Crime scene: the night of the murder

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Murder night
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MR
length 81 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 306 ( List )
First broadcast March 26, 1995 on Das Erste
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Director Heinz Schirk
script Heinz Schirk
music Axel Donner
camera Werner Hoffmann
cut Elke Herbener
occupation

Mordnacht is a television film from the crime series Tatort , produced by Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) under the direction of Heinz Schirk and broadcast for the first time on March 26, 1995 in the program Das Erste . It is the 306th crime scene episode and the eleventh case of the Frankfurt chief detective, Edgar Brinkmann .

Brinkmann investigates the murder of a young woman and her lover.

action

The art auctioneer Hall hires the private detective Leo Fellner to keep his wife Elli under surveillance. He's morbidly jealous and wants to know what she's up to during the day when she's away. He knows that she visits her little daughter almost every day, who lives with Elli's sister, but he also wants to know what else she does.

After a short time, Elli Hall notices that she has a pursuer and speaks to him without further ado. She insists that he have coffee with her and explains that she has no intention of cheating on her husband. However, the two are immediately likeable and intimacies arise in the following days. Since Fellner has fallen seriously in love with Elli, he gives the order and informs Hall about the actual state of affairs. He is beside himself and offers Fellner a six-figure sum so that he disappears from his wife's life again. When Fellner refuses, he hits him down with a bust. He laboriously moves the corpse into the magazine of his auction house and parks Fellner's car on a bridge. When Hall comes home, his wife is just about to pack her things and tells her husband that she is now leaving him for good. She had found a man who would also accept her with her child and would now like to live with him.

The next day, Elli Hall is found stabbed to death on the edge of a forest. Inspector Brinkmann investigates and learns from Hall that his wife also had jewelry with her. Hall informs the superintendent that he hired a detective who has now also disappeared. In his opinion, it would be possible that he had only looked for the acquaintance of Elli in order to steal her jewelry.

Brinkmann's assistant Wegner tries to find witnesses in a nightclub near the crime scene. It is possible that knives are used in the kitchen and can be used as a weapon. One of the guests remembers that Elli Hall asked for help at the club because her car broke down. Shortly afterwards, the jewelry is seized from the club's managing director, Markus Kranz. He himself is initially on the run, but can soon be caught by the police. He denies having killed the woman, only took the jewelry.

Hall now wants to dispose of Fellner's body, which is still in the auction house's magazine. He laboriously gets them into his car at night and takes them to his motorboat, from where he then lets them slide into the water. The next day Fellner's body was discovered on the banks of the Rhine. Hall is asked to help the police with identification. Brinkmann finds out that Fellner was killed by Hall. Thus the inspector also considers him to be the murderer of his wife. But Hall denies having killed his wife, after all, he would have loved her.

Unexpectedly, Brinkmann receives a call from the youth welfare office. There they worry about the child of Elli Hall and her sister, who has the child in care. The girl's biological father came from America especially to take his daughter there, but now both have disappeared. That gave the case a new direction and Brinkmann followed the trail of Traudel Scholz. She hides in a hotel and wants to flee to Denmark. However, the child insists on taking his kitten with him and so that Angie can calm down, Ellis sister drives back to her house. Brinkmann and Wegener await them there and arrest them. Hysterically, she admitted without further ado: “Yes, I stabbed until she stopped moving.” She would have hated her sister because she would always have succeeded in everything. In addition, she has been physically disabled since a car accident culpably caused by her sister and had lost her unborn child. So she is entitled to Angie. When her sister called her one night because she broke down in a car, she saw this as an opportunity.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Mordnacht on March 26, 1995, Das Erste had a market share of 30.01 percent and was seen by 9.08 million viewers in Germany.

Reviews

The TV feature film television newspaper says: This "transparent case" is "prominently cast." But "the celebrity actors only serve as accessories."

Web links

Wiktionary: Mordnacht  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on December 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ ex- "Black Forest Clinic" -Doc klausjürgen wussow murder suspect. short review at TV-Spielfilm, accessed on December 8, 2015.
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