Crime scene: Kassensturz (1976)

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Cash drop
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SWF
length 78 minutes
classification Episode 60 ( List )
First broadcast February 15, 1976 on German television
Rod
Director Michael Braun
script Hasso Roach
production Rolf von Sydow ,
Werner Rollauer
music Tangerine Dream
camera Johannes Hollmann ,
Fritz Otto Stachorowski
cut Renate Struve
occupation

Kassensturz is a consequence of the ARD crime series Tatort . The episode produced by Südwestfunk (SWF) was first broadcast on February 15, 1976 on ARD. It is the fourth case with Commissioner Gerber and the 60th crime scene episode in total. Gerber is faced with a mail robbery and two murders related to the robbery.

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Gerber's assistant Wolfgang Ihle has been promoted to chief detective and would like to toast with Gerber and his friend, the post-chief inspector Rolf Salm. But Salm, who wants to go on vacation with his new girlfriend the next day, does not appear at Ihle's party. The next morning Gerber and Ihle are called to the money collection point of the post office where Salm works. A robbery was carried out there and DM 300,000 was robbed, with a guard being shot and seriously injured. The safe from which the money was stolen is intact, Salm had the keys to it and has disappeared. Gerber thinks he's suspicious, but Ihle thinks that his friend might be involved in the case is absurd. When interviewing witnesses in the area, Gerber meets demolition contractor Ziffel and his convicted employee Oscar Kaufmann, both of whom are clueless. Meanwhile, Ihle learns from the landlord, Denker, the uncle of Salm's new friend Cordula, that she and Salm are going on vacation to Cairo today. Gerber wants to have the couple intercepted by his Frankfurt colleague Konrad at the airport, who actually matches Cordula at the gate, who has been waiting in vain for Salm.

Ihle thinks Ziffel is suspicious and seeks him out, but he indignantly denies that he has anything to do with the robbery in the post office. Kaufmann also pretends to be innocent towards Ihle and claims to have left his criminal past behind him. Gerber visits Salm's colleague Erwin Boringer, who has been in bed sick with renal colic since the day before, and he has no alibi. Boringer is looked after by Salm's former fiancé, the doctor's assistant Renate. She admits that she met with Salm the night before and that she unsuccessfully urged him to reconcile with her, who refused with reference to Cordula. In the evening Oscar Kaufmann leaves the restaurant where Cordula works and Ihle also often stops and is shot in front of the restaurant by a stranger. The investigation shows that the murder weapon has the same caliber as Salm's service weapon, and Salm's car is found at the scene, and the police find the safe keys in the glove compartment. Ihle drives to Kaufmann's apartment. A stranger has entered there, and Ihle is shot and injured in the pursuit. DM 10,000 in cash are found in Kaufmann's room.

The next day, Gerber learned from Cordula that photos that the police found in Salm's apartment were taken in the holiday home of the now insolvent entrepreneur Haase, who had given his house to Salm and his girlfriend free of charge out of friendship with Salm. Ihle remembers that Haase left the inn shortly before the fatal shooting at Kaufmann, Ihle suspects that Haase the perpetrator and his friend Salm are dead. Haase, watched by the police, meets Cordula, whom he is courting. He offers her a job in Switzerland and denies his financial problems. When Gerber later approaches Haase about his meeting with Cordula, he has no alibi for the night of the murder and the time of the attack. Shortly afterwards, Salm's body is found in a demolished house. During a house search at Haase, the officers find a lot of cash and Salm's weapon, but Salm denies the act. Gerber's superior Huck is convinced that he found the culprit in Haase, but Gerber believes that Boringer was the culprit. When Gerber went to see him for an interview, he fried a mutton chop, which no one who just had kidney colic does. In addition, Gerber learned from his family doctor that a fever, like Boringer's, can also be artificially created by administering a drug. Boringer has since disappeared, which Gerber sees as a further indication, but Huck dismisses Gerber's hypotheses.

Cordula tells Ihle, who has meanwhile been discharged from the hospital, that Salm had separated from Renate because she had too high financial demands on him and was always dissatisfied. Gerber arranges for Renate's boss to send her to Boringer, who is surprised to find that Boringer is not in his apartment and drives to his home, where Boringer, with whom she apparently has a relationship, is waiting for her. Renate had been followed by the police, Ihle, whom Renate knows personally from her time with Salm, rings her doorbell. He accuses her of having made common cause with Haase and lured Salm into a trap. When Ihle tries to search Renate's apartment on his own, he is surprised to find Boringer, who threatens him with a gun. Shortly thereafter, Gerber arrives at the officers waiting in front of Renate's apartment. Ihle realizes that Boringer and not Haase was Renate's accomplice, which neither of them deny. When Gerber rings the doorbell, Renate tries to get rid of him, but he and his colleagues force their way into the apartment and use firearms to overpower Boringer and free Ihle.

Audience and criticism

The episode achieved a market share of 66.00% when it was first broadcast.

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene as mediocre and comment "Gerber is persistent, but also boring".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Kassensturz" at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on June 1, 2015.
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