Crime scene: Beautiful Belinda

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Beautiful Belinda
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SDR
length 95 minutes
classification Episode 54 ( List )
First broadcast August 31, 1975 on ARD
Rod
Director Theo Mezger
script Urs Aebersold
production Thomas Kirn
music Jonas C. Haefeli
camera Justus Pankau
cut Hans Trollst
occupation

Beautiful Belinda is the 54th episode of the Tatort television series . The premiere of the South German Radio result produced was made on 31 August 1975 at the first of the ARD . It is his fifth case for chief detective Eugen Lutz ( Werner Schumacher ). It's about the murder of a young chauffeur who was also active in the drug industry.

action

Manfred, the chauffeur of the toy manufacturer Horst Lippens, leaves his regular discotheque, where he also deals drugs. He leaves the young Andrea Lippens standing in front of the discotheque because he still has something to do. She follows him and witnesses how an unknown man shoots Manfred. The next morning the police can determine that the car in which Manfred was shot belongs to Lippens, but Manfred's body has disappeared, only blood stains and the bullet hole indicate a crime. Inspector Lutz and his assistant Wagner visit Lippens; he claims to have lost his driver's license because of drunk driving, since then he has employed Manfred Wenzel as a chauffeur. As an alibi, Lippens' friend Belinda can testify that Lippens was at home at the time of the crime. Belinda was the friend of his deceased brother and therefore still lives with him. While Lutz searches for Manfred, his superior warns him that Lippens is an influential man in Ulm and that he should be careful with his investigations. Andrea, who is Lippens' daughter, gets into an argument with Belinda about Manfred, Belinda is completely unmoved about his disappearance. Andrea wants her father to finally throw Belinda out, but he refuses.

Shortly before Lutz arrives at Manfred's apartment, Andrea is there and is kidnapped by two of Manfred's accomplices from the drug milieu, Wolfgang Danner and Gerd Brunold, who have searched the apartment. Lutz and Wagner find the apartment broken into and ransacked accordingly. Lutz contacts his Saarbrücken colleague Liersdahl, as Manfred had previously lived in Saarbrücken for a long time and asks him to obtain information about Manfred's past life. Then Lutz looks around Manfred's regular “Hades” disco. Lutz does not hear from the managing director, but an employee tells Lutz that Manfred was actually in "Hades" the evening before and that Andrea Lippens, who was in love with him, followed him when he left the restaurant. Meanwhile, Belinda sneaks into Manfred's apartment and steals a hidden key to a safe deposit box, from which she takes another key. Wagner can tell Lutz that the blood in Lippens' car is actually from Manfred, but the fingerprints in Manfred's apartment are from Wolfgang Danner, who has a criminal record for drug offenses. Lutz and Wagner therefore suspect that Danner killed Manfred and looked for drugs in his apartment. Andrea is able to free herself from the gangsters' apartment and escape.

Lutz asks Belinda about Andreas' relationship with Manfred and possible observations Andrea might have made the evening before. Belinda claims to have only briefly known Manfred. Wagner visits Danner's apartment and finds the apartment broken from the inside, in the apartment he finds Andreas Lippens' scarf, with which she was obviously tied up. Meanwhile, Lutz learns from his colleague Liersdahl that Manfred Wenzel was active in the drug scene in Saarbrücken and had disappeared from there at the time when he showed up in Ulm. Lutz gives Wagner up to watch Danner's apartment. Danner and Brunold notice Andreas' escape, Wagner follows them and is able to attach a tracking device to his car. Lutz teaches Lippens about Manfred's drug deals and Andreas's entanglements. He makes it clear to him that his daughter is in great danger. Lippens' wife and brother were killed in the same traffic accident, and since then Lippens has hardly known anything about his daughter's feelings. Lutz is able to find out that Manfred Wenzel has recently paid larger amounts of money into his account, Lutz gets support from the drug search. While the officers follow the dealers at night, Belinda seduces Lippens, whom she had previously observed at his safe. Meanwhile, Andrea looks for another room that Manfred has rented and finds drugs there. During the night, Belinda secretly steals Lippen's safe key and steals a flexed steering screw from the safe, which proves that Lippens had tampered with the car in which his brother and wife were killed.

Danner and Brunold try, because they have not found the drugs hidden by Manfred, to defraud their American business partners, when they notice the fraud, Danner shoots one of the Americans before Lutz and his people intervene and arrest both groups. Since the suspects are all silent and the drugs were fake, Lutz has to let the two Americans go, they just spent a lot of money on baking powder. Danner and Brunold, however, are interrogated by Lutz about the kidnapping of Andrea, the murder of Manfred and the burglary of the apartment, but the men have an alibi for the murder. Meanwhile, Manfred Wenzel's corpse is being recovered from the Danube. As Lutz and Wagner suspected, he was shot. Lutz finds a photo negative on the corpse, which he has developed. The next morning, Andrea caused a traffic accident under the influence of Manfred's drugs and escaped on foot. Wagner reminds Lutz of Lippens' brother's traffic accident a year ago. At that time, after the death of his brother, Horst Lippens took over the management of the family business and the villa. The development of the negative results in images of the flexed steering worm. Lutz then investigated the accident a year ago. The road was dry back then and Lippens' brother was an experienced driver. Wenzel obviously blackmailed Lippens with his knowledge and the recordings. Lutz also ponders a possible complicity from Belinda to Manfred. Meanwhile, Belinda deposits the steering worm that she has got from Lippens' safe in a safe deposit box, after which she calls Lippens to blackmail him. Lippens drives home and fetches his gun, with which he also shot Wenzel, before going to meet Belinda, shortly afterwards Lutz and Wagner arrive at the villa. There they find Wenzel's blackmail photos in the open vault, the sums demanded from him correspond to the sums Wenzel had deposited into his account. They also meet Andrea, who tells the officers that her father took his revolver out of the safe. While the police are feverishly looking for Belinda and Lippens, Lippens meets with her. Belinda demands a partnership in Lippens' company, he admits the manipulation of his brother's car, but the murder of Wenzel cannot be proven. Belinda reminds Lippens of her false alibi before she leaves the pub. Lippens follows her and follows her up to the tower of the Ulm Minster, on which she escapes from him. Meanwhile, Andrea testifies to Lutz and Wagner that she watched her father kill Manfred Wenzel. From his office, Lutz and Wagner watch Lippens and Belinda on the tower and hurry over to them. Lippens threatens Belinda with a weapon and demands that she surrender the steering worm; At that moment Lutz and Wagner join in and challenge Lippens to give up. Lippens escapes and falls to his death, Belinda denies any attempt at blackmail.

Special features and audience rating

In the scene of the crime, Schöne Belinda , the 68 icon Rosy Rosy plays a disco singer in the opening scene.

When it was first broadcast, this episode attracted viewers with a market share of 70%.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​Beautiful Belinda data for the 54th crime scene at tatort-fundus.de
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