Crime scene: second leg
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Return leg |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR , MDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 514 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | November 10, 2002 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kaspar Heidelbach |
| script | Wolfgang Panzer |
| production |
Sonja Goslicki , Jan Kruse |
| music | Arno Steffen |
| camera | Kay Gauditz |
| cut | Vera van Appeldorn |
| occupation | |
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Rückspiel is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by WDR in coproduction with MDR was broadcast on November 10, 2002 on ARD's First Program . It is the 22nd case of the investigative team Ballauf and Schenk and the 30th case of the investigative team Ehrlicher and Kain . After the quartet in Leipzig , it is the second common case of the teams and the 514th crime scene episode.
action
The Leipzig commissioners Ehrlicher and Kain are called to a murder case. A restorer was found dead in the Museum of Fine Arts. Her friend Herbert Tauber immediately accused her husband, Volker String, of killing his wife out of jealousy. Cain is supposed to shadow the men who go to Cologne on business with a driver. As soon as there was a shooting at a petrol station, the driver Samarantov was shot and the perpetrators flee with the works of art. The police are notified and since the inspectors Ballauf and Schenk happen to be nearby, they appear first at the gas station. In the dark they meet Cain, whom they initially want to arrest as a suspect. But the mistake quickly becomes apparent, as they met Cain during their assignment in Leipzig.
After Kain had informed his Cologne colleagues about the observation, Bruno Ehrlicher, who had stayed in Leipzig, was informed. He also comes to Cologne and the four commissioners are now investigating their cases more or less together. While the people of Cologne have to solve the murder of Samarantov, which apparently served to steal a valuable work of art, Ehrlicher and Kain want to find the murderer of Eva String.
Ballauf hopes that the art thieves will report to return the work of art for an extorted sum. Possibly the theft was also intended as insurance fraud, because the Rover freight company, for which Samarantov had worked, is financially weak and the sum insured for the stolen object is extraordinarily high. This suspicion is borne out and Rover is arrested. He admits that String and Samantow were supposed to have the artwork disappear for a fee, but he denies shooting the driver. What is certain, however, is that someone intercepted them in the parking lot and shot Samarantov in the process.
Ballauf can find Volker String in Cologne. He, too, was injured in the attack and first has to be taken to a clinic with a brain hemorrhage. After it becomes clear that Herbert Tauber was also looking for String, they catch him when he tries to find String in the clinic. He claims that he is convinced that String had his wife killed by Rover's friend and secretary, Julius Brauer, after she discovered his insurance fraud. Ehrlicher and Schenk find out that the art theft was even discussed with Ron Finck from the insurance company. But he denies having shot Samarantov.
The question arises more honestly, after the murder in Leipzig looked like a jealous drama, but was actually connected with an art theft, whether it was the other way around here in Cologne. This thesis is confirmed after Ehrlicher Dusja Samarantova, the driver's widow, sets a trap. In fact, it turns out that Sergei wanted to leave his wife for someone else. Dusja Samarantova could not accept this and took the opportunity of the planned art theft to kill her husband. She also injured String, who had since succumbed to serious injuries.
Ehrlicher finds the stolen work of art in Dusja Samarantova's house.
background
The film was shot from June 5, 2002 to July 10, 2002. Willi Herren can be seen in a supporting role as a gas station attendant.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Rückspiel on November 10, 2002 was seen by 8.38 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.1 percent for Das Erste .
Reviews
Tilmann P. Gangloff from Kino.de thinks : “The little malice between 'Ossis' and 'Wessis', which [the four inspectors] piss each other off with the usual clichés, are again very pretty,” but “a real one The first collaboration between the 'Tatort' teams from Leipzig and Cologne was not a hit, although ARD celebrated the 30th anniversary of the venerable series with Tatort: Quartett in Leipzig two years ago. And the idea of a second leg is also better than the crime thriller itself, because it is so confused that the four commissioners have to repeatedly attempt to explain it. "
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm give the thumbs up at this crime scene and say: "With Ehrlicher (Peter Sodann) the East-West quartet is complete - and the Fallgar is no longer so important." Conclusion: "East-West part from the top crime thriller league. "
“Where human nuances make the music, history often falls by the wayside. [...] How author Panzer connects the supposed jealous drama East with art theft and insurance fraud West - that is not exactly high crime fiction. "
Web links
- Return match in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of the second leg on the ARD website
- Second leg at the crime scene fund
- Second leg at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b return match at the crime scene fund
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Film review at kino.de, accessed on August 17, 2015.
- ↑ TV feature film : TV thriller with the investigators from Leipzig on a flying visit to Cologne. Film review by TV Spielfilm , accessed on August 17, 2015.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Series "Tatort - return match". In: tittelbach.tv. November 10, 2002, accessed on May 23, 2015 : "" Tatort "Cologne meets" Tatort "Leipzig. Between Trabbi gags and Kölsch fun "
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