Crime scene: the black angel
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The black angel |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 299 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | November 13, 1994 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nina Grosse |
| script | Stefan Kolditz |
| production |
Melanie Wolber André Zoch |
| music |
Joe Mubare One Tongue |
| camera | Hans-Jörg Allgeier |
| cut | Gudrun Bohl |
| occupation | |
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The Black Angel is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The episode was produced by Südwestrundfunk under the direction of Nina Grosse and first broadcast on German television on November 13, 1994. It is the 299th episode of the crime scene and 6th episode with the Ludwigshafen investigator Lena Odenthal ( Ulrike Folkerts ) and means the farewell to her assistant Seidel.
action
LKA undercover agent Ben Broder and his partner Wilhelm Feindt are on the trail of the fugitive gang boss Santos. When Broder is distracted by a suspicious noise and investigates the cause, the enemy is shot at. Mortally injured, Feindt is brought to a clinic, where Broder visits him every day.
Commissioner Lena Odenthal receives the order from Kriminalrat Friedrich to take over the murder. She is supposed to work with Ben Broder, but the latter is very dismissive and fears that the planned arrest of Santos will be endangered. Inevitably, he confides in the Commissioner and explains to her that Santos organized illegal gambling on a large scale, in which politicians, industrialists and even police officers are involved. According to Broder's findings, Santos wants to meet his competitor Tauber in the next 72 hours on the "Rheindampfer Switzerland", which serves as an illegal casino. They are planning a deal that Broder wants to prevent and Santos to convict at the same time. Thus, disguised as a gambler, he sets off on “Switzerland” with Lena Odenthal as his companion. There he meets his informant and tries to find out whether there is someone who knows who could have shot his colleague. However, he has no success with this.
After Wilhelm Feindt dies unexpectedly in the clinic and it cannot be ruled out that someone helped with his death, Ben Broder is now suspected of having cleared his colleague out of the way. However, this cannot be conclusively proven, but it cannot be refuted either. Despite all the skepticism towards Broder, Odenthal knows that she must not endanger the actual mission of the LKA man. After Broder's informant announces the meeting between Sandos and Tauber, the two investigators first have to concentrate on it. In addition to the arrest of the gang boss, Broder hopes to find a list on which the politicians and police officers bribed by Sandos are recorded. Odenthal accompanies Broder to the hotel where the two gangsters want to meet. While Broder secretly breaks into Santo's room to look for the ominous list, Odenthal is supposed to keep his back free. She succeeds, but unfortunately Broder cannot find the list. Contrary to expectations, the meeting of Sandos and Tauber does not take place in the hotel, but on the "Switzerland". Broder and Odenthal manage to get on board secretly, but also separately. When Odenthal meets Broder, he shot the two gang bosses in alleged self-defense. After a fire breaks out in Tauber's cabin, the list you are looking for is very likely destroyed, but the weapon that was used to shoot the enemy can be found there.
For Odenthal, the case seems to have been resolved, while the Kriminalrat is not satisfied. For him, Broder is still the main suspect. And he was right. Broder actually killed his colleague because Broder's name was on Santo's list and he feared that Feindt would have betrayed him. After Broder shoots at Odenthal's colleague Seidel, Odenthal also takes up a gun and kills Broder fatally.
background
The film was produced in 1993 by Südwestrundfunk . Dominic Raacke , who plays an opaque LKA officer in this crime scene, becomes the crime scene inspector himself from 2001 to 2014 in the role of the Berlin investigator Till Ritter .
reception
Audience rating
When it was first broadcast on November 13, 1994, the episode The Black Angel in Germany was seen by 7.00 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 20.60 percent.
criticism
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm think this crime scene is only mediocre and say: "Low-tempo tour of love suffering."
Web links
- Crime scene: The black angels in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of The Black Angel on the ARD website
- The black angel at the crime scene fund
- The black angel at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The black angel location and audience rating tatort-fundus.de, accessed on September 10, 2015.
- ↑ TV Spielfilm : TV crime thriller with Inspector in love (Ulrike Folkerts), a film review at TV Spielfilm , accessed on September 10, 2015.
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