Crime scene: Broken hearts
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Broken hearts |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Maran movie |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 636 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | July 23, 2006 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Jürgen Bretzinger |
| script | Dorothee Schön |
| music | Markus Lonardoni |
| camera | Christoph Feller |
| cut | Roswitha gracious |
| occupation | |
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Broken Hearts is a television film from the crime series Tatort and premiered on July 23, 2006 on Das Erste . It is the 10th episode of the Constance team of investigators Klara Blum ( Eva Mattes ) and Kai Perlmann .
action
Matthias Hecht, arrested for the sexual abuse of a girl, is accompanied to his father's funeral by the prison officer Neumann. This had suicide committed. A shot is fired in the cemetery, killing the officer and seriously injuring Matthias Hecht.
The investigations relate to the surroundings of the injured pike, as it can be assumed that the attack was aimed at him and not the officer. The inspectors quickly find out what Matthias Hecht has done with his act. His mother and sister Christiane have apparently renounced him, for both of them he died while performing his deed. The then victim Leonie König and her mother also live in fear of him and cannot lead a normal life.
Only Maria Eichhorn, a geriatric nurse who voluntarily looks after the prisoners in the correctional facility , believes in his purification and has even got engaged to the prisoner. She had also tried to arrange a conversation between Leonie König and her fiancé so that they could talk. She also delivers a letter from the detainee for this.
During the investigation, Leonie and her mother are soon suspected of having something to do with the murder of their tormentor. Daughter and mother also suspect each other, but do not dare to speak to each other. When Mrs. König watches her daughter disappear into the bushes of the garden with a spade, she later looks for it and finds a pistol . Then she calls Maria Eichhorn and asks her to be allowed to go to her fiancé's bedside with her daughter in order to be able to deal with the past. Once there, however, she pulls out the gun and fires twice at the bed.
During her subsequent interrogation, Ms. König confessed to the murder in the cemetery and the new attempted murder in the hospital. When examining the weapon, however, it quickly becomes clear that the two assassinations were different weapons and that the confession was therefore a lie. It turns out that Mrs. König thought her daughter Leonie had shot in the cemetery and wanted to take the blame on herself. She deliberately missed at the bedside, it should only appear as if she wanted to kill him. In addition, the investigators learn of the content of the letter to Leonie and also that Maria Eichhorn knew of the perverse content.
Blum and Perlmann then want to confront Maria Eichhorn and find out that she is in possession of a gun that was deposited with her uncle in the old people's home. This, it seems, used to molest his underage niece. They find her in the cemetery, talking to the widow of the official Neumann. She confesses to the murder of her husband, but asserts that she did not want to kill him, but her fiancé, because he only used her to be released from prison and to be able to approach Leonie again. She then wants to shoot herself, but is overwhelmed by Mrs. Neumann.
background
The film deals a lot with the fact that victims should try to forgive their tormentors in order to be able to continue a normal life. This motif is repeated in Leonie König and Matthias Hecht as in Maria Eichhorn and her uncle and also at the end when Maria Eichhorn asks Frau Neumann to forgive her for the murder of her husband. Reference is also made to the first case of Blum. In the episode Land of Cockaigne , Blum's husband is murdered. The perpetrator tries to contact her and to speak to her.
Web links
- Broken hearts in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Broken Hearts on the ARD website
- Broken hearts at the crime scene fund
- Broken hearts at Tatort-Fans.de
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