Crime scene: the velvet trap

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The velvet trap
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 23 ( list )
First broadcast November 12, 1972 on ORF and ARD
Rod
Director Walter Davy
script Fritz Eckhardt
camera Peter Jasicek ,
Gerd Hoss ,
Richard Kritzer ,
Martin Wolf ,
Karl Kofler
cut Walter Sihorsch
occupation

Die Samtfalle is an Austrian television crime thriller by Walter Davy from 1972. It was created as the 23rd episode of the crime series Tatort . This time Marek is dealing with the murder of a freight forwarder and with a uranium smuggling.

action

Marek's assistant Wirz finds a male corpse on a country road. The man has been dead for twelve to fourteen hours, his face is unrecognizable because a truck has obviously driven over his skull. Neither an accident nor suicide or even murder can be ruled out.

The dead man turns out to be the freight forwarder Sebastian Kremer. Wirz brings the news of her death to the widow Marion Kremer, the dead man's third wife, and Kremer's daughter Isabell.

Chief Inspector Kramer from the State Police visits Chief Inspector Marek and reports that 80 tons of uranium-containing rock have disappeared in a neighboring Eastern Bloc state. Goods wagons were exchanged and the rock was covered with coal. So the rock was brought across the border to Austria. An informant, the alleged Baron Terp, has led the Austrian authorities on a lead - that of the freight forwarder Kremer.

Meanwhile, Isabell Kremer tells Wirz that she hates her stepmother and accuses her of killing her first husband and father. In addition, she also seeks her life.

Isabell Kremer reports to Wirz that her stepmother has a relationship with a certain Kressin and introduces Wirz to Baron Terp as her fiancé, who introduces himself as a close friend of the dead man.

Meanwhile, Marek seeks out Prendergast, who had worked for Kremer until a year ago and was the managing director of the forwarding company. He left after friction with Kremer because he found his position unsatisfactory. Despite his position, Kremer did not let him decide anything, preferring to act on his own.

Marek visits the Kremer house and meets Marion Kremer there, whom he suspects of murder. Then he talks to Kressin, who tells Marek that he has lost his position as customs inspector because of his various women’s stories and that he has known Marion Kremer for three weeks, during which he did not even want to see the host. Finally, Marek talks to Baron Terp, who claims to be afraid of Marion Kremer and insinuates that she is trapping other people with a kind of "velvet trap".

Shortly afterwards, Tarp is dead, shot with a shot in the forehead.

Meanwhile, Kressin seeks out Prendergast, and tells him on the head that he knows that he is Sebastian Kremer, who was believed to be dead. He came up with it because he saw him running through the house and garden in the Kremer house as only a householder would know his house and his garden. He also followed Isabell and saw that she was visiting her father, alias Prendergast.

Kremer then threatens Kressin with a gun, Kressin still knows that Kremer shot Tarp. Kremer wanted to get his paintings, which were his only remaining asset, out of his house. Tarp was in the way and therefore had to die. Kremer escaped with the most valuable painting.

Kremer, in turn, knows that Kressin is still with customs and is after him. Kremer wants to move to South America with his daughter. Kremer wants to shoot Kressin. Kremer also admits that he stole the uranium-bearing rock. Kremer accidentally killed Prendergast, the two had an argument and he threw a heavy ashtray at his head. However, he had to shoot Tarp because he recognized his dead friend.

Kremer wants to shoot Kressin as soon as the phone rings, when he learns that the rock has crossed the border. In the meantime, however, due to a comment by a suspect in another case about alienating appearance, Marek has also discovered Kremer or the alleged prender guest and penetrates the apartment, where he distracts Kremer so that Kressin can disarm him. Immediately afterwards the phone rings.

production

The velvet trap was the second crime scene case involving Chief Inspector Marek. Fritz Eckhardt not only acted as the main actor, but also wrote the script.

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