Crime scene: whoever digs a pit ...

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Whoever digs a pit ...
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SR
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 76
First broadcast June 19, 1977 on German television
Rod
Director Günter Gräwert
script Hans-Peter Kaufmann
production Telefilm Saar GmbH
camera Henning Zick
cut Elke Niemietzek
occupation

Whoever digs a pit ... is the 76th TV film in the crime series Tatort and the third Tatort produced by Saarland Radio . It was first broadcast on June 19, 1977. It is the first case with Commissioner Schäfermann as the sole investigator, after he had investigated with his colleague Liersdahl in his first two episodes. Schäfermann is dealing with an ingenious poisoning and another planned murder following the same pattern out of greed.

action

A gang of burglars has specialized in specifically spying on obituaries of wealthy families and breaking into the villas at the time of the funeral. When the gang breaks into the mansion of the bank director Gollnick during the funeral, the police catch them in the act and arrest them. Gollnick is said to have committed suicide after allegedly embezzling DM 750,000 for unknown reasons. Gollnick's widow is certain that her husband was murdered and tells Schäfermann, for whom the investigation into the death has long been concluded. Schäfermann's ambitious daughter Irina is also researching the case on her own and is certain that Gollnick did not commit suicide, she believes that something is wrong with the victim of the embezzlement, Sannwald and draws her father's attention. Schäfermann seeks out Sannwald, who blocks the conversation with Schäfermann, although it has not been possible to determine where Gollnick's misappropriated money has gone. Schäfermann seeks out the pharmaceutical industrialist Pallmert, who was an old school friend of Gollnick's and who had noticeably looked after Mrs. Gollnick at her husband's funeral. Pallmert, who is plagued by money worries because his business is not going well, does not provide Schäfermann with any new information; he believes his friend has committed suicide.

Schäfermann speaks to his head of the commissariat, Grumbach, about the case, but he considers it to be closed. Encouraged by Irina, Schäfermann contacts his colleague Veigl to find out more about Pallmert's previous business in Munich, and Schäfermann also investigates Pallmert's business partners in Saarbrücken. He complains to Grumbach about Schäfermann, who then suffers a fit of weakness. Pallmert, meanwhile, desperately tries to borrow money from Sannwald, who refuses to do so because of his financial problems. Schäfermann learns from Veigl from Munich as well as from Pallmert's son Gerd, whom Irina has just met, that Pallmert had a lover in Munich, he recognizes Sannwald's friend Jutta Glogau in a photo sent by Veigl. He also finds out that it was quite possible for Pallmert to poison Gollnick with such a delay that no suspicion falls on him. Pallmert was with Gollnick shortly before his death at a class reunion that Pallmert had arranged. Schäfermann visits Sannwald, who was accompanied by Jutta Glogau to a forest sanatorium before she traveled on to Munich. Schäfermann travels after Sannwald and learns that he is on a walk. In Sannwald's room, Schäfermann finds an empty pill box and concludes from this that Sannwald should also be poisoned.

He starts a large-scale search without the consent of the public prosecutor and his superiors, because he fears that Sannwald could drop dead at any time. This can finally be found, Schäfermann warns him of possible poisoning. He explains to Sannwald the connection between Glogau and Pallmert, who presumably put them on Sannwald in order to use his money to reorganize Pallmert's company. Sannwald, however, is unmoved, only when Schäfermann tells him of his suspicion that Gollnick was also murdered that he finally agrees to have his stomach pumped out. Schäfermann's suspicion comes true and a capsule with potassium cyanide is found in Sannwald's stomach, which would have burst shortly afterwards and would have killed Sannwald. In order to set a trap for Glogau and Pallmert, he arranges for Glogau to be informed when they later call the sanatorium that she should come to the sanatorium immediately because something has happened. She then informs her lover Pallmert that everything went according to plan, but Pallmert found out shortly afterwards that Sannwald had been saved. He intercepts Glogau on the train to Saarbrücken, but she has already been observed by the police, so that both can be arrested. Gollnick had to die because he wanted the money back that he had embezzled from his bank. Since Sannwald needed money because of his young mistress, whom Pallmert had sent into his house, he paid more attention to his account than before, so that Gollnick feared that the embezzlement would be exposed. Pallmert unknowingly thwarted his plans himself and had to become a murderer in order not to endanger his financing.

Audience and production

When it was first broadcast on June 19, 1977, an audience share of 54% was achieved. The episode was filmed from August 16 to September 24, 1976 in Saarbrücken and the surrounding area.

Jochen Senf , who played the Saarland's successor Max Palu von Schäfermann from 1988, can be seen here in a small role as an employee of the newspaper publisher.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene as a mediocre “poor debut for Palu's predecessor”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ release certificate for the scene: Who digs a pit ... . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2011 (PDF; test number: 129 224 V).
  2. ↑ tatort-fundus.de: audience share and production
  3. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on June 8, 2015.
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