Crime scene: fair game

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Free wild
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SFB
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 154 ( List )
First broadcast February 5, 1984 on ARD
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Director Wolfgang Staudte
script Heinz-Dieter Ziesing
production Horst Borasch
music Rolf Kühn
camera Gérard Vandenberg
cut Katja Schmiljan
occupation

Freiwild is an episode of the ARD crime series Tatort . The episode produced by the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB) was first broadcast on February 5, 1984 on ARD. It is the fifth crime scene with Chief Inspector Walther, who has to solve the mysterious death series of homeless people in Berlin, as well as the murder of a young woman in the park.

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Dr. Konrad Ansbach has developed a serum that can be used to treat cirrhosis of the liver , but his brother Gerd, who is a pharmacist and his investor, demands a return and is impatient because Dr. Ansbach has only carried out his research on rats and has still not received any approval. Shortly afterwards, the homeless Schwertfeger, Schröder and Nante find a slain woman in the zoo. Detective assistant Stettner investigates the crime scene with von Lipinski's guest and finds traces of the homeless who fled after the find. After they meet the men in the park, they take them to the presidium to see Commissioner Walther. He heard Maxe Schröder, von Lipinski Kutte Schwertfeger, but the interrogations remained without result. Only later does the murder turn out to be an act of jealousy by the woman's ex-fiance. Swordfeger collapses shortly after the interrogation in front of the presidium and is fatally hit by a car when he falls on the street. Dr. Ansbach is dismayed when he reads this news in the newspaper. He goes to see his brother Gerd, who appeases him, but Dr. Ansbach is concerned because a blood test would show his serum.

The press blames the police for the death of Schwertfeger. In the case of the murder of the woman in the zoo, the officers get no further. Meanwhile, Dr. Ansbach self-doubt and remorse, but Gerd Ansbach wants to continue the drug experiments. A few days later, he lures another homeless man to his pharmacy in order to win him over to the drug tests, another homeless man comes voluntarily to his pharmacy to receive treatment. Gerd Ansbach sends both to his brother Konrad and presents him as a " philanthropist " who would help people out of pure philanthropy . More and more homeless people are found, as word got around that Dr. Ansbach helps them for free. He treats the homeless with his serum, but remorse also torments him. A short time later, the homeless Harry finds his fellow sufferer Karschunke, who is doing very badly and who is in severe pain. Harry can't help him, Karschunke is found dead in his night quarters the next day. Inspector Walther wants to find out whether there is a connection between the deaths of the two homeless men and arranges an autopsy of both victims.

Carschunke is diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver, so this is assumed to be the cause of death. However, the forensic doctors also found an unknown substance in his blood that is not part of known drugs. They also find an injection site on the dead man's arm that is only a few days old. Stettner asked again in the homeless scene in the zoo and found out that Karschunke often went to a pharmacy. Dr. Ansbach, however, carried out a self-experiment by injecting the serum himself. Despite the high temperature and sweating, he tells his brother that he is fine.

Dr. Ansbach is worried because both homeless people he injected the drug into have not shown up. He's looking for the two of them in a homeless shelter when he suddenly collapses. He later reports to his brother that he has now found the correct injection dose and that he has now reached the goal of his research.

Meanwhile, Commissioner Walther receives the autopsy report from Schwertfeger, who also suffered from liver cirrhosis and had the same unknown substance in his blood as Karschunke. Walther and Stettner go to Gerd Ansbach, who pretends to be clueless and claims to have no homeless customers. He had just recently given harmless stomach drops to a homeless person, otherwise there was never any contact with the homeless. However, Ansbach becomes nervous and seeks out his brother to inform him that a second dead homeless man has been found.

In the evening, the homeless Peter Schmidt, the Dr. Ansbach had administered his serum and complained of severe pain. When Dr. Ansbach wants to get his car key to take it to the practice, he steals an opened bottle of wine and disappears with it. When he finishes it, he collapses on the street and is taken to a hospital. The guest Lipinski found out about this from a journalist. Walther goes to Gerd Ansbach, who denies having anything to do with the man. However, the cork of a rare and expensive wine was found in Peter Schmidt's clothing; Walther had also seen such a bottle in the Ansbachs pharmacy office. He claims that he has the bottle from his father's estate, that he gave bottles of this wine to many people, and that Schmidt could have got the cork from a trash can.

Walther has found out that Ansbach's brother is a doctor and researches cirrhosis of the liver. He is looking for Dr. Ansbach, who pretends to be a helpful doctor. However, he would never have treated homeless people like Karschunke himself, but referred them to specialists or to the hospital. Meanwhile, the water police find Felix Schlueter, another homeless man, dead. He has a handkerchief with the initials "KA" with him, which Walther indicates as a reference to Dr. Konrad Ansbach indicates. The homeless, suspected of being poisoned, move in a large group to Villa Ansbach, where a garden party is taking place with many guests. Walther and his team arrive at the villa because Dr. Ansbach want to keep an eye on and are amazed at the homeless people in his villa. Walther comes in when one of the homeless says that Dr. Ansbach confused them with " fair game " with which one can undertake experiments. Walther wants to expel the men from the house, but Dr. Ansbach prevents him, because he wants to make a confession in front of these people and explain his motives.

Production notes, audience rating

The film was shot from July 25th to August 29th 1983 in the SFB-Studio Berlin / West. The outdoor shots were taken in West Berlin .

When it was first broadcast, this episode reached 20.9 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 53%.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm judge this crime scene as a "dignified search for perpetrators at a snail's pace".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Freiwild . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 567 V).
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Staudte - actor, director . In: CineGraph - Lexikon zum Germansprachigen Film , Lg. 20, F 39
  3. ^ Tatort: ​​Freiwild data for the 154th crime scene at tatort-fundus.de
  4. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on November 20, 2014.
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