Crime scene: Closed files
Closed files is a consequence of the ARD crime series Tatort . The episode produced by the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB) was first broadcast on September 4, 1994 on ARD. It is the seventh crime scene with chief detective Franz Markowitz, who this time is investigating the death of an older vaudeville artist who had been committed as a suicide more than a year earlier .
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Markowitz is invited to the New Year's gala in 1994 by his assistant Pohl and his wife in the Varieté Wintergarten. Renate Burow, who is friends with Lisa Pohl, feels uncomfortable during the performance and cancels her participation in the other New Year's Eve party. Ms. Burow's husband was an artist in the vaudeville theater and died over a year ago after a performance, the case had been closed as a suicide. Mrs. Burow still does not believe that her husband voluntarily divorced his life. After New Year's Eve, Markowitz visits Ms. Burow. She reports on the future plans that they had together, so Markowitz resumes the investigation. He goes to the vaudeville theater where Burow worked and asks his ex-colleague Istvan. He is also convinced that his friend Gabriel Burow did not commit suicide, but believes that his statement will be ignored by the police anyway. Gabriel was suddenly frozen during the last joint performance, someone from the audience must have scared him a lot. After the performance, he went in an unstable mental state. At that time, no notice was taken of his statement.
According to forensic medicine, Burow had thrown himself to his death from the twelfth floor of a high-rise building. Markowitz, whose doubts continue to grow, finds out that when Burow was last seen the tickets for the seats where Burow must have recognized someone had been sold to an old people's home in Charlottenburg. Markowitz goes there and seeks the home manager Uschi Lemke, who agrees with him to meet the visitors to the performance the next day. Markowitz can now use a BVG ticket in Burow's coat pocket to find out that Burow visited the old people's home the day before his death. The visitors tell him that the performance suddenly stopped in the middle because Burow was indisposed. Markowitz shows the residents a photo of Burow, but nobody knew him. One of the residents, Ms. Seitz, went to Markowitz shortly afterwards and testified that she saw Burow in the old people's home the day before his death, that after an argument with her roommate, Walter Beerendorf, he seemed dissolved and cried. Burow had threatened Beerendorf with the public prosecutor. When Markowitz comes to the nursing home, Beerendorf is not in the home. As so often, he drove away with a younger man who is supposed to be his nephew. Markowitz looks around in Beerendorf's room and discovers many memorabilia from the Third Reich. Beerendorf has obviously been away for several days, a picture that has obviously been on the wall for years is missing.
Markowitz finds out that Beerendorf was a participant in the World War - and was more disabled. His “nephew” was a younger man who always came in a different car with Bielefeld license plates to pick up Beerendorf, but he was not really related to Beerendorf. The missing photo on Beerendorf's wall showed a house in Bielefeld, in front of which two men saluted with Hitler salutes. The Perschke company, on which cars with Bielefeld license plates are registered, also has a branch in Spandau . During the night Markowitz learns that Beerendorf was found dead, he was driven to death on the AVUS . Markowitz concludes that this alleged suicide was also helped, he has the deceased brought to forensic medicine. By calling the Perschke company, Markowitz finds out that the representative of the Berlin branch is called Martin Böhnke and then drives to the company, where he meets the junior boss, who refers him and Pohl to his father's New Year's reception that is currently taking place. You could also meet Mr. Böhnke there. Markowitz suspects that Perschke's father is the leader of a neo-Nazi party, and the Perschke company seems to be involved in arms smuggling . Markowitz and Pohl go to the New Year's meeting, as expected it is a neo-Nazi meeting, and Latvian business friends from Perschke are also present. Markowitz asks Böhnke, whom he also meets there, about Beerendorf, Perschke senior is also there. Böhnke replied clearly that he dropped Beerendorf at the train station, the latter had left for West Germany, Böhnke and Perschke refuse to give further information.
Markowitz and Pohl visit the documentation center of the US armed forces in Zehlendorf . There they learned of crimes committed by the SS unit in Latvia , of which Beerendorf was a member. One place that the unit had wiped out was the birthplace of Gabriel Burow, Perschke senior was the adjutant of the commandant of the unit, his name was Reimann, but was later Walter Beerendorf. The forensics department reported to Markowitz that the tire tracks on Beerendorf's corpse came from Böhnke's car; Beerendorf had been drugged before his death. Pohl reports on a shootout at Perschke's quay in the inland port, Böhnke was there. In the port, the officers seize extensive war material, Perschke junior and the seriously injured Böhnke can be arrested there, but refuse to give evidence. Markowitz and his people drive out to Falkensee to the neonazite meeting, Markowitz confronts Perschke senior with the fact that he hid Obersturmführer Reimann under the name Beerendorf in a Berlin old people's home and that he had eliminated him the day before and that he also had Burow removed because he had the murderer Reimann recognized. While Perschke is being taken away, Markowitz learns that Böhnke died of his injuries on the way to the hospital, so Perschke will not be able to prove anything more than the weapons smuggling.
reception
Audience ratings
Closed files reached a total of 7.64 million viewers when it was first broadcast on September 4, 1994, corresponding to a market share of 25.3%.
Reviews
TV Spielfilm was positive and said: "Objective, without unnecessary capers". The screenplay by Günter Lamprecht and Matti Geschonneck was awarded the Golden Gong.
Web links
- Closed files in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Closed files in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of Closed Files on the ARD website
- Closed files at Tatort-Fans.de
- Closed files in the crime scene fund
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tatort: Closed files at tatort-fundus.de. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- ^ Tatort: Closed files at tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
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Deadly Past (1991) | Tini (1991) | Blood Sausage Waltz (1991) | Berlin - best location (1993) | Death of an Old Woman (1993) | The Baryzhna Case (1994) | Closed files (1994) | End of the line (1995)