Crime scene: death of a police officer

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Death of a policeman
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Studio Hamburg film production on behalf of the NDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 301 ( List )
First broadcast January 1, 1995 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Jürgen Roland
script Dieter Hirschberg ,
Gerd Reinhard
production Richard Schöps
music Jens Fischer
camera Klaus Brix
cut Eva Schnare
occupation

Death of a Police Officer is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk under the direction of Jürgen Roland and first broadcast on January 1, 1995. It is about the crime scene episode 301. For the detective chief inspector Paul Stoever ( Manfred Krug ) it is the 23rd case. For his colleague Peter Brockmöller ( Charles Brauer ) it is the 20th case in which he is investigating.

action

Stoever and Brockmöller are called to an operation in which Christian Witt, a young colleague, was shot on duty. For Stoever, it initially looks like an act of revenge, which was very likely aimed at Witt's colleague Klaus Schuster. Schuster is known for his brutal intervention and thus has many enemies. He was a so-called resistance officer who strikes first and then even reports the injured party for resisting law enforcement officers. Schuster was traveling privately at the time of the crime and had simply left his colleague alone. As it turns out later, Schuster and Witt were lured to the scene of the crime with the help of a fake emergency call, which feeds Stoever's suspicion of an act of revenge.

On the basis of testimonies, the petty criminal Hans (Hasso) Frisch comes under suspicion. Hasso, who has a mixed relationship with the police due to his criminal record, immediately goes into hiding when he realizes that he is wanted. With the help of his lawyer Martina Dörfel, Stoever can find him. Frisch states that he did not shoot the police officer, but the public prosecutor issued an arrest warrant. Since it is established that the accused has set up an illegal shooting range, which also speaks against him.

Meanwhile, Brockmöller finds out that Schuster was very likely corrupt, which could mean that Witt was deliberately eliminated so that he could not betray Schuster's corruption. Based on the results of the ballistic investigation, the projectiles used come from a police weapon, which indicates a perpetrator among the Hamburg police officers. Stoever confronts Klaus Schuster with his findings about his “friendly” relationship with the red light scene, but he still doesn't believe that he killed his colleague.

With the help of Witt's friend, Stoever had a letter published in the newspaper, after which she asked the murderer to explain to her why he had killed her boyfriend. After all, he had taken up the job of policeman to want to help. In fact, after a few days she received a call that confirmed Stoever's initial assumption. The killer declares that he got the wrong guy and that he will correct it and go for the right two. Since the telephone connection was monitored as a precaution and the call was recorded on tape, Stoever can assign the voice of the call to Lewark, which he knows from the red light scene. When he then finds out that Schuster's girlfriend is Lewark's ex-wife, everything becomes clear to him.

Lewark had wanted to shoot his rival out of disappointed vanity and got himself a police weapon. When Stoever tries to arrest him, he flees and is then shot by police officers while trying to escape.

Klaus Schuster receives good advice from Stoever to voluntarily quit the job.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast saw 8.58 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 22.04 percent.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave it a medium rating (thumbs to the side) and wrote: “Plain and simple routine goods”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death of a policeman. Crime scene fund, accessed on December 6, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Crime scene: Death of a police officer on TV feature film (with pictures of the film)
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