Crime Scene: The Power of Fate

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title the power of destiny
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 93 minutes
classification Episode 189 ( List )
First broadcast January 25, 1987 on ARD
Rod
Director Reinhard Schwabenitzky
script Klaus Richter
Ulf Miehe
music Peer ravens
camera Gernot Roll
cut Ursula Möllinger
occupation

as well as Mathias Eysen , Gabriele Kastner , Angela Hillebrecht , Marius Aicher , Harry Täschner , Georg Pl. Morasch , Gerda Steiner , Hans Stadlbauer , Charly Rabanser

The Power of Fate is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk was first broadcast on January 25, 1987 in the first program of ARD . He is the sixth mission of Inspector Lenz, played by Helmut Fischer .

action

A false inspector is up to mischief in Munich. Since he had little success as a small actor, the idea occurred to him one day to gain the trust of wealthy citizens as a police officer and to extort ransom sums from them, which he then did not return against all promises. However, things went wrong on his last action. He forgets his forged ID card with Mr. Lange after he has taken 150,000 marks from him into custody. When he visits Lange again, he finds him dead. The intruder Heinz Stolle had gained access in the meantime because he also wanted to deprive Lange of his property. But the safe was almost empty, Stolle lost his nerve, shot at Lange and hid when he noticed that someone was coming into the house. When Stolle tries to flee, he shoots one of the alleged police officers named Kleppinger and disappears.

Heinz Eckhoff, the false inspector, tries to cover up the traces of his presence and throws Kleppinger's corpse into a quarry pond with the help of his second "employee", August Knopf. The dead man was discovered by chance the next day when Lenz had a woman dive there for a woman who had disappeared.

Eckhoff has no idea that Stolle had seen and recognized him in Lange's house. So he wants to get the rest of the booty from him by force of arms, but Eckhoff escapes him and hides at the innkeeper Hawratil.

Lenz is now researching the murdered Franz Kleppinger. Photographs are shown to these people based on reports from elderly people who have been harmed in the past by a fake commissioner. Kleppinger is identified as one of the perpetrators. Since he has a criminal record and was in jail with the innkeeper Berti Hawratil, he will also be questioned. He claims that he has not seen the victim in a long time. But Lenz has doubts, especially since it turns out that a striking number of his well-heeled regulars were victims of the fraudsters. Since he is also working on the murder of the pensioner Lange, he quickly draws the conclusion that both murders are related and that the robbery murderer believed the fake policeman to be real and therefore shot him.

He is researching a similar robbery in Cologne, in which a single jeweler was attacked and shot with a small-caliber weapon. He had recently traveled to the Caribbean, as did the pensioner Lange. That's why Lenz asks the resident travel agency operator, who quickly puts him on the track of Rudi Fink, who was hired three years ago to make a commercial about the cruise. Lenz hopes to use this film to identify people he can relate to the current case. Little does he know that he has already found the direct lead to the perpetrator. Fink had hired Heinz Stolle, one of his employees, to steal from the men he selected as worthwhile victims on the cruises in order to have fresh capital for his films.

Although Fink seems suspicious of the inspector, he continues to search for the wrong inspector, whom he has already identified as Heinz Eckhoff. He has meanwhile been lured to Fink's film studio under the pretext of being needed as an actor for a film and is supposed to give the pensioner Lange's money. After Fink and Stolle got into an argument and Stolle was shot, Fink wants to present this to the police as a suicide. However, Lenz immediately notices that Fink is lying to him, and after the murder has even been filmed, he arrests Fink. Eckhoff is also found tied up and gagged and confesses his fraudulent offenses, which he committed together with August Knopf.

background

The Power of Fate was filmed in and around Munich from April to May 1986 . Chief Detective Josef Brettschneider is replaced by Chief Detective Franzjosef Schneider ( Georg Einerdinger ).

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Die Macht des Schicksals on January 25, 1987 was seen in Germany by 13.85 million viewers and achieved a market share of 35.0 percent for Das Erste .

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this film from today's point of view and say: "A film in the film: a cute and curious robber and gendarme story from Munich." Conclusion: "Urban cabaret with a quirky joke."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Die Macht des Schicksals bei tatort-fans.de, accessed on March 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ Die Macht des Schicksals short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 28, 2015.
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