Crime Scene: The Reckoning (1975)

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The billing
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Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 80 minutes
classification Episode 52 ( List )
First broadcast June 8, 1975 on ARD
Rod
Director Wolfgang Becker
script Karl Heinz Willschrei
production Werner Kloss
camera Gernot Roll
cut Jean-Claude Piroué
occupation

The accounting is a television film from the crime scene television series by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by WDR and broadcast for the first time on June 8, 1975. It is the 52nd episode in the crime scene series, the fifth with Commissioner Haferkamp .

action

Professor Stürznickel is killed in his villa, the burglar Neugebauer caught in the process is shot as the alleged perpetrator of Stürznickel's daughter-in-law Evelyn. Evelyn is suspected by Inspector Haferkamp of having murdered her father-in-law before the break-in and charged. Attorney Dr. Alexander defends them and can obtain an acquittal. Due to the death of their grandfather, Evelyn and her stepdaughter Angela inherit large sums of money, which Angela rejects because she was a secret witness to the murder of the stepmother of old Stürznickel. Dr. Alexander, an old friend of his grandfather, is amazed at Angela's behavior, since he only defended Evelyn in the firm belief that she was innocent.

Suddenly Angela disappeared. She is found dead in a lake in the Sauerland , where the Stürznickels have a summer house. Some evidence brings Haferkamp to the track that Evelyn and her friend Dr. Furriers killed the girl for complicity. But at the next trial, Dr. Alexander's defense is noticeably weak and both are sentenced to life imprisonment. A missing sheet of Angela’s Latin notebook gives Haferkamp a new idea and he has Alexander’s office searched. He finds a farewell letter written on the missing page of the notebook. Angela had actually committed suicide and Dr. Alexander then prepared the evidence for a murder in order to get revenge on Evelyn for the murder of his friend Stürznickel and for having duped him at the first murder trial.

Trivia

  • The 332nd and 4th crime scene episodes by the Swiss team of investigators von Burg und Gertsch (first broadcast: May 12, 1996) also bears the title Die Abrechnung .

literature

  • Holger Wacker: The big crime scene book. Movies, facts and characters. Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89487-353-1 .

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