Crime scene: the forgotten murder

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The forgotten murder
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF
length 75 minutes
classification Episode 79 ( List )
First broadcast September 11, 1977 on ORF and ARD
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Director Peter Patzak
script Fritz Eckhardt
production Helmut Pascher
camera Rudolf H. Murth ,
Thomas Horwarth
cut Renate Jelinek
occupation

The Forgotten Murder is an Austrian television crime thriller by and with Fritz Eckhardt from 1977, directed by Peter Patzak . It was created as the 79th episode of the crime series Tatort and was the seventh crime scene case for Marek. This time Marek is dealing with the murder of a large landowner and an old missing person case.

action

After dinner in his villa, the large landowner Rositz confides in his friend, the Councilor Neloda, that he is being blackmailed. Strangers want to kill him or his 2 million schillings otherwise, but he has destroyed the two extortion letters. The next day, Councilor Neloda instructs Chief Inspector Marek to look around his friend. With Rositz's approval, Marek scrutinizes the landowner's employees. The chauffeur Kompert practices pistol shooting in the morning. The cook, who has just been fired, recently caught a stranger on the property who claimed to have made a mistake in the house number.

In the evening Marek hears his old speci Karl Swoboda when he receives a call from Mrs. Rositz that she has just found her husband dead. Helmuth Kompert says that he saw his boss that evening. He was supposed to pick up Ms. Rositz and Helge Langendorff, a friend of the house, from the opera, but before that he had had a small accident with his boss's car, at the time of the crime he was waiting for the radio patrol. Marek confronts Swoboda the next morning that the description of Rositz's cook fits him as the unknown intruder, and that he was picked up near the crime scene at the time of the crime, but Swoboda denies any involvement in the case.

Marek learns from an insurance director that Rositz had taken out life insurance in favor of his wife and that he was murdered four days after the period after which the insured sum of three million schillings would become due to his wife in the event of death. Marek visits Kompert's former job. His former colleague Musil says that Kompert was fired there after he had taken a delivery truck without the company's knowledge and thus caused an accident. Then Marek Beutelmoser, the former opponent of the accident, says that the truck was loaded with a large box and Kompert wanted to keep the police out of the accident. Kompert stopped on a bridge for a long time after the accident. The caretaker of Kompert's house says that Kompert had something with a minor from Bavaria who suddenly disappeared with a large amount of cash. Kompert is generous, so he gave him 100 schillings when he helped him load an old ice chest onto a wagon.

Wirz and Berntner question Swoboda again because another corpse, that of the old Goshappel, was found near the spot where he was seen on Rositz's murder night, but Swoboda continues to pretend to be ignorant. Except for the maid, everyone in Rositz's environment has an alibi for the time of the crime. However, an investigation of Kompert's environment reveals that his young Bavarian friend, a daughter from a wealthy family, has been missing for over a year. Kompert had filed the notice of absence shortly before his car accident, Marek remembers what the caretaker had told him.

Swoboda was shot dead in the street shortly afterwards. Marek finds an old refrigerator in the Danube, at the place where Kompert stopped with the truck on the bridge. In this is the body of the young Bavarian girl.

He then arrests Ms. Rositz and Kompert. Ms. Rositz finally admits that she and Kompert wrote the blackmail letters based on his idea and that he eventually murdered Rositz. Kompert, for his part, accuses Ms. Rositz, but since Rositz's corpse had meanwhile been deposited in a refrigerator and thus the parallel to Kompert's first murder becomes clear, he is ultimately convicted of a double murderer, while she is only convicted of aiding and abetting.

Audience and background

The forgotten murder achieved an audience rating of 41.0% when it was first broadcast. The forgotten murder was the seventh crime scene case involving Chief Inspector Marek. Fritz Eckhardt not only acted as the main actor, but also wrote the script. The later Viennese Tatort Commissioner Becker, ( Klaus Wildbolz ), has his first crime scene appearance here.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film positively and commented: "Crime with insult and fearless humor".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The forgotten murder audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on June 9, 2015.
  2. ↑ The forgotten murder short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on June 9, 2015.
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