Crime scene: Vera's weapons
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Vera's weapons |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Saarland radio |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 553 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 28, 2003 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans-Christoph Blumenberg |
| script | Hans-Christoph Blumenberg |
| music | Frank Nimsgern |
| camera | Klaus Peter Weber |
| cut | Florentine Bruck |
| occupation | |
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Vera's weapons is a television film from the crime scene crime series by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by the Saarländischer Rundfunk under the direction of Hans-Christoph Blumenberg . It is the 16th case of Chief Inspector Max Palu, played by Jochen Senf, and the 553rd crime scene episode. It first aired on December 28, 2003 on Das Erste .
In the course of the investigation into three murder cases, Palu uncovered the intrigues surrounding an opinion research institute, which is about maintaining power at any price.
action
The young student Peter Bendzko is killed with three shots one night after stealing old footage from an archive. Chief Inspector Max Palu found research material on Professor Vera Maxheimer in his apartment. She is a sought-after PR strategist who has set up her opinion research institute in Saarbrücken and advises high-ranking politicians on their election strategies.
Palu first asked Arnold Leidecker, for whom the victim researched and also worked. Leidecker had tried in vain to get an interview from Vera Maxheimer, but after she refused, he obtained the material about Bendzko, who had worked by the hour for the Maxheimer Institute.
Vera Maxheimer has been blackmailed since the night of the murder. On the stolen film reels were scenes from her call girl past from student days. These cine film recordings could seriously endanger her image, after all she is the leading pollster and her clientele is very elitist. Just as she wants to consult with her old friend and college colleague Marion von Pahl, Max Palu appears and wants to ask her about Bendzko. But she says she doesn't know anything about the young man. In the evening she wants to give the blackmailer the requested money at an agreed location. But she only finds one more corpse there.
Palu thus concentrates even more on Vera Maxheimer and comes across not only her questionable past, but also the disappearance of the boss of the brothel for whom Vera Maxheimer had worked at the time. But even Arnold Leidecker does not give up in his research and since Bendzko is no longer available to him, he uses his girlfriend Ulrike Frank to get more material about Maxheimer. While Ulrike is secretly looking for documents in the institute late in the evening, she is caught by the managing director Ernst Wohlfahrt. He drives off with her in the car and a short time later the young woman is found dead in it. Palu quickly realizes that the car accident was just a cover and that murder was behind it. To find out the motive, he asks her friend Leidecker, who is now handing the inspector an envelope that Bendzko had given his girlfriend for safekeeping. It contains material about employees of the Maxheimer Institute, so that Ernst Wohlfahrt moves into the focus of his investigations for Palu.
After Vera Maxheimer suffers a breakdown, Palu realizes that the blackmail only had the purpose of pushing the boss away from the management floor. Ernst Wohlfahrt was the henchman of Maxheimer's best friend Marion. She did not want to allow the institute not to represent a high-ranking politician whom Vera Maxheimer had turned down as a client. For her as an entrepreneur, a fortune would be at stake if the election resulted in a change of power. Palu can blow up the intrigue and persuade them to make an involuntary confession.
background
Telefilm Saar GmbH produced Vera's weapons on behalf of the SR in Saarbrücken .
reception
Audience ratings
When it first aired on December 28, 2003, Veras Waffen reached a total of 5.82 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 17.10 percent.
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv writes: “Blumenberg has always had a weakness for mythical systems and manipulation devices. When the door from one world to the other opens imperceptibly, his films can get a magical pull. With 'Veras Waffen' it doesn't work as well as it does with Blumenberg's films and the early Palu 'Tatorte'. At that time, the former film critic told even more in pictures. Instead, he is closer to human drama and his actors today. And they [...] bring it and turn 'Vera's weapons' into a pleasantly old-fashioned 'crime scene' thriller. "
Also TV movies rated this scene with the thumbs up and says: "The passionate cyclists Palu rarely gets going, but here he's going." It is a "conventional case, played with taste".
Web links
- Crime scene: Veras weapons in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Vera's weapons on the ARD website
- Vera's weapons at Tatort-Fans.de
- Vera's weapons at the crime scene fund
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vera's Weapons at Internet Movie Database , accessed April 10, 2015.
- ^ Tatort: Vera's weapons at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on April 10, 2015.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Jochen Senf, Gregor Weber, Blumenberg. In the cellar of an opinion researcher, film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on April 10, 2015.
- ↑ Vera's weapons at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on April 10, 2015.
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