Crime scene: The open account

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The open account
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF ,
BR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 188a ( list )
First broadcast January 11, 1987 on ORF
Rod
Director Kurt Junek
script Leo Frank
production Peter Müller
music Ewald Beit
camera Wolfgang Koch
cut Barbara Heraut
occupation

The open account is an Austrian television thriller by Leo Frank from 1987. It was created as 188a. Follow the crime series Tatort . It is one of the 13 episodes that were produced by ORF outside of the official Tatort series without ARD and only broadcast in Austria for the first time.

action

During an illegal card game in the back room of a red-light restaurant, the two players Silbermeier and Swoboda get into an argument about Swoboda's alleged gambling fraud, Silbermeier shoots Swoboda and appeals to self-defense after his arrest. A large part of the large sum of money that the deceased was carrying is counterfeit money. Meanwhile, Hans Wieser, who has just been released from prison, is looking for a place to stay because he is currently living in a homeless shelter. He was imprisoned for spreading counterfeit money. In the evening he visits his girlfriend Lotte, who works in a bar. He wants to take revenge on an American named "Roger Brown" who had tricked him back then, whom he got to know at the time in Lotte's bar. Brown, who appeared to be rich, spontaneously hired Wieser as a chauffeur. After he had gained Wieser's trust, he hired him to act as a straw man at games of chance for Brown. The money that Wieser had used was counterfeit money, which he hadn't suspected. Meanwhile, the inspectors Fichtl and Winter have to investigate a fight after a game of cards in a men's dormitory and discover that the relevant criminal Wieser also lived in the dormitory, but has moved to a registered address today, his girlfriend Lotte.

Wieser, who now works in Lotte's bar, seeks out Anita Kroner, who was with Roger Brown at the time and who has now married richly. He wants to know from her where Roger is now, but Anita is clueless. She claims he is back in the US and only knows a club number and a PO Box address for him. He has the data given to him because he wants to confront him because Brown had abused him as a tool to convert counterfeit money into real money. Anita sends him away because she doesn't want to have anything more to do with the matter, but immediately afterwards she calls Brown and insists on a meeting with him. He, still in Vienna, reassures her that he would kill him if he caused trouble. They should keep implementing their plan to keep spreading counterfeit money. Meanwhile, Pfeifer has launched an international manhunt for Brown. Pfeifer and Fichtl visit Wieser in the bar and ask him about Roger Brown, who tells the officers that he no longer has any connection with Brown, but suggests that he has feelings of revenge against Brown.

Inspector Winter seeks out Anita, she initially blocks, but then admits that she is still in contact with Roger Brown, who now calls himself "John Harvey" and lives in California, and informed him about this after the meeting with Wieser Brown. Meanwhile, Wieser is preparing for a plan of revenge. Anita meets up with Brown again and tells him that she set the police on the wrong track. Despite her concerns, she continues to participate in his counterfeit plan. Meanwhile, Wieser stages a bank robbery in which he steals a considerable amount of money. He needs the money to get revenge on Brown. Because Wieser had set off a smoke bomb in the bank, nobody could identify him as the perpetrator. Meanwhile, Brown puts pressure on a postal worker to exchange the real money from his cash register for Brown's counterfeit money. Anita also got the manager of a supermarket to exchange real money for Brown's counterfeit. Wieser announces to his girlfriend Lotte that he is going to disappear for a few days, while Fichtl suspects that the robbery is connected to the counterfeit money story. Councilor Putner informs Pfeifer that enormous amounts of counterfeit money have come into circulation.

In the meantime, Inspector Winter has found out that the amount of money that was found as counterfeit money at the robbery bank had been deposited there by Anita and was to be transferred to a numbered account in her name. Fichtl and Winter go to Anita, who denies everything, and arrest her. During the arrest, Fichtl discovers Brown, who is watching the arrest, and makes a note of the license plate. In the Presidium, Winter tells Anita that she deposited large amounts of money in divided installments into the numbered account and transferred half of it to Brown's account each time, and that the deposited money was counterfeit each time, Anita is silent. She tries to make Fichtl know that Brown is in California, but Fichtl confronts her with the interim results of the investigation that he is as Lionel Schwartz in Vienna and lives in a hotel in the city center. Winter also tells Anita that they have arrested a supermarket store manager named Burger and two money postmen and an official from a money exchange office, all of whom have confessed, on behalf of her and Brown, trying to bring counterfeit money worth a total of 36 million shillings among the people . Anita then confesses.

Fichtl and Winter go to the hotel where Brown stayed. Brown flees when the officers identify themselves. He escapes into a house and from there to the roofs over the inner city of Vienna, where Winter returns his shots and hits him fatally. Brown's real name was Charles Pollack. Wieser reads about Brown's death at the airport in the newspaper and cancels his flight to the USA. By checking the mailings from the attacking post office, Pfeifer and his team discover that Wieser was at the post office and had the loot sent to him. However, they suspect that Wieser flew to Los Angeles and he escaped them. At this moment, however, Wieser surrenders and confesses to the bank robbery. He also brings the loot over and admits that he used the money for his plan of revenge against Brown, but that Brown's death made it useless. Pfeifer asks Wieser into his office. Councilor Putner reaches the examining magistrate to refrain from remand against Wieser. Since he can hope for a retrial because of his conviction a year ago, Wieser's chances are good to get away with a suspended sentence because of the bank robbery, his remorse and his now steady lifestyle.

production

The open account was the second Tatort case involving Chief Inspector Pfeifer, but only three of the eight episodes were official Tatort episodes of the ARD series. The rest of the production, as well as this, were the only ones of the ORF, this in co-production with the Bayerischer Rundfunk. These own ORF productions were only shown in Austria. The episode The Open Account was broadcast for the first time and once by Bayerischer Rundfunk in Germany just two weeks after it was first broadcast on January 25, 1987.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 13 special ORF crime scenes at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on February 11, 2015.
  2. ↑ The open account on tatort-fundus.de
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