Crime scene: The specialist
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The specialist |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR , Bavaria Film |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 323 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | January 1, 1996 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Markus Fischer |
| script |
Alexander Adolph , Markus Fischer |
| production | Veith von Fürstenberg |
| music | Markus Fritzsche |
| camera | Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein |
| cut | Nina Ergang |
| occupation | |
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The specialist is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the 12th case of the Düsseldorf investigators Flemming and Koch and the 323rd crime scene sequence. The contribution produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Bavaria Film was broadcast for the first time on January 1, 1996 on Das Erste .
Commissioner Flemming has to solve two murders that look like suicide, but were actually committed by a corrupt colleague with whom Flemming is confronted.
action
Karl Ammond is chief inspector in the white-collar crime department and is blackmailed by Moretta. But instead of responding to all of his demands, he threatens him with a pistol and Moretta falls over a railing while backing away, so that he falls a few floors down.
When Moretta is found and he has a huge amount of money in his pocket, Flemming doubts it was suicide. Before the police can look around the dead man's apartment, Moretta's girlfriend has already taken the incriminating material. Flemming learns from Moretta's parents that their son worked for the Schubert forwarding company until recently . The visit there does not help the investigator, and the former colleagues hardly knew Moretta either. Nevertheless, they can give clues to his girlfriend, Edith Kruse, who is now pursuing the criminal activities that her boyfriend has started. So she continues the blackmail and tells Ammond over the phone that she knows that he is a murderer. However, she claims to the police that she had nothing to do with Moretta.
Flemming found the behavior of the head of the Schubert freight forwarder conspicuous and wants to see the files in order to find out more about the company. During his research, he comes across Ammond, who is now trying to protect his hands over the shipping company with whom he has been doing illegal business for a long time - with this additional income he wants to finance his retirement in Florida . He informs the head of the department that Flemming's investigation is endangering the connection to his best informant. To prevent this, he would like to be involved in the investigation. Flemming doesn't like that at all, but can't easily ignore the instruction. Ammond, for his part, now demands insight into the status of the investigation and learns that Edith Kruse wants to make a statement. In order to forestall this, he seeks out Kruse and offers her money as she asked. However, since she feels threatened by Ammond, she attacks him, whereupon he unintentionally suffocates her in the end. He can steal the documents incriminating him.
Since Edith Kruse did not show up at the station to testify as planned, the police went to her and found her hanged in the bathroom. Although it looks like she killed herself out of grief for her boyfriend, Flemming doubts that.
Ammond, meanwhile, meets with Schubert and learns from him that Moretta had blackmailed him too. They are currently planning a joint arms deal and cannot afford any complications. As part of the investigation, he even invited Schubert to the Presidium and conducted an interrogation that had been agreed with him beforehand, which made Edith Kruse's suicide seem plausible. Even so, this does not divert Flemming from his theory. He not only scrutinizes Ammond's phone calls, but also his private assets, and so he gradually gets behind his plan. In addition, suspicious documents are found in the secret search of Ammond's office. So he lets Ammond feel that he knows something about him. Since Ammond feels more and more cornered, he now betrays Schubert to the arms suppliers, who unceremoniously kill the forwarder.
Ammond is now being ceremoniously retired. Flemming looks around in his office again and finds a suspicious fax that leads to an alleged trust company . Flemming looks around there too and finds an empty office belonging to a front company that is clearly owned by Ammond himself. The files not only contain incriminating files, but also Ammond's unmistakable voice on the answering machine. Flemming confronts Ammond with the files he finds, whereupon the latter hastily leaves his farewell party and shoots himself in the courtyard of the presidium with his service weapon.
background
The shooting of this 323rd crime scene crime story took place in Düsseldorf and the police headquarters in Düsseldorf. In the first 10 minutes of the film, the victim fell in the Kaufhof parking garage on Schadowstrasse . This shot clearly shows the "crime scene spiral" of the opening credits of the crime series.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Tatort Der Spezialist on January 1, 1996 was seen by a total of 5.35 million viewers in Germany and thus achieved a market share of 18.05%.
Reviews
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate the film as:
"Old school crime thriller with a satirical touch"
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv says, The specialist “is a classic suspense crime thriller. The perpetrator is led openly, a crime thriller as a duel between two commissioners. But also a duel between two great actors: Lüttge versus Hoppe. ”For the role of the corporal civil servant“ someone like Rolf Hoppe is exactly the right actor. That quiet, fragile voice, the thoughtful face, the confident demeanor. How he gradually gives the viewer insights into his being, transforming himself from a highly cultivated inspector into a clever mini-mabuse, with whom one can definitely empathize - that is top class Kammerspiel "crime scene". "Tittelbach continues: "The specialist" also offers a lot of looks. It is not for nothing that Fischer sees himself as a "photographic director". His handwriting is reflected in the clear division of images, unusual perspectives, extreme colors. "
Web links
- The specialist in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of The Specialist on the ARD website
- The specialist in the crime scene fund
- The specialist at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Length of broadcast on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 2, 2014
- ^ Production channels on Internet Movie Database , accessed January 3, 2014
- ↑ Filming locations on Internet Movie Database , accessed January 3, 2014
- ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 3, 2014
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 3, 2014
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach A commissioner pulls his strings at tittelbach.tv, accessed on January 3, 2014
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