Crime scene Berlin
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Crime scene Berlin |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans-Joachim Kunert |
| script |
Jens Gerlach Hans-Joachim Kunert |
| production | Erich Albrecht for DEFA |
| music | Günter Klück |
| camera | Otto Merz |
| cut | Evelyn Carow |
| occupation | |
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Tatort Berlin is a DEFA German crime film directed by Hans-Joachim Kunert in 1958.
action
A people's policeman is shot dead on the sector border in Berlin . The murder investigation commission is groping in the dark, even when it asks the West Berlin police for help.
After more than a year in prison for smuggling, the young East Berliner Rudi Prange is released early from prison for good conduct. He visits his mother, who lives in a rented apartment in East Berlin. Rudi's brother Walter is staying illegally in the western sector, where he does not have a regular job and lives at the expense and in the apartment of his girlfriend, the prostitute Marianne Möllner. Rudi refuses to join Walter and moves in with his mother. He starts working as a car mechanic in a transport company. Happy to be able to become a driver again, he notices that his passenger is using work orders to smuggle goods into West Berlin to a smuggler named Stachowski. His brother Walter, who wanted to pump Stachowski, observed this by chance and immediately extorted the rogue's wages from Rudi. Rudi tries to evade his criminal colleague by allowing himself to be transferred to the workshop. He quits his job when his passenger mockingly reveals his criminal past in front of other colleagues.
Rudi got to know the HO saleswoman Ilse and they both become a couple. When Rudi quit, he is dejected, Ilse will take over the management of her HO branch as a substitute and happily shows Rudi the key, which she should have given in the evening. Rudi, in turn, confesses to her that he has resigned and confesses his previous conviction to her. He assumes that the relationship with Ilse is over with the confession, but she continues to stand by him. The next morning, Ilse cannot find the key and has to use a spare key. When in the evening, as always, the day's receipts were picked up, an armed criminal assaulted the truck while it was being loaded and stole the money. Then he shoots a police officer who is chasing him. According to witness statements, the perpetrator wore a light-colored trench coat and fled towards West Berlin. He may be injured. When she was interrogated, Ilse also had to comment on the missing key and reluctantly reports that Rudi was with her that evening. Rudi, who found a new job after a short time, is arrested.
Rudi has no alibi for the time of the crime. He explains an injury to his face with a brawl for which he cannot name any witnesses. His light-colored trench coat also makes him suspicious. For Detective Inspector Stein, Rudi is the culprit, while Detective Inspector Rollberg has doubts. Then it turns out that the murder weapon must be identical to that of the murder on the sector border. Rudi can not do anything with the type of weapon presented to him, a Marine Parabellum . At the time of the crime, Rudi had not yet been released. A former friend of Ilse's in turn confirmed a short time later that he had seen Rudi in the fight. Rudi is released from custody, but is disaffected. He goes to Walter and agrees to work with him as a smuggler. According to a plan, both are supposed to steal Stachowski cameras from a truck in the GDR and bring them to a certain address in Berlin's eastern sector. He would do the rest. Your task is the theft and crossing the ring around Berlin , i.e. overcoming the road control between East Berlin and the GDR.
In the meantime, Ilse has found the key in her apartment. She wants to see Rudi, but learns from his mother that he is with Walter. She blames Ilse for it should Rudi become a criminal again. Ilse goes to the police and reports everything to Detective Inspector Stein. Both recognize that they had prejudices, especially since the police have become aware of Walter in the meantime. She found the thrown coat and in it a handkerchief with the monogram MM , like that of Walter's friend Marianne Möllner.
Meanwhile, Walter and Rudi steal the goods. Shortly before reaching the checkpoint, Walter draws a pistol. Rudi recognizes the model of the murder weapon that the police had presented to him. Rudi suddenly realizes that his brother Walter is a murderer. Horrified, he wants to get out immediately, but Walter threatens him. When the checkpoint breaches in the slipstream of a checked-in truck, Rudi brakes the car behind the barrier and is arrested by the border police officers who hurry up. Walter, who still has his weapon drawn, is also overwhelmed. In interrogation by Stein and Rollberg, he confesses to the murders.
Rudi will be tried. He was sentenced to almost two years in prison. He accepts the verdict without complaint. The judge immediately suspends her three-year probation in accordance with the new Criminal Law Amendment Act and cancels the warrant. Rudi had made himself a criminal offense, but he had received no help from society with rehabilitation . The state also failed like this. Rudi's actions, with which he handed over his brother to the police at risk of death, also suggest a positive future development. Rudi then leaves the court together with Inge.
production
Tatort Berlin was filmed on location in Berlin. The film premiered on January 10, 1958 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin and ran for the first time on March 14, 1958 on DFF 1 on GDR television. In the same year a crime story of the same name was published after the film by the Berlin publishing house der Nation.
criticism
Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler wrote that the film gave “interesting insights into the work of our People's Police”. He also emphasized that the film "without coercion and raised index finger [...] shows the effectiveness of our penal system and the usefulness of the new law supplementing the penal code". He also praised Otto Merz's camera work.
For the service-movie was the scene Berlin a "thriller attempt by the DEFA, sober presented, but plentiful designed tendentious and scenically rather weak in his perspective on the divided Berlin. Nevertheless, from today's perspective an interesting contemporary document. "
The Progress film distribution called the film a "political [n] crime film whose special quality lies in its realistic portrayal of everyday life in Berlin and in the theming the difficult rehabilitation of former petty criminal."
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 601-602 .
Web links
- Tatort Berlin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tatort Berlin at filmportal.de
- Tatort Berlin at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Eduard von Schnitzler in: Filmspiegel , No. 3, 1958, p. 3.
- ^ Tatort Berlin. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See progress-film.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
