Crime scene: Open bill
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Open account |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 431 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 19, 1999 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Connie Walther |
| script | Norbert Ehry |
| production | Ulrich Herrmann |
| music | Reinhold Heil |
| camera | Real Estate Rentz |
| cut | Olga Barthel |
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Open account is a television film from the crime series Tatort from 1999. Directed by Connie Walther , script was written by Norbert Ehry . Ulrike Folkerts plays Ludwigshafen commissioner Lena Odenthal for the 17th time , and Andreas Hoppe plays her assistant Mario Kopper for the eighth time. This time you are dealing with a kidnapping ten years ago and several deaths in connection with the missing prey and the release of the kidnapper at the time.
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Uli Lischka is about to be released from his ten-year prison sentence, which he had to serve because of the kidnapping of the young Thomas Berberich. One day before his release, his accomplice Fenske is murdered, a note of the then lost loot of twelve million US dollars was found on the dead man, so that Lena Odenthal suspects that Fenske had tried to launder the money. When Odenthal visits Lischka's cell, he is self-confident and unaffected by the death of his accomplice. The next day, when he is released from prison, Lischka is picked up by his daughter Nico, but his wife is now in a relationship with Rico Baumann and does not want to know anything more about her ex-husband. While Lischka tries to win back the favor of his ex-wife, he is contacted by his two former accomplices, who each demand a third of the booty for themselves, as agreed at the time, Lischka, on the other hand, insists that he is entitled to all of the booty because he is for it served ten years in prison. Shortly thereafter, Kopper was able to find out that a dollar bill from the ransom was used to shop in an underwear store, Lischka was not the buyer, so Kopper suspects that it is a note that Fenske wanted to wash before his murder. Nico Lischka finds out that Thomas Berberich now lives in poor circumstances, as his parents died impoverished as a result of paying the ransom and that the young man now lives from piano lessons. She goes to see him and pretends to be interested in piano lessons, but does not reveal herself as the daughter of his tormentor at the time. Later, at home, she reproaches her father for making the young man an invalid during the kidnapping.
In the following years Nico and Thomas get closer on the initiative of Nico, meanwhile Lischka manages to shake off Odenthal at night and drive away. He takes some of his loot out of hiding and launders the money. Odenthal enlists Kriminalrat Friedrich to contact Lischka by phone, impersonate a former fellow inmate and offer him the possibility of money laundering. Lischka is having a beer with Rico Baumann when he is surprised to find him in his lover's apartment, when Baumann later offers Lischka a "threesome" with his ex-wife while drunk, Lischka kills him furiously and dumps the body on a railway line. When Odenthal visits Thomas Berberich the next day to inform him about Lischka's release, she is surprised to find that he is now in a relationship with Lischka's daughter Nico, but does not explain to him. Instead, she discreetly confronts Nico, who herself does not know why she was looking to get close to Thomas, she promises Odenthal to tell Thomas the truth. Shortly afterwards, Odenthal learns from Kopper that the corpse of Ricos was found and that he was last seen while drinking in his local pub with Lischka. Odenthal confronts Lischka, but the latter pretends to be unsuspecting and concerned. Later he also assures his daughter that he is innocent in private, but confesses that he has secured his prey. Lischka contacts Kriminalrat Friedrich and accepts the proposed deal, Nico, who understands more and more how traumatized her boyfriend is by the kidnapping by her father, offers him to help him with money laundering for a 20% share of the booty . When Lischka wants to meet Friedrich in the evening, she knocks down the observing officer Becker in front of the house so that Lischka can leave the house unnoticed, but when Nico notices that Odenthal is following him, she can successfully warn her father. When the officers struck with Friedrich as a decoy, there was still no trace of the booty, so they had to let Lischka go without result.
The next day, Odenthal confronts Nico and makes it clear to her that she knows that Nico hit Becker. Odenthal speaks to Nico's conscience and manages to persuade her to help so that justice is done to her friend Thomas and he gets his money back. In the evening, Nico suggests a deal to her father, she tells him that she knows Thomas and that Thomas can exchange the money 1: 1 at the central bank, then they could split the money in half, while Lischka would only get 1: 4 in a money laundering campaign. Since Thomas was still terrified of him, he would join in and would be happy to get at least part of his money back. Lischka accepts the idea, but later happens to find photos showing his daughter in love with Thomas. Furious, he seeks out Thomas and threatens to keep his hands off his daughter. When Nico later visits Thomas, he sends her away, disappointed, Nico calls Odenthal, the call ends abruptly when Nico is kidnapped off the phone by her father's former accomplice. The gangsters report to Lischka in the evening, they demand all the booty for themselves, otherwise they would sell Nico to a brothel. Lischka agrees, but when he tries to dig up the booty, he realizes that the notes are rotten and therefore worthless. He drives, observed by Kopper and his colleagues, to the agreed meeting point, a large contingent of the police and Odenthal are ordered there. At the meeting point, Lischka runs over one of his former accomplices and seriously injures him, the second flees with Nico, pursued by Lischka and Odenthal. Odenthal is able to stop the gangster, but Nico is thrown out of the van over Lischka's car and dies in front of her father, the gangster is arrested by Kopper.
Audience and background
Open account reached a total of 6.29 million viewers when it was first broadcast on December 19, 1999, which corresponds to a market share of 18.02%. The episode was filmed from April 27 to June 4, 1999 in Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, Baden-Baden and the surrounding area.
reception
TV Spielfilm rated the case positively and commented: "Dark crime thriller with tragic showdown".
Web links
- Open invoice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Open invoice in the online film database
- ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Open bill (ARD) )
- Open invoice at the crime scene fund
- Open account at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: Jagdfieber at tatort-fundus.de. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
- ^ Tatort: Open bill at TV Spielfilm.de. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
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