Crime scene: hot snow

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Hot snow
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 161 ( List )
First broadcast September 9, 1984 on ARD
Rod
Director Wilma Kottusch
script Plym Pahl
music Bernd Decker ,
Mel from the ceiling
camera Hermann Reichmann ,
Harry Bruntz
cut Karin Fischer ,
Monika Abspacher
occupation

Hot Snow is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk was first broadcast on September 9, 1984 in the first program of ARD . He is the fourth mission of Inspector Lenz, played by Helmut Fischer .

action

A prostitute from the Munich street prostitute is found beaten up. Dealers wanted to give her a lesson because recently she's been secretly stretching the drug she was supposed to sell in order to get more profit for herself. Some of her colleagues had to watch the attack, but they are silent for fear of the perpetrators. They only say that this is a work of the general (English pronounced).

In order to gain customers, the women regularly go to a nightspot owned by Ingrid Elstner and where mainly soldiers from the US Army frequent. Petty, one of the women, meets Burt Baxter there, with whom she has long been in love. He deserted from the army and lives in hiding. The general and his people want to kill him. Baxter is in possession of a tape recording the general's orders to kill him. But after meeting Petty, he is followed by Carlos, Petty's pimp, and shot in his hiding place, a brick factory. Baxter returns fire and the attacker withdraws. In the morning Baxter can drag himself to Mrs. Mahler, who lives alone. He overpowers her and wants to hide in her house, but this does not go unnoticed. The police arrive shortly afterwards and chief detective Ludwig Lenz clears the situation after a brief exchange of fire. Baxter is rushed to the hospital, where Carlos shows up in the uniform of a US military chaplain to finish his work. However, he is noticed and has to flee.

The real priest lies unconscious in his underwear in a car in a junkyard near Munich. While trying to get rid of the man, Carlos, who is obviously drugged, can be arrested. Lenz looks for the commander of the US barracks, who cannot help him either, since he is of the opinion that this general does not exist and that he is just a construct . His further investigations lead the inspector to Petty, who he faked the suitor. After she offers him drugs to loosen up, he reveals himself. Lenz orders Petty to the presidium for the next day, where she rushes angrily at the arrested Carlos. Lenz suspects that Carlos acted out of jealousy, but it has not remained hidden from him that the general is after Baxter too and is obviously looking for something with him. The next day, Carlos is found dead in his cell with a syringe of adulterated heroin next to him. Only Petty or bar owner Ingrid Elstner, who had been to the police with her the day before, could be considered as suppliers of the heroin.

Since Lenz and his colleagues now suspect organized drug trafficking behind the events, they question Petty in this direction. She confirms that she and her colleagues were stopped by the general to “fix” their customers and supply them with heroin. To prove that the general really exists, Petty drives to the hiding place of the tape that Burt Baxter recently revealed to her in the hospital. Ingrid Elstner and the AFN officer McGready pursue her, take the cassette from her and erase it. It was only a copy, however, because Lenz had found out from Baxter the hiding place beforehand and exchanged the tape. The hope of the police, Ingrid Elstner and John McGready to have found the mysterious general , turns out to be a mistake. Ingrid Elstner states that behind all of this there is the "organization" that both handles drug trafficking and controls prostitutes across Germany. Since the organization will no longer protect them, Lenz should, in their opinion, do it now.

background

The film was shot in March and April 1984 in and around Munich.

Inspector Ludwig Lenz succeeded Chief Inspector Veigl ( Gustl Bayrhammer ), who retired in April 1981 with the African violet crime scene in Munich . Until then, he was the assistant who wanted to prove to Kriminalrat Schubert that he was up to the new task. Lenz investigated a total of seven cases between 1981 and 1987.

Rainer Langhans has a guest appearance as John McGready from AFN in this episode .

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Hot Snow on September 9, 1984 was seen by 16.27 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 43 percent for Das Erste .

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this film from today's point of view and say: "After 30 years not quite as hot."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hot snow. Crime scene fund, accessed on November 20, 2014 .
  2. ^ Tatort 161: Hot Snow at tatort-fans.de, accessed on September 4, 2014.
  3. ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on September 5, 2014.
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