Crime scene: betrayed and sold

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Betrayed and sold
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 573 ( List )
First broadcast September 19, 2004 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Peter F. Bringmann
script Peter Goslizki and Mario Giordano
production Sonja Goslicki
music Paul Vincent Gunia
camera Michael Faust
cut Gisela Zick
occupation

Betrayed and Sold is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by WDR was broadcast on September 19, 2004 in the first program of ARD . It is the 29th case of the investigative team Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk and the 573rd crime scene episode.

action

The young Sven-Uwe Schütze is found run over on a federal road. The address of the Hansa-Bau company in Cologne can be found in his pocket . The inspectors Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk go there and meet his friend Gregor Schernikau. He and Uwe moved from Bismark to Cologne because they could both get work here.

Ballauf and Schenk determine what connection the victim had to three students at the noble Albertus Magnus boarding school , since a note with their names was found in his apartment. Thomas Loebelt, Marc Landauer and Daniela Paulke are then asked about Sven-Uwe Schütze and say they do not know him.

When the victim's grandmother learns of the tragic death of her grandson, the old lady travels to Cologne and meets with the investigators. They ask her if she knows what her grandson has to do with the three boarding school students. She is puzzled when she hears the name Paulke, because she knows an Irene Paulke. A journalist who was interested in her husband's war experiences and who even lived with the Schützes during her research. After that, however, she didn't get in touch. As Ballauf and Schenk determine, she is the mother of Daniela Paulke and has paid a large amount in euros for the exclusive rights to the publication of his biography. Furthermore, she receives a large amount every month from a bank whose heir is Thomas Loebelt and whose friends include the Landauer family. This friendship is also carried on through Thomas and Marc.

Since the solution to the case will most likely lead through the three boarding school students and who are not very cooperative, Freddy Schenk decides to investigate undercover in the school. Disguised as a caretaker, he infiltrates the boarding school in order to be able to go there in peace to search for clues. He quickly came into contact with the secretary Christa Rentzel. She knows a lot about everyone and is a great help in his research. So she knows that Thomas Loebelt likes to help himself in his grandfather's fleet and often lends the cars to classmates. In return, they help him to get better grades. Since the Loebeltbank is the main sponsor of the school, it is interested in good grades from the Loebelt pupil and tolerates these deals. When he sees a red jaguar on the boarding school grounds, Schenk takes a cell phone photo of it and sends it to Ballauf for review. After all, the victim was very likely run over in a similar car.

After a long search, the forensic doctor succeeded in determining the weapon used. In his view, the victim must have been incapacitated with pepper spray , then beaten to death with a baseball bat or club, and then dragged into the street. With this knowledge and details about the sports car, Ballauf goes to a meeting with boarding school director Elisabeth Mahlmann. However, a survey by Marc Landauer cannot provide any new information.

The next day Gregor Schernikau is found dead. He was also drugged with pepper spray and then beaten to death with a stick. After Schenk got to know the martial arts of the boarding school, he is sure that the victim was killed with one of these Asian sticks. Then all of the school's hanbos are examined in the laboratory in the hope that the murder weapon is among them.

For Ballauf it is clear after his research: Sven-Uwe Schütze had, based on the research of Irene Paulke, evidence that the Loebelts were involved in the murder of Marc Landauer's grandparents in the Third Reich and thus appropriated their credit bank. With this knowledge, Schütze wanted to blackmail the Loebelts. He had confided in his friend Gregor Schernikau, who now wanted to continue the blackmail on his own. That's why he was killed too. Although the two boarding school students were previously the main suspects, it now turns out that Mahlmann was the SS man who killed the Landauers when they tried to escape to Switzerland. Since that would have been the downfall of Elisabeth Mahlmann and her elite school if the events surrounding the Landauers had been published, she killed Sven-Uwe Schütze and Gregor Schernikau. As a sports teacher, she was proficient in handling the Hanbō. Thomas Loebelt and Marc Landauer only had contact with the dead man lying on the street during a nocturnal jaunt in the Jaguar.

background

The film was shot from November 11 to December 11, 2003 in Cologne and the surrounding area under the working title Old Invoices .

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Vergere und Sold on September 19, 2004 was seen by 8.03 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.6 percent for the first.

Reviews

Tilmann P. Gangloff from Tittelbach.tv writes very matter-of-factly: “The veteran director Peter F. Bringmann stages the film [...] largely unpretentiously: The only thing that should be told here is a crime thriller. There is a lot of dry ice floating around , all the rooms are basically covered with smoke and there are also subtle color filters in outdoor shots [...], but Bringmann never distracts from the action. An exquisite cast provides additional charm. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm judge this crime scene: “In football, Cologne has been relegated, but in the 'Tatort' league, the Cologne duo usually play at the top. In this case, the plot surprises with references to the brown German past. [Conclusion:] Attractively cast, gripping story. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tatort fund: betrayed and sold. Background and audience rating. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
  2. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: Series "Tatort - betrayed and sold". Film review at Tittelbach.tv, accessed on September 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ TV feature film: Tatort: ​​Betrayed and sold. Brief review accessed on September 1, 2014.
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