Crime scene: death of an old woman

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Death of an old woman
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SFB
length 94 minutes
classification Episode 275 ( List )
First broadcast April 25, 1993 on German television
Rod
Director Matti Geschonneck
script Claudi Cueni , based on an idea by Günter Lamprecht
production Dieter Melzer
music Ulrich Gumpert
camera Wolfram Beyer
cut Friederike Badekow
occupation

Death of an old woman is an episode of the ARD crime series Tatort . The episode produced by the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB) was first broadcast on April 25, 1993 on ARD. It is the fifth crime scene with chief detective Franz Markowitz, who this time has to investigate the death of an older woman who is separated from her husband.

action

A stranger sneaks into the apartment of Frau Weber, a Berlin pensioner. When she comes home, the stranger pushes the woman to the floor and flees the apartment. Her body is not found until six days later and Markowitz is called to the crime scene. He notices that a drawer has been broken open and the living room looks ransacked. The caretaker who found the body says that he has not seen the dead man's husband for a year and that he does not know where he went. She also has two daughters, but he doesn't know anything about them. Markowitz is puzzled because the victim's dog still had water to drink after six days and brings the water to the laboratory. The coroner says Ms. Weber suffered a fractured femur and a fractured jaw and has been dead for two or three days. This means that after her fall, she lived for at least three days and died of thirst. She would have survived if someone had taken care of her right away. The officers also find a bracelet that probably did not belong to the dead person. The caretaker is certain that the apartment was locked, even though the stranger merely slammed the door.

Blood was found in the hallway from a woman, but not from Mrs. Weber. The husband has deregistered in Berlin and has been living in Spain for a few months. Markowitz visits Mrs. Weber's older daughter, she says that they didn't have a good relationship and that they hadn't seen each other for almost two years. She has not had any contact with her father since then. At the time of the crime she was on vacation, she cannot provide any further information. Then he looks for the younger daughter Karin and finally finds her. Her mother normally visited her every Monday, but she would not have been with her on the last Monday, the day of the day. Her mother had a brooch as the only item of value, which she kept in the desk drawer. A DNA test shows that the blood in the victim's apartment did not come from Karin Weber. Despite the discharge, she disappears from the police headquarters and is now wanted.

Meanwhile, the victim's neighbors identify the creditors of the indebted Karin Weber, who often appeared in front of Ms. Weber's apartment. Markowitz interrogates the two video library owners, who say that they were merely looking for Karin Weber but had nothing to do with the crime. However, when it was found that Mrs. Weber's dog had hair on her shoes, they let themselves in to the effect that they had actually been in the house, but not in the apartment. In the video library they find illegal right-wing radical video material in a hidden back room, which is reproduced there.

The police seal was broken at Ms. Weber's apartment, and Markowitz and his colleagues found Beate, Ms. Weber's older daughter, in the apartment. Contrary to what she said she had a key to the mother's apartment. The laboratory test meanwhile shows that Bianca, Karin Weber's creditor, is no longer the perpetrator because the DNA comparison with the blood in the apartment is negative. Markowitz confronts the caretaker Bergmann with another result of the KTU investigation: the drawer of the old woman Weber was pried open with his crowbar, he denies breaking open the drawer. But it quickly turns out: He had only reported the death of Mrs. Weber one day after the discovery and gave the dog fresh water. The phone was broken and he got drunk, so he didn't call the police immediately. Because of his condition, he no longer knows whether he had told his wife about the dead Frau Weber. Ms. Bergmann admits the theft of the brooch after Markowitz confronted her with his suspicions. Bergmann is shocked by his wife's confession.

At the social welfare office, Markowitz learns that Ms. Weber applied for housing benefit, but the application was rejected because she owns a holiday home in Spain. Her husband flew there a year ago to renovate the house and stayed there, obviously to enjoy his freedom. Ms. Weber tried to sell the house to get revenge on her husband, but he knew how to prevent a sale. Using a ticked newspaper ad, Markowitz came across a travel agency where Ms. Weber had booked a flight to Fuerteventura for the next day. Markowitz finally flies there to look around and track down Mr. Weber. He finally finds him saying goodbye to a much younger woman who is obviously his lover. He tells him that his wife is dead. Weber is shocked and claims that he has not seen his wife for a year. He denies having anything to do with the death of his wife, the younger woman, Ria Volkmann, is just a friend. Ria owns a shop with her business partner Sylvia Thiele.

Markowitz learns from the operator of his hotel that Weber paints and sells pictures and can now make a living from them. He started painting a year ago before the alleged death of his wife, and now he sells his pictures to his girlfriend Ria. Meanwhile, Weber confesses to his lover that his wife did not die a year ago, but was murdered a few days ago. He asks her to keep their relationship a secret from Markowitz, which she does not want to go along with. Markowitz visits the store, Ria tells Markowitz that she only knew the truth today. However, Weber had nothing to do with the death of his wife. Markowitz confronts her with the fact that only one woman is possible as a perpetrator and shows her the bracelet that the officers found at the scene. She denies that this is her bracelet. Markowitz has a local confirm that Ria was seen on Fuerteventura on the day of the tattoo. Then he wants to talk to Ria's partner Sylvia again and watches as Ria talks to Sylvia. Markowitz then has both checked. Meanwhile Weber wants to leave for Berlin. He says that the only valuable thing the couple owned is the house. Markowitz has Weber show him the key to the Berlin apartment, he now believes that Sylvia was the perpetrator.

Ria asks Sylvia, who wanted to flee the island but missed the ferry, why she killed Frau Weber, the bracelet that Markowitz showed Ria belongs to her, Sylvia. Sylvia admits she was in the apartment to see what was true of Weber's statements that he was a widower. She was surprised by Ms. Weber and fled the apartment. It was an accident that she hit Ms. Weber. In addition, she could not have suspected that nobody was taking care of Ms. Weber. Markowitz and Weber join in during the confession. Markowitz arrests Sylvia through a Spanish colleague. Weber, who makes serious allegations about the circumstances of his wife's death, gives up his Canarian dream and returns to Berlin.

background

Based on an idea by Günter Lamprecht , the episode was shot under the working title Hundstage in Morro and in the Robinson Club on Fuerteventura . The animal training was carried out by the Wisniewski Film Animal School.

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on April 25, 1993, Death of an Old Woman reached a total of 10.05 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 33.4%.

Reviews

TV fiction film judged: "The confused story has little shine".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​Death of an old woman at tatort-fundus.de. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
  2. ^ Tatort: ​​Death of an old woman at tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
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