Crime scene: compensation for pain and suffering

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title personal injury compensation
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MR
length 77 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 173 ( List )
First broadcast October 13, 1985 on ARD
Rod
Director Wolfgang Luderer
script Hans Kelch based on a template by Peter Hebel
production Hans Peter Baden
music Günther Fischer
camera Werner Hoffmann
cut Beate Gottschall
occupation

Pain and suffering is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was produced by Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) and broadcast for the first time on October 13, 1985 on First German Television . It is the 173rd episode of the crime scene and the first case of chief detective Edgar Brinkmann , embodied by Karl-Heinz von Hassel . His assistant is Robert Wegner, who is played here by Frank Muth , but since 1974 and for the next 16 years he has been played by various and constantly changing actors.

Plot overview

Fred Corbut, head of a Frankfurt bank branch, is blackmailed by the gangster Max Westernburger. So he tells him the schedule for the transport of money, which Westernburger's accomplices are supposed to ambush. The plan is thwarted because the money-struggling courier driver Martell himself organizes an attack. However, his accomplice Hoffmann only finds fake bundles of money that the bank manager had prepared for his blackmailer. As a result, Hoffmann also blackmailed Corbut, because it was clear to him that only he could have exchanged the money. Brinkmann and his assistant Wegner have to unravel this tangled web of robbery, blackmail and embezzlement, which they also manage through their solid police work.

action

The manager of a Frankfurt bank branch, Fred Corbut, learns from his cashier Weber that his branch can expect an early revision by the head office in a few days. Obviously this news shocked him. In the evening he goes to a casino, where he meets the attractive Laura Winter. This brings him luck and he wins an amount of over DM 150,000.00; out of caution, he has a check made out. When he and Laura leave the casino, the two are pursued by the gangster Max Westernburger, who attacked them in the underground car park of their house. He challenges Corbut to win the evening, Corbut shows Westernburger that he only has one check with him that the gangster can't do anything with, as it is made out personally to Corbut. Westernburger makes it clear to Corbut that he has been watching him for a long time and knows that Corbut has embezzled half a million Deutschmarks from his bank. He blackmailed Corbut with his knowledge and threatens to give the bank an anonymous tip if Corbut does not pay him the winnings. However, he offers Corbut at the same time that he will help him to cover up the embezzlement at the bank if he pays him the profit. Corbut agrees, because Westernburger has an exact list of when Corbut gambled away how much money and would otherwise pass this on to the bank management.

Meanwhile, the gangster Manni Hoffmann, who was able to win the money courier Holger Martell as an accomplice, prepares with him for the robbery of the money transporter. Corbut meets with Westernburger in the evening and hands him the deposit. Westernburger is now proposing a plan for how Corbut can get out of the difficulties with his bank in return for a share for him. He asks Corbut about the schedule for transporting money to and from Corbut's bank and tells Corbut that he will negotiate a safe plan to rob a van. Meanwhile, the courier driver Martell is getting more and more nervous, but his wife Helen encourages him that they need the money for their own sheep farm in Australia, without the attack they would never get out of their cramped living conditions. A few days later, Corbut and his cashier prepare the money transport. Corbut hands the cash boxes to Holger Martell and his unsuspecting colleague Lohmers. In an underground car park, the transport is ambushed by Hoffmann as planned, who grazes Martell on the arm in accordance with the agreement to rule out any suspicion of complicity, and knocks his colleagues down before he escapes with the money. Unaware of the robbery, Westernburger waits in vain for the money to be transported in front of another branch.

Meanwhile, Inspector Brinkmann arrives at the scene of the crime with his assistant Wegner, and the doctor forbids him to question Martell because he is still in shock. Meanwhile, Westernberger hears about the attack on the radio and breaks off his wait for the transporter. Meanwhile, Hoffmann opens the money cassettes in anticipation of the large amount of money, but he only finds the top note in them, all the other notes in the bundles are made of newspaper. Meanwhile, Corbut is informed of the attack from his headquarters, he assumes that Westernburger was able to pull off the attack. Brinkmann and Wegner interrogate Lohmers and hold him against the fact that they had not complied with the safety regulations, but he explains that they have always worked like this for years and nothing has ever happened. Laura visits Corbut that evening; When he tells her about the attack, she is not shocked, but rather seems to react euphorically. Corbut meets with Westernburger, who shows Corbut that he had robbed the money transporter and had to shoot unscheduled. Brinkmann and Wegner visit Martell in the hospital the next morning, but his description of the perpetrator clearly contradicts that of his colleague Lohmers. When the commissioners say goodbye, Helen Martell visits her husband and informs him that Hoffmann only found paper in the cash boxes. The couple suspect that Hoffmann wants to set them up and keep the loot for himself, so Ms. Martell seeks out Hoffmann and threatens him with a gun. Hoffmann can finally convince them that they were all set. While Hoffmann resigns, Helen wants to get the money from those who took it for themselves. She suspects Corbut or his cashier Weber to have taken out the money.

Wegner recognizes Ms. Martell when she changes money in Corbut's bank, although she doesn't have an account there, he becomes puzzled, but Brinkmann does not take Wegner's observation seriously. Ms. Martell called Corbut anonymously that night and pointed out an envelope in front of his apartment door. There are the notes accompanying the cassette, she is now demanding the money. When Corbut tries to flee with Laura, Hoffmann shoots them from an ambush so that he has to return to the apartment. He wants to face the police, but Laura prevents him because she first wants to know what's going on. He reveals his gambling addiction to her and that Westernburger blackmailed him for embezzling the money from the bank. Corbut suspects Westernburger to be the man behind the current blackmail. Laura suggests that they raid the money transporter again so that both of them can go to South America together. The next morning Brinkmann visits Corbut and asks him about the two drivers. During the conversation, Hoffmann calls and demands the money. In the evening, Corbut offers him DM 50,000 as a "down payment" and assures him that he cannot dispose of more money. Hoffmann insists on handing over the entire sum on the banks of the Main. Hoffmann and Frau Martell are satisfied with the down payment and think they have Corbut in their hands. Wegner keeps an eye on Ms. Martell and secretly searches her apartment while she is away. There he finds her gun and the extorted money.

He reports to Brinkmann about his find and suspects Mrs. Martell to be the mastermind behind the attack. Brinkmann and Wegner obtain a search warrant and look for Ms. Martell. They find the money and ask where it came from, whereupon she claims that the money was anonymously thrown in the mailbox by the gangsters the night before as “compensation for pain and suffering” for injuring her husband. Because the answer sounds so absurd, Brinkmann arrests her for the time being. Meanwhile, Laura drives up to the bank while Brinkmann and Wegner visit Corbut there. Laura disappears when she sees the officers. In the bank, the two inspectors catch Corbut shoving a large amount of money aside, although they really only wanted to ask him whether the bills seized from Mrs. Martell could have come from his bank. Wegner stays with Corbut, while Brinkmann follows the money transporter because he suspects an attack on it. Brinkmann stops the money transporter and checks the wads of money, as with the first attack, only the top notes are genuine, the rest are made of newspaper. Corbut then makes a full confession about his money embezzlement. He suspects Westernburger to be the mastermind behind the further blackmail. Since he expects another extortionate call the next day, Brinkmann suggests that he take part as a decoy; this would have a mitigating effect on his sentence.

Corbut receives the call, Brinkmann and Wegner are present. He goes to the handover location, the officers are there and overhear everything through a microphone on Corbut's clothes. The money is snatched from Corbut by Hoffmann, who tries to escape with a bicycle. Brinkmann hurries after him. He jumps up on a museum train through downtown Frankfurt to follow Hoffmann. He overtakes Hoffmann, jumps off the train and stops it. When Hoffmann tries to escape, he shoots him and Hoffmann surrenders. The next day, Brinkmann visits Martell in the hospital, she has taken everything on herself and Hoffmann to protect her husband, but Brinkmann did not believe her and wants to urge Martell to confess. However, they cannot prove anything to him, so they have to leave and Martell remains unpunished. The officials go to the casino and watch Westernburger and Laura Winter, who turns out to be his accomplice. The presumption of the two officials that they were behind the blackmailing of Corbut at the beginning is therefore true.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of compensation for pain and suffering on October 13, 1985 achieved a market share of 47.0 percent for Das Erste and was seen by 19.22 million viewers in Germany.

background

Compensation for pain and suffering was filmed in Frankfurt am Main between October 16 and November 24, 1984 . The script was based on the crime novel The Patent Solution by Peter Hebel .

criticism

"Already looks pretty old-fashioned today"

- TV movie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de. Retrieved October 18, 2014
  2. ^ Film review of compensation for pain and suffering at TV Spielfilm . Retrieved December 22, 2015
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