Crime scene: one corpse too many

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title One corpse too many
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification 582 ( List )
First broadcast December 5, 2004 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Kaspar Heidelbach
script Dorothee Schön ,
Georg Schott
production Jutta Müller ,
Matthias Seelig
music Arno Steffen
camera Clemens Messow
cut Hedy Altschiller
occupation

One corpse too many is a television film from the TV crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by WDR and broadcast for the first time on December 5, 2004. It is the 582nd episode in the crime scene series and the sixth case with Axel Prahl and Jan Josef Liefers as Münster investigators Thiel and Boerne .

action

For medical students at the Westphalian Wilhelms University , the dissection course begins in the university's anatomy institute. However, among the body donations there is "one corpse too many". The young woman, who, according to the autopsy file, was born in 1935, has a puncture site under her right costal arch. Professor Boerne, who had previously released the remains of all body donors, is called in to clear up the inconsistencies. Professor Härtling, the director of the anatomical institute, recognizes his former colleague Dr. Amélie Blanc again. Die Tote, a French chemist from the Sorbonne , was at the Anatomy Institute as a guest student for Dr. Carla Hanke works in apoptosis research. She was last seen after the graduation ceremony of the research group in the foyer of the anatomy on the night of April 28th to 29th, 2004, at which Professor Boerne was also present.

The autopsy by Boerne reveals that Amélie Blanc suffered a violent death due to hemolysis after an injection . Shortly before, she had sexual intercourse. Boerne secures the sperm in order to track down the perpetrator by means of DNA analysis. To do this, he has Thiel order a DNA screening among the staff of the institute, where he suspects the perpetrator due to the professional preservation of the victim.

In the meantime, Thierry Blanc, the husband of the deceased, arrives from Paris and does his own research. As a result, Boerne and Thiel come under pressure in their investigations, but are also heavily stressed privately. Boerne has to look after his mother Erika, who asks him to pay a visit to his husband's grave on the anniversary of her husband's death. Thiel, on the other hand, thought of the birthday of his son, who lives with his wife in New Zealand , but failed to send the gift on time.

In view of the upcoming award ceremony for Dr. Carla Hanke, where her research results are brought into the media interest, the pressure on the institute management as well as the employees of the research group increases. After Boerne met Professor Härtling in the presence of Dr. Kehl and Dr. Hanke has revealed that he also needs a DNA sample from them, Professor Härtling commits suicide by directing exhaust gases from his car into the interior of the car.

Thiel and Boerne suspect Thierry Blanc and accuse him of an act of jealousy. When they visit him at the hotel at the port where he is staying, they find out that he was killed and that he was punctured the same way as his wife. While pursuing the fugitive, Boerne is knocked down and loses consciousness. When he comes to, he is in the anatomical institute of the university and is tied to a chair. Dr. To have killed Carla Hanke, Amélie and Thierry Blanc because Amélie did not have the necessary foresight in her research results and thus endangered the increase in research funding.

When Boerne von Hanke is also to be killed by injection, Thiel, accompanied by Silke Haller, enters the basement of the anatomical institute and is able to overwhelm Hanke.

background

The film was shot in Cologne and Münster. In Münster, among other things, recordings were made at the institutes of anatomy and pathology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University , on Prinzipalmarkt and in the Kiepenkerl restaurant .

In the episode A Corpse Too Much , the screenwriter Dorothee Schön and the editorial staff of Westdeutscher Rundfunk had different views on how the plot should be structured. The WDR wanted a slapstick , but Schön disliked the crime scene as clothes , which is why they ended their collaboration. Only murder is the best medicine she wrote again for the Münster crime scene.

This episode is the only one from Münster in which prosecutor Wilhelmine Klemm ( Mechthild Großmann ) does not appear.

reception

The film saw 8.89 million viewers when it was first broadcast, which corresponds to a market share of 24.60%.

The editorial team of TV Spielfilm judged that the film was "beautifully bizarre despite small logic gaps" . Prisma praised the director Heidelbach, who managed to "combine the criminal case with a type comedy" , as well as the successful dialogues of the leading actors and considers the episode to be "worth seeing" .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: One corpse too many . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 123453-a / V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations
  3. ↑ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung : Dorothee Schön has written some of the best scripts for “Tatort”: “You mustn't be bored!” , Osnabrück, François Werner, September 16, 2010
  4. ↑ One corpse too many in the crime scene fund
  5. ↑ TV feature film : film review
  6. ^ Prism : film review
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