Crime scene: the sleeper

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The sleeper
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 NDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 152 ( List )
First broadcast November 6, 1983 on ARD
Rod
Director Jürgen Roland
script Jochen Wedegärtner
production Günter Handke
Rüdiger Humpert
Thilo Kleine
music Nils Sustrate
camera Bernd Schofeld
cut Irene Brunhöfer
occupation

The Sleeper is the 152nd television film in the crime scene crime series. Produced by NDR , the episode was broadcast for the first time on November 6, 1983 on ARD's first program. It is the second case of MAD Lieutenant Colonel Delius, portrayed by Horst Bollmann . The first crime scene commissioner of the Hessischer Rundfunk Klaus Höhne ( commissioner Konrad ) plays the role of the "sleeper" coachman.

action

On the Baltic Sea is a NVA - officer , who fled with a sailboat in the West, of a rescue boat rescued. When questioned by the Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD), the officer tells of a conversation held by the GDR foreign intelligence service , which was about a Bundeswehr secret project "Kosmic". MAD Lieutenant Colonel Delius concludes from a detail of the conversation about the enemy agent Schäfer, who is likely to be sent to the west to spy on the project. Schäfer is already in Bonn and looks for the sleeper coachman. He reminds him of his obligation, which he gave to the Stasi as a student in West Berlin in 1952 , to become active for them. Kutschner is a consultant to the Ministerialrat Hohleben, which is responsible for the secret project in the Ministry of Defense .

The project for the later NATO demonstration is now starting with a dress rehearsal near Eckernförde . It is a control system to remotely deactivate one's own sea mines so that one's own ships can pass them faster. Hohlleben, Kutschner, Frigate Captain Wellmann and the designer Spitzner attend the exercise. However, this is sabotaged by Schäfers Taucher, so that the mine explodes due to the distant receiver.

Delius quickly realized that Schäfer now has the recipient and will try to get the sender's plans. Since Kutschner has no access to the documents, Schäfer comes up with a clever manipulation to get him into the position. An agent is assigned to Spitzner and Wellmann is said to be undoing his passion for stamps . Since both of them block these bogus espionage attempts and report them to the MAD, Hohlleben is now targeted and cleverly presented as a traitor, which should only look like this for the MAD. Hohleben is relieved of his post and Kutschner is his temporary successor. Schäfer is almost at his destination and meets Kutschner in Hamburg ; but this does not want to play along. Kutschner's wife was hit by in Bonn. Kutschner assumes that he should be made compliant with it, and photographs the station's plans in Spitzner's company at a favorable moment. However, he has long been observed by Delius' men and the Hamburg police. On the Hamburg Main Kutschner should pass the microfilm at Shepherd. The handover works, but Schäfer's escape turns out to be more difficult than expected.

Since Schäfer's escape seems to have been successful, Delius has to find his hiding place. He finds the solution in a crime story that the agent forgot in Spitzner's apartment. It contains a phone number code that leads him to Schäfer's cover address. There he surprises him and arrests him. Delius reveals to him that the microfilm is worthless because it does not contain the circuit diagrams for the transmitter, but for the people's receiver from the German Reich . Shepherd is six weeks later against seven Western agents at the inner-German border near Lübeck replaced .

background

The North German Broadcasting turned the sleeper in Hamburg. The crime scene was supported by the military counterintelligence service and the German Navy . You can see u. a. Starfighter from a naval aviation squadron and ships from the Eckernförde naval base .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of the crime scene Der Schläfer on ARD on November 6, 1983 was seen by a total of 16.89 million viewers in Germany and thus achieved a market share of 43.00 percent at that time.

criticism

The TV Spielfilm only gave the film a mediocre rating (thumbs horizontally) and wrote: "Cold war means cold coffee here."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tatort: ​​The Sleeper Filming location and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on December 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ Helmut R. Hammerich : "Always on the enemy!" - The Military Counter-Intelligence 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).
  3. ^ Tatort: ​​The Sleeper Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on October 22, 2014.
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