Crime scene: three black cats

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Three black cats
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 543 ( List )
First broadcast October 19, 2003 on ARD
Rod
Director Buddy Giovinazzo
script Stefan Cantz
Jan Hinter
production Sonja Goslicki
music Rick Giovinazzo
camera Florian Hoffmeister
cut Katja Dringenberg
occupation

Three black cats , actual spelling according to the opening credits 3 × black cats , is a German television thriller by Buddy Giovinazzo from 2003. The film was made as the 543rd episode of the crime series Tatort .

action

During construction work in Münster, a 500-year-old skeleton is discovered that Karl-Friedrich Boerne wants to scan and assemble using the latest technology. The expensive PC program that a certain Dr. Archibald King, however, initially only crashes Boerne's computer, and so Boerne lets Archibald himself travel from Great Britain. Soon Thiel and Boerne are dealing with a dead person who is very present. The paraplegic Lisa Zenker took her own life with a drug cocktail. The former lawyer Dr. Andreas Weis, who once caused Lisa's severe handicap through carelessness. The investigation into who gave Lisa the death cocktail turns out to be difficult for Thiel, as Lisa's friends are determined to support her decision, especially since she has wanted to die for a long time. Lisa took her own life in the Frida Roloff House, where physically disabled people live and get together. The house is due to be closed shortly if Katharina Stoll's group cannot raise enough money. Amazingly, however, shortly after Lisa's death, a high five-figure donation was received in the bank's account.

Boerne takes a liking to the quick-witted Katharina, takes her out to dinner and goes jogging with her. Meanwhile, Thiel has another death to deal with. Andreas Weis apparently dies in his burning house, but Boerne can prove that he was already dead before the fire. Apparently he was slain. Since Lisa's alcoholic father had threatened him shortly before, he is considered a suspect. He was arrested a short time later when he was drunk and shooting pigeons with a rifle. He collapses and goes to the hospital. At first he soberly confesses to having given his daughter the drug mix. He also knows that he was with Weis on the night the house burned. A black cat flew towards him and he turned back. Katharina, in turn, was also with Weis on the day of the act and reports that a man had appeared, but that Weis had taken Weis into an adjoining room. She didn't see him, but he coughed very clearly.

Boerne and Katharina continue to spend time together, but one evening she apologizes for wanting to go to bed early. In the evening, Boerne picks up Dr. Archibald King leaves the station and is amazed to see Katharina in the station. She fetches an envelope from a locker and later gives it to Dr. Duge, the lawyer of Dr. Weis, whom she allegedly doesn't even know. Later she sent another envelope and it puzzled the investigators that a large amount had always been donated to the Frida Roloff House shortly before. Katharina, in turn, notices that she is being shadowed by an unknown man whom Boerne and Thiel put to flight. Boerne confronts Katharina with his suspicion that the envelopes contain extortionate material, and Katharina is outraged that he is spying on her. When she throws a third envelope in a mailbox, Boerne fishes the envelope out of the box, even accepting the loss of his valuable watch. In the envelope, which is going to an Offenbruch judge, there is Offenbruch's ID with a passport photo of Andreas Weis and a copy of his first state examination in law. Katharina now confesses that Andreas Weis had once written the first state examination for some fellow students. Now he blackmailed her in order to raise money for the Frida Roloff house. The man who was shadowing Katharina was Offenbruch, who was the third of four blackmailers, including Duge, to transfer the requested amount.

The fourth, still open case is a certain Günter Müller. Thiel and Boerne are looking for this man and find out that he once had an accident. Archibald King can use his program to analyze the computer tomography recordings from that time in such a way that a human face is created. Prosecutor Wilhelmine Klemm recognizes her colleague Günter Ambrosio in the resulting phantom image. At the same time, Katharina recognizes him by his cough and kidnaps her. Boerne trusts his gut instincts and actually finds Katharina and Ambrosio not far from a railway embankment, on which he and Katharina went jogging several times. Ambrosio threatens to stab Katharina in front of Boerne and Thiel, but then runs to the embankment, where he stands in front of a passing train. Thiel then shoots him in the leg, whereupon he falls next to the tracks and is saved. Ambrosio has confessed that he went to Andreas Weis on the day of the crime to dissuade him from his blackmail attempt. Weis' black cat Mephisto came into the room and Ambrosio, who suffers from a strong cat hair allergy, threw the animal out of the window with a cough. Andreas Weis attacked him. Ambrosio pushed him in the scramble and he died of the injuries. In order to cover up the act, he finally started the fire. The case has been resolved and for Katharina it even has its good points: the Frida Roloff House can be saved with the numerous funds.

production

The shooting of three times the black cat took place in Münster . The film experienced on 19 October 2003 on the First its television premiere, reaching an audience of 24 percent (8.38 million viewers). In 2010 the film was released on DVD. It was the third case of investigators Thiel and Boerne .

criticism

"Small story smacks, but the team is great!" Wrote TV Spielfilm .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: three black cats . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 118731-a / V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ 543/03 Three black cats (WDR) . In: Rüdiger Dingemann: Tatort. The encyclopedia. All the facts, all the cases, all the commissioners . Knaur, Munich 2010, p. 301.
  3. ↑ See tvspielfilm.de
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