Tatort: Nobody is noble and healthy
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Be noble and healthy |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
ophir film on behalf of the RBB |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 796 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | April 3, 2011 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Florian Froschmayer |
| script |
Dinah Marte Golch , Gerhard J. Rekel |
| production |
Andreas Born Gloria Burkert |
| music | Oliver Kranz |
| camera | Stephan Motzek |
| cut | Christian Sporrer |
| occupation | |
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Be noble and healthy is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film produced by RBB was first broadcast on April 3, 2011. Chief Detective Till Ritter is getting his 30th case very close, also for private reasons. Together with his colleague Felix Stark , for whom it is his 24th case, he is investigating a doctor's practice that denounces the German health system .
action
When the pensioner Olaf Mühlhaus met his doctor Dr. Gerhard Schmuckler, who is also an old friend, hands it over to Dr. Antje Berger continues, because he has to leave urgently. Mühlhaus does not like that. The doctor examines him and speaks to him about a bloodshot spot on his body. The old man replies that he hit a chair. When Dr. Berger gives the instruction to continue taking his pills for Crohn's disease , he replies that he no longer needs them. The doctor contradicts him and points out that he has to take this remedy because he knows that his disease is not curable.
A few days later the chief detective Till Ritter and Felix Stark are called to an autopsy , on the table is Olaf Mühlhaus. The coroner tells the inspectors that the pensioner died five days ago; he suffered from inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease. The cause of death was drugs, the effects of which were mutually reinforcing and thus completely paralyzed the immune system. The remedies would have affected the blood clotting, hence the hematomas on Mühlhaus' body. A conversation with the daughter of the deceased did not provide any further information, except that her father was not informed by Dr. Schmuckler, but from his representative Dr. Berger, had been treated. The question arises as to whether the doctor overlooked that Dr. Schmuckler Mühlhaus had given an infusion about four weeks ago that prohibited taking the tablets. However, Berger thinks that this must have happened in another practice. Dr. Schmuckler does not want to know anything about an infusion in his practice. He has no idea how it could have come about. Patrizia Mühlhaus also replied to relevant questions that she did not know that her father had gone to another doctor and is sure that he would have told her. Inspector Lutz Weber's research shows that Mühlhaus has been working exclusively with Dr. Schmuckler and once with Dr. Berger was in treatment. The infusion solution has recently been sold twice in the pharmacy that is also in the house. It has a retail price of 8,000 euros. According to the pharmacist, there is no longer any data on who the drug was sent to.
Schmuckler's married son Martin, also a doctor in his father's practice, has a relationship with Antje Berger, who wants to buy into the practice and is trying to get a loan. She wants to know when he will finally speak to his father and whether it is possible that Gerhard Schmuckler made a mistake with his old friend Mühlhaus. Meanwhile, the long-time medical assistant Karin Diestel presented her boss Schmuckler with accounting documents and said that we should be more careful in the near future. Quite surprisingly, Antje Berger is found dead shortly afterwards. Since no signs of burglary are found on her door, it is assumed that she knew her killer. When asked about her alibis , Yvonne Schmuckler confirms that her husband Martin was home from eight thirty. Gerhard Schmuckler says he made house calls, but doesn't want to mention any names. The café owner Susanne Richthofen, to whom Ritter feels drawn and who has a sick child who was regularly treated by the Schmuckler practice, was also interviewed. She was friends with Antje Berger and said that it was fate that the doctor came to her café six months ago. At that time she saved her daughter's life. Further investigations reveal that a patient had reported Schmuckler because the bills were too high. The mistake was admitted and the proceedings terminated. It turns out that the budgeting of the coffers, which only provided a certain amount per quarter, was done by Dr. Schmuckler was regularly overdrawn by 15,000 to 20,000 euros per quarter. Since the doctor needed another source of income, he and his confidante Karin Diestel passed these costs on to private patients. Dr. Schmuckler says to the commissioners that the health insurance companies are defrauded by 15 billion euros every year. In principle, however, he was only allowed to prescribe his patients the cheapest drugs, not the ones they really needed, and he was also allowed to take a maximum of eight minutes for each patient. He only shifted costs to help those who needed help. The commissioners let Schmuckler know that his co-responsibility for the death of Olaf Mühlhaus must be clarified in a separate procedure. Ritter says to his colleague, Stark, that he is beginning to understand Schmuckler's behavior. Just as the inspectors are leaving the practice, an ambulance comes, Sophia, Susanne Richthofen's daughter, no longer breathing, her lips are completely blue. The little one suffers from cystic fibrosis and has overreacted to an antibiotic that she had to take because of an infection. Dr. Schmuckler was no longer allowed to prescribe the much more expensive and more suitable drug tobramycin for the child in the current quarter for cost reasons. The responsible health insurance company has decided that Sophia is not doing bad enough to get such an expensive product. Susanne Richthofen begs Ritter that he should call Dr. Because of his behavior, Schmuckler was not allowed to judge that what he had done was right. She was with Antje Berger and asked her for help. However, the doctor only thought of her practice and her reputation. She didn't care that she asked for help for her child. That's when it happened. Ritter hears her saying at her daughter's bed that she would do anything for her, that she should never forget. Ritter and Stark leave the hospital wordlessly and helplessly.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Edel is man and healthy on April 3, 2011 was seen in Germany by a total of 9.51 million viewers and achieved a market share of 26.1% for Das Erste ; In the group of 14- to 49-year-old viewers , 3.03 million viewers and a market share of 19.9% were achieved.
Reviews
Christian Buß from Spiegel Online was of the opinion that this crime scene episode is a “compact, emphatic and cleverly constructed themed crime scene”, a “chamber game in which the imbalance of the German health system is played out in the microcosm of an old Berlin family practice [ will]".
TV Spielfilm considered this episode "exciting, moving, informative" and summarized: "The need to save leads to murder and manslaughter!"
Dieter Hoß of Star .com headlined: "Stay only healthy!" And felt that "the boundaries between good and evil become blurred" in this scene. Dieter Hoß 'verdict was: "A convincing crime scene, well told."
For Rainer Tittelbach , the crime scene episode Noble be humans and healthy was convincing as a themed film, but rather disappointing as a crime thriller, and he also clashed with the many "faces of suffering" in the film:
“The wrong medication costs a pensioner his life. A crime drama about distribution struggles in the healthcare sector. As a themed film that intensifies discussion, this Berlin 'Tatort' is convincing, as a crime thriller less. The film is designed as a chamber play, with good actors, whose play seems a little brittle. Good script ideas. The picture director Florian Froschmayer alone is not the right person for such a heavyweight actor-drama - and so the expressions of suffering never end. "
Web links
- Let man be noble and healthy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- People are noble and healthy in the online film database
- Summary of the action of Edel is the human being and healthy on the Internet pages of the ARD
- Nobody is noble and healthy at the crime scene fundus
- People are noble and healthy at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ quotemeter.de : Berlin «Tatort» a power , accessed on February 21, 2012.
- ↑ Christian Buß : Berlin- "Tatort": The doctor and the dear health insurance cattle In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved February 21, 2012.
- ↑ Tatort: Nobody is noble and healthy at tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
- ↑ TV review about the crime scene: Be noble and healthy → Just stay healthy! Dieter Hoß. In: Stern.de, April 3, 2011. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
- ↑ tittelbach.tv: Series “Tatort - Noble be humans and healthy” . Retrieved February 21, 2012.
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