Tatort: ​​We'll call him Mischa

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title We'll call him Misha
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 186 ( List )
First broadcast September 21, 1986 on ORF
Rod
Director Kurt Junek
script Kurt Junek,
Harald Mini
production Peter Müller
music Ewald Beit
camera Wolfgang Koch
cut Hilde Ohandjanians
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We'll call him Mischa is an Austrian television thriller from 1986. The screenplay was written by Kurt Junek and Harald Mini , and Kurt Junek also directed. It was the 186th Tatort episode and the ninth and last case by Oberinspektor Hirth ( Kurt Jaggberg ), but of these nine episodes only three were episodes of the official Tatort series, the remaining six were Tatort episodes of the ORF, the only first broadcast there and partly not shown on television in Germany. Hirth and his team are faced with a bank robbery that resulted in death, as well as the victim's relatives' thirst for revenge.

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Heavily pregnant Helga Waschinski is undergoing a preventive medical check-up, and she and her husband want to name their child "Mischa". On the way home, Helga happened to witness a bank robbery, she recognized one of the perpetrators, whom she addressed as "Kurt". His accomplice then shoots her down and kidnaps a little girl who saw the crime. In addition, the perpetrators run over Helga Waschinski while trying to escape. The two bank robbers, Kurt Schneider and his accomplice Helmut Horvath get into an argument. Kurt denies knowing the witness. He is shocked that Helmut shot and says that he would not have let himself into the bank robbery if he had thought he could murder. He wasn't going to let them kill the little girl too. In the meantime, Hirth and his team arrive at the crime scene; they only get vague statements from the witnesses. In the hospital, Hirth learns that Helga Waschinski's condition is extremely critical and that she is struggling with death. He brings the terrible news to her husband Hermann.

Schulz was meanwhile able to find out that the kidnapped girl's name is Sabine Preber and that she passed the bank on her way home. Meanwhile, Hermann Waschinski learns of the life-threatening condition of his wife and is faced with the choice of the doctors to give birth to his child by caesarean section with the risk that his wife will not survive the birth or that both may die in the course of the next few days. Fichtl and Hollocher try to find out in Helga's surroundings whether she knew a Kurt, but without success. Sabine has since appeared again, but the girl cannot provide any clues at first. Hermann has made up his mind that his son should be born. Dr. Putner and Schulz found the getaway car near the place where Sabine was found, but received no further information from it. Meanwhile, Mischa is born, but Helga Waschinski did not survive the birth. Fichtl can get confirmation from little Sabine that one of the men was called Kurt, the other was called Hartmut or Helmut.

Viktoria Neumann, a good college friend of Helga, calls Hermann Waschinski and tells him that she has thought of a Kurt Ratzinger who was a lecturer at the university. She had previously tried in vain to give Fichtl this information over the phone. Waschinski is looking for Dr. Ratzinger in his office at the university, when he cannot remember Helga, Waschinski goes mad at Ratzinger and beats him to hospital, before Fichtl, who has since been informed by Ms. Neumann, can intervene. Helga's sister Sylvia Stamitz cannot help the officers either, she is sure that her sister did not know Kurt. Meanwhile, Inspector Schulz goes it alone, embarrassing himself to the bone with an SEK. Helmut Horvath insists that his accomplice should finally tell him where he had known Helga from, but Kurt Schneider cannot remember, Kurt thinks the murder is Helmut's business, but Helmut makes it clear to Kurt that he is also involved and sends him to Helga's funeral, so that he should remember where he knew Helga from. Although Hirth and his entire team are present at the funeral, Kurt remains undisturbed at the funeral, where he sees Sylvia, and also knows how he knows Helga from. He assures his accomplice that Sylvia would not betray her.

Meanwhile, Hermann Waschinski learns that Mischa died in the hospital that night. Now he and his father-in-law Josef Koplinger are seeking revenge independently of each other and want to take the search for the perpetrator into their own hands. Waschinski gets a gun, while Koplinger as a hunter already has rifles at home. Shortly afterwards, Waschinski visits his sister-in-law Sylvia, he is convinced that she knows who Kurt is. She had to know because he and his father-in-law didn't know, only she was left. Incidentally, when asked if she knew a Kurt, she answered evasively. In tears, Sylvia confesses to her brother-in-law that she had a relationship with Kurt when she was already engaged to her husband Toni and that Kurt is the father of their son. So that Waschinski doesn't tell her husband, Sylvia reveals Kurt Schneider's address to him. While Waschinski goes there, Hirth and Councilor Dr. Putner on the case. During the interrogation of Sylvia, Putner noticed that she had used strange formulations. He asks Hirth to go through the minutes again. Meanwhile, the name of Kurt Schneider occurred to little Sabine, her father informs Inspector Fichtl and a race begins. While Hirth and his team first have to find the “right” Kurt Schneider, Waschinski confronts him and his accomplice Helmut, but when he tries to shoot Schneider, someone comes before him from an ambush. The officers arrive and can arrest Helmut and disarm Waschinski, but Helmut is also shot down from an ambush. Josef Koplinger steps out and hands the officers his hunting rifle without a word; the doctors cannot yet say whether Helmut and Kurt will get through.

Audience and background

We'll call it Mischa , when it was first broadcast on September 21, 1986, it had 19.8 million viewers and an audience rate of 50.0%. The episode was filmed in and around Vienna between February and April 1986.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film positively and said: "Exciting and oppressive:" Tatort de luxe "".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "We'll call him Mischa" at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 16, 2015.
  2. ↑ "We'll call him Mischa"
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