Crime scene: fire magic

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Fire magic
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SFB
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 80 ( List )
First broadcast October 9, 1977 on German television
Rod
Director Fritz Umgelter
script Karl Heinz Knuth ,
Joachim Nottke
production Heinz Janell
music Rolf Unkel
camera Klaus Krahn
cut Friederike Badekow
occupation

Feuerzauber is an episode of the ARD crime series Tatort . The episode produced by the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB) was first broadcast on October 9, 1977 on ARD. It is the third and last crime scene with Commissioner Schmidt, who has to solve a fatal arson.

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Georg Kastrup, a successful racing boat driver, loses his title in the German championship when he has to give up due to technical failure. Back in West Berlin, he gives an interview about his defeat in the SFB studio. In the studio there is also Chief Detective Schmidt, who reports on the latest series of arson attacks and hopes for clues from the audience. Schmidt and Kastrup go for a beer together with SFB employees. Before the next race, Kastrup had a difference of opinion with his brother, who repeatedly accused him of having a pointless and expensive hobby with racing and not knowing when to stop. He also pumps him up. After another premature retirement, he also gets into trouble with his team. His brother reproaches Georg Kastrup and announces that he will no longer give him a penny. The director of his bank, Röhricht, also makes it clear to him that he can no longer expect any new loans from the bank. Kastrup's brother is talking to Röhricht on the sidelines of Georg's next race and introducing him to his alternative financial concept for the property he has inherited with his brother.

While Georg Kastrup drives riskier due to his tight financial situation and suffers an accident in one of the next races in which he is slightly injured, his brother discusses the development plan for the property, after which Georg Kastrup and his family would have to move out of their house there this is to give way to an apartment complex. In the next few days Georg Kastrup worked meticulously in his shipyard and did not let anyone in. Even his former mechanic Adam, who was recently dismissed and demands the surrender of the engine he developed, he expelled from the site when he asked for entry to the shipyard. In his shipyard alone, Kastrup tinkers with a model boat that he has bought. Meanwhile, Adam is under pressure because he has to show his engine to a prospective customer because Kastrup keeps the engine under lock and key in his workshop. Kastrup meanwhile spreads fire accelerators in his shipyard. The next day, when Georg goes to a summer party on a boat trip with his wife, he fetches documents that are important to him from the shipyard and lets the cat go free. He released his employee. Adam tries to break into the shipyard shortly afterwards. Meanwhile, Röhricht indicates to Kastrup's brother that he cannot count on Röhricht's bank to finance the project. Afterwards, the reeds and the castrups go to a summer festival on a Wannsee steamer.

While Kastrup's daughter Manuela and her friend, Kastrup's mechanic Kai, are having fun with a motorboat on the Wannsee, Adam breaks into Kastrup's shipyard, where he is hired by Kastrup's employee, old Treitschke, whom Adam knocks down. Unaware of what was going on at his shipyard, Kastrup ignites his remote ignition and sets his shipyard on fire while the other guests enjoy the fireworks. Treitschke, who was lying unconscious in the shipyard, catches fire and jumps into the Wannsee. Neither the quay nor the emergency services can find him. Schmidt, who has meanwhile arrived at the scene of the crime, learns from the police arson expert that he has no connection with the series of arson attacks. In front of the shipyard, the police also find the engine that Adam tried to steal. In an unobserved moment the next morning, Kastrup's brother insinuated that his brother had committed the crime. He wants to take matters into hand with the police and draws suspicion on Adam. Shortly afterwards, Treitschke's body is pulled out of the water. Schmidt and his colleagues appear with Adam with a search warrant, when he comes home and sees the officers, he flees. Schmidt and his team meanwhile determine that the fire can clearly be attributed to arson, but the ignition system indicates that the perpetrator must have had a lot of time, which makes Adam appear unlikely as the perpetrator. Schmidt therefore suspects insurance fraud, although the castrups have an alibi and Adam is still on the run. Schmidt learns from an SFB employee that the Kastrup brothers used to collect a lot of subsidies through tricks, but since the Senate changed the laws, Kastrup's brother no longer makes any profits from them. Schmidt then seeks out Kastrup's brother and confronts him with the fact that he suspects him. He also benefits from it when his brother collects the sum insured and can repay his land charge. Kastrup's brother rejects the suspicion.

A short time later, Adam can be arrested. He admits the break-in, but denies the arson. He did not recognize Treitschke and he attacked him. During the interrogation, Schmidt learns that the officers have found a toggle switch installed in the landing stage. At the water police, Schmidt learns that Kai and Manuela's racing boat only docked at the jetty after the fire started. Meanwhile, Schmidt remembers that after the fire on the landing stage, Kastrup pretended to tie his shoelaces, even though he was wearing slippers. The divers can find the remote transmitter that Kastrup used to light the fire. It was found right where Kastrup pretended to be tying his shoelaces. The model boat that Kastrup used to detonate the fuse can then be found. When Schmidt travels to Kastrup, who has gone to a race in Hanover, he flees from Schmidt. He drives his speedboat against a wall and kills himself.

Audience and background

When it was first broadcast, the episode had a market share of 58%. Feuerzauber was filmed between May 7 and June 30, 1977 in West Berlin , Hamburg , Hanover , Hanau and Traben-Trarbach .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: fire magic . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 177848 / V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Tatort: ​​Feuerzauber on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on December 25, 2014.
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