Crime scene: three monkeys

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Three monkeys
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 422 ( List )
First broadcast September 26, 1999 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Kaspar Heidelbach
script Robert Schwentke ,
Jan Hinter
music Kambiz Giahi
camera Arthur W. Ahrweiler
cut Vera van Appeldorn
occupation

Drei Affen is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The broadcast produced by WDR was first broadcast on September 26, 1999 on ARD's first program as the ninth case of the investigative duo Ballauf and Schenk .

action

The police officer Ben Keller leaves his colleagues from the Drug and returns to the department "murder". His new boss is Chief Detective Max Ballauf. When he said goodbye to his superior Oliver Bütschek, he said that there was someone whom he loved even more than his new job, his future wife and colleague Moni, who unfortunately could not be there today because she was on duty. Bütschek disappears from the party early, which leads Keller to remark that who would like to lose his best employee. Ben Keller is pretty drunk when Ballauf and Schenk deliver him to his mother's home. Ilse Keller welcomes Ballauf in particular very nicely. He had always looked after Ben after her husband's death.

Ballauf and Schenk are called to a murder case . There was an anonymous call. The woman has several punctures in her back and must have tried to drag herself away before the perpetrator finally killed her. The dead woman is Monika Fenner, Ben Keller's girlfriend. Ballauf is concerned and instructs Lissy Pütz in the police station not to let Ben come to the crime scene under any circumstances , he wants to speak to him first. Since the murder took place in the Schwanenhof high-rise estate, where the victim also had an apartment, numerous interrogations must be carried out. One of the interviewees, Anatol Aslik, said that people here hardly talk to each other, that everyone is next to himself here. The colleagues report to Ballauf that they always hear the same thing, nobody has heard anything, nobody has seen anything, nobody supposedly knows anything. Schenk asks Erwin Tischer. He is an alcoholic and also offers gifts. He testifies that he has not been guilty of anything in his life and has neither heard nor seen anything. Schenk is tense and says that the stitches were extremely brutal with scissors, and that the colleague actively defended herself, so you must have heard something.

When Ballauf and Schenk are in forensic medicine, they cannot prevent the arriving Ben Keller from going to his dead girlfriend and collapsing next to the corpse. It is found that Monika Fenner was pregnant. Ben asks Ballauf to start the interview and tells him that he last saw Monika two days ago at breakfast. He knew nothing of enemies, they had an agreement not to talk about work at home. When Ben's mother comes to the police station, she hears her desperate son keep asking why Moni has not told him that she was pregnant. He crushes a glass in tension and blood runs down his hand. During a conversation with Fenner's boss Bütschek, Ballauf and Schenk found out that Fenner had drawn his revenge by arresting Frank Hönninger, whom they caught with 2.5 kg of narcotics. At the time, she had to shoot him in self-defense and shot him in the crotch while aiming at his leg, and he has been limping since then. Ballauf and Schenk catch the suspect Frank Hönninger after a chase. Ballauf has to slow down Keller, who is also there. Hönninger asks the officials if they know what it is like if you want to and can't get any more up, Monika Fenner is responsible for that. There is a threatening atmosphere in the police station when the officers arrive there with Hönninger, which prompts Ballauf to call his colleagues to order. When Keller says that he would give him five minutes alone with Hönninger if he really was his friend, he has no choice but to take his ID card from Ben. Shortly afterwards, Mihriban Aslik, a neighbor of Monika Fenner, appears in the police station. She has a newspaper with her and says it wasn't the Hönninger shown in the photo. She doesn't know the man she saw, at least not the one in the papers. If the inspectors didn't believe her, why not ask the other neighbors in the house who were also at the window. Ballauf is shocked by the scope of this statement. The officials are out again to question the neighbors. With Mihriban Aslik's help, a phantom image is to be created. Again only excuses came from the respondents, but there were indications that Tischer was supposed to have stood by the window for a longer time. Schenk visits him again. Tischer then admits that he saw a man and a woman. The man was after the woman and hit her, he didn't limp. Suddenly the woman must have stumbled. Then someone shouted that he should leave the woman alone, whereupon the man suddenly disappeared and the woman's screams stopped. He could no longer say how long it took before the man came back, when he ran away again, the woman had stopped moving. When Schenk asked why he was silent yesterday, the old man said he was ashamed. “If only one person had got help, then Monika could probably still be alive” is all Schenk can say.

It looks like Hönninger has been given the murder weapon . Ben Keller apologizes to Ballauf. When Ben requested to vacate Fenner's apartment, Lissy found a piece of paper that showed that Monika Fenner wanted to have an abortion. There is also a request for a transfer in which irreconcilable differences with your superior Bütschek are stated as the reason for a transfer. When Ballauf asked Bütschek, he just said he didn't know anything about it. Ballauf collects a cigarette butt left by Bütschek in the canteen and brings it, together with the bloody broken glass from Ben Keller, to the pathologist Dr. Joseph Roth, because he wants to be certain who the father of Monika's child was.

Anatol Aslik calls for help at the police station. He is worried that his daughter Mihriban has not come home from school. In the meantime, the press has gained information and is pursuing Tischer, as it is known that he observed the murder. He is put under massive pressure, takes refuge in a supermarket and cannot find any help from police officers who have been called. When he is pushed further and further, he collapses dead.

Ballauf has since discovered condoms carefully hidden in Mihriban's room . The DNA analysis showed that Monika Fenner von Bütschek was pregnant. Schenk points out to Ballauf that he does not want to admit that Ben Keller could have anything to do with the matter. In the meantime, Mihriban Aslik has been found, she has been on the Rhine all night. When she was asked to name the one of the guests who came to Monika Fenner's funeral who she saw that night, she didn't recognize anyone. All of a sudden, however, it breaks out in her that she has not seen anyone either. Ballauf is convinced that Aslik is covering someone and lets her go, but she and Schenk follow her unnoticed by her. First she goes briefly to her father, who works in a car factory, but then meets with a young man in a remote area of ​​the plant. Ballauf and Schenk surprise both, and the man confesses that they were together that night and that Mihriban hadn't seen anything because she had just been in the shower. He called out the window that the man should leave the woman alone, whereupon he also ran away, but then came back after a certain time. He admits that he saw the perpetrator's face. They show him photos at the police station and he identifies Ben Keller.

At the funeral service, Bütschek tells Keller that he can pull it off and pours the contents of his glass in his face. “You killed her,” he says, “when you found out that she wanted to leave you, you couldn't stand it. You don't leave the big Ben. ”When Ballauf and Schenk arrive and want to arrest Keller, he points a gun at his colleagues and leaves the restaurant with his own mother as a protective shield. In a pursuit, Ball hits the colleague with a shot in the chest. Nevertheless, he still manages to get into his car and drive away. Keller has holed up in Monika's apartment and threatens to shoot anyone who approaches him. Ballauf calls out he's coming in now and he's alone. Ben is sitting on a chair. Monika had told him that she was leaving him, that she had something with Bütschek and was expecting a child from him. He would have forgiven her, but she just let him stand. The scissors were still in the car because of new, oversized protective covers. He had gone back because he should have silenced her, otherwise everything would have been over. That's it now, says Ballauf. When Ballauf asks him to give him his gun, he just says he's not going anywhere anymore and asks his friend for a cigarette. They are now sitting side by side on the floor. The cigarette falls from Ben's hand. “We need help up here, he's dying,” Ballauf shouts out of the window. When Schenk gets out of the ambulance, he can only tell the petrified colleague Ben's death.

background

The three monkeys

The film title Three Monkeys refers to the originally Japanese proverb “ see nothing (evil), hear nothing (evil), say nothing (evil) ”, which in the western world is interpreted as “not wanting to admit anything bad” - such as the residents of the high-rise estate do not want to have seen the murder for various reasons.

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Drei Affen on September 26, 1999 was seen by 10.37 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 31.06% for Das Erste .

criticism

  • TV Spielfilm said: "A credible and coherently drawn case" and gave four out of five stars with the conclusion: "Strong as a monkey: taken from life."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Crime Scene: Three Monkeys . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Three monkeys. Crime scene fund, accessed on June 8, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Crime scene: Three monkeys on TV Spielfilm.de. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
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