Crime scene: wolf in sheep's clothing

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Wolf in sheep's clothing
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production ; company	Bavarian radio
length	83 minutes
classification	Episode 492 ( List )
First broadcast	February 24, 2002 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Filippos Tsitos
script	Stefanie Kremser
production	Veith von Fürstenberg
music	Martin Grassl
camera	James Jacobs
cut	Dirk Göhler
occupation
	Udo Wachtveitl : Franz Leitmayr, KHK; Miroslav Nemec : Ivo Batic, KHK; Franz Xaver Kroetz : Karl Stadler; Hendrik Duryn : Maximilian Stadler; Brigitta Köhler : Frieda Stadler; Achim Buch : Jost Schulze; Tatjana Alexander : Cindy Schulze; Michael Fitz : Carlo Menzinger, Commissioner; Hussi Kutlucan : Arkan Ergin; Ünal Silver : Reçep Ergin; Claudio Caiolo : Giuseppe Santini; Christian Baumann : Man in a tracksuit; Adele Neuhauser : Credit Advisor; Hakan Can : shopkeeper; Herman van Ulzen : Dr. Josef Vogler, veterinarian; Hans B. Goetzfried : forensic medicine; Bernd Dechamps : chief taxidermist; Thomas Munkas Meinhardt : clerk of the forensic investigation; Sabine Kretzschmar :; Rinaldo Talamonti : Vittorio; Herbert Fischer: Schorsch; Wulf Schmid Noerr : Guardian; Wolfgang Thon : Truck stop owner; Safir Huseyin :; Necdet Mantar : host in "Gödöllö";

Wolf in Sheep's Clothing is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk and directed by Filippos Tsitos was first broadcast on February 24, 2002 on ARD's first program. It is the 31st case in which the Munich investigator duo Batic and Leitmayr are investigating.

action

There seems to be Anatolian conditions at Karl Stadler's farm outside Munich: intensive trade in lambs and even slaughter . His son Maximilian tries to persuade him to finally sell the farm and his manager Schulze draws his attention to the slaughter. Stadler does not allow himself to be talked about.

The next day Schulze was found stabbed to death near the flock of sheep on the Munich Panzerwiese . He had taken over the service for shepherd Giuseppe and supposedly wanted to return to the east with his wife Cindy in the near future. The sheepdog has disappeared. The KHK Batic and Leitmayr receive the first information from Frieda Stadler, because her husband is very affected by the death. But he seems to be the only one - even Cindy Schulze is strangely composed. The investigation is extremely tough given the obdurate farm workers.

Arkan Ergin, the son of the court mechanic Reçep Ergin, who had to leave the Stadlerhof after Schulze denounced him there, appears highly suspicious. When Batic and Leitmayr follow the Ergins in the evening after they leave their local pub, they find that they leave their business cards on vehicles with body damage in order to earn something. Arkan Ergin admits to want to scare Schulze with the sheep's head impaled.

Schulze's apparently positive image at Stadler is clouded when the inspectors give him the tip to take a closer look at the stocks in the yard. The powder he finds there puzzles him on the one hand, and on the other hand he is now listening to the plans of Maximilian's riding stable and even admitting to him that he is the father of Jost Schulze. The investigations show that Schulze fed the sheep with deworming powder for large sums of money and that Stadler participated in it to keep the farm going. Maximilian Stadler confesses to his parents after he learned that Schulze does not want to go back to the East. Shortly before his self-execution in the hay barn, he is caught by the commissioners.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Wolf in Sheep's Clothing on February 24, 2002 was seen by 8.66 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.7% for Das Erste .

Reviews

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm put their thumbs up and say: "Kroetz and the squabbling are fun".

““ Wolf in Sheep's Clothing ”is a very special local thriller delicacy. A farm near the big city, plus two urban investigators - that's something. In addition, there is the motley workforce. A piece of multicultural utopia is almost lived on the farm of the taciturn Karl Stadler. This article comes from http://www.tittelbach.tv/programm/reihe/artikel-457.html "

- Rainer Tittelbach : tittelbach.tv