Crime scene: heart hunt

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Heart hunt
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 102 minutes
classification Episode 119 ( List )
First broadcast December 14, 1980 on ARD
Rod
Director Axel Corti
script Bernd Sponge
production Richard German
camera Charly Steinberg
cut Jean-Claude Piroué
occupation

Herzjagd is a television film from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by WDR and broadcast for the first time on December 14, 1980. It is the 119th episode in the crime scene series and the only case of Commissioner Willy Kreutzer as a single investigator, after he was the assistant of Commissioner Haferkamp in 20 episodes . Kreutzer is dealing with a Bundeswehr deserter who turns into a criminal out of motherly love.

action

The Bundeswehr corporal Wolfgang Tielens was banned from going out because of an official offense, but still sneaks out of the barracks in the evening to visit his mother Helga, who has a serious heart condition, in the clinic. She is about to undergo a complicated operation that she doesn't expect to survive. During his visit he is picked up by police officers to be brought back to the barracks for an ABC exercise. In order to ask the chief physician Professor Heinrich to carry out the operation on his mother himself instead of leaving it to his assistant as planned, Tielens flees from the police officers. One of the police officers was killed in the pursuit, after which Tielens, who had not heard of the police officer’s death, went to see his mother’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Köndgen. He tells her that the operation on his mother was left to a beginner, whereas Ms. Köndgen is convinced that Tielens gets lost in the matter. Kreutzer was entrusted with the Tielens case the next morning. Meanwhile, Tielens seeks out Prof. Heinrichs to persuade him to perform the operation personally, but Tielens tells Tielens that his mother will probably die and that there is little hope for her.

Kreutzer is meanwhile alone in the office because his colleague Haferkamp is on vacation, he instructs his assistant Klein to visit Ms. Köndgen, who is broken up and assures Klein that Tielens is not a criminal. She tells him that he wanted to see Prof. Heinrichs. Klein calls Prof. Heinrichs and tells him about the manhunt for Tielens. Tielens then flees from Heinrichs' villa. Tielens breaks into the apartment of his absent acquaintance Sabine, observed by neighbor Heribert Krischke, and hides there. He calls the Essen police and claims he has a hostage. He demands that his mother be referred to the heart center in Houston, USA, because a specialist there could rescue his mother, otherwise he would kill the hostage. Kreutzer's team believes that Tielens is bluffing, but Kreutzer is not sure because of a similar previous case of a hostage killing and wants to delay Tielens. Tielens is asked by radio announcement to contact the hospital treating his mother. Tielens calls there and demands that the transfer of his mother to the heart center in the USA be shown on television as evidence. Meanwhile, the officials are investigating that he temporarily lived with Sabine, but the officials do not know her address in Essen-Altendorf. In the evening, Sabine's neighbor Krischke Tielens visits Sabine's apartment. He is interested in the apartment and looks around to Tielens' discomfort. Krischke pretends to be helpful when Tielens gets sick, but Tielens sends him away.

Kreutzer arranges a manipulated television report that is supposed to suggest to Tielens that his mother will be brought to the USA; his supervisor is not convinced of Kreutzer's plans. Meanwhile, Kreutzer's team tries to find Tielens by systematically combing Altendorf. A schoolboy has been missing in the district for two days, and Kreutzer and his team believe that he is in Tielens' hands. Tielens sees the manipulated report on television, in which it is also reported that Ms. Tielens absolutely wants to see her son again before leaving for the USA. When Krischke shows up again at Tielens, Tielens asks him to call the USA for him to inquire about the upcoming operation. Krischke finds out that the heart specialist is in Tokyo and will not perform an operation in the next six months. Tielens realizes that the report was just a bluff and throws Krischke out in his anger. When the police find the apartment, Tielens escapes from it and is able to escape the officers. Krischke testifies to the police that Tielens was alone in the apartment and that there was no hostage-taking. Kreutzer drives to Mrs. Tielens in the clinic, who has meanwhile found out that she is being operated on by the clinic professor. Shortly afterwards, Tielens visits his aunt, she urges Tielens to turn herself in at a request from Kreutzer and tells her about the upcoming operation. Tielens replies that he still has to finish something first and seeks Krischke in the evening. He takes Krischke hostage and then calls Kreutzer. Kreutzer informed Tielens that he had to go to the clinic, something had happened. After his attempt to call Prof. Heinrichs fails, Tielens and his hostage use a trick to gain access to Kreutzer's apartment.

He takes Kreutzer hostage, who informs him that Frau Tielens has suffered an embolism and is therefore being operated on by the professor, but Tielens does not believe him. He releases Krischke and stays with Kreutzer in his apartment. He forces Kreutzer to call his assistant Klein and tell him that Ms. Tielen's surgery should be broadcast on television so that he can check Kreutzer's information. The transmission takes place and Wolfgang Tielens sees his mother die in front of the camera during the operation. He then shoots in the television and causes an implosion in which he is injured. After the police storm Kreutzer's destroyed apartment, Tielens is arrested and the uninjured Kreutzer is freed.

Audience and production

When it was first broadcast, the episode reached 12.72 million viewers and thus a market share of 38.00%. The episode was filmed between March 3 and April 10, 1980 in Essen and the surrounding area and in Munich .

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene positively as a "routine crime tragedy"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herzjagd on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on July 20, 2015.
  2. ^ Tatort: Herzjagd short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on July 20, 2015.
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