Crime scene: death from the past
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Death from the past |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
DFF for the MDR |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 259 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | June 8, 1992 on ARD |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans-Werner Honert |
| script | Hans-Werner Honert |
| production | Hans-Werner Honert, Elke Lepke |
| music | Christian Steyer |
| camera | Jürgen Heimlich |
| cut | Margrit Schulz |
| occupation | |
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Death from the Past is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD , ORF and SRF . The film was produced by MDR under the direction of Hans-Werner Honert and first broadcast on June 8, 1992. It is the crime scene episode 259. For detective chief Bruno Ehrlicher and his colleague Kain it is the second case in which they are investigating in Dresden .
action
Linde Treu takes the suspension railway in Dresden-Loschwitz to the villa district of Weißer Hirsch . Shortly afterwards she is found dead on the footpath in front of a high-rise in Dresden. Commissioner Ehrlicher, who reluctantly has to help out in his son's pub and is on vacation, leaves the case to Cain for now.
At the time of the crime, an opening ceremony took place in the skyscraper, at which the victim accused the managing director, Prof. Weinkauf, of patent theft in front of everyone present. Buying wine leads the woman out; shortly afterwards she fell from the balcony. The evidence does not initially speak for suicide, as Weinkauf claims.
During the survey, Weinkauf continues to deny having pushed Linde Treu off the balcony. Veigl, who does not let Cain conduct the interrogation alone, also learns that Weinkauf was in charge of the “Monitum” project at VEB Carl Zeiss Jena . Klaus Treu, the man of the dead, worked as a leader in the research group. He was killed in an accident in December 1988. Linde Treu then sued for buying wine; lost the process, however.
Honest, annoyed by the work in the pub, ends his vacation and starts helping Cain with the investigation. A journalist tells Kain that she has a Linde Treu suitcase with sensitive information. He picks up the suitcase from the editorial office in the evening and then goes out to eat with the reporter.
Ehrlicher is meanwhile going to Jena to find out more about Linde Treu. He also questions the third man from Weinkauf's old research group and learns that Klaus Treu was killed in the accident that caused Weinkauf's wife to end up in a wheelchair. Only Dr. Weinkauf remained unharmed. He also learns that Prof. Weinkauf was not a scientist, but was part of the management team and only stole the patent. But he doesn't want to support Ehrlicher any further.
The next morning an article appears in the newspaper about buying wine, whereupon Veigl confronts Kain. He also believes that Ehrlicher and Kain want to finish buying wine because of their shared GDR past. In addition, there is increasing evidence that Linde Treu actually committed suicide in order to bring Weinkauf to prison.
After the article has appeared, Weinkaufs Affair and business partner Renate Schwippert tries to install Ralf Bohm as the new managing director. Bohm, on the other hand, has scruples and tries to explain the situation at the time to Schwippert, who comes from the west. However, this is not interested in it.
Ehrlicher is now trying to get to the old accident files, but they have disappeared. Since he cannot imagine that the accident would have been covered up if only a simple scientist had been behind the wheel, he kept looking and came across the former investigator Petzhold. However, since he lost his job after the fall of the Wall and Ehrlicher thinks he is a turnaround , he initially refuses to help.
Meanwhile, Renate Schwippert continues to work on shifting the now unsustainable purchase of wine to one of her companies in the USA. Since she refuses to buy wine, she tries again to seduce Ralf Bohm and to pull him over to her side.
In the meantime, Ehrlicher still receives the old files from Petzhold, from which it can be seen that Treu was only the passenger. On the way back the brakes of Ehrlicher's Lada fail ; However, he was only slightly injured and was given a new company car.
Schwippert and Bohm put Weinkauf under further pressure. But since he still refuses, Bohm goes to the police and claims to have seen Weinkauf push Linde Treu from the balcony. Honestly doesn’t believe a word and is annoyed when Cain suggests he use the false testimony against buying wine and arrest him.
Schwippert, Bohm and Weinkauf finally confronted them more honestly with their suspicions that Weinkauf was not guilty and that Bohm lied. He then confesses that he lied on Schwippert's instructions in order to take over the company. Ehrlicher also passes on the old documents to the public prosecutor, so that Weinkauf will now be held responsible for the accident.
production
The film was still being produced by German television and shown by MDR as the second contribution to the crime scene series .
The shooting took place in Dresden and the surrounding area. Among other things, it was filmed near the Blue Wonder , on the suspension railway in Dresden- Loschwitz and in the villa district of Weißer Hirsch .
Ursula Rummler created the costumes , Cornelia Marquardt was responsible for the cloakroom .
The first broadcast was followed by 9.88 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 34.50%.
For the last time, alongside Peter Sodann and Bernd Michael Lade, Gustl Bayrhammer can be seen as head of the department . He already held this position in A Case for Ehrlicher and was also seen between 1972 and 1981 as Chief Inspector Veigl in the Tatort films of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation . Even Walter Nickel is seen again as a criminal technician who mess with Cain. From 1999 he appeared in this role regularly.
For the last time, Cain had the rank of sub-commissioner , which actually only existed in the German People's Police .
criticism
The TV Spielfilm rated the film as a coherent crime thriller about old and new injustices .
Web links
- Crime scene: Death from the past in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Death from the past at the crime scene fund
- Death from the past at Tatort-Fans.de
- Crime scene: death from the past at filmportal.de
- Summary of the plot of death from the past on the ARD website
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Crime Scene: Death from the Past . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ^ Tine Welke: Tatort German Unity . East German identity staging in the “Tatort” of the MDR. Transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-2018-4 , pp. 125 ( online [PDF] Dissertation: 17 years of German unity as reflected in the MDR-TATORT productions. Staging of East German identity. University of Vienna.).
- ↑ Death from the Past on tvspielfilm.de
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