Crime scene: death in front of Scharhörn
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Death before Scharhörn |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 461 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | January 7, 2001 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jürgen Bretzinger |
| script | Raimund Weber |
| production | Studio Hamburg film production |
| music | Klaus Doldinger |
| camera | Hartmut E. Lange |
| cut | Inge Bohmann |
| occupation | |
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Tod vor Scharhörn is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and first broadcast on January 7, 2001 on ARD. It is about the crime scene episode 461. For detective chief inspectors Paul Stoever ( Manfred Krug ) and Peter Brockmöller ( Charles Brauer ) it was the 41st and 38th respectively, and at the same time the last case.
action
Shortly before his retirement, Helmut Weckwört, who is responsible for “internal investigations” (ie fighting corruption in the Hamburg administration), was found shot. The evidence points to a robbery , because Weckwört does not contain any more personal effects. The Commissioners Stoever and Brockmöller, on the other hand, gradually find clues that allow other conclusions to be drawn about the motive for the crime.
The commissioners are reviewing the last cases that Weckwört worked on and investigating a case of irregularities in the award of print jobs for nautical charts . However, the trail initially runs nowhere. Only later did the commissioners accidentally discover that the owner had a relationship with an employee of the Maritime Administration, which, however, was not sufficient as a motive for murder.
Stoever and Brockmöller interview the much younger wife Margot Weckwört. She is amazingly calm about the death of her husband. Weckwört's illegitimate son Sönke Riedel and his heavily pregnant wife Susanne point out that shortly before his death, Weckwört wanted to change his will in her favor and to the detriment of his wife, but that no longer happened. Margot Weckwört clears up the suspicion against her herself, however, and states that she voluntarily renounces her inheritance - after all, life insurance worth half a million marks - in favor of the young family.
Another suspect is Malte Lehmann, Margot's brother and technical director of the clinic in Altona . For years he had issued bogus invoices to a glazier company for repairs to windows in the basement, even though the rooms were windowless. Weckwört had suggested a voluntary disclosure to his brother-in-law. However, Lehmann is ruled out as a perpetrator because he has an alibi.
At the same time as the investigators' investigations, strange things are happening on the Hamburg islands of Neuwerk and Scharhörn . A black boy is hiding there in the dunes. The mudflat worker Helm finds the boy shot in the water and takes him to his building shack.
Stoever and Brockmöller find out that Weckwört called Neuwerk on the day of his death to order a horse-drawn carriage to the bird island of Scharhörn. Little by little, the commissioners realize the connection between their colleague and the black boy on Neuwerk: Weckwört's son Sönke had discovered three stowaways from Africa on his ship. Two of them had already been thrown overboard and drowned by Captain Behrens and his Russian crew at the behest of the shipowner Brusbarg, but the boy was able to save himself as a good swimmer to Scharhörn. Weckwört wanted to help in this refugee drama at the request of his son; The shipowner got behind this plan and shot the policeman.
Production notes
With this episode, the duo returns to the scene of episode 328 Death on Neuwerk . As in many other episodes, the actors Manfred Krug and Charles Brauer also appear in this episode as a vocal duo: They sing Bye Bye Blackbird . Ivan Desny and the Tatort director Jürgen Roland will be guest actors .
reception
Audience rating
It was first broadcast on January 7, 2001. The ARD broadcast achieved a market share of 25.06 percent with 9.5 million viewers.
Web links
- Death before Scharhörn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Death before Scharhörn on the ARD website
- Death in front of Scharhörn at the crime scene fund
- Death in front of Scharhörn at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.tatort-fundus.de: The songs from Krug und Brauer , accessed on July 5, 2013.
- ↑ www.tatort-fundus.de: Tod vor Scharhörn , accessed on July 5, 2013.
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previous episode December 17, 2000: The woman on the train |
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next episode January 28, 2001: Nothing more under control |
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