Crime scene: Undercover

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Undercover
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)
Studio Hamburg film production
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 512 ( List )
First broadcast October 27, 2002 on First German Television
Rod
Director Thomas Bohn
script Thomas Bohn
production Richard Schöps
music Hans Franek
camera Simon Schmejkal
cut Inge Bohmann
occupation

Undercover is a television film from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk under the direction of Thomas Bohn and first broadcast on October 27, 2002 in the Das Erste program. It is the 512th crime scene episode and the fourth case for the Hamburg chief detective Jan Casstorff ( Robert Atzorn ). It's about more than the death of a drug agent who, under mysterious circumstances, collapses after undergoing prostate surgery.

action

Binoculars watch a man leaving his house. The observer is connected to someone via radio and is asked about every action. Then a colleague takes over the chase. At around one o'clock in the morning, a man dragged himself to the hospital and fell over in front of the night nurse. Ward doctor Dr. Hermann Mölter initiates resuscitation measures, which however remain unsuccessful.

The dead person is Chief Detective Hermann Kissler from the Narcotics Department, who has succumbed to a circulatory collapse . He had only just survived prostate surgery. According to information from criminal investigator Bruno Kern, Kissler's colleague Alexander Brandt claims that Kissler was murdered. Brandt informs Chief Detective Casstorff about the so-called 'H-Connection', which spreads heroin from Afghanistan through Germany into the world. The 'ASP-Bank' laundered the drug money. However, there is little evidence for these statements at the moment.

Casstorff's colleague Holicek hopes that Alex Brandt, who like him is a member of the shooting club, will provide further information on the background of organized crime and learn that the mastermind behind it all is a certain Michael Szevrinov, who made his contacts from his time as Yeltsin's foreign agent. Secretary of State for heroin deals. Kissler is said to have been very close to him. Then, however, the forensic autopsy confirms Brandt's suspicion. Kissler died of an overdose of sedatives that had been injected into him. Brandt's lavish lifestyle is striking. His wife, who is from Russia, declares that her husband has made a major inheritance.

Brandt takes Szevrinov and financial juggler Dr. Martens at the posh golf club by arresting them both on the grounds that they had murdered Kissler. A short time later, Chief Detective Bruno Kern appears in Casstorff's office and is beside himself about this measure. Casstorff is also confused, but meets an over-motivated colleague at Brandt who had hoped, after blood, sweat and tears, to finally get to the people behind him.

Everything seems to be very different. Suddenly BND man Rüth snows into the interrogation with Szevrinov and speaks of years of cooperation between the BND and Szevrinov, who, according to his own statement, has confidence in Dr. Martens and I am about to have verifiable findings on money laundering. At the end of the conversation, he demands silence about his true identity, as there is supposed to be a mole in the narcotics department.

Somehow Casstorff, Holicek and Graf get stuck. Then Kern bursts into the conversation and informs her about an arson attack on Brandt's car. Brandt himself only missed the detonation by four minutes. Brandt clearly shows what he thinks of Szevrinov and Martens being free again.

A call from Ms. Kissler calls the entire police armada on the scene, because they found a safe in her husband's office. Bank statements from 'Zürich Credit SA' list the Bank of Moscow's money movements. Meanwhile, a video cassette for Castorff is handed in at the police station and Brandt also receives a copy from Szevrinov in person while his pursuers ordered by the police are sitting on a doppelganger. The video cassettes show Brandt depositing the bomb in his own car.

Brandt now goes to Szevrinov in his house - but receives no information from him. Casstorff joins them and informs Brandt that Szevrinov is working undercover for the BND. Not only that, he says Brandt also that Kisslers death by the inability of the Famulus was caused Gregory Stone, the Kissler have injected the wrong drug because of actually attending physician Dr. Mölter just spent a lunchtime with sister Claudia.

From the same position as in the opening sequence, the leaving of the wounded Szevrinov is observed through binoculars and commented on. There is also a “fairly important bull ensemble” (Casstorff, Kern, Brandt). Then Dr. Martens called at night, whereupon he initiates a change in the money transfer. Casstorff is supposed to question Brandt because the colleagues from the narcotics department have found their leak - Kissler. The superintendent thinks that Brandt will do the rest. Casstorff's boss Bruno Kern offers to take over the interrogation for him. The inspector goes to Mrs. Kissler, who succinctly explains about her husband's activity as a spy: "Impossible, this man."

background

Subplot (private): Judith Vorbeck has since developed a very good relationship with her son. When Daniel picks up a sentence from his mother that he may not be Jan Casstorff's son, he absolutely wants to get to the bottom of the matter. Via a friend who has a relationship with a laboratory, he has a test done that shows that he is not Casstorff's son - a bad shock for him. In an empathetic conversation with his girlfriend, Daniel realizes that what counts in the end is how much you are loved by someone, that is what ultimately matters. When Daniel later wants to talk to his father about what he has found, he cannot bring himself to do it, as Jan even wants to go on a trip that his rich mother has planned for his sake. Once again he realizes how much this man loves him.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Undercover on October 27, 2002 was seen by a total of 9.62 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.60 percent for Das Erste .

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv writes: “After some respectable opening cases, Jan Castorff has arrived at the 'crime scene' reality: Since the stories are much more tailored to Robert Atzorn than the books for the teams from Cologne or Munich, for example he will carry the act largely alone. So where the Cologne Behrendt and Bär can catch any sagging with mutual teasing, Atzorn is on his own. The decision of the NDR to leave the 'Tatort' completely in the care of Thomas Bohn (script and direction) could prove to be a disadvantage; Even Bohn's 'Tatort' contributions from Ludwigshafen at some point left the suspense behind and even got carried away into weird science fiction fairy tales. With 'Undercover' it's fun to watch the actors at work, but real thriller suspense doesn't want to arise. "

TV Spielfilm already points to the successor of Robert Atzorn by Mehmet Kurtulus and writes: "Good case for Atzorn, clever and complex"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Undercover , accessed July 28, 2016.
  2. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Series "Tatort - Undercover". Robert Atzorn's Jan Castorff investigates the drug milieu and his own family at tittelbach.tv , accessed on July 28, 2016.
  3. ↑ Crime scene: Undercover . Commissioner Casstorff has to stop a vindictive colleague Short review at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on July 28, 2016.
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