Crime scene: Go it alone
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Go it alone |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
ORF |
| length | 76 minutes |
| classification | Episode 184a ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 24, 1986 on ORF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Werner Woess |
| script | Ernst Hinterberger |
| production | Peter Müller |
| music | Roland Baumgartner |
| camera |
Rudolf H. Murth , Stefan Horvath |
| cut |
Anita Tumfart , Andrea Putz |
| occupation | |
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It is an Austrian television thriller from 1986. The script was written by Ernst Hinterberger and directed by Werner Woess . As the sixth of 13 episodes in the crime series Tatort , it was produced by ORF outside of the official Tatort series without ARD and was only broadcast in Austria for the first time.
action
Ms. Földy, the tenant of the red-light restaurant “Miranda”, finds her employee Ms. Zaremba and a Hungarian truck driver strangled in her restaurant, a robbery and murder is ruled out. The officers know that Ms. Földy acts as a straw woman for the Viennese red-light giant Jellinek, shortly afterwards he appears at the scene, he is clueless and bothered by the dead in his business, he also does not know the man. Meanwhile, the officers received a phone call that an old widow was found dead in her home in the immediate vicinity. She was also strangled, around the same time as the two dead in the "Miranda". The autopsy reveals that all three must have been strangled by the same perpetrator with the same blue silk tool. Fichtl suspects that the old woman must have seen the perpetrator. Hirth meets with Jellinek, who offers the police to help with the investigation, but does not say anything concrete. Hollocher goes to the pension where the dead Hungarian lived, the pensioner states that the guest drove away in his truck at five in the morning, but he did not see the guest himself. Meanwhile, Fichtl and Schulz mingle with the guests at the “Miranda”, where Fichtl manages to get Ms. Földy to talk to him, threatening to see her deported to Hungary. She confides in him that Jellinek knew the dead Hungary, apparently this helped Jellinek smuggle automatic rifles.
Hirth then meets with Winkelbauer from the state police, who gives him contact details of people who, according to police knowledge, are involved in arms smuggling. Meanwhile, Fichtl determines that Jellinek himself is out of the question as an active perpetrator. The antique dealer Schurli, one of Jellinek's two henchmen, told Hollocher that an outsider was trying to get into the illegal arms business. He gave him a contact number, under which he found out that 600 Israeli automatic rifles had arrived in Hamburg, the authorities there have no idea how they got there. In the evening, the Hirth team, in cooperation with their colleague Winkelbauer, tries to lure the mastermind behind the arms smuggling, which the state police are already after, into a trap, but the attempt fails. Hirth and Hollocher interrogate Jellinek again and confront him with the testimony of the witness, who they keep anonymous, but Jellinek asserts that he has nothing to do with arms deals. The next day, Hollocher and Schulz find the truck on which more rapid-fire rifles from Israel are loaded. With the help of Winkelbauer, Hirth can lure the arms dealer into a trap again; it is Schurli, whom Hollocher had already heard. He says that Jellinek is the man behind him.
At that moment Fichtl received a call that a homeless man had been beaten up and wanted to testify to him. The homeless man saw the murdered widow go for a walk on the morning of the crime, she had seen Shurli. The homeless person observed how Schurli spoke to the woman and disappeared with her into her apartment, shortly afterwards Schurli came out of the apartment again without the blue tie he had been wearing earlier. Because of his observations, Schurli beat him up to prevent him from making a statement to the police. Fichtl immediately concludes that the tie must have been the instrument of murder. Meanwhile, Jellinek continues to deny any involvement. He is surprised by the activities of a third party. The officers take Schurli's tie off to have it examined in the laboratory. Schurli then confesses that he learned from the arms dealers and that the Hungarian truck driver had loaded them into the "Miranda". Thereupon he wanted to go “self-employed” and killed the truck driver and the employee to get the guns. On the way back from the double murder, the old woman met him with her dog, she recognized him as a neighbor, which is why he also killed her after he had gained access to her apartment under a pretext. He also admits that he was one of Jellinek's henchmen and suggests that he was the mastermind behind the arms deal. Fearing Jellinek, however, he immediately revokes his testimony and claims that Jellinek had nothing to do with the business. Jellinek then has to be let go by Hirth and Fichtl and triumphantly bids farewell to the police headquarters, while Schurli is arrested for three murders.
production
Going it alone was the eighth crime scene case involving Chief Inspector Hirth. The episode " Go It alone" was never broadcast in Germany and only repeated ten years later on ORF.
Web links
- Alone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Going it alone in the online film database
- Going it alone at filmportal.de
- Going it alone with the crime scene fund
Individual evidence
- ↑ 13 special ORF crime scenes at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 25, 2015.
- ↑ Hit and run on tatort-fundus.de
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