Crime scene: Deadly friendship

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Deadly friendship
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 NDR
length 83 minutes
classification Episode 310 ( List )
First broadcast May 21, 1995 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Herrmann Zschoche
script Raimund Weber
production Kerstin Ramcke ,
Richard Schöps
music Klaus Doldinger
camera Klaus Brix ,
Sönke Hansen
cut Dagmar Pohle
occupation

Deadly Friendship is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk under the direction of Herrmann Zschoche and was first broadcast on May 21, 1995. It is about the crime scene episode 310. For the detective chief inspector Paul Stoever ( Manfred Krug ) it is the 24th case. For his colleague Peter Brockmöller ( Charles Brauer ) it is the 21st case in which he is investigating.

action

The Commissioners Stoever and Brockmöller are called to a murder case. The scientist Jochen Kronberg is found stabbed to death in a bunker ruin. He was an active cyclist and his killer caught him during a training ride.

The scientist and biologist has a very wealthy mother who spends her old age in a sanatorium. The investigators learn from her that her son was friends with the carer Ingrid and that she is expecting a child from him. Before Stoever and Brockmöller can question the young woman, however, she is deliberately hit by a car and dies.

The investigators' research shows that Kronberg's mother has entrusted almost all of her assets to a dubious investment company. Jochen Kronberg may have quarreled with this company, but the victim's still-wife might also want to secure a compulsory portion through a previous death of her husband. However, both options are quickly ruled out.

Brockmöller learns from the gynecologist that Ingrid's child was malformed and that this was the second case recently. When the investigators find out that Jochen Kronberg was the father of both children, they take a look at the victim's scientific past. Stoever meets Dr. Dieter Frank, who worked with Jochen Kronberg for years at "Delta Pharma". They had been working on a genetically modified growth hormone for pig fattening until Kronberg unexpectedly resigned a few months ago.

Kronberg's neighbors draw the attention of Stoever to the “pig baron” Hausmann, who is known to help fattening pigs with medication. The investigators suspect that, in collaboration with Dr. Dieter Frank and initially also Kronberg produces an unapproved product and uses it in his fattening farm. They manage to get a sample of the agent and after the analysis it confirms the assumption that the deformed babies of the two women were due to it.

Meanwhile, Brockmöller finds out that the home manager Dr. Beuck installed a secret surveillance system in the sisters' lounge, which explains his suspicious behavior towards the police. At first he cannot derive a motive for murder from this. But Stoever's attention is drawn to Beuck's red Golf, which is believed to have hit Sister Ingrid. Beuck then states that it was an accident. But Stoever doesn't believe him. After trying to attribute the murder of Kronberg to him, Beuck protests and explains that this is Dr. Dieter Frank is responsible for. He knew about the illegal drugs and had received meat from Hausmann as "hush money" for the kitchen of his retirement home. Since the pregnant sisters had also eaten from it and he had learned about the deformities, he panicked and wanted to cover up the matter. Since Sister Elke had recently committed suicide, the scandal could only have become known through Sister Ingrid, which he wanted to prevent at all costs.

Due to Dr. Beuck's testimony is also borne out by Dr. Dieter Frank arrested.

background

The film was produced by NDR and Studio Hamburg and shot in Hamburg.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast saw 8.05 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 26.09%.

Reviews

The Berliner by choice assessed: “The title alone largely destroys the suspense of this crime scene. There is only one friendship in this film that could be fatal, and that is certainly not the 'creative competition' between Brocki and Pudelmützen-Paul - but the relationship that has existed since childhood between the genetic biologists Jochen Kronberg (Thomas Naumann) and Dieter Frank ( Udo Schenk). But why the one, who seems so unemotional and business-like, kills the other at this memorial place of an old bunker that both of them visited as children (or at least left it there), will remain a secret, as will many other details of this case which is infested with coarse-knit and involuntarily comical scenes like an aging cheese from mold. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave it a medium rating (thumbs to the side) and wrote: “Weird excursion in Frankenstein's world”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Production company at Internet Movie Database , accessed February 18, 2015.
  2. ↑ Deadly Friendship. Crime scene fund, accessed on December 6, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Deadly Friendship - Tatort 310 Film review at derwahlberliner.wordpress.com, accessed on February 18, 2015.
  4. ↑ Tatort: ​​Deadly Friendship Film review on TV Spielfilm (with pictures of the film)
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