Crime Scene: The Gamblers (1986)

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The players
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF
length 63 minutes
classification Episode 181a ( List )
First broadcast June 13, 1986 on ORF
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Director Zoltan Pataky
script Alfred Paul Schmidt
production Peter Müller
camera Wolfgang Koch
cut Hilde Ohandjanian
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Die Spieler is an Austrian television thriller by Alfred Paul Schmidt from 1986. It originated as 181a. Follow the crime series Tatort . It is one of the 13 episodes that were produced by ORF outside of the official Tatort series without ARD and only broadcast in Austria for the first time.

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The two wine growers friends, Erker and Viellieber, are running for the post of president of the choral society in their village, and Viellieber clearly wins the election. While Erker takes his defeat calmly, his wife is angry and shows this to her husband on the drive home. She sees her husband as an eternal loser. Even her husband doesn't seem to accept his defeat as easily as he has shown other people. Ms. Viellieber is ensnared by Ernst Kuhweide, her former boss. Kuhweide is an author and doesn't give up trying to seduce Mrs. Viellieber, but she lets him down. Much love goes to Erker to invite him back to a card game. He hesitates because he says that it will be too expensive for him in the long run. His wife is furious and says that he could transfer his winery to Viellieber right away. Out of spite, he goes with much love. Erker loses again and even has to ask his friend to lend him money. Meanwhile, Mrs. Erker complains to Mrs. Viellieber about her husband, but she is calm and only says that they should be a little more generous towards their husbands. Erker senses that he has been cheated while playing cards, and he and his friend are thrown out of the restaurant. Both are drunk, but while Erker looks depressed, Much love is relaxed. Erker borrows the last of the money from Viellieber to continue playing elsewhere, while Viellieber goes home to his wife.

On the other hand, when Erker comes home drunk and burned out, Erker only finds a letter from his wife that she has left him. He seems relieved to take this. Erker happily tells this the next day, Much love, but he sees this as bad news and wants to encourage his friend that his wife will definitely be back soon. In the meantime, Kuhweide also got into trouble, a tax officer pointed out that he owed a million shillings in tax debt and that he was facing charges of tax evasion. Kuhweide's attempt to bribe the officer is ignored by him. Erker and Viellieber are meanwhile back in their regular restaurant and consume a considerable amount of alcohol, on the way home Erker gets into a police check, while Viellieber is let through. Erker loses his driver's license, while Viellieber gets away. In the evening his wife comes into the house, not, as Erker thinks, to return, but only to pick up a few things. The bay window indicates to her that he is much more interested in his luck now, that he will fall on his face. Meanwhile, Kuhweide tries in vain to visit Ms. Viellieber because she is on an excursion with her husband and his choir, of which he is now president. Kuhweide asks about the arrival of the train at the station.

The Viellieber couple is in a good mood, and Erker is also in a good mood due to the general party mood of the group. Erker says goodbye surprisingly because he has to get out early. He still has an appointment with a wine merchant nearby, and he'll stay with him for the night. The others are surprised because it is Sunday, but do not ask any further questions. Erker learns from the station masters that the train he got off will have a longer stay in the station because he still has to wait for a return train. He rents a hotel near the train station. Shortly afterwards, Viellieber missed his wife on the train. The next day two farmers find the body of Ms. Viellieber on the railway line. Meanwhile, a young woman named Juliane Seifert is sitting in a police station and filing a complaint against the writer Kuhweide for plagiarism. She is studying Oriental Studies, is currently doing her doctorate and therefore knows an Indian novel that must be the original of Kuhweide's novel. Chief Inspector Hirth and his assistant, Inspector Hollocher, visit the widower Viellieber. He testifies that he went to sleep in a compartment and later, when he woke up and returned, his wife disappeared. He looks very depressed. The officers inform him that an accident is out, Ms. Viellieber has been strangled and pushed off the train. Viellieber says that his wife worked as a secretary for Ernst Kuhweide until a year ago. He also says that he believed he saw cow pasture on the train.

The hotel owner, who stayed with Erker, says that Erker was in the hotel from 9 p.m. to 8 a.m. the next morning. Hirth and Hollocher feel in the dark because they see no motive. Then they talk to a colleague who has to do with a case of intellectual theft, when he mentions the name Ernst Kuhweide, Hirth pricks up. He believes Miellieber knew about plagiarism and sees it as a motive for murder. Hollocher goes to cow pasture, who frankly admits that Ms. Viellieber brought the novel with her from India and copied it because she lived in India and spoke the language. He then published the novel under his name. She didn't deserve anything from it. But he had nothing to do with her murder. Muchieber meanwhile admits to Hirt and Hollocher that the farm actually belonged to his wife because she had inherited rich. He is now her sole heir. Hirth has Ms. Viellieber's account details shown to him at the Sparkasse, and he makes a discovery. Much love, who is devastated, tells Erker that he wants to throw everything away and sell his winery. Erker promises to get him a buyer. Meanwhile, Hollocher confronts Kuhweide with the discovery that Ms. Viellieber had numerous incoming payments and that these coincided with outgoing payments at Kuhweide. He admits to being blackmailed by Ms. Viellieber. The more successful the novel became, the higher their demands grew.

Hirth asks Erker about his relationship with Viellieber and the games they play together. Hirth knows that Erker has lost a lot of money, Erker replies that there is nothing he can do about his "game devil". Hirth asks whether he thinks Much more likely that his wife will be murdered, since she lost a lot of money playing games, which Erker denies. Erker asks with interest whether Hirth has a lead and remarks that it looks "stupid" for many lovers. Meanwhile, Hollocher asks Kuhweide for his alibi. Since he doesn't have one, Hollocher arrests him for the time being, which he takes very calmly, although he protests his innocence. After all, prison is a very interesting experience for a writer. Erker visits his friend Viellieber and tells him that the police suspect him, Viellieber. Much likes to let go and is relatively disinterested. He has already sold his winery to the neighbor mediated by Erker. Erker suggests Viellieber to play cards together again. Kuhweide has Hollocher called into his cell because he wants to give him a usable alibi to end his custody. In the meantime, Viellieber and Erker are playing again, as always both losing a lot of money. Erker says he is at least annoyed, but the loss would not matter. Much better, however, nothing matters after the death of his wife.

The next morning, Kuhweide Hollocher used his notes to show in his house that he was watching TV at the time of the crime and that he was watching a banal program that was certainly not repeated. He can literally quote from this program because he wrote on his typewriter to get inspiration. Hollocher accepts the alibi. In the meantime, Hirth goes to see Viellieber again, who reacts indignantly when Hirth speaks to him about the sale of his farm. Hollocher has much more in his sights, but Hirth has a new insight. He presents a young man who, on the night of the crime, allowed himself a joke with a bay window, which, unknown to him, happened to run past him. The young man shouted “Stop! This is a robbery! “, Whereupon Erker gave him his wallet and his watch and hurried on. The young man was perplexed because he didn't want to commit an attack. His "victim" bay window was so nervous that he did not notice the joke, gave him his valuables without further ado and ran on. A friend reported the young man after an argument about a woman because he had told his friends about this strange "attack". Hirth asks the school principal, who was also a member of the choir on the train that evening, what Erker was wearing that evening, the clothes match the description of the young man.

Hirth and Hollocher then go to Erker with a search warrant, and Hirth gives him back his wallet and watch. He asks why he didn't report the attack. Erker claims that the police wouldn't take care of such petty crimes anyway. Hirth then asks him how the attack could have happened if he had spent the whole night in the hotel, as stated and as the hotel owner testified. Erker claims that the young man must have got the date wrong, the "attack" was one day later. Hirth checks the date, the young man can remember the "attack" so well because it was his birthday that day. Meanwhile, Hollocher is shading bay windows. He comes out of his house with a suitcase and drives away. Erker notices that he is being followed by Hollocher, who stops him, Hirth joins them. You confront him with the murder charge. Erker finally admits because the evidence against him is overwhelming. He should have pushed her off the train because the superiority of this woman would have made him crazy. He had envied his friend for this woman and would have loved to have her himself, but she just laughed at him. Hirth confronts Erker with the fact that he was “blackmailed” from this unexpected opportunity to kill Ms. Viellieber due to the unplanned stop of the train. He then returned to the train unnoticed. He admits it and says that her aloofness and his eternal happiness were “straitjackets” for oriels that he had to “tear up”. Much better he felt like a "mockery" of himself because he always had bad luck. Bay window is led away.

production

The player was the seventh Tatort case involving Chief Inspector Hirth, but until then only two and only three of the nine episodes were official Tatort episodes of the ARD series. The rest, as well as this production, were the only ones of ORF. These own ORF productions were only shown in Austria. The episode Die Spieler was broadcast for the first time and once by Bayrischer Rundfunk in Germany six months after it was first broadcast on December 27, 1986.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 13 special ORF crime scenes at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on September 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ The players on tatort-fundus.de
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