Crime scene: Hitchcock and Mrs. Wernicke
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hitchcock and Mrs. Wernicke |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
RBB |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 764 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | May 24, 2010 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Klaus Krämer |
| script | Klaus Krämer |
| production |
Ernst Ludwig Ganzert , Mario Krebs , Manuela Scheidt |
| music | Torsten Sense |
| camera | Ralph Netzer |
| cut | Monika Schindler |
| occupation | |
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Hitchcock and Mrs. Wernicke is the title of a crime scene crime thriller with Berlin investigators Ritter and Stark . Ritter investigates in his 28th and Stark in his 22nd case. The RBB television film by Klaus Krämer was first broadcast on May 24, 2010. The plot is based on Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Das Fenster zum Hof , these parallels are also addressed in the crime scene itself.
action
There is a tense atmosphere between Chief Detective Inspectors Till Ritter and Felix Stark when Inspector Lutz Weber reports the call from Irmgard Wernicke, a pensioner. The old lady would have called for the third time and think she saw a murder. During a visit she told the commissioners that she had seen last night how Mr Benkelmann put poison , at least that is what she believed, into the soup of his wife . Ms. Benkelmann has had severe depression for years and rarely leaves the apartment. Robert Benkelmann came home yesterday around 6.30 p.m. and, as always, brought food with him. He took a bottle out of his jacket and poured the poison into the soup. He didn't eat anything himself. Shortly afterwards, Ms. Benkelmann's head sank forward onto the table top and then Mr. Benkelmann switched the light off and switched it on again less than five minutes later. After that, Ms. Benkelmann was no longer to be seen. In the middle of the night Benkelmann went to his car with a large suitcase, then came back with the suitcase, went to the bathroom and a little later went back to the car with the suitcase.
Ritter and Stark question Robert Benkelmann, who tells them that his wife has gone to Lisbon and that he brought her to the train at around 3 a.m. He countered the surprise of the Commissioners about going to Lisbon by train by arguing that his wife had always wanted to travel around Europe by train . She has been struggling with severe depression for a long time and he hopes that this trip will give her new courage to face life. The commissioners have all the rooms in the apartment shown, but cannot discover anything unusual. Benkelmann also gave the inspectors his wife's cell phone number without being asked.
When Ritter and Stark talk to their colleague Weber about the case, he says that it all reminds him very strongly of Hitchcock's film Das Fenster zum Hof . It was repeated on TV on Monday. Doubts creep up on the commissioners, has the old woman mixed reality and film plot together? Ritter confronts Benkelmann with Irmgard Wernicke's statement. He replies that he put a sleeping pill in the soup of his wife so that she could sleep through the night before the long journey, so that she could gain strength. His wife arrived at the hotel in Lisbon a quarter of an hour ago. He calls there immediately and can be put through to her. Then he passes it on to Ritter, who speaks to her briefly. The inspector has to apologize to him. In front of the house he made another call to the hotel to make sure that Mrs. Benkelmann had identified herself there, which was answered in the affirmative. Ritter goes to Irmgard Wernicke again and says that she must have mixed up the Hitchcock film and reality. He had just made a pretty fool of himself in the Benkelmann apartment. He lets the old woman feel how angry he is and leaves.
The next day the police station received a call from Tim, who was doing community service, saying that Mrs. Wernicke had disappeared. Ritter and Stark look around their apartment, a chair has overturned and the bird cage is covered. Ritter blames himself, Stark suggests calling in forensics. A survey of the neighbors brings little information, but a young woman saw that Benkelmann rang Irmgard Wernicke's doorbell. Robert Benkelmann immediately admits to having spoken briefly with Mrs. Wernicke. All he had said was that she should take care of her own things and that he was now forced to hang up the curtains.
Another phone call Ritters made with his colleagues in Portugal reveals that Karin Benkelmann had been missing for three days and that her rental car was found in the mountains. In addition, body parts of a female person were found in the area. A DNA check shows that the body parts actually come from Karin Benkelmann. From the Wernicke apartment, Ritter and Stark continue to watch the Benkelmann apartment. When the light suddenly goes out after a wild gesture by Benkelmann, the commissioners are sure that someone has come who they shouldn't see under any circumstances. An immediate check at Benkelmann remains unsuccessful.
The other day, Renate Müller appears in the police station, a nurse who looks after the handicapped Frau Wernicke. She confesses that Mrs. Wernicke was with her until early in the morning. Now she is in the hospital, she is feeling bad. It hurt her very much that Commissioner Ritter no longer wanted to believe her. You have lost your courage to live. Knight is affected. The three of them visit Irmgard Wernicke. Ritter apologizes to the old lady and shows her a drawing that was made of the woman who the inspectors met in the stairwell yesterday evening during their visit to Benkelmann. Ms. Wernicke stated that this woman used to visit the Benkelmanns quite often. The inspectors drive to Benkelmann's wine shop and show the drawing to his employee Gernot Schuber. He identifies the woman as Ella Leiser. A check reveals that she works in a company for refrigerated transports, so that the body parts could have been transported to Portugal in order to make the police there believe that a serial offender who had been wanted for a long time had become active again. Mrs. Leiser refuses any conversation with Ritter and Stark. With a search warrant and accompanied by Ella Leiser, the inspectors ring Robert Benkelmann's doorbell. During the search, Benkelmann and Leiser sit wordlessly on the sofa and do not respond to any of the questions asked. Only once does Benkelmann take Leiser's hand, which she reciprocates with a stroke. It can be proven that Ella Leiser pretended to be Karin Benkelmann both in the hotel and at the car rental. The bathtub is removed from the apartment. Benkelmann and Leiser are arrested.
background
Hitchcock and Mrs. Wernicke was produced by Eikon Filmproduktion on behalf of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg . The film was shot in Berlin . The film premiered on May 6, 2010 in the Babylon Berlin cinema . On May 24, 2010 it was first broadcast on Das Erste .
Mrs. Wernicke was also a fictional Berlin housewife in a series of the BBC's German serviceduring the Second World War that was popular in the German Reich.
criticism
The Frankfurter Allgemeine praises Hitchcock and Mrs. Wernicke as worth seeing : “This“ crime scene ”is so quiet and unspectacular (and free of music), also excellently filmed and free from the often so excited superintendent teasing like no one has been for a long time. There is almost something provocative about the courage to lead a [paralyzing] mood that Klaus Krämer (script and direction) proves here. "
The German Press Agency reports: “A completely different 'crime scene': No thumpers like in Münster, no bloodshed like in Hamburg, Cologne, Munich or Frankfurt. Because the murder is not visible. [...] The film lacks action, chases, shooting and fist blows, but it still retains its tension, even if the approach of the two police officers does not seem like a precision clockwork and should seem strange to real professional colleagues. "
The Berliner Morgenpost writes of a “successful Kammerspiel” and a “thrilling crime thriller from the first to the last minute” , which shows that the crime scene is at its best “when it stays in the crime genre and thus remains within itself and simply an exciting one Story told."
Web links
- Hitchcock and woman Wernicke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot by Hitchcock and Mrs. Wernicke on the ARD website
- Hitchcock and Mrs. Wernicke at the crime scene fund
- Hitchcock and Mrs. Wernicke at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hitchcock and Mrs. Wernicke from the Tatort fund, accessed on April 18, 2012
- ↑ Premiere for “Hitchcock and Frau Wernicke” in Berlin ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Tatort-fundus.de, accessed on May 27, 2010
- ↑ Edo Reents: In Hitchcock's name . In: FAZ.net of May 24, 2010.
- ^ Dpa In media - crime scene: Hitchcock and Mrs. Wernicke . In: Focus Online of May 24, 2010.
- ↑ Murder in the apartment building . In: Morgenpost.de from May 25, 2010.
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