Crime scene: greed

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title greed
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 NDR
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 403 ( List )
First broadcast January 10, 1999 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Jürgen Bretzinger
script Raimund Weber
production Studio Hamburg film production
music Klaus Doldinger
camera Kay Gauditz
cut Inge Bohmann
occupation

Greed is a television film from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by NDR and first broadcast on January 10, 1999. It is about the crime scene episode 403. For the chief detective Paul Stoever ( Manfred Krug ) and Peter Brockmöller ( Charles Brauer ) it is the 35th and 32nd case in which they investigate.

action

After little Axel Ropers has put his rabbit in the garden, he goes into the kitchen, turns on all the buttons on the gas stove and tucks a chair under it. Then he goes back to his bed. Shortly afterwards, Jürgen Lampert, a neighbor, rings the doorbell and brings the animal back, noticing the smell of gas coming from the kitchen. Axel is scolded by Michael, his mother Sonja's friend, and gets a slap in the face. He tells his girlfriend that her son wanted to blow them all up and why he even goes into therapy if something like that comes out of it.

The other day, child psychologist Gabriele Eilbrook promises Axel that she has a place in therapy for him and that he no longer has to go home. The boy had already said several times that he did not want to go back to his mother and her boyfriend. Gabriele Eilbrook assumes that Axel's conspicuous behavior has something to do with the death of his father. Commissioner Peter Brockmöller and the personable woman attend a seminar together. They both like each other immediately. Brockmöller acknowledges a few flippant remarks from his colleague by saying that he should speak about “this woman of stature” with the necessary respect.

When Gabriele Eilbrook goes to the children's center, where she also looks after patients, René, a child in the home, meets her excitedly and tells her that his sister Rita climbed a high tree and fell down. Gabriele learns from the home manager Manthey that the girl has suffered a broken neck . That night there was a knock on Brockmöller's door, when he opened it sleepily, Gabriele was standing in front of him. She lost herself in hints that she had gotten into something monstrous, but still needed more evidence, she would then call him in the next few days. But she wanted to make sure that she could count on his help in his position as commissioner. “Of course,” says Brockmöller, but, just woken up from sleep, is a little overwhelmed by the situation.

When Gabriele's husband, Dr. Dietmar Eilbrook, listening to Gabriele's dictaphone , obviously worries him very much about what he has heard. He leaves the person he is speaking to on the answering machine saying that he should call him back immediately because they have a problem. The other day a man finds a woman's body in the Isebek Canal . The homicide squad is called. When Brockmöller sees who he has in front of him, he is stunned: It's Gabriele Eilbrook. The Commissioner blames himself for just letting her go that night. Stoever proves to be a compassionate friend in this difficult situation for Brockmöller.

State Secretary Heinisch's wife found Rita's diary . “What kind of pig are you,” she says to her husband. At that moment, Stoever and Brockmöller ring the doorbell. Heinisch later burns Rita's diary in the garden. As a foster child, Rita was housed with the Heinischs, as it turns out later. When Heinisch did not show up for an appointment that he would have had with Gabriele at 12 noon today, it fueled the suspicion of the inspectors. Why didn't he come, did he already know that Gabriele could no longer appear? When Stoever and Brockmöller question his wife again, she says whether they don't know who their husband is. Stoever just replies dryly that it would not prevent him and his colleagues from doing their job, even if her husband were the Chancellor.

When Stoever and Brockmöller want to speak to Manthey again in the children's home, they run into René, who wants to know where Gabriele is. He would have talked to her about his sister, whom he hardly knew because they would always have been housed in different homes. The home manager Manthey wants to prevent the officers from talking to René, but as they leave, they find out that Rita had written everything in her diary about why she jumped. She also told Gabriele about it and also that Heinisch touched her, says René. So the conversation that Gabriele wanted to have with the State Secretary was not so harmless. When they talk to Margarete Heinisch about it, she only remarks that these statements were pipe dreams, that her daughter Katja and a neighbor took care of Rita while she was in the hospital. The officers find out, however, that Heinisch had taken extra time off during her hospital stay to take care of Rita. Stoever and Brockmöller determine that the children's home receives 100,000 DM a month as a subsidy from the state, of which the home manager Manthey has put 10,000 DM in his own pocket in the past. It also turns out that Heinisch's money for Rita also went to Felix Manthey's private account. Confronted with this knowledge, Manthey breaks in and hands the officers a letter that Rita has written him. When they confront State Secretary Heinisch about it, he smugly states that it was the chatter of a deeply disturbed girl, that his lawyer would tear it all up in the air. When a reporter appears at Stoever and Brockmöller and wants to know what the “Heinisch affair” is about, Stoever pulls Brockmöller out of the room after pointing to Rita's letter, which of course he is not allowed to show her. The woman understands what he means and takes a picture of it. For Heinisch and his wife, however, the case has already been filed.

When Axel Ropers learns of Gabriele's death, he packs his things and leaves the home unnoticed. Gabriele was his only reference person. The boy doesn't really know where to go now. When the inspectors talk to Axel's mother, she brings a drawing by the boy that he probably saw a murder and not an accident and that this is his trauma. And Axel talked about it with Gabriele. They find out that it is about 3.1 million marks that Sonja Ropers is entitled to for her husband's accidental death. The sum insured has not yet been paid out because the insurance company is still investigating such a large sum. Axel's father was thrust his head into a corn harvester and the boy saw everything. He thinks his mother and Michael have a hand in it. The commissioners use an x-ray to track the actual facts. Rainer Roper's knee had to be x-rayed after a skiing accident; he has a titanium knee joint prosthesis . Dr. Dietmar Eilbrook's x-ray taken after Roper's alleged death does not show this titanium joint. It is therefore certain that this recording cannot belong to Rainer Ropers. When she was Dr. Asking Eilbrook about it, he writhes at first, but then admits that he was in a financially and professionally hopeless situation. As he says, he had to give up his practice for professional reasons, but in fact his license as a doctor for life was withdrawn because of repeated billing fraud. The dead person is the seasonal worker Ignatz Dengel. He himself informed Rainer Ropers that Gabriele had tracked him down. He couldn't have known that he was about to kill Gabriele. Stoever tells him on the head that he wanted to take the money.

The insurance company paid the money to Sonja Ropers. She calls her husband and they both arrange a meeting point. Rainer Ropers has now picked up Axel and is waiting with him at the agreed place. Sonja tells her husband that she knows that he killed Gabriele Eilbrook and he says that it was a good thing. Sonja gives him the bag with the money and sadly notices that she never wanted it. He mockingly replies that he even believes her. For Axel, too, he only has a few meaningless words left before he leaves.

Stoever and Brockmöller are already waiting for him in his hotel room. Ultimately, his greed became his undoing. The next day a copy of Rita's letter appears in the newspaper.

Production notes

Stoever and Brockmöller sing the title Stormy Weather in this Tatort episode and also play the music (Brockmöller harmonica and Stoever hand piano ).

In this episode, the former German soccer player and today's soccer coach Berti Vogts has three guest appearances: At the beginning he comes as a neighbor to the Ropers and brings Axel's rabbits back. In the middle, Stoever and Brockmöller see him out of the window of the Ropers' nursery and at the end he talks to the children about his football career.

Woody Mues, who plays the Axel Ropers, is the son of Dietmar Mues , who can be seen here in the role of the politician Tobias Heinisch. Woody Mue's brothers Vanya and Jona are also actors.

DVD release

The crime scene episode Greed is available on the “Tatort Star Appearances Box” (3 of the best cases). In the other two cases, Commissioners Haferkamp (episode 46 The Man from Room 22 ) and Passini (episode 196 Desirelessly dead ), published by Touchstone, published on January 26, 2012, 256 minutes. The episode Greed is also included on the “Tatort Box Stoever / Brockmöller - Box Vol. 2”, published by Touchstone, published on October 13, 2011, playing time 263 minutes. In addition to greed , the crime scene episodes Decoy (episode 334) and Arme Püppi (episode 386) are included.

reception

Audience ratings

When it first aired on January 10, 1999, Greed had 10.07 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 26.03%.

Reviews

TV Spielfilm said that this episode was "in spite of the" Terrier "Vogts without any bite". Daniela Pogade from the Berliner Zeitung aimed at the fact that "more exciting than the search for the perpetrator is the question of whether Vogts can manage his lines safely."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort - Stormy Weather and other songs
  2. ↑ Excerpt from Berti Vogts in the crime scene: Greed
  3. ↑ Tatort Star Appearance Box at cinefacts.de
  4. ↑ DVD Tatort Box: Stoever / Brockmöller Vol. 2
  5. ↑ Data on the crime scene: Greed
  6. ↑ Crime scene: Greed on TV feature film (with pictures of the film)
  7. ^ Daniela Pogade in the Berliner Zeitung of January 9, 1999 on Berti Vogts' guest appearance
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