Crime scene: Fortuna III

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Fortuna III
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
Bavaria Atelier
length 95 minutes
classification Episode 64 ( List )
First broadcast June 7, 1976 on ARD
Rod
Director Wolfgang Becker
script Hanuš Burger ,
Wolfgang Mühlbauer
production Werner Kloss
camera Joseph Vilsmaier
cut Hannes Nikel
occupation

Fortuna III is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The idea and template for the film come from Hannes Burger , the script was written by Wolfgang Mühlbauer and the film was implemented by Wolfgang Becker .

The film was produced by Bavaria Atelier for WDR and broadcast for the first time on Whit Monday, June 7th, 1976. It is the 64th episode in the crime scene series, the eighth case with Commissioner Haferkamp .

action

Twelve-year-old Paul Starczik lives with his father and adult sister Birgit in the club house of the SV Fortuna III football club, which the father runs as a tenant. The sports area belongs to the disused colliery , from where the club got its name.

Paul has massive school problems, often skips and hangs around. The Essen police already has an extensive file with minor offenses about Paul. He has also been housed several times in various homes, from which he has run away again and again. Now he is toying with the idea of ​​running off to Australia, where his friend Ali and his family emigrated some time ago.

Birgit Starczik is friends with the spirits manufacturer Julius Schneider and the engagement of the two is imminent. After a wet and cheerful round of regulars, one evening the heavily drunk tailor made his way home in his car. He uses an abbreviation that is actually forbidden about the disused colliery site. At the same time, Ellen Schelle, who is employed as a temporary worker in the clubhouse, starts her bike ride home after work. When Schneider meets her on the way, he offers to drive her home, but Ellen refuses. As a result, Schneider becomes more and more intrusive and molested the girl with clearly sexual intent. The situation escalates. Ellen tries to escape on foot, but Schneider follows her across the colliery area. Ellen screams desperately for help, but is overwhelmed by Schneider. When the sound of an approaching car can be heard, Schneider presses his hand over Ellen's mouth. After the noise of the vehicle stops and Schneider pulls his hand away, Ellen is dead.

Paul, who is not at home at this time but in a small building on the colliery site, hears Ellen's cries for help and watches what is happening. He leaves the building and is eventually discovered by Schneider. When Paul tries to escape, he injures the insides of his fingers on a barbed wire. Under threats and the pretense that he was his friend and would always help him, Schneider now implores Paul not to tell anything about what he has seen. Paul agrees and goes home.

The body of Ellen is found that night. Commissioner Haferkamp starts the investigation. Apart from the tire tracks, he hardly finds any clues. When he interrogates Paul, he notices the strange injuries on his fingers, but Paul remains silent on all questions.

Due to a vehicle check in one of the next nights, with which the police want to find out who is using the forbidden passage, Schneider also falls into the group of suspects. Haferkamp has no evidence, but his keen instinct tells him that something is wrong with Paul and that the boy is the key to solving the case. Haferkamp tries to gain Paul's trust and to elicit a statement from him. In painstaking detail, Haferkamp finds out where and how the strange injuries on Paul's fingers originated. Now he is absolutely certain: Schneider is the culprit, and Paul watched him do the crime. Haferkamp then has Schneider monitored.

Meanwhile, Paul uses his knowledge against Schneider and blackmailed him to finance his crossing with a cargo ship to Australia. Schneider, who feels that the noose is slowly tightening around him, agrees and gives Paul the money. His trip to Australia is not as easy as he thought it would be, and so he is spending the money elsewhere for the time being. Paul repeats his blackmail attempt, but this time Schneider only makes an appearance. When Paul wants to take the money, Schneider stands in his way and tries to strangle Paul. During the fight, the boy pulls out his pocket knife and thrusts it into Schneider's upper body. This falls to the ground and dies. Paul flees to the harbor and is caught there shortly after by Inspector Haferkamp.

background

The Am Lindenbruch stadium in Katernberg , where the Essen-based Helmut Rahn had already played football, was chosen as the location . The real club house of the Sportfreunde Katernberg became the fictional club bar Lindenbruch. The colliery area used as a filming location is that of the Pörtingsiepen colliery in Fischlaken, which was closed in 1973 . The scene in which Paul is kidnapped by Mr. Schneider was filmed on Bredeneyer Str. Between Bredeney and Werden .

Reviews

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm rate this episode as "One of the strongest Haferkamp" crime scenes ""

G. Walt from Zauberspiegel-online.de assesses this crime scene as a: “A really great classic, [...] The early 1970s image of anti-authoritarian upbringing comes into its own in this crime scene and, interestingly, reflects a very typical one Zeitgeist. An education in which children are allowed to act at eye level with adults - completely free of social norms. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Everything was different in the past , sueddeutsche.de March 9, 2013, accessed on February 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 19, 2014.
  3. ↑ G. Walt: 40 years of Tatort-Haferkamp's cases: Fortuna III , zauberspiegel-online.de, accessed on February 19, 2014.
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