Crime scene: the black pictures
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | The black pictures |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 308 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | April 17, 1995 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Erwin Keusch |
| script | Susanne Schneider |
| production | Veith von Fürstenberg |
| music | Andreas Koebner |
| camera |
Dietmar Koelzer Hans Jacobi |
| cut |
Monika Bergmann Andrea Pugner |
| occupation | |
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The Black Pictures is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the ninth case of the Düsseldorf investigators Flemming and Koch and the 308th crime scene sequence. The report produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk was broadcast for the first time on April 17, 1995 on Das Erste . Flemming and Koch deal with the murder of the head of a psychiatric clinic and irregularities in it.
action
Prof. Dr. Volker Eschen, head of a psychiatric clinic, is found strangled in his car at the airport. According to the plane tickets found on the corpse, he wanted to fly to Berlin with his wife Marie the day before, he has been dead for about 24 hours. Flemming meets in the dead man's luxurious house his daughters Amanda and Julia, they live rather neglected and tell Flemming that their mother, with whom they have no contact, lives in Paris and is currently not in Düsseldorf, the housekeeper Carlotta takes care of the girls from her mother they didn't even have an address. Her father wanted to go to a medical congress in Berlin, her mother certainly didn't want to come. In Eschen's clinic, Flemming and Koch are looking for his old student friend and current partner in the clinic, Dr. Max Tall, up, he says that Marie Eschen is currently in Düsseldorf for a fashion show, that she suddenly left her husband years ago and has not seen him since. Dr. Tall says that Marie went to the clinic today and asked for a favor, that's all he wants to say. Koch visits Eschen's housekeeper, Carlotta Heinrich, who is addicted to pills and also lives in neglected circumstances, she says that she and Eschen have not seen Marie since they moved out.
The autopsy reveals that Eschen must have been completely surprised by the attack, he was obviously suddenly strangled and could no longer defend himself, a piece of nail polish and traces of a nylon stocking were found. In front of the pathological institute, Flemming notices a woman who must be Marie Eschen, Flemming follows her, Marie, who is very busy because of the presentation of her fashion collection, tells Flemming that she wanted to meet her husband for the first time since the separation to discuss the divorce, she didn't want to go to Berlin with him. Before the pathology, she just wanted to see her children; after all these years, making contact was not easy for both parties. Later in the evening Marie calls him to her hotel, she is drunk and says that her husband was crazy and wanted to kill her. She fled to Paris and made a career there, what she wanted from Tall today, she doesn't want to tell Flemming. He secretly takes one of her ear studs while she tells him that she attempted suicide because she left the children with her husband.
Koch has meanwhile found out that Marie is the sole heir of her husband and is heavily in debt, but Flemming does not consider these facts to be sufficient to arrest her, but he has her monitored. Meanwhile, Eschen's villa has apparently been broken into and all of Eschen's patient videos have been stolen. However, the dead man did not come through the damaged patio door, so he must have had a key, including Dr. Tall confirms that he had a key to Eschen's villa, while Flemming and Koch also happened to find out that Eschen wanted to throw his partner out. Koch later finds out that Eschen's daughters' alibi is incorrect. In the evening, Flemming and Koch order Dr. Tall to Marie's fashion show, Marie accuses Dr. Tall, having carried out the break-in, her murdered husband found out that Tall had dirty things going on in the clinic, Tall denies this, because his argument with Eschen was only about a patient's medication. Koch finds out that Marie was in Luxembourg one day after her husband's death and from the account of Dr. Talls withdrew a large sum of money. Flemming finds Marie’s sex photos on her, she tells Flemming that her husband secretly administered strong psychotropic drugs to her and then took the photos with her, that she can only remember fragments of the recordings. The next morning it turns out that Escher was strangled with dental floss, the nail polish under his fingernails matches that of the Eschen's household waste. the surveillance of Maries reveals that she has noticed the surveillance, Koch is surprised that two tapes that can be seen on the surveillance video for the Marie's things have disappeared, but Flemming does not want to investigate, Koch accuses him of being biased about Marie. Marie calls Flemming and informs him and Koch that she has found documents that prove that Tall had tried unapproved drugs on the patient, as would be borne out by the laser disc recordings that were found in Eschen's villa. Tall had looked for videos and apparently didn't know that Eschen had them copied to disc. At least four patients died of the medication, and Tall Eschen probably killed because he had caught up with him. Flemming asks her about the missing tapes, Marie claims that there were sex recordings of her there, so she destroyed them.
When Koch wants to confront and arrest Tall, he admits that he has tried patients, but denies the murder of Escher and shoots himself in front of Koch, who cannot prevent this. Koch, who got into an argument with Flemming because he had started a relationship with Marie, was meanwhile able to secure the allegedly destroyed cassettes from the hotel safe. Carlotta, who was monitored by Koch, had given them to Marie. Flemming and Koch see there sex recordings that Escher had made, but not with Marie, but of his daughter Amanda. By doing a blood test, Flemming can determine that the blood that was found on Eschen's body is most likely that of Marie. He confronts her with it, Marie confesses to the murder of her ex-husband and wants to see her children again. Carlotta would have informed Marie that Eschen wanted to take Amanda to Berlin and pass her off as his wife. She had confronted and killed Eschen after he had denied everything. However, Koch has found out that an earring found in Eschen's car at the scene of the crime belongs to Amanda, and the blood on Eschen's shirt comes from Julia, who has the same blood type as her mother. Against Marie's and Flemming's vehement opposition, it is not her but her daughters who are arrested.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of the crime scene Die Schwarze Bilder on April 17, 1995 was seen by a total of 7.41 million viewers in Germany and thus achieved a market share of 21.09%.
Reviews
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm rate the episode as mediocre and comment: "Artificial horror crime scene"
Web links
- Crime scene: The black images in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The black pictures in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of The Black Pictures on the ARD website
- The black pictures in the crime scene fund
- The black pictures at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on February 13, 2016.
- ^ The black pictures short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 13, 2016.
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