Crime scene: The snow from last year

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The snow from last year
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF ,
BR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 186a ( List )
First broadcast October 12, 1986 on ORF
Rod
Director Milan Dor
script Milo Dor
production Peter Müller
camera Karl Kofler ,
Ossy Winkelmayer
cut Eliska Stibrova
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The Snow from Last Year is an Austrian television thriller from 1986. Milo Dor wrote the screenplay and was directed by his son Milan Dor . As the seventh of 13 episodes in the crime series Tatort , it was produced by ORF outside of the official Tatort series without ARD , but with Bavarian Broadcasting , and was only broadcast in Austria for the first time. It was also the only episode in which not a police officer but a journalist was officially named as the investigator.

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The wealthy boutique owner and fashion designer Cora Winter is found strangled in her bathtub by her housekeeper. The officers Hegner and Navratil are called to the scene and question the housekeeper, but she cannot give any further information. Mrs. Winter's managing director, Lackner, testifies that he had an intimate relationship with the dead woman for a while, that he was her only confidante and knew that she wanted to go on a business trip to Munich. The housekeeper knows nothing of a planned trip for the dead. Lackner claims to have been in a café at the time of the crime. Navratil finds cocaine in the apartment, Lackner admits that he knew about it in winter. Hegner calls in his friend, journalist Alex Lutinsky, who knew Cora Winter superficially. Two strangers watch Lutinsky and ask him about Winter's death, but he blocks. The strangers follow Lutinsky, but Lutinsky can leave them behind and in turn pursue them to a villa. He then wrote his article with hints that there might be more behind the crime and that Eastern business partners might have something to do with the murder. The next morning, Hegner and Lutinsky meet, Hegner asks Lutinsky about his findings. He tells him about the encounter with the two strangers, which Hegner dismisses as journalistic speculation.

A short time later, the two strangers match Lutinsky again on the way to his editorial office and inform him that their boss, the businessman Tarachabi, would like to talk to him. Tarachabi traded cotton clothes with Cora Winter, but Lutinsky refuses to come along. Tarachabi then visits Lutinsky in the editorial office, who threatens him because of his reporting and tells him that he had a relationship with Winter. Lutinsky realizes that the dealings between Winter and him were not about clothes, but about the arms trade. Tarachabi gives Lutinsky a hint about his school friend Manfred Kellermann, who knows more about Cora Winter's business. Lutinsky goes to Kellermann, but does not find him, only his secretary. As he leaves, he runs into a stranger who is angry with Kellermann and is looking for him. Lutinsky follows the stranger into the bookstore of a Kurt Schneider, in which right-wing literature is sold. Finally, he follows him to the villa to which he recently followed Tarachabi's henchmen. Through the door sign he learns that his name is Johann Kahr. In the evening he visits Kellermann in a restaurant and asks him about Cora Winter, who reveals that he knew her well and knew about Winter's illegal business, but refuses to give him any further information, he does not know Kahr. Kellermann threatens Lutinsky if he writes about him.

Meanwhile, Hegner and Navratil interrogate Lackner, whom they believe to be the perpetrator. Lutinsky visits the officers during the interrogation, Hegner has had Lackner arrested because he is the sole heir of Winter and therefore had a motive, Lutinsky is more interested in the background, Hegner, on the other hand, only wants to solve the murder himself. When Lutinsky comes home, he finds his apartment broken into and searched. He then uses his partner to get ahead in his research. When he visits Kahr, he finds him depressed by a stranger. Kahr doesn't know who knocked him down, he supposedly wants to cooperate with Lutinsky. Lutinsky visits Schneider's bookstore again and warns him that his friend Kahr has been attacked, but Schneider refuses to cooperate with him. Kahr, shadowed by Lutinky's partner, goes to the car dealer Zecchi, while Lutinsky shadowed Schneider. Schneider meets with Lackner, whom he finally shoots. Schneider remains silent with Hegner and Navratil, Lutinksy finally explains Hegner's identity, although he does not know his connection to Lackner either. Meanwhile Schneider leaps to his death from the window of the interrogation room before Navratil's eyes. While Lutinsky's editor-in-chief no longer wants to bring the murder story as a cover story, Lutinsky's investigator ambition is now even more aroused. He senses that he is being persecuted for his research, Tarachabi's two henchmen are after him, but the next morning Lutinsky manages to shake them off with a trick.

He visits Kahr again, who makes a confused impression. He tells Lutinsky that he wanted to start a new life in South America, Schneider had screwed this up for him. He throws Lutinsky out. Lutinsky seeks out Zecchi, he asks the car dealer about Kahr, who pretends not to know him and rudely serves Lutinsky. Lutinsky's partner meanwhile follows Kahr into a red light bar, while Lutinsky visits Kellermann again. He only meets his secretary, who was beaten up by Kellermann for talking to Lutinsky two days earlier. Meanwhile, Kahr loses his nerve in the bar and strangles an animator, whereupon he is arrested by the police. He confesses to the police about the murder of the lady, although she is still alive. Lutinsky, who was called by his partner, understands that Kahr is not referring to the animator, but to Cora Winter. Lutinsky informs Hegner that Kahr confesses to Winter that he was murdered, that he was in love with her, but that she just laughed at him after his confession of love, whereupon he strangled her. Lutinsky doubts the confession, but Hegner is satisfied with the admission that the case is closed for him. Lutinsky is outraged by Hegner's lack of commitment.

In the evening, Lutinsky got the idea to break into the Schneiders bookstore, where he found a suspicious package and put it in his pocket. As he gets into his car, he is aware that he is being followed by Zecchi. At home he swaps the cocaine for powdered milk. When the doorbell rings, Lutinsky hides the cocaine found in the bookstore and deposits the powdered milk in what appears to be a hiding place in the living room. When he opens the door, Zecchi is waiting for him and threatens Lutinsky with a gun. He demands that the cocaine be handed over, whereupon Lutinsky hands him the prepared packet with the milk powder. The car dealer gives him US $ 100,000 in cash for this. The next morning, Lutinsky is intercepted by Tarachabi's two henchmen, who explain to him that Johann Kahr persuaded Schneider to have his former SS comrade deliver cocaine from Bolivia. Cora Winter was supposed to sell this to Kellermann. The henchmen don't know why Kahr killed Cora Winter either, they suspect that there was money involved that Cora Winter had lent Kahr. After Winter's death, Lackner blackmailed Schneider, which caused him to panic. After the murder of Cora Winter, Kellermann left the drug business immediately, Kahr was looking for a new partner and came across Zecchi, who is only a small fish in the scene and has since gone into hiding. Lutinsky now knows that the arms dealer Tarachabi has nothing to do with this story, whereupon he is off the headlines. Lutinsky delivers the cocaine and the false dollar bills to Hegner that he received from Zecchi, and Hegner can read the story at Lutinsky the next day. Lutinsky is disappointed by Hegner because he was not more committed in the case, but Hegner shows him that he has already given up and does not want to fight against windmills.

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Last year's snow was the only crime scene episode with journalist Alex Lutinsky as an investigator. It was also the only crime scene episode in which a journalist instead of a police officer led the investigation. Miguel Herz-Kestranek , who had previously played Inspector Ullmann as Hirth's assistant in three previous episodes, played the journalist and chief investigator Lutinsky. The episode The Snow from Last Year was broadcast for the first time and once by Bayerischer Rundfunk in Germany six months after it was first broadcast on June 27, 1987.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 13 special ORF crime scenes at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 31, 2015.
  2. ↑ Last year's snow on tatort-fundus.de
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