Crime scene: smuggler
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Smuggler |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR , Maran Film |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 826 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | January 29, 2012 on Das Erste ORF Schweizer Fernsehen |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jürgen Bretzinger |
| script |
Leo P. Ard Birgit Grosz |
| production | Uwe Franke |
| music | Markus Lonardoni |
| camera | Jürgen Carle |
| cut | Barbara Brückner |
| occupation | |
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Smuggler is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the 22nd episode from Konstanz and the 18th of the Blum / Perlmann investigative team . The film produced by SWR was broadcast for the first time on January 29, 2012, and was directed by Jürgen Bretzinger .
action
Robert Riebsahl, customs officer at the German-Swiss border, finds cocaine in Boris Krämer's car during a routine check. He swears that he will get back at Riebsahl. A little later, Riebsahl is found dead in his car. Suicide can be ruled out with his gunshot wound. Little is known to his colleagues about Riebsahl's private life, but Kai Perlmann finds women's underwear during the house search. It turns out that Riebsahl had a relationship with his colleague Marie Schreiber until a few weeks ago. During a later search of Riebsahl's apartment, Perlmann was knocked down. He and Klara Blum are now checking alibis for various incidents. At the same time, they are annoyed about two aspects professionally: The new secretary Tanja Kraft is causing chaos with her overzealousness and the newly elected member of the state parliament, Stefan Müller-Allen, is also causing unrest among the police with his rigorous saving methods.
Dealer Boris Krämer was released from pretrial detention two hours before Riebsahl's death because he was able to use the cocaine as his own. However, he fails as a perpetrator because he was in ice hockey training at the time of the crime. Customs officer Kevin Kümmerle also trains here, who unconsciously covered Kramer's drug transports because he did not check his car during routine checks. Kümmerle receives a warning from his boss Neuerer.
One day Marie Schreiber is checked out by Mr. Polzner, owner of a chauffeur business. He offers her a weekly financial allowance if she doesn't check his car at certain times - Marie recently had a German shepherd trained on banknotes. During these times he chauffeurs the Swiss investment advisor Röttli. Marie refuses the offer, even if she has financial problems and the bailiff has visited her several times. Röttli is also in the sights of Blum and Perlmann, as they found photos of Polzner's car in Riebsahl's files. He seemed to have found out about money smuggling via chauffeur service. Perlmann pretends to be a customer and indicates to Röttli that he wants to smuggle a large inheritance past the German tax authorities. Röttli, on the other hand, makes it clear that money smuggled across the border will not be discovered. After the bailiff stood in front of Marie Schreiber's door again, she agreed to Polzner's offer, only to check his car on one of these appointments in the presence of Blum and Perlmann. You will find a six-digit amount of cash in the car.
Röttli is taken into custody. He was allegedly with a customer at the time of the crime, but does not want to give his name. The investigators in turn learn from Polzner that he was not interested in Riebsahl's death: Riebsahl had only demanded 5,000 euros from him shortly before his death so that he would not reveal the smuggling business, and Polzner had paid. When Röttli found out about this, he was amazed, as he had been paying 200 euros a week for a list of the planned customs controls for some time. The list and money are hidden behind the mirror of the visitor's toilet at the customs office and Röttli does not know who his partner is in this story. In return, he reveals the name of his customer, whose black money accounts he looks after in Switzerland: Stefan Müller-Allen. The investigators learn that the 5,000 euros extorted from Polzner were only withdrawn the day before, so Riebsahl must have had an ally.
After installing a camera in the visitor's toilet, Blum and Perlmann can identify the manager of the Neuerer customs station as the recipient of the 200 euros per week. He evades access by taking Marie Schreiber hostage. He lets her go shortly afterwards and shoots himself. Marie says he confessed to the murder of Riebsahl and the blackmailing of Polzner. At the time the money was withdrawn, however, Neuerer couldn't have been to a bank. In the end, the investigators convict Marie: she had extorted the 5,000 euros under Riebsahl's name and Riebsahl had found out about it. He wanted to report her and laughed at her when she threatened him with a gun in his car. During the subsequent scramble, a shot went off.
Perlmann arrests Marie Schreiber and Klara Blum remains thoughtful. Stefan Müller-Allen, on the other hand, shows himself up for tax evasion, which at least puts an end to the annoyance of the rigorous savings.
background
The filming of Smuggler took place from January 18 to February 18, 2011. The film was shot in Baden-Baden , Kreuzlingen and Konstanz , among others .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast on January 29, 2012 on Das Erste was followed by 9.36 million viewers aged three and over, which corresponds to a market share of 24.5 percent. Among the 14 to 49 year olds there were 2.89 million (18.3 percent market share).
In Austria, the film broadcast on ORF 2 saw around 840,000 viewers; thus he achieved a market share of 26 percent.
criticism
Michael Hanfeld from FAZ.net described the game by Eva Mattes and Sebastian Bezzel as "easy and routine" and praised Julia Koschitz as a customs officer harassed by blackmailers. The humor used here is "like in grandfather's time". Süddeutsche.de noted that Eva Mattes had to say sentences in her role, "which Harry Klein had in the script in the black and white phase of the commissioner "; the finale also contains “German-rancid Christmas party humor”. The old-fashionedness also criticized tittelbach.tv , for example, the crime thriller has a "crime thriller soundtrack like in the 70s", in which the soundtrack is artificially turned up in exciting scenes. The basic idea of the film is good, but the beginning is weak. The TV movie called the handling "reasonably credible and quickly told," but found that the movie some "surprising turn [s] and a few jokes tortured less '' would have done well.
Web links
- Smugglers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Smugglers on daserste.de
- Smugglers in the crime scene fund
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Tatort: Schmuggler on crew-united.com
- ↑ Crime scene: smuggler. on: bavaria-film.de
- ↑ "Tatort" great, "Jauch" weak. on: quotenmeter.de
- ↑ See mediaresearch.orf.at ( Memento of the original from January 4, 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.
- ↑ And that should be your weapon? on: faz.net , January 29, 2012.
- ^ Holger Gertz: Mogadishu on Lake Constance . sueddeutsche.de, January 30, 2012.
- ^ "Tatort - Smuggler" series . tittelbach-tv, accessed on August 24, 2013.
- ↑ See tvspielfilm.de
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