Crime scene: deserters
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Deserters |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR |
| length | 83 minutes |
| classification | Episode 285 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 19, 1993 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ilse Hofmann |
| script | Horst Vocks |
| music | Andreas Koebner |
| camera | Daniel Koppelkamm |
| cut | Monika Bergmann |
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Deserters is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the sixth case of the Düsseldorf investigators Flemming, Koch and Ballauf and the 285th crime scene sequence. The report produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk was broadcast for the first time on December 19, 1993 on Das Erste . Flemming and his team deal with the murders of an arms dealer and the son of a former burglar king.
action
The former burglars Hans Gebhardt and Kalle Maisch once kept Düsseldorf in suspense, but they always proceeded so skillfully that nothing could ever be proven to them. The two have long since retired, Hans Gebhardt runs a car repair shop with his son Axel, while his friend and former accomplice Kalle Maisch lives in the old people's home and runs a painting studio. Hans doesn't like to see his son, who has already been investigated for burglary several times, is also involved in criminal business.
Axel has got a suitcase of counterfeit money in large bills and meets with Charly, who acts as an informant for the police. Axel hides with the counterfeit money in Charly's mobile home , who drives to a small sports airfield under the eyes of BKA officials to conclude a deal with uranium to build an atomic bomb with a gangster . Charly lets the gangster get into the mobile home to hand over the money, but claims in front of it that it is counterfeit money. When the gangster tries to escape, Charly shoots him in an ambush while fleeing from the officers lurking outside. Axel hidden in the mobile home exchanges the gangster's real money for the counterfeit money he has obtained. Flemming is called to the crime scene, his BKA colleague Schröder is contrite because they would have needed the gangster alive to get to the people behind the deal. In the meantime, as planned by Charly, the BKA people have seized the counterfeit money and believe it came from the gangster. Meanwhile, Charly and Axel drive away with the motorhome and the real money from the deal, Axel pushes for an immediate distribution of the booty, but Charly puts him off to a meeting in the evening. Instead of sharing the booty with Axel, Charly blows him up with plastic explosives in his own apartment.
Flemming has to bring the sad news to Hans Gebhardt, who is known to him because of his past. The latter claims not to know anything about his son's criminal machinations, and Kalle is also silent about Flemming. Flemming worries about Hans' reaction to the death of his son, he is convinced that Hans will take revenge together with Kalle if the police are not quicker. Although Hans doesn't want Kalle to interfere in his plan of revenge against Charly, he finds Charly in a bar in the red light district. When Kalle speaks to Charly about Axel and the murder, he reacts aggressively and knocks Kalle down. Detective Inspector Miriam Koch, who observed Kalle on Flemming's instructions, arrested Charly with her alarmed colleagues. He identifies himself as an undercover agent of the BKA in front of the officers and says that he must act brutally in order not to be exposed. He only claims to have found out about Axel Gebhardt and the attack from the newspaper; he also doesn't know who shot the gangster on the airfield, the officers have to let him go.
Kriminalhauptmeister Ballauf now looks around the gaming scene in which Axel was active and can identify a play partner Axels who owns a printing shop and has turned Ballauf on a flower instead of real money during the game. During his interrogation, the officers found out that he was in need of money and had therefore produced two million DM counterfeit money for Axel in his printing plant. It is clear to the investigators that Charly must have exchanged the money with Axel, as the arms dealer would have had enough black money available for money laundering. Also, if he'd wanted to pay in flowers, he would have used better quality.
Meanwhile, Kalle reveals to his friend Hans that he has an incurable tumor and only has a few months to live. Hans seeks out his Greek friend, the jewelery dealer "Dimi", and tells him about his plan of revenge. Since Charly had also offered one of Dimi's compatriots a dirty deal, Dimi can give Hans his address. With Kalle's help, he can shake off Inspector Koch, who is shadowing him, and overwhelm Charly with his old rifle in a remote house. The next morning, Hans picks up Kalle with the booty in his luggage and travels with him to Greece. As young Wehrmacht soldiers, Hans and Kalle were present during the torture of Dimi's father. When their superior wanted to shoot Dimi's father and Dimi, Kalle killed the Wehrmacht officer, the two freed their Greek prisoners and found shelter with them as deserters until the end of the war. After the plan of revenge is completed, they will be accepted again in Greece, this time for the rest of their lives.
On the way, Hans Flemming calls and tells him where he can find Charly, he left him alive so that he could be judged by the judiciary. Flemming wishes his two old rivals good luck and lets them move to Greece without a manhunt. While Flemming finds Charly and arrests her for two murders, Hans and Kalle are welcomed like heroes by their Greek friends and can move into a house by the sea.
background
One scene shows the main hall of Düsseldorf Central Station . Here you can see the old display board with a fall leaf display, which was in operation until the renovation work in 2008–2009.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Tatort Deserteure on December 19, 1993 was seen by a total of 9.32 million viewers in Germany and thus achieved a market share of 26.60%.
Reviews
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm rate the episode positively and comment: "Don't desert, the crime is worth it!"
Web links
- Crime scene: Deserters in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Deserters in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of deserters on the ARD website
- Deserters at the crime scene fund
- Deserters at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on February 3, 2016.
- ^ Deserteure short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 3, 2016.
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previous episode November 28, 1993: Heaven and Earth |
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next episode January 23, 1994: Bienzle and the game of fools |