Crime scene: The girlfriend

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The girlfriend
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 317 ( List )
First broadcast August 13, 1995 on ORF
Rod
Director Jürgen Kaizik
script Jürgen Kaizik , Bert Steingötter
production Günther Wilding
music Heinz Leonberger
camera Wolfgang Koch
cut Tanja Losowsky
occupation

The girlfriend is an Austrian television thriller from 1995. The screenplay was written by Jürgen Kaizik and Bert Steingötter based on an idea by Albert Stein, and Jürgen Kaizik also directed. It was the 317th crime scene episode and the eighth and penultimate case of Chief Inspector Fichtl ( Michael Janisch ) as the main investigator, but only eight of the nine episodes were in the official crime scene series, his first case was an ORF crime scene series which was only broadcast for the first time in Austria and only shown once on television in Germany on Hessischer Rundfunk. Fichtl and his team are dealing with the death of an advertising film producer and a whole series of suspects.

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The advertising film producer Max Brockmann has a bad relationship with his Stefan, who, like his wife, from whom he lives separately, works in Brockmann's production company. At a meeting with his lover Franziska "Fanny" Hubalek, he met her friend Ingrid, whom he spontaneously invited to another meeting with Fanny behind Fanny's back. When Fanny shows up, Brockmann locks her out of his villa to be alone with Ingrid. Ingrid fends off his advances, but Brockmann rapes her. Later, Fanny goes to Brockmann's villa and finds him dead. She has the body removed by her father Hans. He is discovered and arrested by a police patrol. Hans dies of a heart attack when the officers discover the body. Councilor Dr. Putner and Hollocher search for the location of the corpse at Villa Brockmann, where they find Fanny. She claims to be Brockmann's friend and let herself be endured by Brockmann. When the officials discover that the villa has recently been cleaned intensively and that Fanny is Hans Hubalek's daughter, they arrest her. Ingrid, who was badly battered by the rape, found out the next morning that her friend Fanny had been arrested on the radio.

Chief Inspector Fichtl, wondering about the silence of suspect Fanny, drives with his new assistant Aloisia "Lou" Hareter to Stefan Brockmann, who has meanwhile taken over the production. He sees the case as resolved and states that his father had been looking for a new friend and that Fanny, who was considered sole heir in the will, killed him for that reason. Brockmann's younger son Ernst withholds a statement at the behest of his older brother. Meanwhile, the lawyer Dr. Lukas Fanny's grandmother and asks her about her granddaughter, since he wants to represent her. She told Lukas that her son had already slept and that he drove away again after Fanny called. Dr. Lukas provides the tape of the testimony to Fichtl and his team in order to substantiate Fanny's culprit, while Fichtl doubts their guilt. The small crook Gustl would like to make a statement to Fichtl, but he sends him away stressed. Lou Hareter visits Ernst Brockmann, who testifies that his father recently bought a gun. Unnoticed by Hareter, Ingrid, who knows Ernst, leaves his bookstore and observes the conversation from outside. Meanwhile, Fichtl tries in vain to get Fanny to talk.

Ernst, who realized through the conversation with Hareter that Ingrid was with his father, goes to her and makes it clear to her that he doesn't want anything more to do with her, because he despises his father and Ingrid has so far been approaching Max had not believed. Meanwhile, Gustl visits Hollocher and Fichtl and tells them that a few weeks ago someone offered him 100,000 schillings to kill Max Brockmann. Fichtl and Hollocher smuggle Hareter into Fanny's cell, she should win their trust and get something out of her. Fanny tells Hareter about a former friend who she trusts but who has abused her trust. Fichtl then takes full risk and orders Fanny's release in order to get to this friend. Fanny promptly meets with Ingrid and assures her that she has not said anything to the police. When the two of them talk about Brockmann, Hareter, who has been secretly shadowing the two of them with colleagues, arrives, Ingrid runs away, but is arrested by Hollocher and his colleagues. protests to Fichtl that she has nothing to do with Brockmann's death and that she fled after Brockmann's attempted rape. He was still alive at the time that Fanny shot him, she can't imagine either. Fichtl then wants to find out more about Gustl's potential client from Hollocher, who at Brockmann's funeral recognizes Rabenau as him. When asked by Hareter, he admits that he is relieved by Brockmann's death. Rabenau's daughter had a relationship with Brockmann, who later became a drug addict and died of an overdose. In a short-circuit act, he approached Gustl, but quickly changed his mind and refrained from his plan of revenge. Fanny also visits Ernst at the funeral, tells him about Ingrid's arrest and begs him to help her friend. Shortly afterwards, in the presence of Ernst and his mother, Stefan suggests that he might have killed his father.

Ernst goes to Fanny, who inherited Max Brockmann's fortune, in the evening and tells her about his brother's culprit. Ernst wants Fanny to go to the police to help Ingrid, but they arm themselves and meet with Stefan. She offers him to forego the family villa if Stefan confesses in writing to the murder of his father. Meanwhile, Rabenau reports to Fichtl and his team that he never gave Gustl the name Brockmann, but that Gustl stole his wallet. Gustl finally admits that he found Brockmann's business card in Rabenau's wallet and that he wanted to break into it. When he found the door open, he went into the villa and was surprised by the drunk Brockmann and threatened with a gun. Gustl had pushed this away in an affect and Brockmann accidentally shot himself. Fanny meanwhile wants to force Stefan to swallow an overdose of sleeping pills in order to fake a suicide attempt on his part, this is supposed to support his written confession. However, Stefan can disarm Fanny and now forces her to make a written confession. Ingrid, who has just been released from custody, does not reach her friend and alerts Fichtl and Hareter, the three of them rush to the villa. They arrive just in time when Stefan wants to kill Fanny with the sleeping pill. Fichtl can disarm and arrest Stefan.

Audience rating

The crime scene The Girlfriend reached 7.98 million viewers when it was first broadcast on ARD, which corresponded to a rate of 30.06%.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film only mediocre and commented: "Opaque story with a thousand clichés".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The girlfriend rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on October 31, 2015.
  2. ^ The girlfriend short review at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on October 31, 2015.
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