Crime scene: dark chocolate

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Dark chocolate
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company
SFB
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 518 ( List )
First broadcast December 15, 2002 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Erhard Riedlsperger
script Gerhard J. Rekel
production Jürgen Haase
music Andreas Lonardoni ,
Michael Klaukien
camera Frank Bruhne
cut Christine Boock
occupation

Dark chocolate is a television film from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . It is the sixth joint case of the Berlin investigator duo Ritter and Stark . The SFB produced the film under the direction of Erhard Riedlsperger and was broadcast for the first time on December 15, 2002 in Das Erste .

action

Shortly after the well-known psychologist and court expert Prof. Probst carried out a confrontation therapy against fear of heights on the Grunewald Tower, he fell down from there himself. Gustav, the son of a tourist who is about to visit the observation tower, is the first to notice the accident and immediately looks around the tower entrance. He meets a fleeing man who then drives away in a red car. He reports his observations to the police and can later identify the car as a Volvo based on photos.

A first lead leads the inspectors Ritter and Stark to Walter Meisner, a violent client of Probst who had seriously threatened the victim years ago. However, he can provide an alibi for the time of the crime. The next way is to the chocolate manufacturer Hofmann, on whom a red Volvo is registered. They examine the family more closely and find out that there is a complaint against Thomas Hofmann-Brixel, the stepfather of their two daughters Ruth and Alice Hofmann, for abuse. Professor Probst had written an opinion against Hofmann-Brixel, but the daughters had withdrawn the complaint shortly before the court date, which rules out a murder out of revenge. However, Hofmann-Brixel still seems emotionally troubled when the language comes to Probst, as he was biased in his opinion. However, since the public prosecutor's office investigates any suspected cases of abuse, the opinion could be decisive as to whether Hofmann-Brixel is convicted. It is also striking that the stepfather transferred his company shares to Ruth Hofmann on the condition that no charges were brought against him.

For Ritter and Stark, the solution to the case must be found in the chocolate factory and the Hofmann family. Sixteen-year-old Alice Hofmann is questioned strongly and she admits to having made a false statement against her stepfather. Her sister would have explained exactly what to say. Ritter deals with the attractive Ruth Hofmann, who tries to win him over to her side. She explains that her company is on the verge of bankruptcy, which is where her stepfather took her. He gets the impression that Ruth would be able to accuse Hofmann-Brixel of murder just to get revenge and have the company to himself.

When Probst's widow was broken into and the computer with all the examination results and reports was stolen, the investigators quickly tracked Meisner. He openly admits that he fetched the documents from Probst, since he can finally prove that his reports were based on text modules and that Probst did not deliver any individual work. Suddenly Hofmann-Brixel also shows up at Meisner's and explains that Probst wanted to destroy him, the whole family. He asked Meisner to steal the documents so that he could prove this scandal.

With all the excitement, Hofmann-Brixel suffers a heart attack and dies, which throws the Hofmanns even more off track. Wife Margot Hofmann has long blamed the public prosecutor Ellinghaus for the fact that the charges against her husband have not yet been dropped. In her anger she shoots Ellinghaus and threatens to kill herself. In an interview with Stark, she admits that she wanted to talk to Probst, but he did not listen to her and she pushed him over the parapet of the tower.

background

Dark chocolate was produced by ProVobis Film on behalf of Sender Free Berlin (SFB), which merged with the ORB to form Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) in 2003 and has since had two offices in Potsdam-Babelsberg and Berlin-Charlottenburg . The shooting took place in Berlin.

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on December 15, 2002, the episode dark chocolate was seen by 7.98 million viewers in Germany, corresponding to a market share of 21.80 percent.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm think that this crime scene is: "Not a truffle praline, but tasty."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Location on Internet Movie Database , accessed September 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ Audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on September 27, 2014.
  3. Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on September 28, 2014.