Crime scene: corpse in the basement

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Corpse in the basement
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Studio Hamburg Atelier GmbH
length 94 minutes
classification Episode 179 ( List )
First broadcast March 31, 1986 on ARD
Rod
Director Pete Ariel
script Kurt Bartsch
production Oliver stallion
music Franz Bartzsch
camera Wolfgang Treu
cut Anja Cox
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Leiche im Keller is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk under the direction of Pete Ariel and was first broadcast on March 31, 1986. It is the crime scene episode 179. For the chief detective Paul Stoever ( Manfred Krug ) it is the 4th case. For his new colleague Peter Brockmöller ( Charles Brauer ) it is the first case in which he is investigating.

action

Herbert Koslowski is an employee of a money transport company. While driving, he threatens his colleague Baumann with a gun, ties and gags him and flees with the suitcases in a waiting car. Herbert planned the robbery together with his twin brother Karl. When the brothers get into an argument about the stolen money, a fight ensues in which Karl is killed. Herbert then takes on Karl's identity; Little does he know, however, that he has also taken over its dark past. A blackmailer sends him a newspaper clipping with a picture of a missing girl and calls for money from him.

Inspector Stoever drives with his new colleague Brockmöller to the place where the money transporter was found , where Baumann suffocated on his gag. The loot is substantial, but all large bills are registered. Apparently Koslowski fled with the money. "His" body is found the next day. Since there is hardly any information about Koslowski's environment, Stoever and Brockmöller pay his twin brother a visit. Apparently he's a successful photographer; Stoever notices various photos of very young girls in his rooms. Koslowski claims to have had little contact with his brother. Back in the office, Stoever notices the photo of a missing girl on a wanted poster that was hanging on Koslowski's wall. Koslowski denies knowing the girl.

Koslowski meets the blackmailer and gives him the requested sum in large bills. Angelika Winter visits him in his studio. The young woman confronts him with the charge of having sold her to a brothel years ago. He offers her money if she can find out what the inspector wants to know.

From the point of view of the police, the case suddenly seems to be cleared up when the pimp Karl-Heinz Strauch is arrested with banknotes from the robbery. However, he can show an alibi for the time of the crime and claims to have won the money playing poker, so he has to be released again. After a wild chase, he manages to escape the civil investigators who have been set on him. He ambushes Koslowski in his house and demands all the booty from the robbery. He has recognized that he has Herbert and not Karl in front of him and makes it clear to him that he can be held accountable for the kidnapping of minors. In exchange for the money, he offers him his photos of evidence. Koslowski shoots Strauch in the leg during a scuffle in the cellar.

Stoever recognizes from a non-tanned area on the found corpse, which exactly matches Karl's bracelets, that the dead person is Karl and not Herbert Koslowski. Stoever and Brockmöller drive to Koslowski's apartment; there they find Bush dead in the cellar. Koslowski explains to the police that he was ambushed and shot in self-defense. Stoever can prove to him, however, that he deliberately killed Strauch with a second shot.

Winter manages to use a trick to get the money. While waiting in the central station for the train to Milan, she tries to change a thousand. The employee at the exchange office finds that the bill is registered and dials the emergency number.

Production notes

A special stylistic device are the musical themes assigned to the main characters, which are varied according to the course of the action and form various mixed forms in the brothers. The title song "Money Is The Power", recorded by Franz Bartzsch under the stage name "FB Eye", was also released as a single.

When it was first broadcast on March 31, 1986, Leiche had 15.71 million viewers in the basement , which corresponds to a market share of 41.00%.

This crime scene was released as a single film on VHS.

criticism

TV Spielfilm was critical of the first case with Brockmöller: "'Tatort' meets Agatha Christie : lukewarm".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FB Eye - Money Is The Power. Retrieved March 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Data on the crime scene: corpse in the cellar
  3. ↑ The videos with Stoever and Brockmöller - VHS: LEICHE IM KELLER on tatort-Fundus.de. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  4. ↑ Crime scene: corpse in the cellar on TV Spielfilm
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