Crime scene: Exclusive!
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Exclusive! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 9 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | October 26, 1969 on German television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Schulze-Rohr |
| script | Friedhelm Werremeier |
| production |
Dieter Meichsner , Wolfgang Theile |
| camera | Niels-Peter Mahlau |
| cut | Karin Baumhöfner |
| occupation | |
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Exclusive! is a TV film by ARD and ORF and was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). The basis was the crime novel I sell myself exclusively by Friedhelm Werremeier from 1968. The first broadcast of the film took place on October 26, 1969 on ARD. The television film was subsequently included in the ARD crime series Tatort . Exclusive! aired as episode 9 of the series on July 11, 1971.
action
The bank branch manager Edmund Frank is serving a life sentence for the murder of the girl Utta Grabowski and the embezzlement of one million D-Marks from his bank.
He lets the editor-in-chief of a magazine visit him in prison and negotiates with him that he will help him to get a retrial with the aim of having the murder sentence overturned because he claims to be innocent in relation to the murder. In return for payment of half a million D-Marks, he wants to reveal the hiding place of his loot and exclusively tell his story to the magazine.
After Frank has come to an agreement with the editor-in-chief, he begins to tell the story from the beginning.
He meets the attractive Utta Grabowski in a dance hall and starts an affair with her, even though he is married. He had rented a holiday home in which he wanted to calmly prepare for his planned coup, but instead spends the time there with the young woman.
Back at his bank in Hamburg, he waits for the end of the month to plunder the then full safe after work. His plan succeeds and he steals one million Deutschmarks. He repacks this in an aluminum suitcase and gives it up as luggage for a train ride to Frankfurt , but then drives to the airport and flies to Paris . There he spends one night and flies under a false name from Paris to Frankfurt to lure the police on the wrong track with regard to the whereabouts of the prey.
There Frank takes the suitcase, buries it in a forest and immediately afterwards flies back to Paris with a false passport in order to conceal his stay in Frankfurt and the whereabouts of the loot.
To his great surprise, not only the police are waiting for him in Paris (he wanted to face him because he knew that he could only expect up to five years in prison and then have the money for himself), but also Utta Grabowski.
She had found the note with the address of his Paris pension, which he had left behind as the wrong track for the police in the holiday home where they had their affair together. Now she wants to flee with him and his prey, which she still suspects to be with him. He tries in vain to shake it off.
When she wants to keep the suitcase in which she suspects the money as a pledge while he goes back to town because she doesn't trust him, a scuffle breaks out between the two, in which she falls over the railing of a bridge and is fatally a small stream bed covered with stones falls.
Frank packs the body in the trunk, drives it to another piece of forest and buries the body there. Then he burns her clothes and the bag in which he put the money from the bank.
Back at his pension, he “confides” himself to the porter, describes his embezzlement and claims that tricksters had stolen his loot from him. Frank pretends to be remorseful. The porter suggests Frank to face the German embassy , which he does. Before he is transferred to Germany, Frank fakes a suicide attempt in the embassy in Paris.
Back in Hamburg, the detective chief inspector Trimmel told him on the head that he didn't believe his attempted suicide and asked Frank about Utta Grabowski. Frank pretends not to know her, but has to admit his affair with her because Trimmel has evidence that Frank knew Utta Grabowski. Trimmel also confronts Frank with the fact that Utta Grabowski was also in Paris, but he cannot prove that the two really met there.
Meanwhile, the body of Utta Grabowski is found by berry hunters and can be identified. At the trial, Frank was based on circumstantial evidence is that he was at the scene of the corpse and must therefore they buried there. He is therefore sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.
In the office, the editor-in-chief overhears Frank's admission with his closing words that he loved Utta Grabowski. Another flashback shows how the editor-in-chief actually finds Frank's loot. He publishes the story and can use new evidence to prove that Utta Grabowski's death was not a murder, but an accident.
However, the editor-in-chief writes in his last paragraph that Frank donates half of the money to the Red Cross . Frank cannot prevent this, as the editor-in-chief could postpone the payment of the fee forever, as the sum is only due after the last interview has been completed and the latter could interview him forever. So Frank has to grudgingly accept this deal.
criticism
The Protestant Film-Observer comes to the following conclusion: "All too drastic speculation on crime and sex and the harmlessness with which people are 'moralized' make it difficult to recommend the film despite all the acting qualities and despite all the technical perfection."
Audience rating
The second broadcast of Exclusive! on July 11, 1971 achieved a market share of 42.0 percent for Das Erste in Germany . It was first broadcast outside of the television series in 1969.
Web links
- Exclusive! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Exclusive! in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of Exclusive! on the ARD website
- Exclusive! at Tatort-Fans.de
- Exclusive! at the crime scene fund
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Exclusive! Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ I am selling myself exclusively. Reinbek b. Hamburg 1968 (Rowohlt) http://www.krimi-couch.de/krimis/friedhelm-werremeier-ich-verkaufe-mich-exklusiv.html
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 494/1969
- ↑ Tatort-Fundus.de: Exclusive! Retrieved September 9, 2015
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