Crime scene: never again opera
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Never again opera |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
ORF |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 404 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | January 17, 1999 on ORF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Adrian Pejo |
| script | Robert Adrian Pejo, Peter Conolly-Smith |
| music | Paul Winter |
| camera | Wolfgang Lehner |
| cut | Gerda Ghanim |
| occupation | |
Also: Walter Berry , Adolf Dallapozza , Christel Goltz , Gerda Scheyrer , Otto Edelmann , Nora Houf , Inge Rosenberger , Trude Ackermann | |
Never again opera is the 404th television film in the crime series Tatort . He introduced Harald Krassnitzer in the role of chief inspector Moritz Eisner in the row of crime scene inspectors. The ORF television film was first broadcast on January 17, 1999. The investigation into a murder case leads Eisner into the apparently ideal world of a retirement home for artists. In doing so, he uncovered the criminal machinations of the home management.
action
Chief Inspector Eisner is called to a burnt victim in a noble pension for the elderly, the former and relatively well-known opera tenor Oscar Weisshaupt is found dead and heavily charred in the cellar. The traces do not point to an accident, rather to external influences, which makes the investigation necessary. He was quite wealthy, without a family and might want to leave his fortune to the home. The autopsy shows that death occurred before the fire and strychnine is found in the stomach. Eisner examines the dead man's room and finds the torn photograph of Merimee Leon, the daughter of Viktoria Leon, a resident of the home. The residents of the home are all elderly former opera actors and often known to one another from their active music days. It was because of her that he had left his girlfriend Babette Schöne, also a resident of the retirement home and an elderly opera diva. Since Merimee was even expecting a child from the old man, he had written his will in her favor. She is totally overwhelmed by all of this and when she learns that her mother had already had a relationship with Weisshaupt, she kills herself and thus her unborn child.
As a foundation, the home had financial problems, but strangely enough, an admission freeze, although a noticeable number of home residents have died recently and places should therefore be free. Eisner suspects that something is wrong here. Especially since extensive renovation work is taking place, which does not fit with financial worries. Eisner examines the floor that is being renovated and comes across blueprints for a brand new hotel project in a room. He also meets a sharp watchdog who attacks him, so that he shoots him. All of this raises the suspicion that the home manager Hoffmann has some things to hide. He suspects that this is deliberately driving up the death rate of the home residents and ruining the entire situation of the home, which would pave the way for the hotel project. Eisner confronts Eugen Hoffmann because another coma patient has died. Eisner succeeds, albeit not quite legally, in drawing blood from the deceased, and the examination clearly revealed an insulin overdose. The public prosecutor's office can be called in and those responsible are arrested.
The death of Weisshaupt is not yet explained and Eisner continues to investigate. Merimee's mother got into a massive argument with Babette Schöne. This had stolen her diary and read in it that Merimee was the biological daughter of the deceased. Since Viktoria Leon could not bear that the man who left her pregnant at the time had now made her daughter pregnant, she lured him into the basement and poisoned him. But to make it look like an accident, she doused it with kerosene and set it on fire.
background
The ORF starts here with a completely new team of investigators. In a completely new constellation, the team consists of a total of four investigators: Chief Inspector Moritz Eisner as investigator, the young and active investigator Suza Binder and the somewhat leisurely District Inspector Norbert Dobos. The three external investigators are supported in their work by the dynamic coroner Renata Lang.
The ORF managed to win over numerous top-class Austrian and international opera stars for this episode, so that the roles of the residents of the retirement home could be portrayed as realistic as possible. So you can see and hear: Chamber singers Marta Eggerth -Kiepura, Gerda Scheyrer and Christel Goltz as well as the chamber singers Adolf Dallapozza , Walter Berry , Otto Edelmann , Waldemar Kmentt and Prof. Dr. Marcel Prawy .
reception
6.12 million viewers saw the episode Never Again Opera in Germany when it was first broadcast on January 17, 1999, which corresponded to a market share of 17.01%.
Web links
- Crime scene: Never again Opera in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Never Again Opera on the ARD website
- No more opera at the Tatort fund
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Never again opera on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on December 8, 2013.
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