Crime scene: Dangerous witness

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Dangerous witness
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MR
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 382 ( List )
First broadcast April 13, 1998 on ARD
Rod
Director Klaus Gietinger
script Klaus Gietinger
music Klaus Roggors
camera Armin Alker
cut Carmen Vieten
occupation

Dangerous Witness is a television film from the crime series Tatort produced by Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) and broadcast for the first time on April 13, 1998 in the program Das Erste . It is the 382nd crime scene episode and the 19th case of the chief detective Edgar Brinkmann, embodied by Karl-Heinz von Hassel . This time Brinkmann and his assistant Alice Bothe are dealing with the murder of an entrepreneur and the strange behavior of the uncooperative witness.

action

The Italian killer Enrico Gramci shoots the businessman Bernd Heine on his morning jog. He wanted to make an important business decision that day. The young cyclist Laura Barth accidentally bursts into the situation when she falls over the body of Heine. At her pleading, Enrico lets go of her and flees. When Brinkmann and his assistant Alice Bothe arrive at the crime scene, Laura has disappeared. The other witnesses to the incident give contradicting statements, the witness Ebert even believes that the unknown young woman was an accomplice of the perpetrator. Laura, who still goes to school and lives with her wealthy grandmother, does not talk about the incident at home and pretends that nothing has happened.

Heine's widow Leonce is shocked that her husband has made a corresponding number of enemies through his business of buying and selling bankrupt companies. Leonce refers Brinkman and Bothe to details of the dealings with Heine's partner Frank David. David tells the officials about the million dollar deal they wanted to close today. Many people would have lost their jobs in the process.

Enrico Gramci sees the police call for the unknown witness to come forward on television. Meanwhile, Brinkmann and Alice learn that Heine was killed by a heart shot, the second shot was a safety shot.

The witness Ebert corrected her statement: the murderer had also aimed at the unknown cyclist. With that she leaves as an accomplice. Brinkmann and Alice conclude that the witness is in danger and ask around the area around the crime scene. Enrico Gramci hears accusations from his client that he did not eliminate the witness. He only pays Gramci a third of the fee and lets him know that he will only get the rest of the money when he has cleared the witness out of the way.

Brinkmann received an offer from his informant Siggi that he could ask around. Brinkmann gladly accepts the help. A valuable pen cap was also found at the scene of the crime, the owners are registered. Brinkmann has this checked because he suspects that it belongs to the witness.

Gramci ambushes Laura, but he doesn't kill her because a friend of hers joins them. Laura doesn't notice the planned attack, but he follows her to her high school. Meanwhile, Brinkmann and Bothe learn from Ms. Ebert that the unknown witness had school supplies in her bag and drive to the high school, which is the closest to the crime scene. Gramci, who wants to kill Laura in front of the school, postpones his murder plan again. Brinkmann asks the girls of the high school about the murder case and shows them the found fountain pen, Laura still does not reveal herself as the witness. Brinkmann questions the girls individually. Because her way to school leads past the crime scene, he is certain that he has found the unknown witness in Laura. But Laura denies this despite Brinkmann's good persuasion. However, Brinkmann can identify her as a witness through the pen cap. The officers drive to her home with Laura, Gramci follows them, Laura continues to refuse any cooperation despite her grandmother's encouragement.

Siggi informs Brinkmann that an "Il Pedone", an Italian killer known to the police, was in Frankfurt and had something to do with the crime. Brinkmann and Alice track down Gramci and arrest him on suspicion of murder. Gramci is silent, however, his lawyer Dr. Dittmann obtains his release because there is nothing against his client. Alice has since found out that Heine had also done bankruptcy deals with Italian companies. Laura claims in a confrontation that she does not recognize Gramci as the perpetrator. Brinkmann, however, is sure that Laura Gramci recognized. He also learned from his Italian colleagues that Gramci had a daughter who was killed in a traffic accident that he was responsible for and who looked like Laura. Brinkmann recognizes this as Gramci's weak point. While Brinkmann has Gramci shadowed, Heine's widow and David close the deal with the Italians about bankruptcy.

Gramci can shake off his pursuers. Meanwhile, Brinkmann deploys Alice as police protection for Laura. Alice wants to win Laura's trust. While the two young women talk in the evening, Gramci sneaks around the house. Alice notices a suspicious noise, but she thinks it is a false alarm. Shortly afterwards, Alice notices that Laura has poured sleeping pills into the wine. Laura wants to shake Alice off this way. Despite her condition, Alice can notify her colleagues and, together with them, start chasing Laura. Laura, who in the meantime has been able to leave the officers behind, meets with Gramci. He holds a gun to her head. Laura assures him not to betray him and speaks to him. He couldn't kill her, otherwise he would have done it in the park when Heine was murdered. Alice arrives and shoots Gramci, who escapes injured, but is caught and arrested shortly afterwards. Although he was caught red-handed trying to murder Laura and his weapon was the weapon used in Heine's murder, Gramci refuses to testify.

The next morning Alice finds out that Gramci must have murdered Heine because of the bankruptcy deal with the Italian company. The office of Gramci's lawyer Dr. Dittmann is also involved in such bankruptcy transactions in Italy. Gramci escapes shortly afterwards and sends Laura a message that he wants to meet her in the evening. When they hear of the escape, Brinkmann and Alice rush to Laura and find Gramci's message. At the meeting point, Laura doesn't meet Gramci, but rather his client Frank David and Leonce Heine. The two, who also had a secret relationship, let Bernd Heine von Gramci get out of the way, because Heine wanted to let the Italy deal break for reasons of conscience. David and Heine try to give Laura drugs and throw her from the bridge into the Main. However, Gramci arrives, shoots David and knocks Heine down. Shortly afterwards, Brinkmann and Alice appear with a large number of police. Gramci pretends to take Laura hostage, but secretly takes the magazine out of the gun. A police officer shoots him in supposed emergency aid for Laura. The officers arrest Leonce Heine. She confesses.

Audience and background

The first broadcast of Dangerous Witness on April 13, 1998, Das Erste had a market share of 20.03 percent and was seen by 7.12 million viewers in Germany. The episode was shot in Frankfurt and the surrounding area.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film as mediocre and judged: "Hanebuechen is hardly possible anymore".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de. Retrieved April 3, 2016
  2. ↑ "Short review of Dangerous Witness in TV Feature Film"
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