Crime scene: the pot

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The Pott
Crime scene of pott.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavaria Film GmbH for the WDR
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 217 ( List )
First broadcast April 9, 1989 on ARD
Rod
Director Karin Hercher
script Axel Götz
Thomas Wesskamp
production Wolfgang Hesse
music Rio Reiser
camera Bernd Neubauer
cut Monika Mertens
occupation

The pot is a television film from the crime scene crime series of ARD and ORF .

The film was produced by WDR and broadcast for the first time on April 9, 1989. It is the 217th episode in the crime scene series, the 20th with Inspector Schimanski .

action

In a Duisburg steelworks, a factory occupation is protesting against the threat of job cuts. This action is not legitimized by the union and is carried out by the workers of the plant on their own. The population supports the occupants with donations that are to be presented to the public at a protest rally in the plant. This “pot” with more than half a million marks was stolen in a robbery shortly before this presentation. The strike is thus on the brink of financial failure.

While Thanner is starting his new job at a branch of the Federal Criminal Police Office in Bonn , Schimanski is looking after a corpse that was found in an allotment garden near a workers' settlement in Duisburg-Hochfeld , where mainly families of the steel mill workers live. The dead man is Günther Broegger, one of the people attacked in the steelworks. Initial investigations reveal that Broegger was apparently a seedy character. The autopsy of the body shows that the murder must have been a regular execution.

Because Thanner has moved to Bonn, Schimanski gets Jo Wilms from the robbery department as a provisional partner, as he is the responsible investigator in the case of the stolen pot and the cases now belong together.

Headframe of the Zeche Zollverein in Essen , from which Golonska throws his friend Struppek.

In the course of further investigations, a member of the above-mentioned BKA branch in the vicinity of the strikers appears again and again, who seems to be conspicuously interested in Broegger. Schimanski also surprises the two petty criminals Struppek and Golonska in Broegger's apartment, who have apparently been looking for something. Struppek escapes, and both have an alibi for Broegger's murder. Schimanski then asks Thanner to research the matter for him in Bonn, since the BKA apparently also has an interest in the case. In the meantime, the strikers get their hands on Struppek and want to force him to confess. Schimanski and Wilms let themselves be smuggled into the plant and take Struppek, who had already been badly beaten, with them. Since he also provides an alibi for the attack, he is initially let go. However, when the alibi is checked more closely, it collapses. Later Struppek wants to unpack and is killed by Golonska. Since there are no witnesses for this, Schimanski and Wilms can only elicit a confession of theft from him. Golonska says that Broegger hired the two petty criminals to carry out the robbery, which Schimanski can hardly believe, since Broegger was a shop steward for the workforce.

Since the motive for the murder of Broegger now points to half a million of the theft, the aim is to investigate in the direction of the strikers. Thanner informs Schimanski that Broegger was obviously listed in a confidential database of the BKA. A bank statement takes Schimanski and Thanner to a bank in Bonn, which provides information that Broegger received regular payments from the BKA; he was an undercover agent of the Federal, which had been introduced for spying on the workforce in Western steel. The pot is therefore in the care of the BKA. In addition, it emerges that colleague Wilms must have known about the murdered man's activity as traitors, but for some reason withheld this information from Schimanski.

While Thanner is fired for helping Schimanski's investigation and learns that the robbery came about on Broegger's own initiative, Schimanski confronts Wilms with his suspicion that he is the murderer. They are re-enacting the murder, and Schimanski checks the bullets that Wilms fired in the process. The forensic investigation shows that the murder weapon must have been a different one. Schimanski remembers a target practice with Wilms, during which Wilms secretly swapped their weapons. Schimanski has his weapon (which is actually Wilms's) checked, and it is actually the murder weapon. Finally, Schimanski and Thanner, who has returned to Duisburg, confront Wilms with the facts. He admits the murder and describes Broegger as a traitor. When Wilms shoots Thanner, Schimanski kills Wilms with a shot in the stomach at the point where Wilms' father, who was previously released from the steelworks, hanged himself. It turns out that Wilms had planned this shooting so that the occupants could collect his life insurance of 700,000 marks. The stolen pot is lost, however, as the BKA insists on keeping Broegger's activities secret and only wants to return the money to the union, which rejects the occupation.

background

Rio Reiser can also be seen as an actor in the film. Right at the beginning he and his band played the song “Über Nacht” for the striking workers in the steelworks.

The idea for the plot is based on a report in the magazine Der Spiegel from March 28, 1988, which is quoted verbatim at the beginning of the episode. This is about the - albeit never materialized - proposal to give the state's monopoly on the use of force in relation to demonstrations and strikes partly in the hands of private security services.

Miroslav Nemec has been with Bayerischer Rundfunk since 1991 and Sabine Postel has been a crime scene commissioner for Radio Bremen since 1997. Leonard Lansink plays the private detective Wilsberg in the ZDF series Wilsberg.

Horst Lettenmayer's eyes and running away can also be seen in the opening credits of every Tatort episode.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Der Pott . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
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