Crime scene: blind fear

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Blind fear
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 223 ( List )
First broadcast October 1, 1989 on ORF
Rod
Director Kurt Junek
script Bert Stone Gods
production Peter Müller
Ernst Petz
camera Wolfgang Koch
cut Margit Hummer
occupation

Blinde Angst is an Austrian television thriller from 1989. Bert Steingötter wrote the screenplay and directed Kurt Junek . It was the 223rd Tatort episode and the second case of Chief Inspector Fichtl ( Michael Janisch ) as the main investigator, but only eight of the nine episodes were episodes of the official Tatort series, his first case was an ORF crime scene episode, the first broadcast in Austria and only shown once in Germany on Hessischer Rundfunk on television. Fichtl and his team are dealing with the murder of an old gardener and a series of robberies in Viennese villas.

action

The old gardener Johann Kostmann, who lives alone in the run-down villa of the late Kemmer couple, who were his employers, talks about his larger savings in a pub that he supposedly keeps in the villa. Kurt and Sonja, a young couple, hear the boasting and spontaneously decide to rob the old man. Sonja awakens Kostmann's pity and makes him sleep over with her while Kurt waits for her outside and follows them. Sonja leaves the door of the villa open so that Kurt can attack the old man. In order to get to the old man's supposed savings, Kurt Kostmann brutally abuses him. The next morning, Inspector Fichtl is called to Villa Kemmer, where the officers find Kostmann strangled. Sonja had made an anonymous call to the security office. The interrogation of Kemmer's son and sole heir Theodor revealed that Kostmann had no money, but expected it from Theodor Kemmer because he wanted to buy his lifelong right to live in his parents' villa in order to be able to sell it. Theo Kemmer denies having anything to do with the murder. However, he says that there is no valuable gold watch that his parents gave Kostmann for his loyal service.

Sonja learns from the newspaper that Kostmann is dead and reproaches her friend Kurt. He has meanwhile gambled away the watch on "Django", Kurt and Sonja learn from the newspaper that the police know of the existence of the watch. When Kurt visits Django and asks him to return the watch, the latter blackmails Kurt because he knows about the crime. When Django is arrested shortly afterwards after a bar fight and the watch is found on him, he gives the police the information about Kurt. Fichtl goes to Kurt, but only meets Sonja, who says she had received the watch from Kostmann as a present, Kurt was not there. When she left, Kostmann was still alive. Fichtl doesn't believe her, Sonja finally confesses that Kurt abused Kostmann in order to get his supposed money. However, he had assured her that he had not killed Kostmann. He heard a noise in the house that she was waiting outside for Kurt when he looked at Kostmann again. Fichtl begins to doubt Kurt's culprit and to research Kemmer. While Fichtl finds out that Theodor Kemmer is addicted to gambling and only rarely shows up in his shipping company, Hollocher searches for Kurt. Dr. Putner dismisses Fichtl's suspicions and focuses on the manhunt for Kurt.

Inspector Winter talks to the detained Sonja and tries to persuade her to get Kurt to surrender. Sonja agrees and is set free for the time being. In Kemmer's forwarding agency, the officials find evidence that Kemmer, due to his gambling debts, could be involved in a current series of robberies in which wealthy Viennese families are attacked in their villas. Meanwhile, the fugitive Kurt finds out about Sonja's release and calls her. She urges him to surrender, but when he notices that Inspector Winter is with her, he hangs up. Meanwhile, Winter progresses in the series of robberies, the man behind is an underworld great named Johann Smolek, he works with a forwarding company that takes the stolen art objects abroad. Fichtl combines that Kemmer must know Smolek because of his gambling addiction and that he works with him because of his debts. Meanwhile, the desperate Kurt wants to go abroad and contacts Kemmer's wife to extort 800,000 schillings, otherwise he will go to the police. But at the agreed handover of the money, Smolek's killer "Iron" appears, Kurt is injured, but can put the "Iron" to flight. The police found traces of blood from Kurt, Fichtl and his team at the site of the planned handover of the money. They suspect a meeting between Kurt and Kemmer is planned there.

Fichtl seeks out Kemmer, but his wife gives him an alibi. Kemmer also denies any connection with Smolek. Hollocher, who, together with Winter, keeps an eye on Smolek in his restaurant, overhears a call that Smolek receives. Hollocher is then knocked down by the "iron". Fichtl is now convinced that the "iron" Kostmann killed Kemmer on behalf of Kemmer. Winter has the idea to make Kemmer nervous with an anonymous letter and to watch him. Putner tacitly condones the illegal action. While Hollocher finds out that the "iron man" has fled, Smolek receives a call about the letter to Kemmer, who looks for the "iron man" in his hiding place because he has an assignment for him. Meanwhile, the seriously injured Kurt turns himself in because he urgently needs medical attention. Smolek drives the “Eiserner” into a forest and wants to shoot him there because he thinks he talked too much and thus triggered Kemmer's blackmail. But the "iron one" is faster and in turn shoots Smolek. Meanwhile, Putner has Kemmer arrested, but he continues to deny everything.

Hollocher and Winter go to the Kemmer's house, where they find Kemmer's wife Agathe tied up and gagged. The “Eiserne” was there and wanted to know the whereabouts of Herbert Kluger, the authorized representative of her husband's forwarding agency. Ms. Kemmer, who has a relationship with Kluger, explains to the officers that her husband is completely innocent. Kluger had arranged the dealings with the stolen art objects behind Kemmer's back and also the murder of Kostmann. Kluger planned to take over the shipping company for the gambling addict Kemmer, but he was still two years away. If Kemmer hadn't been able to sell his parents' villa now, the forwarding company would have gone bankrupt and Kluger’s takeover plans would have become obsolete. Hollocher and Winter rush to the warehouse for the stolen art objects with a large police force, where Kluger is staying. The "iron man" is already in the camp and wants to kill Kluger. The police arrive at the last moment and arrest both men. Kluger then confesses his involvement in the smuggling of the stolen art objects and the murder of Kostmann.

background

Blind Fear was filmed between May 3rd and July 3rd, 1988 in Vienna and the surrounding area.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film as mediocre and said: "Not blind, but not the big vision either".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Blinde Angst" at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on April 4, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Blind Fear"
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