Crime scene: nothing under control
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Nothing more under control |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
ORF |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 462 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | January 28, 2001 on Das Erste , ORF |
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| Director | Walter Bannert |
| script | Peter Zingler |
| production | Verena Eder-Leitner and Grete Jürk |
| music | Thomas Klemm |
| camera | Hanus Polak and Rudolf H. Murth |
| cut | Gerda Ghanim |
| occupation | |
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A television film from the crime series Tatort is no longer under control . It is the 5th case of the Austrian chief inspector Moritz Eisner, played by Harald Krassnitzer . The first broadcast of the report produced by Austrian Broadcasting took place on January 28, 2001 simultaneously on both the First German Television and Austrian Broadcasting. This 462nd episode of the crime scene series is about an art theft that caused two deaths and an overburdened exhibition organizer who got quite a bit out of hand.
action
Six valuable pictures are stolen from a picture gallery during the night. One guard is killed and a second seriously injured. Chief Inspector Eisner is called to the crime scene and is convinced that someone must have let the thieves in because the alarm system has been deactivated. This is absolutely inexplicable to the organizer of the exhibition, Professor Gerold Stanitzky. The very next day he receives a visit from Dr. Swoboda, who informed him that the thieves had reported to the insurance company and would demand 30 million schillings for the publication of the pictures . The police should not be notified. Swoboda is instructed by the professor to handle the action and buy back the pictures individually. Stanitzky's friend, Angelika Bojahn, doesn't believe in telling the police anything and gives Eisner anonymous information about the plan. So the policeman drives to Stanitzky's villa to talk to him. He learns that the exhibition was only planned two months ago in order to exclude any claims from previous owners of the works of art. A long prepared act is ruled out. When asked about the possibility of buying back the pictures, Stanitzky denies that he has any plans of the kind.
Eisner observes Swoboda's employee, suspecting that he is on his way to the thieves with the money, but falls for a diversionary maneuver. Meanwhile, Swoboda arrives with the first work of art at Stanitzky, who discovers that the picture is a fake. A recall among the thieves meets with incomprehension and indignation. Angelika Bojahn confronts Stanitzky and is convinced that he exchanged the picture beforehand in order to have money for his gambling addiction . Disappointed, she turns away from her boyfriend to travel for a few days. In front of the villa, however, the young woman is intercepted and kidnapped by the thieves. They did not shy away from killing the security guard who was lying in the hospital and who was the only witness up until then.
Since Eisner is not getting anywhere, he has a surveillance van parked in front of the insurance building and Dobos and Binder listen to the phone calls. The picture thieves meanwhile contact Stanitzky in front of the gallery building, show him a current picture of his girlfriend and want to make sure that the next pictures are not forgeries. Shortly afterwards they contact Swoboda to inform him where he can pick up the next picture. As expected, Stanitzky judges it to be real. Since Eisner also missed this transaction despite the wiretapping, he has the picture given as evidence, because fingerprints or other traces of the perpetrators could be found on it. Furthermore, he has it examined by an independent expert who proves that it is clearly a fake, as Eisner had already suspected.
Stanitzky meets with Giovanni, one of the thieves, and explains to him that all of the pictures are forgeries. Then he comes under massive pressure, because he himself drew the thieves' attention to the valuable pictures and tolerated the theft in order to be able to pay off his gambling debts with them. With the buyback, the pictures would be back in their original place and nobody would have noticed anything. It all seems to be getting a little out of hand. Giovanni wants his money or Stanitzky should get the originals or declare the fakes to be genuine. He does the latter and so the last pictures are returned after the insurance company has paid the money for them.
Eisner has since found out that Stanitzky has a gambling problem. Dobos recognizes Giovanni's voice on the tapes. So all traces lead into the casino and it is stormed with a large stake. Both the thieves and Stanitzky, who is there to get his girlfriend back, are arrested without any problems. He confesses to having sold the pictures to a collector for a long time to pay his gambling debts. In the end, Eisner's collector was also arrested for stolen goods .
background
Peter Zingler , who wrote the screenplay, himself sat in various prisons for over a decade. He began writing while in custody and, upon his release, managed to become a successful television crime writer. In 1993 he received the Adolf Grimme Prize for his script for the ORF crime scene Kinderspiel .
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Nothing more under control on January 28, 2001 was seen by 7.16 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 20.0% for Das Erste .
Web links
- Nothing more under control in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Nothing under control on the ARD website
- Nothing more under control with the crime scene fund
- Nothing more under control at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crime scene: Nothing more under control. Bavarian TV, August 7, 2012, accessed on August 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Nothing more under control. Crime scene fund, accessed on April 15, 2013 .
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