Crime scene: drifting in the boilers

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Boilers
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company
SR
length 104 minutes
classification Episode 272
First broadcast March 7, 1993 on German television
Rod
Director Peter Schulze-Rohr
script Michael Haneke (under the pseudonym "Richard Binder")
production Telefilm Saar GmbH
music Jürgen Wolter
camera Klaus Peter Weber
cut Monika Solzbacher ,
Claudia Welter
occupation

Kesseltreiben is the 272nd television film in the crime series Tatort and the twelfth Tatort produced by Saarland Radio . It was first broadcast on March 7, 1993. It is the sixth case with Commissioner Palu as an investigator. Palu is dealing with the murder of a nuclear power plant employee and the involvement of the operating company in it.

action

An incident occurs in the Rosdorf nuclear power plant in Saarland, and nuclear power plant director Späth instructs his employees to cover up the incident and to repair the damage two days later with a routine shutdown of the plant. The chief engineer of the Luxembourg company operating the plant, Georg Bekker, instructs CEO Mertens and the managers Dr. Meyer-Mühlendorff and Dr. Prieberg pointed out that the welds were leaking and that he had been warning about this for a long time. He therefore no longer considers the power station to be safe, Meyer-Mühlendorff and Prieberg instruct him to remain silent and to work out suggestions for repairs. When Bekker left, Meyer-Mühlendorff instructs his employees to keep an eye on Bekker and to monitor his telephone, and the security man Witschewsky should “take care” of Bekker. Shortly afterwards, Bekker is found dead on a construction site, apparently he died of a drug overdose. Palu notices that the dead person doesn't look like a junkie, he lets his assistant Schröder and the exchange commissioner “Tschämp” Zander check the drug scene. Bekker's sister Anna Fromm, who identifies her brother, rules out her brother's drug abuse with Palu. Meyer-Mühlendorff claims to Palu and Tschämp to have liked Bekker, even if he was difficult and introverted.

In Bekker's apartment, the officers find evidence that someone must have been there before them, Anna tells Palu that she has a key to his bank safe, in his presence she opens the safe, Palu takes out floppy disks and finds out that Bekker was on the day of his death was at the safe again. In front of the bank, Anna, who has taken gold bars from her brother's safe, has her handbag stolen, as Tschämp is following the thief, who throws the bag away after he has looked through it, the valuables are all still there, as Tschämp Anna's handbag returns, the perpetrator was obviously looking for something else. Anna tells Palu that her brother wanted to meet a Unger who is at a conference abroad. Palu receives pressure to return the diskettes to the Bekkers company, but has copies made beforehand. Anna receives three more diskettes that her brother had addressed before his death, and shortly afterwards she receives a hidden threatening phone call. Palu learns that the copies of the floppy disks are empty when he tells Anna about it and notices that the arm of Bekker's company apparently extends to his desk, she hides the floppy disks that were sent to her. Anna goes to Meyer-Mühlendorff, shows him one of the three floppy disks and asks about the death of her brother, Meyer-Mühlendorff is clueless and states that her brother, as a drug addict, may have been involved in industrial espionage, after the conversation he also lets go Monitor Anna von Witschewsky. Palu learns from Unger by telephone that Bekker wanted to send him explosive material about the design of a nuclear reactor, immediately afterwards he learns from forensic medicine that Bekker's drug death was only faked, he was suffocated, the injection was given to him postmortem.

Palu and Tschämp go to Meyer-Mühlendorff, Palu tells him that Bekker's drug death was only faked and that he suspects the company, he wants to lure Meyer-Mühlendorff out of the reserve. Meanwhile Anna is put under pressure, an anonymous caller threatens to kidnap her daughter Evi, Anna brings her daughter to relatives in Lorraine under the observation of Meyer-Mühlendorff's security guard Mauch. Meyer Mühlendorff calls Anna and tells her that her daughter could possibly have radioactive material from her uncle. Anna has this, which Mauch had smuggled into the apartment, disposed of immediately and informs Meyer-Mühlendorff where he can find her daughter, only then does she notify Palu. Evi and her grandparents are admitted to a hospital, but no radiation can be found. When Palu asked Evi about the material and she said that a strange man had been in her house, a stone was thrown through the window in Evi's room, but Palu was unable to catch the attacker. Palu is able to convince Anna to give him her brother's floppy disks. The next morning Evi identified Mauch as the stranger, Tschämp went to the Luxembourg headquarters and convinced him to come to Saarbrücken to testify. Meanwhile, Palu meets with Dr. Unger, after a first inspection of the disks, he says that Bekker probably wanted to provide information about the major risks posed by the Rosdorf power plant.

Meyer-Mühlendorff seeks Mertens, informs him about the murder investigation and the involvement of the works security and proposes that Mauch be dismissed pro forma, he should take all the blame for Bekker's death, but the company should find him a lawyer and another position the prospect of release from prison so that he can keep the company out. Mertens realizes that Meyer-Mühlendorff has used criminal machinations to silence Bekker and throws him out of his house. The forensic investigations show that Mauch Bekker murdered, the case is closed for Palu's superior, but this is not enough for Palu, he wants to get in touch with the people behind it. Instead of being able to use Mauch as a decoy, Palu has to have him arrested, he escapes and is shot by a police officer in self-defense while trying to escape. Palu goes to Mertens and bluffs that Mauch had named Meyer-Mühlendorff as his client for the murder of Bekker and the intimidation campaign with Anna and Evi, but he learns just when Mertens wants to report his knowledge of the machinations of Meyer-Mühlendorff to Palu by Dr. Prieberg that Mauch was only heard as a witness and that he did not put anything usable on the record, so that Mertens lets Palu run up and he can no longer approach Meyer-Mühlendorff as the man behind.

Audience and production

When it was first broadcast on March 7, 1993, an audience of 11.41 million was achieved, which corresponds to an audience rate of 33.50%. The episode was filmed in Saarbrücken and the surrounding area as well as in Lorraine and Luxembourg.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene positively with "explosive material, routinely staged".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Katharina Müller: Haneke: No biography . 1st edition. Transcript, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8394-2838-2 , pp. 424 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. tatort-fundus.de: audience share and production
  3. [1] on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 24, 2016.