Tatort: The silent business
Episode of the series Tatort | |
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Original title | The silent business |
Country of production | Germany |
Production company |
NDR |
length | 95 minutes |
classification | Episode 81 ( List ) |
First broadcast | November 6, 1977 on ARD |
Rod | |
Director | Jürgen Roland |
script |
Joachim Wedegärtner , Fred Zander |
production | Fred Otto |
music | Nils Sustrate |
camera | Bernd Schofeld |
cut | Inge Bohmann |
occupation | |
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The silent business is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by NDR and broadcast for the first time on November 6, 1977. It is the 81st episode in the crime scene series, the fourth with Commissioner Brammer .
action
The episode begins with an opening credits in which viewers are prepared for the espionage case. In a traffic accident one comes DDR - Agent with false passport killed. The police found a control module for the aiming system of the Leopard 1 in his glove compartment, which was stolen by Sergeant Ulli Meineke after a test shooting. However, he did not do this voluntarily. A few weeks earlier, the Stasi agent Jahn contacted his wife Ina under the guise of a textile representative . She runs a boutique and is in need of money. Jahn took advantage of this and was able to persuade her to photograph her husband's secret documents.
When Meineke discovered his wife's espionage, he wanted to inform the Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD), but refrained from doing so out of consideration for his wife. When Jahn then put him under pressure, he agreed to get the entire control module, believing that it would not be discovered. Now that the police have found the module and are investigating Meineke's tank unit, the couple panic. On Jahn's advice, Meineke directs suspicion on his deputy superior Lanz by hiding espionage material in his apartment. Lanz is arrested by Brammer and Delius in his apartment after he did not show up for duty. The evidence found in his apartment is overwhelming, but Lanz protests his innocence.
As soon as Meineke thinks he is safe, Jahn asks him to steal the module again. He again exchanges it for a dummy and leaves the barracks under a false pretext . After handing over the part, Meineke is certain that he will not be able to stay with the troops for much longer and plans to flee to the GDR. His wife is supposed to come and he thinks Jahn will help him. However, this is previously unrecognized by rail to the east.
During a target practice on the training area , the tank with the wrong module fails and almost hits one of its own tanks. The barracks are immediately put on alert. Meineke cannot reach his wife and therefore goes to the shared apartment. There he discovers her in the bedroom after she has taken her own life out of desperation. Shortly afterwards Brammer and Delius arrive and arrest Meineke.
production
The crime scene was filmed with the support of the Military Counter-Intelligence Service . In May 1977 , the shooting locations were Hamburg , the Lüneburg Heath and the Schlieffen barracks in Lüneburg . The tank battalion 84 presented the soldiers , tanks and film sets barracks and Technical Area.
Trivia
- At this crime scene, Delius already appeared, played by Horst Bollmann . The character got its own crime scenes from 1979 to 1985. In the last of the Delius crime scenes, Baranski's Businesses (1985), Brammer actor Knut Hinz appeared as a murder victim.
- Units of the 8th Panzer Brigade can be seen in the film. The Leopard 1 tanks had just been upgraded to a new version at that time.
- The director Jürgen Roland had served three years before the shooting as first lieutenant in the reserve in the neighboring tank battalion 82 , but the battalion commander , Lieutenant Colonel Hasso von Wedel , categorically refused to support the shooting.
Web links
- The quiet business in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The silent business in the online film database
- The quiet business at the crime scene fundus
- The silent business at Tatort-Fans.de
previous episode October 9, 1977: fire magic |
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next episode December 4th, 1977: The girl across the street |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Helmut R. Hammerich : "Always on the enemy!" - The Military Shield Service (MAD) 1956–1990 . 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-36392-8 , pp. 451–456 ( limited preview in the Google book search - chapter: The “crime scene” episodes with MAD Lieutenant Colonel Delius).