Crime scene: Heart As
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Heart ace |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 316 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | July 30, 1995 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ulrich Stark |
| script | Horst Vocks |
| production | Veith von Fürstenberg |
| music | Birger Heymann |
| camera | Manfred Ensinger |
| cut | Felicitas Lainer |
| occupation | |
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Heart As is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the eleventh case of the Düsseldorf investigators Flemming and Koch and the 316th crime scene sequence. The report produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk was broadcast for the first time on July 30, 1995 on Das Erste . Flemming and Koch are dealing with the murder of a businessman immediately after his partner, who was believed to be dead, reappeared.
action
The adventurer Hugo Brandstätt, who has been missing in New Caledonia for years and has since been declared dead, surprisingly returns to Düsseldorf with his new partner Jeanne. In the evening the businessman Paul Martens is found murdered in his business premises, his stepdaughter Elfie and his wife Pia react strangely indifferent to Martens' death. Flemming finds out that Hugo Brandstätt is Pia's first husband and Elfie's father, Pia seems to be afraid of Brandstätts return. Brandstätt, who is also a former business partner of Martens, was seen in the business premises shortly before the murder, Koch suspects that Brandstätt could be waging a kind of revenge campaign and wants to protect Pia and Elfie, Flemming is not convinced of Brandstätt's perpetration. Shortly afterwards, the officials learn that Brandstätt has moved in with an ex-wife and daughter, he refuses to talk to Flemming, knocks him down and claims to have taken his family hostage. Brandstätt admits to his family that he fought and fought with Martens, but that he did not kill him. Flemming has the house rearranged, and through microphones he can overhear Elfie telling her father about the ordeal with Martens, she was raped by Martens for years and her mother beaten by him. Bandstätt is shocked that he left because Pia was already having a relationship with Martens back then and he didn't want to stand in the way. When Pia tells Elfie that Martens gave Brandstätt money to make him disappear, Elfie realizes that she and her mother had been "sold" by her father, she threatens her father with a kitchen knife and wants the police shoots him, the officers can free Brandstätt unharmed and arrest him.
Brandstätt informs a fellow inmate Jeanne about his appointment the next day with public prosecutor Dombrowski, who leaves a weapon there in the toilet, which Brandstätt can take, during the appointment he takes Dombrowski hostage. The rushed Flemming must finally shoot Brandstätt in self-defense. While Jeanne tries in vain to get closer to the unsuspecting Flemming in the evening, Koch finds out that Martens has faked his money-making business for the tax office and apparently pursued other business activities. Flemming questions Elfie again, who was with him around the time of the crime. She reports that her stepfather wanted to leave because of high debts. He would have offered his stepdaughter money so that she could sleep with him and start new business with him abroad. She would have chosen to go, but her stepfather was already dead. Flemming and Koch arrest a Baltic drug dealer, whose fingerprints were found in Martens' office. A colleague in the drug investigation tells Flemming that a smuggling ring brings drugs to Germany disguised as pharmaceuticals, the deliveries are made through Martens' company, his widow, who now runs the business, was privy to everything. In the evening, an assassination attempt was carried out on Flemming, in which he was only slightly injured. With the next delivery, the drug search takes action, arrests Pia and her Russian business partner and confiscates the drugs.
The drug investigator can find out that Martens had his drug depot in the name of a business partner who was murdered unexplained fifteen years ago, Flemming finds out by comparing the fingerprints seized at the time that the perpetrator must have been Brandstätt at the time, so the reason is now clear for its disappearance at that time. Detective Tejung sees it as confirmation of Brandstätts perpetration in the Martens murder case, on whose behalf he must have acted at the time. Flemming visits Pia in custody, who tells him that she is worried about her daughter. Flemming takes care of Elfie and tells her at dinner on the head that he thinks she is the perpetrator. She confesses to having killed her stepfather because of the abuse and fear of failing her high school diploma, but Flemming arrests her with a heavy heart. As so often, Flemming visits his local pub in the evening and meets Jeanne again, who flirts with Flemming, so he takes her home with him. Meanwhile, Miriam Koch learns from her friend, public prosecutor Dombrowski, that a woman had obtained the gun for Brandstätt in the area around the station, the description fits Jeanne. Since Miriam had already seen Flemming and Jeanne flirting together in Flemming's local pub, she rushed over there and found out that the two had gone to Flemming's. Flemming discovers a tattooed heart Ace on Jeanne's shoulder during intimacy, he realizes that she must have worked as a prostitute for seafarers and concludes that she was Brandstätt's friend. Jeanne draws a weapon shortly afterwards and threatens Flemming, when she pulls the trigger, the drum of the revolver is empty, Flemming has secretly unloaded the weapon and can just prevent the rushing Koch from shooting Jeanne. Jeanne was firmly convinced that Brandstätt had returned to get a birth certificate for the wedding, that he really wanted to confront Martens because he no longer paid for the murder at that time, she does not want to admit it now either, Flemming takes it firmly.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Tatort Herz As on July 30, 1995 was seen by a total of 5.69 million viewers in Germany and thus achieved a market share of 25.07%.
Reviews
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rate the episode positively and comment: "An exciting test for Flemming"
Web links
- Crime scene: ace of hearts in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ace of hearts in the online film database
- Summary of the action by Herz As on the ARD website
- Ace of hearts at the crime scene fund
- Heart As at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Herz As . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on February 22, 2016.
- ↑ Herz As short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 22, 2016.
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