Crime scene: Russian roulette

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Russian roulette
Country of production Switzerland
original language Swiss German
Production
company		 SF
length 84 minutes
classification Episode 377 ( List )
First broadcast January 18, 1998 on SF 1 , Das Erste , ORF 2
Rod
Director Walter Weber
script Pascal Verdosci
production Theres Scherer-Kollbrunner
music Peter von Siebenthal
Christian Brantschen
camera Hartmut E. Lange
cut Rainer Maria Trinkler
occupation

Russian Roulette is an episode of the 1998 television crime series Tatort . The film was produced by Swiss Television under the direction of Walter Weber and is the eighth Tatort episode produced by Swiss Television . It is crime scene episode 377; it first aired on January 18, 1998.

Philipp von Burg ( László I. Kish ) tries to solve the murder of two young Russians and the involvement of an arms dealer in them.

action

An armed Russian robbed an arms store and took two hostages. Von Burg told him to get away with an escape car, but when he came out, his colleagues had already prepared everything for a storming of the store. After the gangster lays the body of a dead hostage in front of the door, the police storms despite Burg's concerns and can free the second hostage, but the gangster can take the unwary von Burg hostage. When the gangster leaves the shop with von Burg, he is shot by a stranger, von Burg remains unharmed. The projectile that killed the gangster is the same one used by the Bern police, but the bullet definitely does not come from any of the weapons used in action. Von Burg's new supervisor entrusts Schlack with the investigation and provides him with the interpreter Jelena Krasnowa. The dead hostage-taker had the delivery note of a Russian-run antique shop with him, von Burg went to see it, where he was told that the dead man carried out delivery services for them sporadically, otherwise the owner only knew that his friend Pyotr picked him up more often. Von Burg follows his interpreter, who is acting strangely, to an event organized by the Russian businessman Gregori Smirnov, who was also the recipient of the delivery from the antique shop. The two seem to know each other. Unnoticed by von Burg, Smirnow and Krasnowa later meet with Thomas Unger from the Federal Police, who asks whether Krasnowa has already been able to gain von Burgs' trust.

Von Burg and Gertsch go to see Pyotr, who threatens the officers with a weapon, but he can be brought to his senses and arrested by von Burg. Von Burg says that he has received a Russian confession from him for the murder of his friend. Later, in the presence of Krasnowa and Burg's superiors, Pyotr denies this and claims that his friend died from police bullets and that he had nothing to do with the attack either, von Burg has the feeling that Krasnowa has translated incorrectly. Shortly thereafter, however, Krasnowa wins the trust of Burgs in personal conversations and tells him that she thinks Pyotr is in danger, they drive to him and find him dead, he was forced to play Russian roulette by his compatriot and henchman Sminov Stepan and shot himself at the same time, Stepan escaped unrecognized. Von Burg finds out that Smirnov's companies are probably involved in money laundering activities and suspects Smirnov also behind the two murders, von Burg learns from his superior, Schlack, that Krasnowa is friends with Smirnov, and Krasnova was recommended to the Bern police by Unger as an interpreter. Krasnowa confronted von Burg, she told him that she was working for Smirnov on behalf of the Federal Police, that she had extensive information about Smirnov's activities and was in great danger. Shortly afterwards, the laboratory finds out that the weapon found at Pyotr's was the murder weapon of his friend, the case is considered closed, and a search of Smirnov's house requested by Burg is rejected. After the interrogation of Beat Atighofer, Pyotr's pimp and landlord, the officers let him go in the hope that he would lead them to Smirnov, but he was shot dead from a moving car in front of the police headquarters on the street. Von Burg and Gertsch let Krasnowa take them to Smirnow, who notices that Krasnowa seems to be looking for something in his desk and warns them in private, across from Burg he denies any connection to the Russian mafia. The officials found evidence of illegal arms deals on a diskette stolen by Krasnova, but Schlack shortly afterwards explained to the officials that Smirnov's business was legal under Swiss law and that he had to get his disk back.

Krasnowa later told von Burg that she was threatened by Stepan, who also wanted the floppy disk and ransacked her apartment. Dimitri Kosinski from the Moscow police visits von Burg and explains to him the role of Smirnov in the illegal arms trade, as well as the background of Stepan, who was an elite soldier in the Soviet Union. In the evening, Stepan tried to commit a murder attempt with a car bomb against von Burg, who was warned at the last second by Krasnova, and by order of Schneider, who did not take Burg's warning seriously, assistant Henk should drive the car away and was killed in the explosion . The next day, Krasnowa leaves Switzerland to start a new job in Venice. Von Burg, who is in love, cannot prevent her departure, but follows her on the train, where he discovers boxes in which he finds weapons. Smirnov and Stepan are also on the train, Smirnov reproaches Krasnova for having the police on their heels. Von Burg sees Krasnowa and Smirnow in the train and notifies Gertsch, shortly afterwards von Burg has the opportunity to exchange a few words with Krasnowa unnoticed by Smirnow and Stepan, she begs him to kill them both, von Burg instructs her to get this far as possible to place by Stepan in the dining car. Shortly afterwards, Stepan notices von Burg and takes Krasnova hostage, von Burg shoots Stepan and arrests Smirnov. Shortly thereafter, Thomas Unger had Smirnov released due to diplomatic immunity and the disappointed von Burg found that he could leave the country unmolested with Krasnova and his weapons.

Background and audience rating

For detective sergeant Philipp von Burg ( László I. Kish ) it is the fifth case, for his assistant Markus Gertsch ( Ernst C. Sigrist ) the sixth.

The first broadcast of Russian Roulette took place on January 18, 1998, the film was shot in Bern and the surrounding area, where the episode attracted 4.75 million viewers, which corresponds to a rate of 12.04%.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene as mediocre and comment: "Sometimes exciting, often implausible."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian Roulette at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 25, 2016.
  2. ^ Tatort: Russian Roulette short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 25, 2016.
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