Crime scene: funeral mass
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Funeral mass |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 471 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | May 20, 2001 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Freundner |
| script | Andreas Pflüger , Pim Richter |
| production | Jan Kruse |
| music | JJ Gerndt |
| camera | Philippe Cordey |
| cut | Margrit Schulz |
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Totenmesse is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD , ORF and SRF . The film was first broadcast by MDR on May 20, 2001. It is the crime scene episode 471. For detective chief inspector Bruno Ehrlicher and his colleague Kain it is the fifth case they are investigating in Leipzig .
action
Hagen Peukert from Urban Invest AG is dissatisfied with the old-fashioned film presentation of Messe Leipzig . His mentor Caspar Freyberg not only sees the bad, but leaves the field to Peukert. Together they visit architect Martin Frings, who is under a lot of pressure - after all, he has hay fever and tax investigations in the house, as he told his accountant Margit Baumann. Freyberg demands a cheaper solution for the roof structure compared to Frings.
Margit Baumann leaves the architecture office with a smug grin and leads a typical blackmail talk with very expensive fashion labels in the background. After her financial demands become outrageous, an unknown man takes action and pushes her from the balcony on the 6th floor.
After a failed call to his lover Susanne Scheffler, Hagen Peukert meets his grieving wife Claudia at home - but withdraws without a word and then rejects her. His lover has big plans with her boyfriend Markus Ringwald and cannot develop much enthusiasm for the idea of going to New York with Hagen Peukert. Nevertheless, she continues the double game, makes Hagen Peukert happy and offends Markus Ringwald, who happens to come to her apartment in the meantime.
Martin Frings admits to the two inspectors that he was at Margit Baumann's apartment on the evening in question, where he wanted to confront her about the money embezzlement that came out of the tax audit. He couldn't say more about it.
Ehrlicher confronts Freyberg with an unerring instinct that it is actually he, and not the much younger Peukert, who is the right man for the board position in New York. Freyberg gives an unconvincing answer. After Peukert's nomination as a board member, he and his wife Claudia visit the grave of their daughter Mareike, who died three years ago. Claudia Peukert is relieved to get some distance from the events in New York. Her husband can not hear more and runs stante pede to his lover, who says "Yes" to New York.
A short time later, anonymously sent documents prove that Susanne Scheffler was assigned to Peukert by Frings. The next morning, Susanne Scheffler is found dead in Ringwald's lap, who is holding a large, bloody kitchen knife in his hand. In the music CD collection, Kain and Ehrlicher find an intimate photo of Scheffler with Peukert. Peukert speaks of a "fleeting affair" and receives an alibi from Freyberg, who keeps a video of Mareike's accident in his hunting lodge and shows Ehrlicher.
Peukert quits his service, Frings, sponsored by Freyberg, celebrates, only the commissioners are still no step further. Peukert detects Freyberg with a ticket and threatens him with a shotgun in the hunting lodge. The commissioners can follow him and arrest both of them. Walter's fluff filter and the expensive sweater transfer Freyberg for Margit Baumann's balcony lintel. Claudia Peukert convicts honest acumen for the murder of Susanne Scheffler.
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on May 20, 2001, the episode Totenmesse was seen by 7.43 million viewers in Germany, corresponding to a market share of 25.1 percent.
criticism
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave a top rating: "A complex case with harmonious characters."
The review at kino.de writes of an "exciting and tricky plot in an amoral business world."
Web links
- Crime scene: Requiem Mass in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mass for the dead in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of the funeral mass on the ARD website
- Funeral mass at the crime scene fund
- Dead mass at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quote at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on February 19, 2016.
- ^ Tatort: Totenmesse short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 19, 2016.
- ^ Tatort: Totenmesse Critics' reviews at kino.de, accessed on February 19, 2016.
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