Crime scene: die and let die

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Die and let die
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SFB
length 86 minutes
classification Episode 137 ( List )
First broadcast May 31, 1982 on German television
Rod
Director Peter Keglevic
script Bernhard Frey , Jens-Peter Behrend
production Horst Borasch
music Peer ravens
camera Gérard Vandenberg
cut Friedericke Badekow
occupation

Die and let die is a consequence of the ARD crime series Tatort . The episode produced by the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB) was first broadcast on May 31, 1982 on ARD. It is the third crime scene with Commissioner Walther, who has to solve an attempted murder in connection with drug smuggling.

action

The young Viennese truck driver Niki, who has been living in West Berlin for some time, wants to open a restaurant with his older brother Hans, who is currently moving to West Berlin. On the way back from a tour in France he is involved in an accident in which a motorcyclist is killed and he is hit and missed. The French police have the Berlin number of Niki's truck based on a photo of an accident witness and ask the Berlin colleagues for administrative assistance, whereupon Walther and Hassert visit the trucking company where Niki works. Walther can't find anything suspicious. Niki, who has a relationship with the freight forwarder Inge Zimmermann, smuggles drugs made in Germany from Spain, which are sold much cheaper in Spain, back to Germany. He committed the hit-and-run so as not to blow up the smuggling. He promises his boss to face the police the next day. He asks Inge for a loan for his self-employment, whereupon she throws him out because she suspects that he wants to dump her like that. Niki tries to raise the money for his self-employment elsewhere, but fails. He then tries to blackmail Inge with the illegal deals in which he was involved.

Niki, who lives with several roommates in a former industrial building, fears being deported to France because, as an Austrian citizen, he is not protected from the extradition ban. Since the police show up in front of the building, he goes into hiding. After Niki sent his friend Robert into the garage to drive away with Niki's car as a distraction for the officers, the car explodes, and Niki's roommate is killed in the explosion. Walther and Hassert are called to the scene of the crime, they find Niki Pototschnik's passport, which they believe to be the corpse, on the charred corpse. This observes the scene from a safe distance. Meanwhile, Inge got problems with the buyer of the smuggled goods, among other things because of Niki's runaway. Walther and Hassert visit Inge shortly afterwards to ask about their driver Niki. The latter hides her intimate relationship with Niki from the officers and is surprised at his apparent death. After the officers have left, Inge goes to her employee Maximilian Schrader and confronts him about Niki's alleged death. Obviously she just wanted to give him a lesson and hadn't expected that there would be a dead person, Schrader himself seems shocked. Niki's brother Hans has just arrived in West Berlin and is looking for his brother. Walther and Hassert are also currently in Niki's accommodation. Walther expresses his suspicion to Hassert that Niki had a relationship with his boss Inge Zimmermann. Walther and Hassert meet Hans Pototschnik, who is looking for his brother after he has introduced himself to them, and inform him about the supposed death of his brother.

In the evening Niki visits Inge, she is surprised and happy that he is still alive. The next morning, Walther interrogates Hans Pototschnik, who says that he wanted to open a restaurant with his brother. He knows nothing about his brother's previous business in Berlin. When Walther explains to him that his brother had smuggled medicines made in Germany back to Germany from Spain and that these were found in Niki's apartment, Hans is angry that his brother is finally dead. Walther is puzzled because Hans found out about Niki's belongings found glasses reacted irritated, on the photos available to the police Niki does not wear glasses. Walther speaks with Maximilian Schrader and then with Inge Zimmermann, Schrader and Inge were once a successful dance couple and Schrader was unhappily in love with Inge. He asks her about the drug smuggling, Inge is clueless. Mara, Niki's fiancé, and Hans, who is still in Berlin and investigating the death of his brother, go to the accommodation of Niki's friend Robert, but of course they don't find him there. Hans breaks in there, but finds nothing there that brings him new knowledge. Back in Niki's apartment, Hans takes a call from Inge, and since he pretends to be Niki, she tells him that they have collected the money as agreed. He meets with Inge, introduces himself there as Niki's brother, but she doesn't help him any further, nor does she reveal to him that his brother is still alive. When Hans meets with Mara in Robert's accommodation in the evening, brother Niki, who was believed to be dead, suddenly appears there, but he runs away from his brother. Instead, Niki seeks Maximilian Schrader and brutally approaches him to find out why he wanted to kill him and to avenge his friend Robert.

The police shadow Hans and Mara, Mara seeks Inge Zimmermann and asks about Niki, but Inge pretends to be clueless. Maximilian, who was spared by Niki and who joins it, locks Mara in the basement. Hans, who has observed everything, notifies Walther and Hassert. Meanwhile, Inge meets with Niki and gives him the money he has extorted, but Niki doesn't want the money now, but wants to be able to start his own business on his own. During the meeting Maximilian Schrader appears and out of jealousy, because he could never have Inge, shoots at Niki, at this moment Walther and Hans join them, Niki dies in his brother's arms. Schrader and Zimmermann are arrested. Walther later finds out that the drug manufacturer bought back the smuggled drugs for several times the price so as not to let the market be ruined. Whether Hans will stay in West Berlin to run the restaurant alone or whether he will return to Vienna remains to be seen.

Audience and background

When it was first broadcast, this episode was able to reach 10.28 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 29%. The film was shot in September and October 1981 in West Berlin, Vienna and France.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene as mediocre: “Brittle murderous chase at a snail's pace”. Tatort fans rate the episode in the ranking on tatort-fundus.de as one of the worst episodes of all time and mainly criticize the script and artistic deficiencies.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tatort: ​​Die and let die data on the 137th crime scene at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 4, 2015.
  3. ↑ Ranking list on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 4, 2015.
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