Crime scene: The ghost train case

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The ghost train case
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company
Horst Film GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin
length 73 minutes
classification Episode 16 ( list )
First broadcast March 12, 1972 on German television
Rod
Director Hans Dieter Black
script Hansjörg Martin ,
Hans Dieter Schwarze
production Helmut Bauer
music Klaus Doldinger
camera Ingo Hamer
cut Roger von Möllendorf
occupation

and Anneliese Dallmann, Henrike Fürst, Anneliese Kligge, Maria Rauch, Karin von Wangenheim, Hans Jürgen Heinze, Lothar Köster , Karl Rauch

The ghost train case is the 16th television film in the crime scene crime series. Produced by Hessischer Rundfunk , the episode was broadcast for the first time on March 12, 1972 in the ARD's First Program . It is the second case of Commissioner Konrad, represented by Klaus Höhne .

action

On the fairground, Chief Detective Klipp from the burglary department has fun at the shooting range, while a solid marital row takes place in the Forster family's showman's car. After Klipp peeked into a fortune teller , he found Otto Forster shot in one of the gondolas of his ghost train . Klipp carefully secures the crime scene and the witnesses and waits until Detective Konrad from the homicide squad arrives.

Forster's wife does not seem particularly shaken; she is on her way to see her mother, the said fortune teller. Konrad and Klipp question the employees of the ghost train who are not very cooperative. You drive down the train to get an idea and discover a second bullet hole in a figure. Old Paul Horn speaks to her at the back exit and says that the dead man was a very unpleasant person.

Horn had an accident the next morning. With his last words he can warn Klipp and Konrad about "any contacts". Forster's widow is convinced that it was murder and not an accident. Klipp got the address of Zink, the owner of the ghost train and several other show shops, and called Inspector Konrad. He announced to Klipp that he was allowed to completely take over the ghost train case due to the great shortage of staff at the homicide squad. The inspector immediately threw himself into work and looked for zinc. His villa is evidence of great wealth, which does not really fit the meager life of the showmen.

Klipp secretly follows Zink to the freight station and learns that a tractor and two wagons for zinc are being loaded. Zink secretly stows another box on the wagon, but before the train can move towards the border, Klipp calls in the customs investigation . Customs inspector Kressin arrives, has the ominous box shown, and finds a parcel of heroin in the false bottom . Klipp informs Konrad, and with police reinforcements he goes to zinc, who immediately starts a shooting but is then arrested. However, he vows not to be a murderer.

Klipp goes back to Forster's widow, who had to admit her mother to the hospital at short notice. On her deathbed, the fortune teller confesses that Zink had Forster firmly in hand with the drug thing , but Forster wanted to get out. He took out his frustration on his family and hit his child over and over again. As a grandmother, she could no longer bear that and shot Forster because she didn't have long to live anyway.

Others

The location of the action is not mentioned, but residents in the area speak the Hessian dialect. Some vehicles have license plates that begin with fictitious letter combinations: the hearse with RL ( Rochlitz ), Klipp drives a VW Beetle with OAS , and Zink's car also has the OAS license plate . The ghost train vehicles have the license plate OL ( Oldenburg ). However, you can see some cars, especially a police VW bus, with license plate DO ( Dortmund ). Another police VW bus has a license plate with the letters EO . The showmen of the fair stand on the old fairground in Castrop-Rauxel . This suggests that a large part of the film was shot in Castrop-Rauxel, especially since the police from Castrop-Rauxel still belonged to Dortmund at the time of shooting, which explains the abbreviation DO on the police car. As a customs investigator from Cologne, Kressin drives a sports car with a Cologne number.

background

When it was first broadcast on German television on March 12, 1972, the film achieved an audience rating of 59 percent. The ghost train case is one of the shortest crime scenes at 73 minutes and is one of the so-called poison cabinet episodes . These are episodes that are blocked by a sender's internal block and are not allowed to be broadcast until further notice. The production company Horst Film GmbH & Co. KG Berlin had to file for bankruptcy shortly after the first broadcast , and therefore the licensing rights are not entirely clear. Therefore the Hessischer Rundfunk has refrained from repetitions until clarification.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The ghost train case at tatort-fundus.de , accessed on March 21, 2013
  2. Discussion at tatort-fundus.de , accessed on March 21, 2013