Crime scene: Roulette with 6 balls

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Roulette with 6 balls
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company
Bavarian radio
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 151 ( List )
First broadcast October 16, 1983 on ARD
Rod
Director Lutz Büscher
script Peter Hemmer
music Ernst Brandner
camera Herrmann Reichmann
cut Wolfgang Hedinger
occupation

Roulette with 6 balls is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk was first broadcast on October 16, 1983 in the first program of ARD . It is the third mission of Commissioner Lenz, played by Helmut Fischer .

action

Commissioner Lenz and his colleague Brettschneider are supposed to help in a kidnapping case . Since it is a three-year-old boy and therefore all police forces are mobilized, the homicide squad is also involved. The child was kidnapped from the garden in front of the Steinemanns' house and a ransom of DM 100,000 was demanded.

Although Arthur Steinemann, the kidnapped boy's worried father, was not supposed to call the police on the instructions of his dominant wife Ruth, he had done so because he was unable to hand over the money himself. He borrowed the ransom from his brother and an officer is now supposed to deliver the money in Steinemann's name. After everything was obeyed as the kidnapper had asked, the kidnapper brutally shoots the bearer of the money with six shots from a revolver. Fortunately, the kidnapped child is found unharmed a short time later.

For Lenz, the question arises whether Arthur Steinemann has enemies. Ruth Steinemann states that actually only her brother-in-law Felix would have an argument with her husband. So it's surprising that he still entrusted him with such a large sum. Lenz speaks to Felix Steinemann and learns that he has only borrowed the money from his bank. In return, Arthur Steinemann had agreed to allow his brother to build on the property over which they had been divided for years. Lenz therefore draws the conclusion that Felix Steinemann could have initiated the kidnapping to persuade his brother to take this step. But he also notices that Ruth Steinemann is behaving conspicuously and that her marriage is not going well. A questioning of her best friend Uschi Koch, however, does not give any direct indication of a lover, which Lenz had thought possible, so that this could be a motive for faking a kidnapping in order to lure the husband into a trap and eliminate it. So the Commissioner Ruth Steinemann seems more and more suspicious. After she deliberately refuses to confirm an alibi for her brother-in-law, which causes him problems, he realizes that the wife is playing the wrong game and that the brothers are playing off against each other. Without further ado, she also leaves for a trade fair where she was allegedly hired as a model. Lenz has Ruth Steinemann observed by detective assistant Faltermayer. He reports that she behaves quite familiar with her boss Karlo Bronner there. Lenz has the man checked and a photo identifies him as the person who had rented a metallic-colored BMW from a car rental company in Munich , who was noticed by a witness near the crime scene.

Since the kidnapper has not yet achieved his goal of killing Steinemann and could still implement his plan, Lenz remains close to the person in danger. This step was well planned, because Karlo Bronner actually appears again and tries to kill Felix Steinemann. Completely unexpected for Bronner, Lenz "greets" him and arrests him.

Bronner wanted to start a new life with Ruth Steinemann and the money from the kidnapping and sale of half the property that would have belonged to her as the sole heiress was to serve as start-up capital. Since Bronner didn't know Arthur Steinemann personally, he falsely shot the officer. Ruth Steinemann wanted to divert all suspicions about her brother-in-law, which she almost succeeded in doing.

background

Roulette with 6 balls was rotated from June to July 1983 in Munich and Düsseldorf .

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Roulette with 6 balls on October 16, 1983 was seen by 15.53 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 52.0 percent for ARD .

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this film from today's point of view and say: "Great cast crime oldie from Munich."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for crime scene: Roulette with 6 balls . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. a b Roulette with 6 balls at tatort-fans.de, accessed on March 28, 2015.
  3. Roulette with 6 balls short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 28, 2015.