The crime museum: five photos

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Episode in the series Das Kriminalmuseum
Original title Five photos
Das Kriminalmuseum 01 Five photos 001.svg
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Intertel Television
length 57 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 1 ( list )
First broadcast April 4, 1963 on ZDF
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Director Helmuth Ashley
script Helmuth Ashley ,
Hans Maeter
production Helmut Ringelmann
music Martin Böttcher
camera Franz Xaver Lederle
cut Friedel Buckow
occupation

Five Photos is the first television film in the crime series Das Kriminalmuseum . The German first broadcast took place on April 4, 1963 at 9 p.m. on ZDF .

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A stranger photographs a blood-smeared corpse near Possenhofen on the shores of Lake Starnberg . The recordings are given in the name of Fritz Müller for development in a drug store in Munich . Jutta, the daughter of the drugstore owner Merkel, develops the photos and is shocked when she sees the man who has obviously been shot. The employee Heinz Hillmann, with whom Jutta once had an affair, convinces the odd chemist Merkel to take the photos to the police. The criminal inspectors Lehndorf and Dr. Gottlieb are faced with a riddle and send an officer to Merkel because Müller wanted to pick up the photos that same evening. Some time after work, when the policeman has left the drugstore, Jutta Merkel meets the mysterious miller in the dark. She escapes and rushes straight to the pension where Heinz Hillmann lives. The actress Veronica Martell, who overhears the excited conversation between Hillmann and Jutta, and Rittmeister von Rellstab are also there. That same evening, a certain director Lutz stayed at a Munich hotel.

The next morning, Detective Inspector Gottlieb was able to determine the identity of the dead person in the photos. It is about the Düsseldorf bank teller Egon Gallreiter, who, according to the wanted paper, is on the run with 135,000 DM. Gottlieb's colleague Lehndorf wants to see Heinz Hillmann and finds him murdered in the pension. Meanwhile, Director Lutz is waiting in the hotel for his departure, which is delayed until further notice due to fog on the airfield. In the meantime, the investigators know that Hillmann was killed the night before. Both Rittmeister von Rellstab and the actress Veronica Martell have a solid alibi for the time of the crime.

The police are faced with a riddle, and they have found the collection slip for the photos with the dead person on the murdered Hillmann. Inspector Gottlieb drives to the Merkel drugstore, where, to everyone's astonishment, the miller he is looking for turns up. However, he claims that his name is Lambert and that he did not have any photos developed in the drugstore. Gottlieb has him arrested directly. In Hillmann's notebook, Detective Inspector Lehndorf discovers a reference to Director Lutz, whom he immediately visits the Hotel Splendid. Lutz says that he has known Hillmann since attending commercial school and from football. He waited in vain for his call the night before. Meanwhile, Inspector Gottlieb finds out that the alleged miller is actually a man named Lambert, who also has an alibi. At the same time, a landlady reported to a police station where Egon Gallreiter, who was on the run at the time, had gone into hiding.

The tide turns for the inspectors after Gallreiter's car has been found with Hillmann's fingerprints on it. There are also increasing indications that Hillmann was in possession of the money of the previously murdered Gallreider. In Hillmann's photo albums, the investigators finally discover a picture in which both Gallreiter and Hillmann can be seen as members of a soccer team. Criminal Inspector Lehndorf suddenly realizes that Director Lutz is the allegedly murdered Egon Gallreiter. Hillmann had him photographed as a corpse in order to go into hiding under a false identity. Hillmann then passed the photos to Jutta Merkel and claimed that they were from the alleged miller. When the money was handed over for the photos that were taken, there was a dispute and Gallreiter alias Lutz murdered Hillmann. The officers arrive almost too late on the connections, as Gallreiter is already on the run to Switzerland. Before the border his car comes off the road and Gallreiter dies.

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The television film Five Photos was the prelude to the crime series Das Kriminalmuseum . The German first broadcast took place on April 4, 1963 at 9 p.m. on ZDF , which had only been on the air for four days. After the early evening series, The Card with the Lynx's Head , started the day before, Das Kriminalmuseum is the second crime series of the station and its first in the evening program.

Helmut Ringelmann , then managing director of the producing company Intertel Television GmbH, hired Helmuth Ashley as a director. He had previously worked exclusively for the cinema and started his career as a busy television director with this work. The cameraman Franz Xaver Lederle and Max Mellin as set designer were also involved in the production. The music was written by Martin Böttcher , whose title music was also heard in the opening credits of the other episodes.

The cast with many well-known actors was also convincing. The main actors Horst Niendorf and Reinhard Glemnitz could be seen in other episodes of the series. Glemnitz can also be heard in the series opening credits as an off- speaker. Horst Naumann , who can be seen as a criminal in this episode, played one of the investigators in the fifth episode Die Nadel . Also Heini Göbel , Ellen circulation , Herbert Tiede , Heinz Spitzner and Alexander Allerson appeared in later episodes of the series.

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