Crime scene: hit and run

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Hit and run
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF
length 68 minutes
classification Episode 168a ( List )
First broadcast May 19, 1985 on ORF
Rod
Director Gernot Friedel
script Ernst Hinterberger
production Peter Müller
camera Wolfgang Koch ,
Michael Ferk
cut Traudl Gruber
occupation

Hit and Run is an Austrian television thriller from 1985. The screenplay was written by Ernst Hinterberger and directed by Gernot Friedel . As the first of 13 episodes in the crime series Tatort , it was produced by ORF outside of the official Tatort series without ARD and was only broadcast in Austria for the first time.

action

Hirth and his team received a call in the security office that an explosion had taken place in Vienna with a fatality. The team goes to the place of the explosion, the dead person is called Egon Schmalvogel, is 47 years old, lived alone, was single and head of the insurance department. However, he was not killed by the gas explosion, but by strangulation shortly before the explosion. The gas explosion was caused by turning on the gas stove immediately after the murder. Hirth has the neighbors questioned, Ms. Irsiegler says that older men and young women, real pleasure girls, used to come and go at Schmalvogel. He introduced himself to her as a "producer". Another neighbor, Ms. Wandracek, heard before the explosion that someone ran out of the house, got into a car and roared away. In the apartment, the officers find a large collection of pornographic films and photos, as well as several savings accounts with large amounts of money, as well as large amounts of cash and coin collections. Robbery and murder is therefore excluded.

The next morning, Fichtl asked Schmalvogel's work colleagues in the insurance company, who stated that they had no private contact with him. Schmalvogel had always kept himself apart, so that they would hardly have exchanged a private word with him. A colleague named Täubler testifies that Schmalvogel told him about orgies and invited him, but he was not interested in them. A colleague testifies that he sometimes had something “overly friendly”, but he only seems to have been that way towards women. In addition, Inspector Schulz interrogates a video dealer who, as the head of the agency, brokered “models” for Schmalvogel for his erotic productions. Meanwhile, Inspector Ullmann visits a villa where the video films were shot. While Ullmann observes the seemingly harmless film work, one of the actresses quickly dresses and leaves the house apparently unnoticed by Ullmann. Ullmann, however, has made a note of the face and says to the director that he would recognize her, that the diversionary maneuver will not help. Ullmann threatens to take the entire film team to the police station. Suddenly the director thinks she knows who killed Schmalvogel. A jeweler named Graupner was attacked two years ago, and the police were never able to clear up the attack. Schmalvogel would have kept the looted gems in his safe. This is located behind the safe that the police had found and opened. He got the stones through some connections for a ridiculous price, but could no longer sell them because the police are looking for the loot. She knows all of this because she was in a relationship with Schmalvogel until a year ago, but from then on they were only business partners.

In fact, Hirth and his colleagues find a safe behind the safe, but it is empty. Hirth suspects that they are dealing with at least two perpetrators because a single one could hardly have moved the heavy safe. Councilor Putner is beside himself when he learns that there is a safe and that it was overlooked by his best people during the first inspection of the crime scene. The officials go to all fences and other gem dealers in Vienna and question them. Inspector Ullmann visits the dealer Binderhofer, who is well known and to whom gemstones were offered by an unknown two days earlier. This was around 30 and elegant. But he had sent him away and referred him to Amsterdam, where such gemstones could be sold. Ullmann manages to elicit a more precise description of the man from Binderhofer. When Ullmann passes the description on to his colleagues, it looks familiar to Fichtl. The description fits Schmalvogel's colleague Täubler. Hirth orders the observation of Täubler, but the attempt to intercept him before the insurance company ends after work fails. The officers are ordered to Täubler's apartment by Hirth. Because Taubler is not at home, the officers question the neighbors. Meanwhile, Hirth goes to the head of the insurance company for information. There Hirth found out that Täubler stayed away from work today without excuse. Although he was at work two days earlier, he left the office for two hours to see a doctor. Hirth sees himself confirmed that Täubler was at Binderhofer during this time. The survey of the neighbors showed that Täubler set off on a flight yesterday. Fichtl can determine that Täubler should come back from Amsterdam today according to the booking. Ullmann finds out the address of the dealer in Amsterdam from Binderhofer, who is arrested because, contrary to his testimony, he brokered the contact in Amsterdam for a commission.

At the airport, Täubler is expected by Ullmann and Fichtl, who start the chase, as they hope that he will lead them to his accomplice. Täber's drive leads to an apartment building, in front of which Ullmann and Fichtl meet Hirth and Schulz. Fichtl discovers the name of Ms. Laudenbach, who also works in insurance, on the blade plate. In the apartment are Mr. and Mrs. Laudenbach, as well as Täubler, when the police rings, Täubler tries to hide. There is a gun in the room that Täubler takes. Taubler wants to shoot his way free, injuring Inspector Ullmann, who then shoots Taubler. Hirth has the couple arrested. Laudenbach claims that Täubler killed Schmalvogel, Täubler was a gambler and urgently needed money, the idea for the robbery was from Täubler. He and Täubler had entered Schmalvogel's apartment using a duplicate key. Schmalvogel did not notice them because he was watching one of his films with headphones. Taubler would then have knocked Schmalvogel down from behind. Then they wanted to open the safe, they would have known about the gems because Täubler was the clerk of the robbery on Graupner. Täubler would have given Schmalvogel the contacts to commit the robbery. After they opened the safe, Laudenbach found that Schmalvogel was dead and then fled. The couple is taken away.

Hirth puzzles over Laudenbach's statement. Since there was no cassette in Schmalvogel's video recorder, he could not have been watching a film at the time of the robbery. Hirth does not understand a motive for murder either, after all, the two would have tied him up very carefully, which they would not have done if they had thought he was dead. Ullmann, who only suffered a grazing shot, recognizes Ms. Laudenbach as the actress who secretly snuck away. So she was one of Schmalvogel's actresses in the erotic productions. Hirth combines the fact that Laudenbach was clueless about his wife's activities and found the cassette with the porn film in which his wife was involved in Schmalvogel and therefore killed him in revenge. Ms. Laudenbach says that Schmalvogel forced her to participate in the film because she had a relationship with Täubler, which Schmalvogel knew about. Schmalvogel delayed the sale of the gemstones again and again because the matter had become too hot for him because of the ongoing search by Interpol. During a comparison of the couple, Laudenbach tells his wife that he killed Schmalvogel because of her, then he suddenly attacks his wife and chokes her. Fichtl holds Laudenbach back. After he has calmed down, Laudenbach makes a comprehensive confession. The two accomplices had already left the house after the robbery when Laudenbach returned to the house alone under a pretext. In the apartment he took Schmalvogel's tie and strangled Schmalvogel. Then he took the cassette from the recorder and caused the explosion to make it look like a suicide. In the car he told Täubler about the murder. On the run, Täubler killed a drunk man, and Täubler then committed a runaway.

production

Hit and run was the second crime scene case involving Chief Inspector Hirth. The episode hit and miss was broadcast six months after it was first broadcast on June 20, 1986 for the first time and so far only once by the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation in Germany.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 13 special ORF crime scenes at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on September 13, 2014.
  2. ↑ Hit and run on tatort-fundus.de
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