Crime scene: When all the fountains flow

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title When all the fountains flow
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 NDR
length 98 minutes
classification Episode 149 ( List )
First broadcast June 26, 1983 on ARD
Rod
Director Pete Ariel
script Detlef Mueller
production Rudiger Humpert
music Eberhard Weber
camera Günther Wulff
cut Anja Cox
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When all Brünnlein flow is a German television thriller from NDR and was first broadcast on German television on June 26, 1983. It is the 149th episode of the crime series Tatort and the only case of Chief Inspector Ronke, played by Ulrich von Bock , who was Paul Trimmel 's assistant in seven cases as Chief Detective Petersen from 1972 to 1982 . Ronke has to do with the death of a building contractor and the question of whether it was murder or suicide.

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Transport entrepreneur Helmut Groth is in a difficult financial situation; his bank is pushing for loan repayment. Groth is putting off his bank with outstanding debts and expected follow-up orders, especially from his main customer, the building contractor Arnold Severing. Since he is building the local bypass and Groth expects the cooperation to continue, he assures his bank that his loans will be serviced as soon as possible. At home, however, Groth learns from his family that the further construction of the bypass road has been put on hold for an indefinite period due to cuts in state funds. Groth drives to Severing and demands his money, who makes it clear to him that he is currently unable to settle the outstanding debts of Groth and the other business partners. Severing sees his poor order situation as an opportunity to get closer to his wife Eva, from whom he has become estranged, but he has to realize that she is building up a new environment. While she goes to the morning pint of the artist Boris Hebgart and gets closer to him there, her husband is cleaning his hunting rifle at home, when the doorbell suddenly rings. When Helmut Groth later wants to visit Severing to apologize for his brutal behavior the day before, a shocked Eva Severing opens up to him, who tells him that her husband is dead and asks him for help. Everything looks like suicide, Groth advises her to call the police and leaves them alone if they wish.

Later she calls Groth again and meets with him. She tells him that her husband had taken out life insurance for DM 2.6 million, but will not pay it in the event of suicide. Since she has not yet called the police, Groth removes the body for her and sinks it in a lake to cover up possible traces of suicide and to fake a crime. While Groth removes Severing's weapon, Mrs. Severing calls her husband's friends and pretends to be worried about her husband's whereabouts. The next morning, Ms. Severing reports her husband to the police as missing. On the same day, anglers find Severing's body, detective chief Ronke and his assistant Wieler inspect the body and suspect murder. Ronke brings the "sad" news to the widow, she is shocked but composed. He asks her whether one of the sub-contractors affected by the construction freeze could have chosen her husband as a whipping boy, she explains to Ronke that she could not help him. Severing's guard Kaluppka visits Ronke and Wieler and tells the officials about the argument between Groth and Severing on the day before Severing's death. When Ronke hears that Groth threatened Severing, he pricks up the ears. The town planning council condolences Ms. Severing and reports on having visited Severing on Sunday evening to tell him personally about the district meeting. He didn't find him there, but a man he couldn't recognize must have left the house at the same time. This is what he said to the police.

Ronke and Wieler visit Helmut Groth and ask him about his business relationship with Severing. The officials already know about Severing's strikes with Groth and ask him about his alibi. He claims to have carried out gravel work on his father-in-law's pit at 5 p.m. Later he admits to his wife and his father-in-law Paulig that he was doing business with Mrs. Severing and instructs them both to confirm his statements, but Paulig refuses. While Wieler learns from his colleagues that Severing's car and a usable footprint have been found, Ms. Severing Ronke tells that her husband's safe had been emptied, gold bars worth DM 300,000 had been deposited there. Eva Severing later meets with Groth, who is becoming increasingly nervous and says he should get out of the agreement and tell the truth if the officers suspect him of murder. At home, Groth has to watch Ronke and his colleagues check his shoes, since he left the dirty rubber boots in the shed on the evening in question, the officers cannot find them. He takes the opportunity to urge his father-in-law to give him the alibi, which Ronke does not, however, impress. In the evening Groth wants to dispose of the boots, but is followed and arrested by Ronke and his colleagues. Groth then confesses to the removal of Severing's corpse, his assurance that he has nothing to do with Severing's death, the officers do not believe him. He also reports that the gold bars from Severing's safe do not exist and where he hid Severing's rifle. He sank the body in the pond instead of in the Elbe so that it could be found quickly. However, the officers cannot find the weapon in the specified hiding place.

Ronke goes to see Frau Severing, who shows him her husband's hunting rifles and claims that her husband gave one away while hunting years ago. Her husband's life insurance is also due in the event of suicide, she denies that she had a deal with Groth. Her new boyfriend Hebgart also confirms that she was supposedly with him at the time she met Groth. Ronke and Wieler confront Groth with this, and the forensic medicine department has meanwhile been able to determine that Severing must have been shot from at least two and a half meters, and there were gold bars that Groth said had only been invented by Eva Severing. Groth desperately protests his innocence, but because of the overwhelming burden of proof, the officers do not believe him. Meanwhile, Boris Hebgart wants to know from his lover Eva why he should lie to the police for her. She states that Groth wants to drag her into his murder, she is afraid of Groth and just wants to be left alone. Meanwhile, not even Groth's lawyer believes in his innocence and advises Groth to plead that he is less responsible. In the evening Groth rioted in the cell and urged another conversation with Ronke, who he told that only Eva Severing could have got the rifle from its hiding place, because he had only told her this. He asks Ronke to follow up on this lead. Ronke starts a bluff by calling Ms. Severing and telling her that the rifle was found by the police and that she should come to the presidium later that day to identify it.

Eva Severing actually drives to the rifle's hiding place under observation by Wieler. When she later turns up at Ronke's, Wieler brings the rifle out of Eva's hiding place, the officers confront her with the fact that they know that she has deposited it in the hiding place and that her fingerprints can certainly be found on it. Eva Severing then confesses that after her return from morning pint she found her husband drunk, that he insulted and insulted her so that she killed him in an affect. When Groth rang the doorbell, she saw her chance to blame him for the deed.

Audience and background

When it was first broadcast, the episode reached 13.11 million viewers and thus a market share of 38.00%. It was filmed in the Stade district and in Hamburg.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film as mediocre and judged: "Routine staging of an original idea".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When all the wells flow on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on November 15, 2015.
  2. ↑ When all the Brünnlein flow Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on November 15, 2015.
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