Crime scene: Atahualpa
Atahualpa is an Austrian television thriller by Renate Eibel from 1987. It was created as 199a. Follow the crime series Tatort . It is one of the 13 episodes that were produced by ORF outside of the official Tatort series without ARD and only broadcast in Austria for the first time.
action
The Peruvian Savala travels to Vienna and checks in at the “Atlantis” hotel. There he is watched by the hotel porter, Walter Blau. In the evening he leaves the hotel and contacts Konrad, the owner of the Peruvian restaurant Atahualpa, meanwhile Blau searches the Peruvian’s room and steals his shoes. He later cuts packets of cocaine out of the soles. On his return, Savala notices that some packages have been stolen, but finds that most of the cocaine is still there in a secret compartment of his suitcase. He meets with Konrad to hand over the cocaine. The following night, Savala is found shot dead in an industrial area. Pfeifer's colleagues discover that the man was transported there after his death. Pfeifer and Hollocher go to the "Atlantis", Blau shows the officials Savala's room. The officers find his notebook and find out that Savala has already been to Vienna eight times and always stayed in the "Atlantis". He also stayed in Germany quite often and met there with a person from Büringen, among others. In the evening, Hollocher's attention is drawn to the "Atahualpa" due to a matchbox found in Savala's hotel room.
The next morning in the Danube, Blau disposed of Savala's shoes. On the way back, under the influence of drugs, he had an accident that left him uninjured. He feels worn out between the pressure of exams during his studies and his job as a night porter. Pfeifer and Winter visit Konrad in the "Atahualpa", who claims to have never seen Savala. They suspect that Savala's murder may have something to do with cocaine from South America. Meanwhile, forensic investigations reveal that Savala was not killed in his hotel room. Pfeifer contacts the colleagues from the drug department, who have also already targeted the "Atahualpa", and agree on a collaboration, which initially remains unsuccessful. Pfeifer and Winter go to Konrad and meet his wife there. She is nervous and first sends her lover Albert Petrik, an employee of her husband, away. She pretends to be clueless and claims that her restaurant is absolutely reputable. Meanwhile, Konrad is unabashedly celebrating a cocaine party in the "Atahualpa". Pfeifer has meanwhile received the documents from the Düsseldorf colleagues, where Savala had often stayed. Büringer was arrested there for trafficking in cocaine. Among those arrested in Düsseldorf was a young man who was obviously an acquaintance of Blau. It is Robert Sommer, who has a criminal record, whom the drug search then visits. The officers find hashish in his apartment, which is why they take him away.
Meanwhile, Pfeifer and Hollocher go to Blau, who doesn't open the door for them. In the presidium, Sommer denies having anything to do with the cocaine scene. He also had an alibi at the time of the crime, which, however, cannot be verified. Pfeifer and Hollocher go to Blau in the hotel and ask him whether he knows Sommer or Büringer, to which Blau only answers evasively. Winter informs Pfeifer that Büringer probably had his accomplices exposed in a criminal complaint in order to get out of the cocaine number. Pfeifer publishes a large manhunt for Büringer, in which he recognized Konrad's employee Petrik. Konrad pretends to be ignorant of Petrik's criminal past in front of Pfeifer and Hollocher. Meanwhile, Robert Sommer is released. After the officers leave, Konrad drives to a secret meeting point where he meets an unknown person. Meanwhile, Blau tries to sell the cocaine he stole from Savala and comes into the business with a Gerhard. Pfeifer and his team determine that Savala stayed in Vienna for exactly two days every two months, which suggests that he had regular customers for his cocaine. Pfeifer does everything in his power to get Albert Petrik alias Büringer, as he is the only person he knows who Savala certainly knew. After a chase, Albert Petrik can be caught the next morning, he says that his boss killed Konrad Savala.
Pfeifer and his team carried out a house search with the support of other officials, during which they only found Ms. Konrad. They secure documents according to which Konrad had withdrawn half a million schillings from his account twice in the past few days. At that moment Pfeifer receives a call that Konrad was found shot in his car. Albert Petrik alias Büringer denies the murder. He says that Konrad shot at Savala in self-defense because he believed that Konrad and Petrik had stolen some of his material and went crazy as a result. The cocaine was stolen by someone else. Meanwhile, Gerhard goes to Blau to buy the cocaine from him. However, Blau's girlfriend stole the cocaine and disappeared with it, Gerhard feels betrayed and attacks Blau. Shortly before Pfeifer and Hollocher arrive, Gerhard takes his money back and disappears, the officers only find the frightened Blau in the apartment. Hollocher finds two plane tickets to Barcelona made out to Blau and his girlfriend Irene Fiala. The officers find the weapon that Konrad was shot with in the bedroom. Blau asserts that this has nothing to do with Irene being the perpetrator and having tricked him. Pfeifer was able to arrest Fiala at the airport at the last minute when she wanted to leave for another country.
production
Atahualpa was the sixth Tatort case involving Chief Inspector Pfeifer, but only three of the eight episodes were official Tatort episodes of the ARD series. The rest, as well as this production, were the only ones of ORF. These own ORF productions were only shown in Austria for the first time. The episode Atahualpa was never broadcast in Germany.
Web links
- Atahualpa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Atahualpa in the online film database
- Atahualpa at filmportal.de
- Atahualpa at the crime scene fund
Individual evidence
- ↑ 13 special ORF crime scenes at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on February 23, 2015 .
- ↑ Atahualpa on tatort-fundus.de
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