Crime scene: The raw material of happiness

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The raw material of happiness
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF
length 91 minutes
classification Episode 171a ( List )
First broadcast September 8, 1985 on ORF
Rod
Director Kurt Junek
script Kurt Junek ,
Franz Mitterlechner
production Peter Müller
music Ewald Breit
camera Wolfgang Koch
cut Hilde Ohandjanian
occupation

Des Glückes Rohstoff is an Austrian television thriller from 1985. The script was written by Kurt Junek and Franz Mitterlechner , and Kurt Junek also directed. As the second of 13 episodes in the crime series Tatort , it was produced by ORF outside of the official Tatort series without ARD and was only broadcast in Austria for the first time.

action

The graphic artist and painter Gotthold Reiber is chronically in need of money, his clients are dissatisfied with his work and do not pay. He owed the underworld boss Höllerl, who put him under pressure and had him seized. His lover Brigitte "Bribri" Brincic also humiliated him because of his financial difficulties. So the thought grows in him of robbing the local bank in order to get rid of his problems. He moves his camera and uses it to buy a repeating rifle. After a short period of practice with the weapon, Reiber takes courage and raids the bank. In the robbery, he steals a comparatively small amount, then he hides in a forest and thus escapes the police. Bibri, who from now on showered with presents and dearly invited to dinner, he told that he had received a large order and was able to complete it successfully. When she reads from the newspaper that the bank robber was fobbed off by the branch manager with a comparatively small amount during the robbery and thus tricked, while larger sums of money were stored in the vault, Reiber realized that he had also failed in the robbery. Since he squandered the money, but did not pay his debts to Höllerl, he was beaten up by his people and asked to settle the debt as soon as possible.

Out of necessity, he retrieves his murder weapon, which he disposed of after the attack, and repairs it. He raids the same bank again, since this time there is not so much money in the safe, Reiber has to flee again with little loot. On the run he meets a jogger, the retired policeman Braumüller, who sees Reiber unmasked and follows him. When Braumüller tries to persuade Reiber to give up, he feels cornered and shoots Braumüller down before continuing his escape. Hirth and his team are entrusted with the case, the colleague is in mortal danger, so that the officers are particularly motivated to catch the perpetrator. In the meantime, Reiber runs in front of a bus because of his act and comes to the hospital with a concussion. As a result, he cannot open the post office box in which he has stored part of the loot and his assault utensils in time, so that the employees open the box and call the police, so Hirth and his team have an initial investigation. From the hospital bed, Reiber instructs Bribri to pay his rent, he reveals a hiding place for money in the glove compartment in which he has hidden a small part of his booty, and in return she promises to clean his car. When he is released from the hospital, he finds out that Bribri has embezzled the money. Shortly afterwards, the people from Höllerl come to him again and ask him to pay, Höllerl makes it clear to him that he has "confiscated" his car and demands money from him, Reiber promises him early payment, although he has no more money.

Financially cornered again, this time he raids another bank, shoots an employee and, while on the run, a witness, this time he steals no money and flees into a church, where he hides the murder weapon. When he drives to Bribri's in the evening and has to find out that she is now in a relationship with another man, Reiber leaves Vienna and goes to Salzburg, where he buys another weapon. This time he robbed a bank in Salzburg and finally stole a large amount of money, with which he went to Switzerland and opened an account in Zurich before returning to Vienna. There his attempt to throw the weapon used in the Vienna raids into the Danube fails, so he takes the weapon home with him. Reiber receives a summons from the police to give them information about Bribri, but when he visits the presidium, Hirth and his team await him. While cleaning his car, Bribri had found a cartridge case that came from the weapon used in Reiber's raids in Vienna and the same case was found at the scene of the crime. Bribri had filed a complaint, so the officers had been watching Reiber for a long time, including when he tried to dispose of the murder weapon. Hirth and his colleagues have meanwhile been able to locate the Reibers account in Switzerland and have the murder weapon secured in his apartment. Confronted with the evidence and the information that Braumüller did not survive the shooting, Reiber flees the presidium, but is caught and arrested by Fichtl that evening.

Production and special features

Des Glückes Rohstoff was the third crime scene case involving Chief Inspector Hirth. The episode Des Glückes Rohstoff was broadcast nine months after its first broadcast on June 13, 1986 for the first time and once by the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation in Germany. The episode was shot in Vienna, Salzburg and Zurich. Dieter Moor has an extra role as a Swiss bank employee.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 13 special ORF crime scenes at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on November 13, 2015.
  2. ↑ Des Glückes Rohstoff on tatort-fundus.de
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