Crime scene: A very common murder
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Ordinary murder |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Radio Bremen |
| length | 100 minutes |
| classification | Episode 26 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | February 4th 1973 on German television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dieter Wedel |
| script | Dieter Wedel |
| production | Jürgen Breest |
| music | Klaus Munro |
| camera | Rolf Romberg |
| cut | Anna Koudelka |
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Ordinary Murder is a 1973 television film and the 26th episode in the Tatort series . The film, a Radio Bremen production , premiered on German television on February 4, 1973 .
action
Friedhelm Sacher, a sales representative in women's clothing, is still looking for a little sociable entertainment after a good deal in order to escape the loneliness of his hotel room. Since it was already too late, Sacher could not bring the daily income of several thousand D-Marks to the bank. That's why he has the sum in his wallet. He met three men in the Bremen train station restaurant: Michael Puczek, casual worker, Kurt Westhoff, hired seaman, and Wolfgang Henning, temporary waiter. Sacher gets along with them straight away - although they all seem a bit dodgy - not least because he is extraordinarily generous that evening. The alcohol flows freely, and while the four of you move from bar to bar, the atmosphere becomes more and more exuberant.
The next day Friedhelm Sacher is found dead and robbed on the bank of a lake. This is the beginning of the grueling investigative work of the criminal police around Chief Inspector Böck. Sacher's identity remains unclear at first because he has no papers with him and is not known in the area. The only thing left for the officials to do is to publish a picture of the deceased and hope for witnesses. Only gradually do people get in touch who remember Sacher and his companions, but whose statements do not yet bring a breakthrough (“Can you describe the other three?” - “Yes, there were three, wasn't it ?!”) .
After further arduous investigations, the traces ultimately lead to the arrest of Puczek, Westhoff and Henning, but the actual course of events cannot be reconstructed, since the three accuse each other.
background
Dieter Wedel shot the film with almost the same cast as the Semmeling three-parter Once in a Life - Story of a Home from 1972. The stylistic device that is characteristic of Dieter Wedel's films, the direct address of the viewer by the actors bypassing the actual plot, is also used in Ein ordinary murder consistently continued.
Wedel attached importance to a detailed presentation of the laborious investigative detail work under obstructive circumstances such as unclear location of the tracks or lack of mobility due to insufficient company vehicles.
Others
As in almost all of his films, director Dieter Wedel also has a cameo as the companion of Ms. Sacher.
criticism
“The only crime scene of the later star director Wedel shows soberly how» easily «someone becomes a murderer and how difficult it is for the police to find the truth. Exciting because it is particularly true to life. "
"Undoubtedly a pearl in the series."
publication
The film was last shown on First German Television in December 2000. It has not yet been released on DVD.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b A very common murder in the crime scene fund.
- ↑ www.tvspielfilm.de , accessed on February 12, 2013.
- ↑ Michael Dell: Rightly. In: www.freitag.de , accessed on February 12, 2013.
Web links
- An ordinary murder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- An ordinary murder in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of A very ordinary murder on the ARD website
- A very common murder in the crime scene fund
- A very common murder at Tatort-Fans.de
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