Crime scene: Lilac for Jaczek

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Lilac for Jaczek
Crime scene 0072 Lilac for Jaczek.png
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Mr
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 72 ( List )
First broadcast February 27, 1977 on German television
Rod
Director Fritz Umgelter
script Jürgen Scheschkewitz ,
Stefan Murr
production Hans Prescher
camera Werner Hoffmann ,
Eckard Lübke
cut Birgit Bosboom ,
Edeltrud Piecha
occupation

Flieder für Jaczek is a German television film directed by Fritz Umgelter based on the novel Caution - Jaczek shoots immediately from Stefan Murr . It is the 72nd episode of the Tatort television series . It was produced by Hessischer Rundfunk and broadcast on German television for the first time on February 27, 1977 .

action

Chief Detective Konrad, who has just returned from vacation, learns from the management of the Butzbach prison that prisoner Franz Jaczek will be released early from prison. Jaczek was responsible for an attack on an armored car, in which 900,000 German marks were captured. The perpetrators ruthlessly shot the two drivers. Jaczek later blamed his accomplice for the murder, who himself was killed in the exchange of fire. The opposite could never be proven: Jaczek was only convicted of robbery . Konrad suspects that Jaczek will soon bother him again.

Jaczek, thus in freedom, seeks out his companion Ferdi Kofler; Jaczek and his accomplice went into hiding with him at the time. In fact, Jaczek is up to something again: He plans to kidnap the wife of the banker Kurt Quaas, for whom he currently works as a gardener, and to extort a large sum of ransom . A third man, Willi Mattfeld, is hired for this. You play with open cards: Konrad should know that he is dealing with the cold-blooded Jaczek, but Jaczek himself should be doubled by Kofler . Since Kofler chatted in front of her, his girlfriend Irmi is also brought on board and is supposed to play another hostage.

No sooner said than done: Martina Quaas is kidnapped, Jaczek calls her husband for two million D-Marks, mentions his name and also mentions Commissioner Konrad. He also claims to have a second hostage (whose identity he does not reveal) under his control. For the handover, the police should block a Main bridge in the middle of Frankfurt city center to traffic during rush hour . The kidnappers' car would be the only one left on the bridge, and Konrad should hand over the money personally - otherwise Jaczek threatens to murder the hostages.

After extensive discussion in the convened crisis management team , it is decided to deal with Jaczek's demands first. After Kofler and Mattfeld drove into the middle of the bridge in a stolen security van, an enormous police force locks and secures the bridge on land and water. Conrad and the hostage takers come into contact, they present the hooded Irmi as Martina Quaas, which is immediately noticeable. Konrad also wants to speak to Jaczek, whose imitation Kofler is unsuccessful. The situation almost escalated when a sports boat broke through the barriers. Eventually, you decide to hand over the ransom. The perpetrators manage to escape in the traffic that has been released again without having released the hostage.

Jaczek personally intercepts Konrad in front of his house and nonchalantly claims that he has nothing to do with the matter. He only accuses Mattfeld and Kofler of the act, describes them as extremely brutal and advises Konrad to kill them first in any rescue operation before they kill the hostages again. For their names and whereabouts, he demands another million. Konrad sees through Jaczek's double game, but has no handle against him.

The crisis team refuses to provide another million ransom money, but Quaas steps in with his private fortune. In the midst of the hustle and bustle of pedestrians at the Frankfurt Hauptwache , Konrad Jaczek hands over the ransom ("the lilac"). Jaczek moves away, but there is a tracking device installed in the suitcase, so the chase begins and Jaczek escapes nonetheless.

Jaczek tells the police the whereabouts of the kidnappers. You have holed up in a fortress ruin in southern Bliesgau and want to move to France. Commissioner Schäfermann is asked for administrative assistance . Tensions arise between Mattfeld and Kofler. Just as Mattfeld wants to get rid of Koflers, the two are arrested by the police at the fortress. Irmi is also arrested, Martina Quaas can be freed unharmed.

Now Jaczek is on his own. He penetrates Quaas' villa, overpowers the policeman there and forces the banker, who is not yet aware of the successful liberation of his wife, to fly him out in his private plane; He takes Quaas' little son Sigi hostage. But the project fails: Quaas left the approach map for the airport on his desk. Since there was no reaction from Quaas' house, Konrad is warned, finds the notice there and has the airfield surrounded by massive police forces. Jaczek surrenders and is arrested.

Locations

It was from this intersection that people blackmailed. The telephone booth had to give way to tram line 17, which was put into operation in 2003 ; it was roughly at the point of the rear switch.

The film was mainly shot in and around Frankfurt am Main . The telephone booth from which Jaczek made his demands was on Hamburger Allee at the corner of Schloßstraße and has meanwhile been torn down. The money transfer takes place on the old raftsman bridge . This was a makeshift bridge over the Main between the waterway and Obermainstrasse. It has meanwhile been torn down and given way to a new building, which is arranged slightly offset. Although it is single-lane in reality , it is used in both directions in the film. Jaczek escapes on foot at the Gräfenhausen-West service station on the Frankfurt - Darmstadt motorway . Jaczek was arrested at the Egelsbach airfield .

The kidnappers use a Citroën Type H with a Zweibrücker license plate, which, however, bears the label of the Frankfurt butcher's shop Heininger.

criticism

"Exciting psycho duel between two experts."

- TV movie

"Sustainable work."

- Frankfurter Neue Presse

background

The film was shot between November 8 and December 22, 1976 under the working title Doppelspiel . It achieved an audience rating of 66% when it was first broadcast.

The actor of the later Berlin crime scene inspector Markovitz, Günter Lamprecht , plays the role of Willi Mattfeldt. Günter Strack , the main suspect in the previous episode , appears here as the head of the crisis team. Karl-Heinz Köpcke presents himself as a daily announcer .

In some scenes the historical program of the then "car driver wave" hr3 with speaker Karl-Heinz Adolph can be heard.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b www.tatort-fundus.de , accessed on May 5, 2015
  2. ↑ www.tatort-forum.de , accessed on May 5, 2015
  3. ^ TV feature film archive , accessed on May 5, 2015
  4. ↑ Jutta W. Thomasius: Dellwo, take over. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse , edition of April 12, 2002, p. 16
  5. ↑ www.tatort-fundus.de , accessed on May 5, 2015
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