Crime scene: Of cops and bears
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | About bulls and bears |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SFB |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 445 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | June 4, 2000 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Freundner |
| script | Pim Richter |
| production | Hans-Werner Honert |
| music | Joachim von Gerndt |
| camera | Jo home |
| cut | Margrit Schulz |
| occupation | |
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About bulls and bears is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by the SFB and first broadcast on June 4, 2000. It is the fourth case of the investigator duo Hellmann and Ritter and the 445th crime scene episode. Hellmann and Ritter have to clarify the murder of a taxi driver and a stock market journalist and get on the trail of falsified accounts and investment fraud.
action
Berlin-based MARAM AG celebrates its stock exchange offering, the young boss Michaela Rambeck leaves the company with documents and wants to drive away, her father Manfred Rambeck, who is visiting his old company to celebrate the day, prevents his daughter from doing so because he wants to celebrate with her and hands over the documents to the young taxi driver Tom Briele, who is supposed to take them to the bank instead. Through a near-accident, he becomes aware of the documents in the suitcase and recognizes the explosiveness of the same. In the evening Briele made a blackmail call and offered to return the documents for a large sum of money, otherwise he would sell the documents elsewhere. In a parking garage, he expects the money to be handed over a little later, instead he is knocked down, driven in his taxi to a secluded place and burned there. Michaela Rambeck found out that same evening to her surprise that the documents had not arrived. Hellmann and Ritter are called to the scene of the crime, the dead man can quickly be identified as Tom Briele, he studied business administration and drove a taxi on the side. The officials quickly find out through Ritter's former boss that his last tour was the courier trip for the MARAM AG company. Hellmann and Ritter seek out Michaela Rambeck, who tells the officials that she is assuming that the documents have arrived, after seeming inquiries she is surprised that they have disappeared. She states that the competition is interested in the balance sheet figures transported, but would certainly not kill anyone for it.
Although everything points to the robbery of Briele, Ritter does not believe in it because the act seems to have been prepared. In Briele's apartment, the officers found evidence that someone must have recently searched the apartment. Hellmann, who is a MARAM shareholder himself, takes Ritter to the “Bullen und Bären” café, where stock market traders meet to exchange knowledge. The officers are observed when entering the café by Rolf Michalke, the head of security at MARAM. Inside, they learn that the stock market journalist Dr. Alexander Gerlach also recommends MARAM shares, although he is married to Amelie, Rambeck's second daughter, and has fallen out with his family by marriage. However, an insider tells Ritter that the company's shares are overvalued and that they have financial problems due to several bad speculations with real estate. Meanwhile, Michaela Rambeck learns that the company itself can only get office supplies against prepayment. Dr. Meanwhile, Gerlach is threatened in his car by a masked man who thinks that Gerlach has speculated with MARAM, including recommending the shares. Hellmann learns from Weber that Briele was slain and was already dead before his taxi was set on fire.
Ritter seeks out Briele's friend Jessica Hartmann, an unknown burglar is in her apartment, the knight escapes. Jessica tells Ritter that Briele was euphoric at their last get-together and said they would soon be filthy rich. Michaela Rambeck meanwhile meets with Hellmann, she rejects rumors about financial problems of MARAM, even her hated brother-in-law would recommend her shares. Ritter bursts into the meeting and speaks to Rambeck about the speculation, whereupon she leaves the restaurant. The next morning, Ritter shows the incredulous Hellmann a MARAM property in downtown Berlin. Despite the prime location, the office building is empty, and in the building the officials only meet Michalke. Meanwhile, the bailiff appears at the Gerlachs, Dr. Gerlach then confesses to his wife Amelie that he had speculated about the Asian crisis and that they are therefore heavily in debt. Gerlach asks his wife to ask for help from her father, who disinherited her because of the wedding. Meanwhile, Michaela Rambeck appears in the building and is calm to the officials about the vacancy, which will soon be finished. Shareholder Hellmann is reassured, but Ritter draws his attention to the vacancy of office properties in the entire city center. Investors have obviously overestimated the pull of the unified Berlin so far.
Meanwhile, Gerlach asks Manfred Rambeck for financial help and offers him to part with his daughter in return, so that he can "get her back". Rambeck refuses, whereupon Gerlach threatens to publish his dossier about the false speculations of Michaela as the new managing director and thereby ruin MARAM, Rambeck sends him away. Rambeck seeks out his daughter Amelie shortly thereafter, he tries to make it clear to her that he has not let her down, he has provided for her financially and wants her to part ways with Gerlach, but she also refuses when her father makes her “offer “Told her husband. Meanwhile, Ritter learns from an insider in "Bullen und Bären" that a company called "Bella Vista" has also speculated, this is related to MARAM. While Gerlach is threatened again by the masked stranger in the evening, Hellmann meets with Michaela Rambeck, she also gives him her balance sheet over a romantic dinner. As they get closer, Amelie, who wants to leave her husband, bursts in. Michaela is jealous of her sister, who, despite her marriage to Gerlach, was financially far better financially by the father than the enterprising Michaela. Hellmann and Ritter found out the next morning that Michaela's balance sheet was not complete, the bankruptcy of the subsidiary Bella Vista was not mentioned there, and Hellmann was now also suspicious.
Hellmann and Ritter, aware of the extent of MARAM's financial difficulties, speculate that Michaela Rambeck must have bought her brother-in-law for him to recommend MARAM shares as a stock market expert. Meanwhile, the taxi driver reports to the officials who must have driven the murderer away from the scene after the taxi was ignited. He shows a photo of Alexander Gerlach from the business section of the newspaper that Gerlach smelled of petrol. Hellmann and Ritter rush to the Gerlach's house, but find him there slain. Amelie sits apathetically next to it. On the ashtray with which Gerlach was killed, Amelie's fingerprints as well as strangers were found. Amelie reports that she came back from shopping, the door was open and then she found her husband dead. Manfred Rambeck shows up in the presidium and confesses the murder of his son-in-law, who asked him for money, but then became insulting, so that Rambeck lost his temper. Hellmann and Ritter now have a perpetrator for both murders, but do not see the case as completely resolved. Meanwhile Weber finds out that fingerprints on a light switch in Gerlach's house belong to Rolf Michalke, who has a criminal record as a dishonorable dismissed BGS officer.
Hellmann and Ritter discover that Gerlach's files are missing the current dossier; the murderer must have taken it. Briele's friend Jessica gives the officers a locker key, which Briele must have sent them by registered mail shortly before his death. In the locker you will find the suitcase containing MARAM shares worth one million D-Marks, as well as a recording of Briele's blackmail call to Gerlach. The officials suspect that Gerlach blackmailed his sister-in-law after the Briele murder failed to bring him to the shares. Meanwhile, Michalke demands that Michaela Rambeck pay his salary, after all, he did the dirty work, shadowed the police and threatened Gerlach, but Rambeck cannot pay. When Manfred Rambeck arrives with Amelie and confronts Michaela about the falsified balance sheets, Michalke pulls a gun and takes all three of them hostage, he demands two million Deutschmarks for himself. He forces Manfred Rambeck to drive with him and the hostages to his bank, with a trick Rambeck can phone Hellmann and discreetly tell him the destination. Michalke sends Rambeck to the bank to get the money while he waits in the car with his daughters, Hellmann and Ritter manage to talk to Rambeck in the bank and then overpower Michalke and free the hostages unharmed. Hellmann finds Gerlach's notebook in Michaela's handbag, which she conveys as the murderer of her brother-in-law. Michalke and Michaela are arrested.
production
The crime scene of bulls and bears is a production on behalf of the SFB for Das Erste . The film was shot in Berlin . When it first aired on June 4, 2000, Von Bullen und Bären had 6.81 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 23.06%.
criticism
TV Spielfilm rated the film only mediocre and commented "Logical weaknesses - smoothed out with jokes".
Web links
- Of bulls and bears in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bulls and bears in the online film database
- Bulls and bears in the crime scene fund
- From bulls and bears at Tatort-Fans.de
- Summary of the plot of Bulls and Bears on the ARD website
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: From cops and bears at tatort-fundus.de
- ↑ From Bulls and Bears tv feature film
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