Crime scene: Moltke

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Moltke
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavaria Film GmbH for the WDR
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 214 ( List )
First broadcast December 28, 1988 on ARD
Rod
Director Hajo Gies
script Axel Götz
Jan Behind
Thomas Wesskamp
production Hartmut Grund
music Dieter Bohlen
camera Karl Kases
cut Claudia Wutz
occupation

Moltke is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF .

The film was produced by WDR and first broadcast on December 28, 1988 - a Wednesday. It is the 214th episode in the Tatort series, the 19th with detective chief inspectors Horst Schimanski ( Götz George ) and Christian Thanner ( Eberhard Feik ), and the first Tatort episode to be awarded the Grimme Prize .

action

Flashback, November 1978: Four masked perpetrators raid a supermarket while Pole Zbiginiew Pawlak waits outside in the vehicle as an escape driver. One of the main culprits is Pawlak's brother, who is seriously injured by a security guard while escaping from the supermarket. The guard is shot dead by one of the other perpetrators who takes off his mask. Because Pawlak's brother can no longer leave the crime scene on his own, another of the perpetrators joins and kills him with a shot in the head. Since Pawlak did not want to leave his dead brother alone, he is caught by the police. The other three perpetrators escape. Pawlak never revealed his accomplices, which brought him the name Moltke - based on the field marshal of the same name .

Nine years later, chief detective Schimanski and Thanner were talking shop about extraterrestrials and light years from their Christmas shopping when they discovered the tied real estate businessman Gerd Gress with a bottle of Danziger Goldwasser in the trunk of their car . This hint leads Schimanski on the suspicion that Moltke, who was recently released from prison, wants to take revenge on his accomplices at the time and carry out vigilante justice. Schimanski correctly suspects that Gress is one of the three perpetrators, but has no evidence, so Gress can quickly get out of interrogation by the police with the help of his lawyer Stefan Cantz. Since it is Christmas, Schimanski finds no help from Thanner either. So he visits Moltke's sister-in-law Ariane's pub, who was in a relationship with his brother. Moltke also turns up there, who Schimanski wants to get drunk in order to find out more about the other perpetrators, while Thanner is hooking up with Ariane. Moltke, however, sees through the game and merely reveals that the other three perpetrators are now respected citizens who "have a lot to lose".

Schimanski believes that Ariane knows more than she admits and stages a confrontation with Gress, whom he had shadowed, in a sauna club. The sauna club belongs to Bachmann, the second perpetrator who shot the security guard unmasked during the attack. Thanner is annoyed by Schimanski's going it alone and disappears with Ariane, while Schimanski tries to make Gress and his friends nervous, but has little success, as the lawyer Stefan Cantz turns up and puts him in his place.

Parallel to the course of events, an unknown blond man keeps appearing who drives a black VW Golf and whom Ariane apparently knows. She reveals to Schimanski that it is her partner who is extremely jealous and follows her every step of the way. When Ariane gets a bloody nose from her partner, Schimanski takes her to his apartment to be on the safe side, as Thanner is not at home. There he finds a second bottle of Danziger Goldwasser and a flyer from the sauna club. Schimanski goes there immediately and finds Bachmann tied up in a deck chair. Before he can find out, however, he is knocked down and locked in the sauna. When Thanner comes to his aid, Bachmann is drowned in the pool. Again the suspicion falls on Moltke, who is now being chased by the entire Duisburg police. Schimanski's authority to investigate is withdrawn from Königsberg because of bias.

Schimanski tries to put Moltke, who works as a zookeeper in a circus for a living, on his own, but almost pays for his attempt with his life, as he finds himself locked in a predator cage with lions and tigers and has to be rescued by Thanner again. While Thanner covers Schimanski, but only has Moltke's arrest in mind, Schimanski turns to the pastor of the Polish mission, in whom Moltke, as a believer, has confidence, and thus finds his hiding place in a garden colony. While he is waiting there for Moltke, Gress appears with a shotgun and thinks he is shooting at Moltke, who appears behind him. Gress, who is thus blown, shoots Moltke in the leg and escapes, followed by Schimanski, before he is shot in the head by his unknown partner in a black golf course. Schimanski finds the injured Moltke in his confessor's church and appeals to his piety. After Thanner, who learned of Schimanski's action from overheard a phone call, orders the church to be converted, Schimanski and Moltke make a pact: Schimanski lets Moltke take him hostage to flee the church and in return Moltke reveals the name of the third Perpetrator. The plan works, both escape the police and Moltke instructs Schimanski to go to Koenigsberg, where the lawyer Stefan Cantz with his family and his father, the court president a. D. and friend of Königsberg, is visiting.

After Moltke knocked Schimanski out in the elevator, he managed to break into Königsberg's apartment via the terrace, where it turned out that Stefan Cantz was the third perpetrator who murdered Moltke's brother at the time. When Cantz tries to escape over the roof, he is caught by Schimanski. It comes to a showdown between Moltke, Cantz and Schimanski, in which Moltke Cantz tries to throw off the roof. With the memory of the biblical commandment You shall not kill , Schimanski can dissuade him at the last second. Cantz is arrested, his broken father, who previously reprimanded Schimanski for violating fundamental rights, goes on his way ashamed. It also turns out that Cantz drives a black Golf, which just happens to be the same model as Ariane's partner.

background

Pawlak received the eponymous nickname for his persistent refusal to give evidence during the interrogation about the robbery of 1978 with reference to the popular nickname Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltkes : the great silent man.

Dieter Bohlen sings his composition Silent Water (by Blue System ) three times in this episode and can be seen as the blonde in the black golf , whom Schimanski initially suspects as the perpetrator. A phantom drawing by Bohlen is jokingly referred to as star cut , alluding to his status as a star .

The location of the scenes in and in front of the Church of the Polish Mission was the Catholic Bonifatius Church in Duisburg- Hochfeld .

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literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for the crime scene: Moltke . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Blue System: Silent Water (Official video with scenes from the crime scene: Moltke )
  3. ^ Crime scene: Moltke in the Grimme Prize Archive, accessed on April 23, 2014
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