Crime scene: the woman on the street
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The woman on the street |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 295 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 14, 1994 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ilse Hofmann |
| script |
Niki Stein (as Nikolaus Stein von Kaminski), Jacki Engelken |
| production | Veith von Fürstenberg |
| music | Andreas Koebner |
| camera | Daniel Koppelkamm |
| cut | Monika Bergmann |
| occupation | |
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The woman on the street is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the eighth case of the Düsseldorf investigators Flemming, Koch and Ballauf and the 295th crime scene sequence. The report produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk was broadcast for the first time on August 14, 1994 on Das Erste . Flemming and his team deal with the murder of a woman who is thought to be mentally ill and irregularities in a clinic.
action
Assistant Ballauf tells his boss, Flemming, that he has quit in order to emigrate to Canada. In the evening, in the pouring rain, Flemming takes a young woman with him on the country road. She testifies to have had an argument with her husband and simply got out of the car, Flemming agrees to take her to the next town. On the way, they are stopped at a police cordon, while Flemming's colleagues are looking for a young woman who has disappeared from a clinic and who urgently needs medical help. Since Flemming identifies himself as the chief inspector, the officers let him go without further checking, Flemming speaks to her about the manhunt, she admits that Dr. To have fled Dernheim. She had received psychiatric treatment there because of a miscarriage, but was only sedated with psychotropic drugs, now she wanted to see her sister in Munich. Flemming takes Alice Rains home with her and secretly contacts her husband Friedhelm, who in turn is Dr. Dernheim notified. Alice asks Flemming why he called her husband and the doctor before they sedate her and take her away.
Flemming can't get Alice out of his head, so he visits her at the clinic a few days later. Jan van Eyck, a young lawyer from her husband's office, was also admitted there. Alice tells Flemming that Van Eyck was run over by a fugitive driver in Spain and seriously injured. Alice thanks Flemming for his help a few days beforehand, she will be released from the clinic in a week and then wants to invite Flemming to dinner. In the evening Alice desperately calls Flemming, someone had pulled off Van Eyck's ventilation hose, someone obviously wanted to kill him, and shortly afterwards the line was cut off by the stranger. Flemming rushes to the clinic, but Dr. Dernheim explains to him that Alice had had a psychotic attack, that she has now been immobilized, the doctor shows the officer van Eyck, who is now probably out of danger. A few days later, Flemming happened to find Van Eyck's obituary notice that he died that same night. Flemming visits Friedhelm Rains with the cook, there the officers also see Dr. Dernheim. Rains explains that his wife is very ill, that van Eyck only worked on unspectacular cases with him, that he rules out an attack on van Eyck, that Dr. He explains to Dernheims that he is the legal advisor of the sponsoring association of Dernheim's clinic.
Flemming gains access to the clinic again and speaks to the sedated Alice, who tells him about the disconnected ventilation tube, but then Dr. Dernheim and interrupts the conversation. Dernheim and Pfleger Freimut tell Flemming that Alice attacked Freimut during the phone call, they show the officers Freimut allegedly injuries to the face caused by Alice. The next day, Sister Paula from Dernheim's clinic went to Flemming and asked him to pick up Alice Rains from the clinic; she had expressly asked for him. Paula doesn't believe that Freimut's injuries come from Alice; she asks Flemming to keep quiet. Flemming brings Alice in protest from Dr. Dernheim from the clinic to his home. The next morning Alice has disappeared with Flemming's car, she says on a note that she will be back soon. While Alice is taking a letter from Van Eyck to her husband in his husband's office in the absence of her husband, Flemming learns from his doctor friend, Dr. Frantz that Dernheim's clinic is on the verge of bankruptcy. Dr. Dernheim quotes Flemming to himself, Flemming instructs Koch to drive to his apartment and meet Alice if she comes back. When Koch enters Flemming's apartment, Alice is lying dead in the living room, apparently having shot herself with Flemming's gun. Koch happens to meet Ballauf, whose emigration to Canada has just failed because his wife and children have left him. Koch asks him for help, Ballauf takes a job undercover at the Dernheim clinic.
Flemming is meanwhile at the instigation of Dr. Dernheim and Friedhelm Rains suspended from duty. Ballauf finds out in the clinic that the patient is secretly injected with morphine, a patient collapses shortly afterwards in front of Ballauf's eyes, Ballauf takes one of the ampoules to his former colleague Koch. Shortly afterwards Ballauf also found out that the carer Freimut himself is dependent on morphine, Sister Paula makes Dr. Dernheim draws attention to the lack of ampoules, Dernheim sees no cause for alarm. Ballauf later lets Sister Paula take him with him in the car, whose brakes have been manipulated, Ballauf can just prevent an accident. Paula shows him an anonymous threatening letter she had received the day before that she was too curious. Flemming meets Alice's sister from Munich at Alice's grave, he tells her that he does not believe in suicide, that he locked his gun and that his hiding place had been broken into. Alice couldn't have known where Flemming kept his gun, Dr. Dernheim and Friedhelm Rains did, since Flemming had locked his weapon away from their eyes when they visited. Alice's sister says that her brother-in-law tried everything to keep Alice under control, but the child Alice was expecting was not from him, but from his young employee Jan van Eyck.
Ballauf has meanwhile taken all of the morphine, Freimut needs his dose and threatens Dr. Dernheim to blow him up, but Dr. Dernheim doesn't take him seriously. Ballauf Freimut holds out the prospect of morphine if he confesses what he knows. He reports that Dr. Dernheim had brought money from the clinic foundation abroad, he should have declared bankruptcy long ago, Rains would have known about it. Koch can Dr. Catch Dernheim at the airport when he wants to go to Switzerland with a suitcase of cash. In his absence, Flemming visits Rains' office, he can find out what Alice had already found out - namely that Friedhelm Rains had flown to Málaga and ran over Jan van Eyck there in his car. Flemming seeks out Rains, who is currently trying in vain to find Dr. To save Dernheim from pre-trial detention for bankruptcy fraud. He confronts him with the fact that only he and Dernheim knew where he was hiding his weapon, and Dernheim admits that, at Rains' request, he had ordered Flemming on the day of Alice's death so that Alice would not find Flemming at home. Dernheim further admits that Rains was present at the clinic during Van Eyck's death, Rains eventually confesses to the two murders. Flemming and Koch finally say goodbye to their former colleague Ballauf to Canada.
background
In several scenes, fictitious headlines can be seen that are printed on the first pages of the actually existing Düsseldorfer Zeitung Express (German newspaper) .
Koch finds Ballauf while investigating in the nightlife of the old town (Düsseldorf) . In this scene, a waiter wears a t-shirt from the real heavy metal pub Papidoux , which has been based in Liefergasse since 1985.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of the crime scene Die Frau an der Straße on August 14, 1994 was seen by a total of 9.10 million viewers in Germany and thus achieved a market share of 31.40%.
Reviews
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rated the episode positively and commented: "An exciting story in a white coat environment."
Web links
- Crime scene: The woman on the road in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The woman on the street in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of Die Frau an der Straße on the ARD website
- The woman on the street at the crime scene fund
- The woman on the street at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on February 7, 2016.
- ^ The woman on the street short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 7, 2016.
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