Crime scene: Frankfurter Gold

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Frankfurt gold
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	MR
length	87 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 6 ( list )
First broadcast	April 4th 1971 on German television
Rod
Director	Eberhard Fechner
script	Eberhard Fechner
production	Hans Prescher
camera	Rudolf Körösi
cut	Brigitte Lässig
occupation
Klaus Höhne : Commissioner Konrad Michael Gruner : Johannes Stein Hans Christian Blech : Günther Ackermann Karl Lieffen : Dr. Achim Otto Sonja Karzau : Madame Nana Fritz Rasp : Jean Wimper Doris Masjos : Käthe Wimper Til Erwig : Gert Wimper Mila Kopp : Mother Ackermann Ilona Grübel : Barbara Ratzmann Fernand Fabre : Charles Ritz Günter Strack : Devil Rolf Schimpf : Preuss Hans Elwenspoek : Dr. Paul Egermann Heinz Ulrich : Prof. Dr. Gerhard Peters Joachim Richert : musician (clarinet, vocals) Thomas Schiestl : musician (drums, accordion) Rolf Sudbrack : musician (piano) Claus Berlinghof : 1. Locker supervision Uwe Dallmeier : 2nd locker supervision Theo Ennisch : Locker Supervisor Emmy Burg : acquaintances of Käte Wimper Henning Gissel : Stockbroker Georg Tryphon : tennis player Erwin Scherschel : Employee in the archive Gaby Reichardt : Employee in the pawn shop Paul Bühlmann : NN Karl Heinz Meuser : waiter

Tatort: ​​Frankfurter Gold is the sixth episode of the ARD crime series Tatort . It was produced by the Hessischer Rundfunk . It was the first episode with Chief Inspector Konrad, played by Klaus Höhne , as an investigator. The first broadcast took place on April 4, 1971 on ARD.

action

Inspector Konrad sullenly opens the archive and presents the viewer with a file with the note that the viewer should have more fun with the case than he does.

Then follows a flashback with extracts from files, the game scenes in which the history of the fraud series is re-enacted, and interim retrospective statements from those involved.

It's about the Johannes Stein fraud case. He was a young banker and employed by a stockbroker. He got engaged to Barbara Ratzmann.

Stein manages to penetrate wealthy circles and create an image for himself as a financial genius.

He proposes a profitable deal to his friends, the Wimper family, in which they lend gold bars to a Swiss bank as security for business that is to be deposited in a Frankfurt bank. However, Stein has these gold bars forged by the metalworker Günther Ackermann, only the outermost layer is gold , the rest is lead .

The scam seems to be working because no one can control the authenticity of the gold bars if they are locked away. Ackermann, however, fears for his payment and reduces the thickness of the gold coating of the counterfeit bars and withholds the rest of the gold. This makes the bars easier to recognize as a forgery and the dizziness is exposed.

Stein tries to sell the gold bars elsewhere, but the potential buyer Teufel sees through the hoax. Stein flees and deposits the fake gold bars in a locker at the airport, where the police seize the gold bars and identify them as fakes.

In Paris, with the help of the French-speaking Dr. Otto to find new victims of fraud. Stein is finally caught by Konrad and taken to a psychiatric clinic, where however he cannot cure his narcissistic disorders.

background

When it was first broadcast on German television on April 4, 1971 , the film achieved an audience rating of 55%.

The story is based on true facts about the case of Joachim Blum , who did business with gold-plated lead ingots in the 1960s and was charged with fraud and forgery in the Frankfurt Regional Court in May 1973. The crime scene, broadcast two years before the start of the criminal proceedings, was accompanied by scandals due to its realistic, documentary character. According to the news magazine Der Spiegel , director Eberhard Fechner had hours of talks with Blum for the script and called in Albert Kalk, the head of the Frankfurt criminal police, as an advisor. Some scenes were filmed in the original workshop of the gold bar forger Helmut Enders in the Taunus , who allegedly received a fee. The lawyer Mr. Blums, Hanns Schalast filed legal action against the Hessischer Rundfunk in 1971. He saw his client prejudiced by the crime scene in public and spoke of a "television execution".

Web links

• Frankfurter Gold in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the plot of Frankfurter Gold on the ARD website
• Frankfurt gold in the crime scene fund
• Frankfurter Gold at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Frankfurter Gold . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2009 (PDF; test number: 118 684 V).
2. ↑ Crime scene: Frankfurter Gold
3. ↑ CRIME / TELEVISION: Already convicted . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1971, p. 97 ( Online - Apr. 26, 1971 ).
4. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
5. ↑ PROCESSES: Almost gifted . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 1973, p. 83-86 ( Online - May 7, 1973 ).

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