Crime scene: murder games

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Killer games
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 565 ( List )
First broadcast April 25, 2004 on ARD
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Director Stephan Meyer
script Stephan Meyer
production Katrin Kuhn
music Martin Doepke
camera Michael killer
cut Diana Kischkel
occupation

Mörderspiele is a German television crime thriller by Stephan Meyer from 2004. The film was made as the 565th episode of the crime series Tatort .

action

In Aasee a woman's torso, and shortly thereafter a packet of the limbs of the dead is found, the head remains missing. The case immediately reminds Karl-Friedrich Boerne, Silke "Alberich" Haller and public prosecutor Wilhelmine Klemm of the Rohrbach murder from the 1950s, which remained unsolved after a false conviction and embarrassed the investigators in public. Wilhelmine Klemm wants to prevent similarly embarrassing police work. Although even the stomach contents of the dead are similar to those of the murder at the time, she downplays similarities at a press conference. It is critical that Thiel has not even found out who the dead woman is. A Soko is founded, the resolution of the case has top priority. The student Laura Schott appears to the investigators because she suspects her lecturer Solveig Helmhövel to be in the dead woman. It is explosive that her husband Helmhövel is Boerne's favorite antiquarian, who also meets Helmhövel's sister Monika regularly at opera premieres. Wilhelmine Klemm, in turn, is also known to the family: Her father led a lawsuit against Monika's father for Monika's father, with which he prevented his incapacitation.

Helmhövel claims that his wife has gone away. In addition to travel documents, he also shows an e-mail that Solveig sent him shortly after arriving at the holiday hotel. There they confirm the arrival of Solveig, but have not seen her since the first day. A second man reports, who misses his wife: The Ukrainian businessman Dr. Oleg Buykov testifies that his wife disappeared shortly after visiting a doctor in Münster. Numerous people who want to harm Oleg come into question. Oleg identifies his wife from a cruciate ligament surgery scar on his knee. The next day, the investigators found Laura Schott's body, which the perpetrator had wrapped in garbage bags and hung on the tower of the town hall. Laura again has a meniscal surgery scar. Boerne lets his professional contacts play and finds out that Solveig also had a cruciate ligament rupture and was operated on by the same doctor as Buykov's wife. Although Helmhövel did not identify the body as that of his wife, Boerne was able to determine from the x-rays he received from the surgeon (a former fellow student) that the body from Lake Aasee was Solveig Helmhövel. Helmhövel is arrested, especially since he has a key to the town house tower. In his house there are garbage bags and all the food ingredients that were also found in the stomachs of the two dead. However, Boerne begins to doubt Helmhövel's guilt, as the facts point too clearly to him. Since he knows Monika from the opera premieres, he visits her on her own farm. In the course of the evening, which Monika's best foreman Kalmund Brozs also joins, Boerne realizes that Monika is a lesbian and that she used to love Wilhelmine Klemm. He also believes he can see that Monika and Kalmund were the murderers of the women. Horrified, he jumps out of the window and flees when threatened. He now has the farm searched, as he suspects that Solveig's missing head was fed to the pigs on the farm. Helmhövel himself fails to be a witness: he took his own life in his cell.

Boerne is now also questioning the alleged accidental death of Monika's husband, who according to an official investigation died in a potato peeling machine. An exhumation of the dead shows massive injuries from the machine as well as a three-millimeter hole in the back of the skull. During the house search, a three-millimeter-wide chisel was found with alleged rust marks on the tip. Boerne secretly breaks into Monika's workshop, but is surprised by her and Kalmund. Monika gives Kalmund the order to shoot Boerne, and he can barely save himself from the two. While Kalmund can be caught by the police, Monika is now on the run with a rifle. She finally expects Wilhelmine Klemm in her apartment and threatens her with the rifle. Thiel calls Wilhelmine Klemm by chance and learns from her that Monika is armed with her. Monika, in turn, explains to Wilhelmine the background to the murders. She was with Solveig and Solveig wanted to separate from her husband because of her. But then Solveig fell in love with Laura. The murders were again a good opportunity to get revenge on Wilhelmine with a perfect murder. Before Wilhelmine can be shot by Monika, the police gain access. Monika is arrested, a little later, following Kalmund's tip, Boerne finds Solveig's head in the sewer system.

At the end, Buykov's still living wife appears. In the meantime there were assassinations of two bodyguards of Buykov. Buykov's wife informs Thiel that she was having an affair with one of the bodyguards and that Buykov wanted to have her declared dead through his false corpse identification, presumably in order to then also have her removed unnoticed.

production

The shooting of murder games took place in Münster and the surrounding area. The film experienced on 25 April 2004 at the First its television premiere, reaching an audience of 24 percent (8.34 million viewers). In 2010 the film was released on DVD. It was the fifth case of investigators Thiel and Boerne .

criticism

TV Spielfilm called the film "Krimiquark" and found that it had "too many Boerne-Zoten, [but] too little logic and tension".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: murder games . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 122571-a / V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ 565/04 Murder Games (WDR) . In: Rüdiger Dingemann: Tatort. The encyclopedia. All the facts, all the cases, all the commissioners . Knaur, Munich 2010, p. 312.
  3. ↑ See tvspielfilm.de
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