Crime scene: Bad luck
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Unlucky Marie |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR |
| length | 85 minutes |
| classification | Episode 625 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | March 19, 2006 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hendrik Handloegten |
| script |
Stefan Cantz , Jan Hinter |
| production | Sonja Goslicki |
| music | Dieter Schleip |
| camera | Peter Przybylski |
| cut | Elena Bromund |
| occupation | |
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Pechmarie is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film, produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and directed by Hendrik Handloegten , was broadcast on March 19, 2006 on ARD's first program. It is the 34th case of the Cologne investigator team Ballauf and Schenk and the 625th crime scene sequence.
action
Late in the evening, two strangers attempt to rob a jeweler in a hotel car park, but the attack escalates. The jeweler Colb and one of the perpetrators are shot. Marie, the second perpetrator, flees with the prey on a motorcycle and leaves his injured friend behind.
The inspectors Ballauf and Schenk are called to the scene and look at the surveillance tapes first. Ballauf thinks he clearly recognizes a woman among the masked perpetrators. The coroner Dr. Roth, was notified, but he appears to be in a bad mood because he was pulled out of the casino from a promising game. He quickly finished his work and got back into his car. The robber who was shot awaits him there and forces Roth to take care of his wound.
Meanwhile, Ballauf and Schenk meet the hotel employee Julia Hirsch, who guiltily admits that she had spoken to Marie Menke and her friend Heiner Wolff on vacation about the fact that a jeweler regularly comes to their hotel to meet guests who Would buy jewelry and jewels from him. Thus the search of the officers is concentrated on these two people. Ballauf wants to return to the Presidium with Dr. Roth speak, whom he finds tied up in his examination room. The robber has taken Roth's suit and wallet. In his opinion, he will try to get pain medication.
The investigators are looking for Sophie Menke, Marie Menke's sister, who lives in Cologne and has recently returned from America. Their apartment also appears freshly arranged. She claims that she has a bad relationship with her sister at the moment. The commissioners are amazed when their fiancé Antonio appears and she does not want to see him. Allegedly she ended their relationship, which he probably doesn't want to accept that easily.
Ballauf instructs a well-known fence to notify the police immediately if any of the stolen jewels should be offered to him. Meanwhile, Schenk takes care of Sophie Menke, who was called by Heiner Wolff. Since she feels threatened, Schenk stays with her and helps her to make the apartment cozy.
The next day, a woman's corpse was washed up on the banks of the Rhine. Sophie unequivocally identifies this as her sister Marie Menke. Dr. Roth finds out that she was already dead when she was thrown into the river. A broken neck is the likely cause of death. Ballauf and Schenk suspect that the fugitive Heiner Wolff may be responsible for their death, and force the search for the man.
On the night of the attack, a witness had seen a red Toyota that hit a parked construction machine and then simply drove on. When Schenk happened to see the car on the side of the road, he had it examined. Apparently the body was transported to the Rhine with it. The owner is the acting teacher Christof Rüter, who says that the car was stolen from him. He was friends with Marie Menke in the past and claims to have lost track of her. But recently I was with him and borrowed his car. You haven't brought it back though. Therefore, he would have reported it as stolen.
Sophie is still well guarded by Ballauf and Schenk, as they hope that Heiner Wolff will contact them and that they will get a lead on him in this way. That turns out to be correct, because it does not take long and Wolff actually appears in Menke's apartment. To Schenk's surprise, he greets her with the words "Hello Marie". Wolff brings the inspector and Marie into his power and wants her to give her the jewels that she took with her when she left him after the attack. Schenk also learns that Marie did not kill her sister, but that she fell unhappy while trying to help her paint the ceiling.
In the meantime Ballauf also finds out that Marie has switched roles with her sister Sophie. This also explains why she suddenly no longer wanted to see “her” fiancé Antonio: he would of course have recognized the dizziness immediately. After Schenk did not respond to Ballauf's call, he suspected that something was wrong. Together with Hauptmeister Heinz Obst, he goes in search of his colleague, and they manage to overpower Heiner Wolff and also to secure the jewels that Marie had hidden in her sister's grave.
background
Pechmarie was produced by Colonia Media on behalf of WDR . The shooting took place from February 22nd to March 23rd, 2005 under the working titles Jewels , Pechmarie and Goldsophie and Nebelloch in Cologne and the surrounding area.
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on March 19, 2006, the episode Pechmarie was seen by 9.32 million viewers in Germany, corresponding to a market share of 24.90 percent.
Reviews
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm judge: "The resolution is quickly in the air, but bizarre types and the visual implementation are convincing."
“The film 'Pechmarie' can confidently be counted among the best crime novels from Cologne. Leading actor Klaus J. Behrendt rightly states that the film bears Handloegen's signature 'in a remarkable way': 'I've never seen each other like this'. "
Web links
- Pechmarie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Pechmarie on the ARD website
- Unlucky marie at the crime scene fund
- Bad luck at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Location and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on October 18, 2014.
- ↑ Crime scene: Unlucky at crew united
- ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 7, 2019.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: Series "Tatort - Pechmarie". In: tittelbach.tv. November 2014, accessed November 12, 2017 .
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