Crime scene: late harvest

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Late harvest
Country of production Germany
Production
company		 WDR
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
classification Episode 75 ( List )
First broadcast May 22, 1977 on ARD
Rod
Director Wolfgang Staudte
script Herbert Lichtenfeld
production Werner Kluss
Richard German
camera Gernot Roll
cut Lilian Seng
occupation

Spätlese is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by WDR and broadcast for the first time on May 22, 1977. It is the 75th episode in the crime scene series.

In his 10th case, Commissioner Haferkamp has to solve a murder that happens to lead him to further crimes.

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Haferkamp informs Claudia Bernhold and her paralyzed sister that her husband Paul was killed by an unknown perpetrator. Since Haferkamp both the sister and the family doctor Dr. Stolp thinks he is suspect, he has her shadowed. Little does he know that Ms. Bernhold finds a large sum of money when she looks through her husband's papers. Surprised, she kept looking and found another 30,000 DM in a safe deposit box . In her husband's files, she discovers a logbook and evidence of extortion, from which the money very likely came.

A map shows her a point in an abandoned colliery . Haferkamp follows her there, but cannot explain what she wants there. He has the place searched and closes a kind of dead mailbox . While monitoring the colliery, he surprises the wealthy Eckart Waarst, who is currently depositing money in an old furnace. Waarst is silent and does not want to give any information about it. At the same time, Ms. Bernhold also finds out that Waarst is probably the blackmailer. They wonder what their husband could have blackmailed Waarst with.

Waarst, who himself does not know who is blackmailing him, is directed by Haferkamp to Mrs. Bernhold. He visits her at home and tries to intimidate her, although she asserts that she does not know the reason for the blackmail. Waarst advises her to simply let the grass grow over the matter, but tells Haferkamp at the tennis club to get all the money back from the sisters. The sisters now confide in Haferkamp and he checks Bernhold's trips with unexplained criminal cases. There Haferkamp and Kreutzer discover a match with a murder of a girl three years ago. Bernhold seems to have observed the crime at the time and then blackmailed the perpetrator, Waarst. The commissioner tries to use a trick to lure Waarst out of the reserve. He sends in front of Bernhold's colleague Trimke, who is now supposed to pretend that he would continue the blackmail. Waarst awaits him at home to hand over the money, but Haferkamp is also present at the meeting. Waarst feels convicted and finds no other way out than to kill himself with poison.

In the meantime, a tramp has been convicted as a murderer for the murder of Paul Bernhold .

Production notes

The film was shot under the working title Vicious Circle from January 11th to February 9th 1977 in the Bavaria -Atelier Munich-Geiselgasteig. The outdoor shots were taken in Munich , Essen and in the Ruhr area .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Spätlese . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 614 V).
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Staudte - actor, director . In: CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Film , Lg. 20, F 33
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