Crime scene: The murderer and the prince
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The murderer and the prince |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 258 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | May 17, 1992 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kaspar Heidelbach |
| script |
Niki Stein , Jacki Engelken , Wolfgang Hesse |
| production | Veith von Fürstenberg |
| music | Wolf Maahn |
| camera | Ingo Hamer |
| cut | Jutta Brandstaedter |
| occupation | |
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The murderer and the prince is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the first case of the Düsseldorf investigators Flemming, Koch and Ballauf and the 258th crime scene sequence. The report produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk was broadcast for the first time on May 17, 1992 on First German Television .
action
The Belgian model Jacqueline Bordenave receives a warning from Dagmar Schuba, the wife of her lover Gero, to keep her hands off her husband. A few hours later, Jacqueline is murdered in the forest. The corpse was only deposited in the forest, the apartment of the dead is also ruled out as a crime scene. Jacqueline was killed with a blunt object and she was three months pregnant. Shortly afterwards, Flemming and his team are called to another location, the taxi entrepreneur Horst Poensken is found strangled in the trunk of one of his taxis, apparently it is a robbery. The last passenger from Poensken, his regular customer René Wolff, cannot help Flemming. In the evening Flemming and his assistant Ballauf were called to a carnival meeting, Prince Gero Schuba was shot, but he was only slightly injured. To his surprise, Flemming discovered that René Wolff was his deputy in the carnival society. Schuba seems unimpressed and, despite the warnings from his wife, Wolffs and Flemmings, definitely wants to stand on the wagon when moving on Rose Monday.
Flemming's assistant Koch can determine that Jacqueline was not particularly successful as a model, which does not match her luxuriously furnished apartment, which officials suspect that she let a lover endure her. Meanwhile, Wolff advises Schuba to resign from the office of Carnival Prince, otherwise talk could arise if Schuba's affair with the murdered person were to become public, and Schuba began to be suspicious of Wolff. Meanwhile, Koch can learn from the agency operator Stern that Jacqueline has worked almost exclusively for the advertising agency von Wolff, which is in need of money. Flemming and Koch go to Wolff, who pretends to only vaguely remember Jacqueline. In response, he shows the officials that he had used Jacqueline for the Schuba electronics chain. He also indicates to the officers that Jacqueline and Schuba had a relationship with each other. When Flemming and Koch visit Schuba, who is currently celebrating a carnival advertising event in front of his head office, Koch notices a man who wants to shoot Schuba, Flemming and Koch can provide him, it is Pierre Bordenave, Jacqueline's father. He tells the officials that Schuba was the father of Jacqueline's unborn child, he assumes that the pregnancy made her annoying to Schuba and that Schuba killed his daughter as a result.
While Ballauf finds out that Poensken had been called to Jacqueline's apartment the night he died, Flemming visits Schuba. He denies having had a relationship with Jacqueline, he is surprised by her pregnancy, Flemming invites Schuba to a paternity test. Ballauf asks Ms. Poensken, who says that her husband waited in front of the headquarters of the Schuba electronics store immediately after driving to Jacqueline's apartment, but she saw her husband again afterwards. Schuba visits Wolff and asks him to take on the paternity of Jacqueline's baby. Wolff refuses to help Schuba, however, since Schuba cut his advertising budget, tons of other customers have dropped out of him, so he is close to bankruptcy and hates Schuba for it. When Schuba offers to give him back the advertising budget, Wolff refuses, he now just wants to see Schuba fall. Schuba finally resigns from the office of Carnival Prince and shoots himself depressed on Shrove Monday because his lifelong dream has burst and his reputation is ruined.
Dagmar Schuba makes Flemming grave allegations that he drove her innocent husband to his death. Her husband told her a few weeks ago about the relationship and the pregnancy. When her husband separated from Jacqueline, she demanded DM 500,000. That evening, instead of her husband, she met Jacqueline at the company headquarters to hand over the money, to make it clear that there was no more money to be got. Jacqueline cried, took the money and got into the taxi that was waiting for her; she doesn't want anything to do with Jacqueline's death.
Flemming and his team think about where the extorted money could be, Ballauf and Koch speculate that Jacqueline, of all people, drove to Wolff's home with Wolff's regular taxi driver, Poensken, and that he killed her in order to get the money and then removed Poensken. Since Ballauf suspects that Wolff has brought the money to Switzerland and that they would not find anything in a house search, he resorted to an illegal trick and passed on his suspicion to the Poensken widow. She notifies her colleagues, who are driving to Wolff's house in a convoy and are trying to practice vigilante justice. Flemming and his team join in, Flemming confronts Wolff with the fact that Jacqueline cried when the money was handed over, he concludes that it was not she but Wolff who blackmailed Schuba, Jacqueline had hoped for a future with Schuba. Jacqueline had gone to Wolff's and made a scene for him, she apparently wanted to have Wolff exposed, whereupon he killed Jacqueline and later Poensken, because he could have testified that he had driven Jacqueline to Wolff. Wolff confesses and allows himself to be arrested without resistance.
background
It is the first crime scene from Düsseldorf .
At the beginning of the episode, Flemming and Koch drive over the Oberkasseler bridge . In an aerial shot, the former Bundesstraße 1 can be seen on the right bank of the Rhine , as it ran before the construction of the Rhine bank tunnel (Düsseldorf) .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of the crime scene The Murderer and the Prince on May 17, 1992 was seen by a total of 14.09 million viewers in Germany and thus achieved a market share of 34.50%.
Reviews
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rate the episode only mediocre and comment: "Carnival thriller - more mild than helau."
Web links
- Crime scene: The killer and the prince in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The killer and the prince in the online movie database
- Summary of the plot of The Murderer and the Prince on the ARD website
- The murderer and the prince at the crime scene fund
- The murderer and the prince at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 17, 2016.
- ↑ Crime scene: The murderer and the prince. Short review on tvSpielfilm.de, accessed on January 17, 2019.
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