Scene of the crime: Pension Tosca or Die Sterne don't lie

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Pension Tosca or Die Sterne don't lie
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 114 minutes
classification Episode 195 ( List )
First broadcast July 12, 1987 on ARD
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Director Michael Kehlmann
script Michael Kehlmann
production Peter Hoheisel
music Rolf Wilhelm
camera Hermann Reichmann
cut Renate Metzner-Wilde
occupation

Pension Tosca or The Stars Don't Lie is a TV film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk was first broadcast on July 12, 1987 in the first program of ARD . It is the only case of Commissioner Scherrer, played by Hans Brenner, and the 195th Tatort episode in total.

Plot overview

The young Aachen physicist Dr. Christa Nolte comes from the GDR and is put under pressure by intermediaries from the Ministry for State Security . She is assigned to take over a mysterious package from a US physicist and to forward it to a USSR physicist. After the unsuccessful handover, the parcel remains in her possession and from then on she is under observation and persecution by a Stasi officer. She regards an attack on the guesthouse where she lives as a personal threat, whereupon she confides in the Munich chief detective Scherrer. However, he finds out that the bomb attack was carried out by a right-wing radical group acting on behalf of a war criminal from World War II who went into hiding. The pensioner Löwenstern had recognized the man, whereupon he wanted to have Löwenstern removed. At the same time as Scherrer, the state security department, who arrested the Stasi officer and the parcel from Dr. Nolte takes.

action

The newly promoted Chief Inspector Scherrer is invited to an amateur soccer game on Sundays by his colleague, Chief Inspector Wislitschek, who is about to retire. After an unrecognized goal for the home club, rockers storm the pitch and beat up the mostly foreign players of the visiting club. The canteen warden Haubenwald intervenes after a while and can end the excesses of violence. Scherrer is amazed at Haubenwald's authority. Wislitschek knows Scherrer to report that Haubenwald is the soul of the club and, if necessary, also provides money when the club is doing badly.

Meanwhile, the physicist Dr. Nolte from Aachen in Munich and is supported by Löwenstern, the host of the "Pension Tosca", in the Dr. Nolte is a regular, picked up from the airport. Löwenstern is a hobby astrologer and Ms. Jerzabek from the neighborhood often lets him create horoscopes for her. This time she commissioned a horoscope for her husband for his 70th birthday. Löwenstern noticed that the information that Mrs. Jerzabek made about her husband could not be correct and therefore investigated.

Dr. Nolte meets a state security man in a restaurant who has an assignment for her. She is supposed to get a package from a US physicist and secretly hand it over to a Soviet colleague. When Nolte wants to refuse to work, the Stasi officer points out that his organization had brought her into her current position after moving from the GDR to the Federal Republic and also puts her under pressure with her brother, who was imprisoned in Bautzen. Nolte bows to the pressure, but stops the action at the last second, so that the handover fails. Shortly afterwards she is called by the Stasi officer who demands an account. Nolte claims to have been observed, which led to her having to stop the operation. She is sure that she is still being shadowed. Mr. Jerzabek has since noticed that Lion Star is investigating him and suspects that he might know something about his past. He phoned a stranger and let him know that he had to get rid of Lion's Star.

Chief Detective Augenthaler informs Scherrer that the right-wing extremist thugs from the soccer field are now watching the "Pension Tosca". Nobody knows why this happens. Meanwhile, Dr. Nolte Löwenstern and tells him the espionage story. Shortly thereafter, an assassination attempt was carried out in the "Pension Tosca", in which Adelina Löwenstern was seriously injured. Scherrer and his colleagues interviewed Löwenstern, who, however, cannot imagine that one of his guests could be involved. Scherrer learns from a friend from the State Security Service that the singer Sissy de Sandro has been shadowed by his department for a long time. He also tells Scherrer that Dr. Nolte come from the GDR and is a physicist. Löwenstern has Dr. Nolte, because she does not feel safe in her room, quartered with de Sandro. Dr. However, Nolte realizes that she is being overheard by de Sandro and escapes from the room. De Sandro then apologizes. She would have to do that because she was being pressured and had two children “over there”. When Dr. Nolte runs into Scherrer's arms, puts her trust in him and goes to eat with him in a neighboring restaurant. She does not know that he works for the police. She confides in him and tells about her family, which is used as leverage against her, from which her espionage activities result. Thereupon Scherrer comes out as a detective inspector. He realizes that the attack on Ms. Löwenstern was obviously Dr. Nolte applied. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Löwenstern appears and reports that a man named after Dr. Nolte asked, but he was able to get rid of him. It turns out that Nolte still has the parcel she was supposed to hand over with her. Scherrer wants Dr. Bring Nolte to safety when the news reaches him that his colleague Wislitschek has been injured. In the evening he found himself in a meeting of neo-Nazis in the sports club, where the canteen warden Haubenwald incited the young thugs with Nazi speeches. When the police officer was discovered, he was attacked and seriously injured.

Lion star wants Dr. For her safety, Nolte will stay with Baroness von Palma outside her home. On the way there, a car follows them and causes an accident with the taxi in which they are sitting, but Löwenstern and Dr. Nolte manages to escape and arrive safely at the baroness.

When Löwenstern returns to his pension, Mrs. Jerzabek is waiting for him at the door and warns him that her husband's people will be waiting for him in the pension to kill him. So he goes through the back door to his pension and meets a young man, one of the neo-Nazis from the sports field, who is trying to escape. Augenthaler, who is on guard in the pension, can catch the man and throw an explosive device in his hand out the window at the last second. Jerzabek had put the man on him in order to hide his own past at the Reich Security Main Office . Löwenstern had seen him during the war and recognized him at Frau Jerzabek's side. Therefore, he tried to obtain specific information about Ms. Jerzabek. Since his brother died in a camp in Poland, he wanted to investigate whether it was actually the high-ranking Nazi functionary. However, he never suspected that Jerzabek had a neo-Nazi organization behind him.

Since de Sandro managed to find out where Dr. Nolte stops, she goes to them there and demands the package from her, which Nolte has still not handed over. Scherrer's colleague from the state security, who had followed de Sandro, can intervene at the last moment and arrest the woman. He can Dr. Nolte reassured that Warnecke was already in custody and that she should finally be safe. Nolte hands him the package and is finally free.

background

This crime scene episode is one of the episodes in which there is no murder to solve.

The film was shot from September to October 1986 and from March to April 1987 in and around Munich.

Commissioner Scherrer ( Hans Brenner ) was promoted to chief detective at the beginning of the episode. He succeeded Siegfried Riedmüller ( Günther Maria Halmer ) as a crime scene commissioner at the BR , as he switched to the narcotics department. It remained the only case of Commissioner Scherrer, who was thus the second "flash in the pan" among the investigators of the Bavarian radio. With a playing time of almost 114 minutes, the episode is an unusually long crime scene.

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Pension Tosca or Die Sterne do not lie on July 12, 1987 was seen by 13.45 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 38 percent for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on October 5, 2014.
  2. ↑ Achim Neubauer: Karl Scherrer data on the investigator on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 27, 2015.
  3. ↑ " Pension Tosca or Die Sterne don't lie " at tatort-fans.de, accessed on October 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ " Pension Tosca or Die Sterne don't lie " at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on October 5, 2014.
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