Crime scene: sleeping dogs
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Sleeping dogs |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Radio Bremen |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 765 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | May 30, 2010 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Florian Baxmeyer |
| script |
Wilfried Huismann , Dagmar Gabler |
| production | Claudia Schröder |
| music | Stefan Hansen |
| camera | Marcus Kanter |
| cut | Elke Schloo |
| occupation | |
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Sleeping Dogs is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF .
The film was produced by Radio Bremen and broadcast for the first time on May 30, 2010. It is the 765th episode in the crime scene series, the 22nd case for Commissioner Inga Lürsen, alias Sabine Postel , and the 17th case for Nils Stedefreund, alias Oliver Mommsen .
action
Ruth Thalheim is found dead in an apartment. Since the victim shows no traces of external violence, natural death is assumed. Inspector Lürsen, however, suspects a disguised murder behind it, since the victim lived very secure and the dog has disappeared. A little later the animal is found alive and Lürsen discovers a locker key in the dog's collar. The investigations also reveal that the victim was in the GDR prison in Bautzen from 1972 to 1980 and had previously worked for an import company in East Berlin . There she met the West businessman Hans Rodenburg, who is now campaigning for fair coffee trade, among other things . This had helped the victim after the fall of the wall and let the woman live rent-free.
Lürsen knows him from her youth and confronts him with the death of the victim. Visibly shocked, he denies having anything to do with the woman's death. By the way, her colleague Stedefreund notices that Schröder, the head of a security company, is having a tense conversation with Rodenburg and follows him to a warehouse. There he used his cell phone to take a picture of a box of RPG bazookas that had just broken. In the meantime, the origin of the key that fits a locker in Berlin has been determined. There the official colleagues find a dossier and a video about an IM who had worked for the Stasi . The video requested by Lürsen never arrives in Bremen . It is only possible to identify Hannah Berger, a current employee of the Stasi files authority , using a few images from a sent file . Lürsen and her colleague go to Berlin to find the whereabouts of the video and the employee.
Through Hannah Berger, Lürsen learns that the victim did not want to cover the secret arms deals of the Stasi and went to prison for it. There she gave birth to a child. It turns out that this child is Anna, who works as a photographer for an organization in Rodenburg's company and has just started a liaison with him there. However, Rodenburg does not notice that Anna is only a means to an end so that Schröder can keep it in his hands. When Hans Rodenburg discovers a camera in his apartment, he tries to get Anna to his side by trying to make it clear to her that Schröder's help is not what she wants.
Back in Bremen, Lürsen finds out on a department store video that shows the victim that a few minutes are missing from the plot. The pathology department had already discovered a tiny puncture on the victim's leg and it was concluded from this that Ruth Thalheim was murdered with a Stasi poison that is no longer detectable. The suspicion is confirmed when the missing video clip is finally found, on which the poison attack can be seen exactly, and the officers find themselves in a network of intrigues of former Stasi employees who try to play Lürsen and their colleagues off against each other. Schröder himself was an officer in the MfS and after the fall of the Wall he founded a security guard and a detective agency in order to be able to continue serving his contacts.
But Rodenburg, who was exploited in good faith to transport arms to the oppressed, defends himself by taking the arms delivery and blackmailing Schröder into handing them over to the police if he is not left alone. Since Schröder is unreasonable and tells him that Anna is his daughter, Rodenburg poisons him with his own poison. He is surprised by Stedefreund, whom he knocks unconscious and flees. Meanwhile, Lürsen was branded and suspended as an IM by the public prosecutor's office. Surprisingly, Hannah Berger contacts her with files that prove that Anna was a child of the victim and that she was forcibly adopted. Lürsen takes Anna into custody and finds her colleague when she and police officers search Schröder's company. In a secret facility under a hut, they can discover Schröder's observation center with laboratory and the dying Schröder himself. On one of the screens they discover Rodenburg when he is negotiating with Schröder's partner in a freight warehouse in order to flee abroad.
When Lürsen and her colleagues arrive at the freight warehouse, Rodenburg tries to escape with the delivery of weapons, but gets into a dead end container and surrenders. His attempt to burn his Stasi files , which proves that he was an employee of the Stasi in the West, fails.
In the police station, Lürsen shows Rodenburg that Anna is also there, who is allegedly accused of the murder of Schröder. In order to protect his daughter, Rodenburg confesses to the murder of Schröder. After Lürsen has been persuaded, it appears that he is confessing paternity to Anna. Finally, you see two people appear at Lürsen and Stedefreund, who announce that the BND will take over with immediate effect, as Rodenburg's statements could affect the interests of the Federal Republic.
Web links
- Sleeping Dogs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Sleeping Dogs on the ARD website
- Sleeping dogs at the crime scene fundus
- Sleeping dogs at Tatort-Fans.de
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