Crime scene: the man with the roses

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The man with the roses
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 163 ( List )
First broadcast November 25, 1984 on ORF
Rod
Director Kurt Junek
script Kurt Junek based on the Räuber und Gendarme by Harald Mini
production Peter Müller
music HK Gruber
camera Wolfgang Koch ,
Michael Ferk
cut Hilde Ohandjanian
occupation

The Man with the Roses is an Austrian television thriller from 1984. The screenplay was written by Kurt Junek based on the novel Räuber und Gendarm by Harald Mini , also directed by Kurt Junek. It was the 163rd crime scene episode and the first case by Chief Inspector Hirth ( Kurt Jaggberg ). Hirth and his team are faced with a bank robbery that resulted in death, with the murder of a school child and a fatal stabbing in the guest worker milieu.

action

A bank is robbed in the middle of Vienna. The lone perpetrator unscrupulously uses his firearm and shoots an employee in the bank while escaping. In front of the bank he bumps into Thomas, who happens to be walking past the bank. The police, who arrive quickly at the scene of the crime, are unable to trace the perpetrator despite Thomas's tip. A little later, Michael Riedler is walking through downtown Vienna, whose homework for his school is to observe people in their everyday lives. He notices a well-dressed man whom he follows. He observes how this man buys roses and then follows him on his way. Michael waits for the man with the roses to come out again in front of a house he goes into. Meanwhile, Hirth, Schulz and Ullmann ponder the bank robbery. While Fichtl has to deal with a knife fight among foreigners, a young couple finds Michael's body in a doorway, Hirth and Ullmann rush to the crime scene. In front of Councilor Putner, the officers cannot produce any tangible results in any of the three homicides.

After the victim has been identified, Hirth seeks out the mother, who had a distant relationship with her son, and the father explains to Hirth that his son should have observed people for school. The autopsy reveals that Michael was killed by a blunt object. To make sure that the boy was dead, he helped with a knife and stabbed the dead man. Michael found the notes of his observations, he describes the man with the roses. Hirth concludes from this that he has the description of the murderer before him, he is now puzzling over the motive for the crime. While Ullmann is following Michael's path, Hollocher and Schulz try to clear up the bank robbery and murder in a local appointment with Thomas and the bank employees and customers. Thomas told Schulz that he had the impression that the perpetrator had not seen him because he was actually wearing glasses and had not had them. Meanwhile, Fichtl does not make any decisive progress in his knife stab case. Ullmann goes to the shop where the stranger bought the roses, the owner says that the man bought roses there every Wednesday, this time, for once, he had a briefcase with him. Meanwhile, with the help of Thomas, an image of the bank robber was created. During a report to the Councilor Putner, Ullmann reports that Michael bought two packs of cigarettes before his murder that were not found on him. Hirth noticed a stain on Michael's notes that is still being examined. Schulz can help Fichtl in his knife case.

During their investigation, Ullmann and Hollocher are able to locate two boys who saw Michael on the day of the crime watching a house entrance. An elderly resident saw Michael and chased him away from the front door. An Italian resident saw the man with the roses, but does not know who in the house he visited. Hirth and his team wonder which of the female residents could have had a visit from the man. Meanwhile, Hollocher found roses in the house's dumpster. Fichtl can finally solve his knife murder, the killed Turk was murdered by a compatriot who took the opportunity to get rid of his long-hated adversary after he lay unconscious on the ground after a previous argument with other people. Now Fichtl can finally get into the investigation into the case of the dead Michael. Ullmann and Fichtl are waiting in the flower shop where the stranger bought the roses, exactly one week later, and this time the man is actually buying roses there too. The officers follow him to the house, where Hirth and the rest of the team are already waiting. He goes to a Frau Weber. When Hirth and his team ring her doorbell, they meet the man there who introduces himself as Walter Bogner. He persistently refuses to tell Hirth whether he has a relationship with Frau Weber and whether he was with her the week before. Only when Hirth threatens to inform Mr Weber does he finally admit that he had visited his lover the week before. Ms. Weber states that Bogner always stays with her until six in the evening, also last Wednesday. Bogner is thus eliminated as the perpetrator in the Michael case. Hirth is not surprised because the forensics department showed that the murderer must have had the note in his hand. If it had been Bogner, he would certainly have destroyed the note, the perpetrator must have liked the description of the man with the roses.

Hirth thinks about it and combines the different testimonies. He thinks of the testimony of Thomas, who saw the bank robber on the day of the murder of Michael and the testimony of the Italian resident of the house, who observed Michael, that a neighbor, Brandler, was shortly after five o'clock, the time of the crime Murder, had come home. Hirth and Ullmann arrest the man that night. Brandler had robbed the bank and mixed up Michael and Thomas because of his nearsightedness. Based on Michael’s observations, he believed that Michael had followed him from the bank and eliminated the supposed unwanted witness. Brandler has already confessed to the deeds.

Audience and background

The man with the roses reached 17.76 million viewers and an audience rate of 47.0% when it was first broadcast on November 25, 1984. The episode was filmed in Vienna between May 7 and June 19, 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "The man with the roses" at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 14, 2015.
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