Crime scene: death in a jaguar

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Death in a jaguar
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SFB
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 335 ( List )
First broadcast June 9, 1996 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Jens Becker
script Raimund Kusserow ,
Peter Sandmeyer
production Eikon film
music Michael Hartmann
camera Dieter Chill
cut Ines Bluhm
occupation

Death in the Jaguar is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by the SFB and first broadcast on June 9, 1996. It is the first case of the investigator duo Roiter and Zorowski and the 335th crime scene episode.

The film ended up in the “ poison cabinet ” after its first broadcast and was therefore not repeated.

action

Chief Detective Sergeant Ernst Roiter only recently moved from Frankfurt am Main to Berlin . During his boat tours he often ends up in the water and has to be rescued by the water police . After he has dried himself at home, he receives a visit from Till Seelmann, who invites him to a reception on the occasion of the seventieth birthday of Daniel Prestin, an economically and politically extremely influential Jewish businessman. During the event, Prestin spoke to Roiter and explained that he felt threatened. Roiter initially weighs it down, but offers him to talk about it later. Prestin is called to a meeting and then leaves his own party. Shortly afterwards, his jaguar explodes , which is completely destroyed. Roiter and his partner Zorowski begin investigating the David Prestin murder.

Roiter learns from Prestin's daughter that she has been disinherited from her father because he disapproves of her marriage to Ralph Bernbeck, and that Prestin is a member of the "Savigny Circle", which includes high-ranking people from business and politics. He also learns that Ralph Bernbeck is an architect and tries to contact him on one of his construction sites. However, there he only meets Henri Mattuscheck from the security guard.

In the meantime, it has been found in the laboratory that plastic explosives were used in the murder , which exploded when the car was started. The material comes from the holdings of the dissolved State Security of the GDR . Roiter and Zorowski are called to see State Secretary Otto Bernbeck, who asks both of them for a quick clarification and demands that the commissioners look for the perpetrators among the neo-Nazis . You also learn from him that he, like Prestin, is a member of the "Savigny Circle". Despite Bernbeck's admonition, Roiter first picks up his daughter Caroline from the train station and takes her to eat. He learns that she is now a food designer and will stay overnight with Edgar, her new boyfriend. Roiter has Zorowski check him out immediately.

Meanwhile, Zorowski begins his investigation in a sauna where he meets Soviet "Cold War veterans". He finds out where you can get illegal explosives from GDR times. During the investigation of an old factory, which was given to him by telephone as the delivery point, he is almost blown up. Meanwhile, Roiter speaks to Hazel Wolkenstein, a rabbi , and learns that Prestin emigrated to Switzerland during the Nazi era and that Ralph Bernbeck was rejected by Prestin because he was contrary to his interests. However, he oversaw the renovation of the celebration hall for Bernbeck.

In Prestin's company, Roiter is shown various threatening letters that Prestin had received. Roiter also found a letter of thanks from Bernbeck to Prestin, which he quickly pocketed. The following evening he meets again with the banker Till Seelmann. With his help, Roiter gains access to Prestin's account details. Among other things, he made payments to a Swiss company, whose chairman of the supervisory board is also a partner at Prestin. Roiter also learns from Seelmann that Katharina Lefevre is also a member of the "Savigny-Kreis".

Meanwhile, Zorowski clashes with several Nazis in a pub, which he can keep in check after the landlady was not ready to call the police for support. Then he learns from a former member of the State Security that Prestin not only supplied water pipes to Iran, but also indirectly supplied weapons with the help of these special pipes. He also learns that the explosives experts have to come from Mielke's immediate area. Roiter then asks him to spend the evening with his daughter and show her Berlin so that he can meet Katharina Lefevre in peace. While Zorowski bores Caroline in a fast-food restaurant and explains foreign policy , Roiter dines with Katharina Lefevre, and learns that Prestin played a central role in the "Savigny-Kreis" and then sleeps with her.

During further investigations in Prestin's company, Roiter finds a report on Bernbeck's machinations: He bought a piece of land on which a listed building stood, but which was then torn down. The documents also contain the name of Katharina Lefevre, whom he then invites to his home the next evening. Meanwhile, Zorowski learns the names of former explosives experts from the State Security in a bar, including Mattuschek, whom Roiter had already met on a construction site as a security guard . Zorowski no longer meets him there, but learns that Mattuschek is in the shooting club in Rummelsburg.

Meanwhile, at a candlelight dinner with Katharina Lefevre in his apartment, Roiter learns that Bernbeck is bankrupt because Prestin has changed his will and his daughter, and therefore Bernbeck, no longer inherit anything. However, his children would inherit Prestin's fortune. As Zorowski informs Roiter about his new findings, he leaves the apartment and leaves Katharina Lefevre alone with his daughter to go to Rummelsburg with Zorowski. There they meet an armed Mattuschek who was about to liquidate Zorowski's informant. Back home, Roiter only meets his daughter, who confesses to him that there is no Edgar and that she only came to Berlin because of him.

At Mattuschek's evidence of explosives, Roiter finds out from the size of the hat that the murdered person couldn't have been Prestin and confronts Bernbeck with this knowledge at the funeral service. With the help of Till Seelmann, Roiter finds out that a man named Altherr wants to come to Berlin by plane from Basel. It turns out that it is Prestin who is incognito. Since Roiter is injured in the pursuit, Prestin brings him to his parents' house, which nobody but Prestin's family knows. There he learns that the dead man is Prestin's driver, who started the car before Prestin could get in. Meanwhile, Zorowski finds a key to a locker at Mattuschek's house, which contains a contract between Bernbeck and Mattuschek regulating the surveillance of his construction sites and for which he wanted to pay 400,000 DM annually.

Zorowski informs pregnant Judith Prestin that her father is still alive; it then collapses. But they are overheard by Bernbeck. Since Prestin still feels threatened, Roiter wants to set a trap for the perpetrators. He also realizes that Bernbeck was disinherited, but would inherit through Judith's child and thus would have a motive for the murder. Disguised as Prestin, Roiter fishes on a boat and is sunk by a motorboat. He learns from the water police that this boat has caused problems several times and that it belongs to a Ms. Lefevre. Roiter arrests Lefevre and Bernbeck who are eating together at the hotel. Caroline says goodbye again and drives back to Frankfurt.

production

The crime scene Tod im Jaguar is an Eikon Film production on behalf of the SFB for Das Erste . The film was shot in and around Berlin . When it first aired on June 9, 1996, Tod in the Jaguar had 6.26 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 23.02%.

Death in a Jaguar was initially criticized because the SFB distributed a misleading press release about this crime scene in advance with "anti-Jewish passages". The film itself and the portrayal of Jewish traders also attracted criticism. It has not been broadcast on public television since then.

The twelve films of the SFB with Winfried Glatzeder were not recorded on conventional film material, but with the help of Betacam video cameras, which resulted in a video clip aesthetic of the films that has been widely criticized. Police call 110: Seven Days of Freedom , produced by the SFB in 1995 , was also recorded in this format and also criticized.

criticism

TV Spielfilm praised the film as tricky, explosive and unfortunately very topical .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Francois Werner, Dominik Pieper: TATORTe in the poison cabinet: Forbidden fruits ; tatort-fundus.de, accessed on October 16, 2014.
  2. ^ Tatort: ​​Death in a Jaguar at tatort-fundus.de
  3. ↑ The Roiter era - 12 crime scenes from Berlin at tatort-fundus.de
  4. ^ "Death in a Jaguar" - tv movie
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currently blocked episodes

The Ghost Train Case (1972) | With Bare Feet (1980) | Death in a Jaguar (1996) | Crocodile Guardian (1996) | To Whom Honor Is Due (2007)

previously blocked episodes

The dead do not need an apartment (1973) | Death in the underground shaft (1975) | Three loops (1977) | The yellow petticoat (1980) | Blood Trail (1989)


episodes not broadcast during prime time

A Touch of Hollywood (1998) | Franziska (2014)