity. The pimp Becher, Samir's partner, is attacked and robbed by the "whipping boys" in his villa in the evening after he has left. At the end of the robbery, in which they threatened to use explosives, they call the police, report the illegal brothel operated by Becher in the villa and disappear before the police arrive. To Hellmann and Ritter, Becher poses as a respected tax advisor, but the evidence found for the illegal brothel is too overwhelming. The alleged "explosive" of the "whipping boys" is identified by Ritter as harmless children's plasticine. Dana Becher, a native Romanian, testifies that she married her husband out of love and denies doing anything for him. The officials cannot prove otherwise.
In the presidium, Hellmann and Ritter learn that the footprint found at the crime scene comes from a police boot. The next day, Hellmann and Ritter went to the "Bullentrog" police bar, where many patrolmen meet regularly. Hellmann speaks to his frustrated colleagues about the "whipping boys" and earns suspicious silence. Prosecutor Meisel asks Hellmann and Ritter about their investigation results, the officers tell her their suspicions, the "whipping boys" also act like policemen with rubber clubs in their acts of revenge, Hellmann emotionally refers to the frustration of colleagues and cites the release of the obvious pimp, Becher . Samir confronts Becher because the “whipping boys” have stolen not only money but also Becher's notebook, which contains the data of their business. “The whipping boys” overheard the conversation about a bug and after a brief consultation they decide to take the matter into their own hands. Hellmann and Ritter find out that a colleague, Ulf Köster, landlord of the “bull's trough”, had quit work with the police because he had freaked out and became violent during an operation. His former supervisor Thorsten Kemper says that his sister was a drug addict and died shortly before the mission, which is why Köster was so freaked out. Ulf Köster wrote that they, the police officers, were the “whipping boys of the nation”.
Meanwhile, Meisel continues to put pressure on the officials because the "whipping boys" have already found imitators and they fear a solid police scandal. In the “bull's trough”, Hellmann and Ritter experience dislike, but also the frustration of the officials there, and they don't want to know anything about the recent attack on drug dealers. When Becher, Samir and other accomplices discuss a major drug deal in the "Azahara" restaurant run by Samir, the "whipping boys" appear, Samir suddenly pulls a gun, one of the "whipping boys" is faster and shoots Samir in self-defense, whereupon the " Whipping boys ”, shocked at the escalation, withdrew prematurely. While on the run, one of the “whipping boys” was involved in an accident, but was able to flee under the threat of gun violence. Hellmann and Ritter are called to the scene of the accident and are told that the restaurant in which Samir was the manager is near the scene of the accident and that he was shot dead in a robbery a few minutes earlier. Yusuf says nothing useful to the officers, one of the whipping boys had lost a coupon for the rodeo in the "bull's trough", but Yusuf withholds the evidence from the officers. Hellmann and Ritter listen to their colleague Steffi Arnold, who is also a waiter in the "bull's trough", and learn that the landlord Köster and two friends, both of whom are still active police officers, have set off on a motorcycle tour to the Baltic Sea.
After a short manhunt, the three can be found and brought to the presidium. Ritter confronts them with his suspicion of being the “whipping boys”, and that the gang's last action obviously got out of hand. However, the three of them can present fuel receipts from the time the restaurant was attacked, so that the public prosecutor does not apply for an arrest warrant. Meanwhile, the young policeman Matti reproaches his two friends Lars and Andy for taking on the dealer ring and forcing him to shoot one of them. Hellmann finds out that Becher does the tax returns for the "Azahara". Matti, who is about to turn himself in, overhears Hellmann and Ritter talking about the fact that Samir has gotten justice and does not turn himself in. Hellmann looks for Becher, who gives himself clueless about further business of Samir, he keeps silent about having been present at the attack on his restaurant. After Becher left, Hellmann spoke to his wife, who obviously works as a prostitute for Becher, and tried to persuade her to say that he would help her get away from Becher, but Dana Becher fearfully refused. Meanwhile, Ritter learns in the pathology department that Samir had traces of cocaine under his fingernails, but he himself was clean. Yusuf confronts Becher about his stolen notebook, Becher reassures him. Yusuf shows Becher the rodeo coupon from the “bull's trough” on which Matti's name is written.
Prosecutor Meisel informs Hellmann and Ritter that the whipping boys are declaring their self-dissolution with an anonymous statement to the press and the case would be closed, the attack on the "Azahara" is now considered a settlement among Moroccans. After being threatened by Yusuf, Dana reports to Hellmann and urges a meeting. After Hellmann promises to put her in a witness protection program so that she can stay in Germany, she tells him about the stolen notebook and that Becher and Yusuf absolutely want it back. She also tells him about the rodeo coupon from the "bull's trough" that Yusuf Becher showed. After they didn't meet anyone in the “Azahara”, Hellmann and Ritter went to the “bull trough”, where they met Matti. Yusuf, who is standing in front of the bull's trough with a mug, calls the pub and asks for Matti to see through the window which of the guests is Matti. Meanwhile, Hellmann hears from Matti that he has lost his rodeo coupon. Andy and Lars fear that Matti will not withstand another questioning by Hellmann and Ritter and cause him to leave the restaurant. Outside, Matti is knocked down and kidnapped by Becher and Yusuf. They torture Matti until he finally calls Lars and Andy and asks for the book. Instead of confiding in their superior Kemper, the two decide to go through the swap with the criminals on their own. Meanwhile, Hellmann and Ritter learn that Samir's real name was Amir Nidaq and that he was an internationally sought-after drug dealer. Yusuf is his brother and also has a false identity.
Ritter receives a call that Matti has not appeared on duty and that his car is in front of the "Azahara", the officials rush over there. Lars and Andy are already there to exchange the book for their boyfriend. In front of the restaurant, Hellmann and Ritter discover a patrol car that belongs to Kemper's train. Kemper tells the two that Lars and Andy are out with the car. Hellmann and Ritter request Kemp's platoon as reinforcement. The handover takes place inside, but Lars and Andy find out that the two criminals murdered their friend. When Yusuf and Becher flee with the notebook, Hellmann and Ritter place them in the back yard, Andy and Lars storm out of the bar and want to kill Yusuf. When Kemper and his people arrive, Lars gives up, but Andy, who was the initiator of the "whipping boys", insists that Hellmann and Ritter step aside so that he can kill Yusuf, only Hellmann can give Andy to the task with empathetic words move, Yusuf and Becher are removed.
Production and special features
The Crime Scene The Last Rodeo is a production on behalf of the SFB for Das Erste . The film was shot in Berlin . When it first aired on July 9, 2000, The Last Rodeo had 7.62 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 23.05%. The credit card that gangsters use to chop up cocaine names the episode's director, Pete Ariel , as its holder . In the same scene, Rüdiger Wandel can be seen as one of the drug dealers , who at the same time impersonated Bienzel's assistant Gächter.
criticism
TV Spielfilm rated the film only mediocre and commented “A ride that won't knock anyone off the saddle”.
Web links
- The last rodeo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The last rodeo in the online film database
- The last rodeo at the crime scene fundus
- The last rodeo at Tatort-Fans.de
- Summary of the plot of The Last Rodeo on the ARD website
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: The last rodeo at tatort-fundus.de
- ^ The last rodeo tv movie
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