Crime scene: shadow boxing

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Shadow boxing
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MR
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 121 ( List )
First broadcast February 8, 1981 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Fritz Umgelter
script Hans Kelch
production MR
music Ernest Bloch (Voice in the Wilderness)
camera Götz Neumann
cut Birgit Schröder-Bosboom
occupation

Shadow boxing is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Hessischer Rundfunk under the direction of Fritz Umgelter and was first broadcast on February 8, 1981. It is the crime scene episode 121. For Kriminalhauptkommissar Bergmann it is the second case in which he is investigating. In the first case ( Zürcher Frucht , 1978), however, the figure of Chief Inspector Bergmann is represented by Heinz Treuke .

action

Martin Mollenhauer is a hobby boxer and works in the warehouse of a refrigerator factory. One day, during his morning running training, he finds his company boss, Horst von Lieth, dead in his car. Startled, he sees the bullet hole in his head and runs away in panic. He's afraid the killer might still be around. Mollenhauer informs his boxing trainer Rudi Drabert, who does not call the police, but wants to capitalize on the murder. Mollenhauer is reluctant to do what his trainer orders, but together they bury the dead man in the forest and sink the car in a lake. Then Drabert demands a ransom of two million Deutschmarks from Lieth's wife. Desperate, she turns to the company's authorized signatory, Bernhard Brendel. He calms her down and promises to take care of her, but she should demand a clear sign of life from her husband. He immediately procures the required money, which is not too difficult for him in his position.

As a precaution, Mollenhauer confides in his ex-wife. He hands her a letter to take to the police if he doesn’t call her every day.

In the meantime, Lieth's car has been recovered in the forest lake and Chief Detective Bergmann is working on the case. He and Kriminalhauptmeister Knoof go to Lieth's property to inform the owner that his car has been found. The wife pretends to be ignorant and states that her husband is on a business trip. However, when Bergmann speaks of gunshot marks found in the car, she admits that her husband was kidnapped. While Bergmann is still there, she receives a call from Drabert, in which he informs when and where Bernhard Brendel should hand over the money.

Although Drabert organizes the handover very professionally, the police are constantly on the heels of Brendel, who is sent from one place to another by Drabert. When he finally drives to the airport and books a flight to Hamburg, Bergmann breaks off the handover. He fears that Brendel wants to set himself apart with the two million.

When Drabert contacts Lieth's wife again and is annoyed about the failure of the money handover, he demands a second handover.

Chief Detective Knoof investigates Lieth's company and quickly comes across Mollenhauer, who was demonstrably late on the day Lieth disappeared. He is then observed, as is Brendel, who continues to appear suspicious of Bergmann.

Drabert calls Brendel and orders him with the suitcase to his car, where he sits down with him in the car and they both drive away together. When the two of them get into an argument and Brendel stops the car, he unexpectedly draws a pistol and shoots Drabert. The police, who have continued to monitor Brendel, arrive and take him to Bergmann. He presented him with a recording of his last phone call, which made it clear that Brendel and the kidnapper knew each other. Brendel breaks in and admits that he planned the kidnapping himself. He had gambling debts and used himself in the company's coffers. In order to be able to return the money, Drabert was supposed to kidnap von Lieth, but this got out of hand and the company boss was accidentally shot. Then Drabert wanted to go through the alleged kidnapping alone.

Bergmann can also convict Mollenhauer as an accomplice and learns from him the place where they buried von Lieth.

background

Schattenboxen was filmed from August 1, 1980 to August 31, 1980 in Frankfurt am Main and the surrounding area and first broadcast on February 8, 1981.

The script is based on the crime story A Murder at the Right Time by -ky . The 25-year-old Richy Müller can be seen here in one of his first feature films. For the film music, motifs from the 1936 Voice in the Wilderness by Ernest Bloch , who died in 1959, were used.

criticism

TV Spielfilm showed the thumb to the side and said: "Richy Müller is punching his way through".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: shadow boxes . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2011 (PDF; test number: 129 258 V).
  2. ↑ Filming locations at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on September 16, 2014.
  3. ↑ Works ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Ernest Bloch at musinfo.ch, accessed on November 20, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musinfo.ch
  4. ↑ Crime scene: shadow boxing on TV Spielfilm (with pictures of the film)
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