Crime scene: woman murder

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Femicide
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 35 ( List )
First broadcast December 9, 1973 on ORF and ARD
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Director Fritz Eckhardt
script Fritz Eckhardt
production Helmut Pascher
camera Peter Jasicek
cut Gerhard Hruby
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Frauenmord is an Austrian television crime thriller by and with Fritz Eckhardt from 1973. It was created as the 35th episode of the crime series Tatort . This time Marek has to do with the murder of the wife of a rich industrialist.

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The wife of the industrialist Rahl is found dead on the Vienna Prater. Marek visits the widower Rahl in his villa. Rahl claims to have been at home that evening with his wife, who then expressed the wish to go into the garden at around 10 p.m. that summer evening. She disappeared from the garden while he was mixing drinks inside. She was kidnapped by a stranger who called him about ten minutes later. He wanted a million schillings that same night. Rath did not call the police, but recorded a second phone call with the kidnapper and played it to Marek. The kidnapper gave him an ultimatum until three in the morning, and only then did Rahl notify the police because he could not raise the amount so quickly.

Ms. Künzl, Rahl's housekeeper, went to see Marek in the presidium shortly afterwards and stated that Ms. Rath had had many lovers and that these were the keys to solving the case. Marek does not take the statement seriously because she also gives Marek the tip to ask her husband, who works as a chauffeur for Rath. Marek therefore believes that she is just plain jealous.

Meanwhile, Marek's assistant, Wirz, is asked to look into a case in which a Viennese gangster named Ewald Hoess drove himself to death in a stolen sports car. The insurance company wants to take legal action against his paraplegic widow. Wirz seeks out the woman, who is, however, destitute. When Wirz disappeared, Klara Hoess is pressured by her brother-in-law Harald not to say anything to the police. Then Hoess wants to know from his sister-in-law what she knows "about the matter". Marek and his assistants quickly realize that Hoess had something to do with the kidnapping of Ms. Rahl. However, Hoess cannot have murdered her because, according to the autopsy, his fatal accident occurred before the murder of Ms. Rahl.

Shortly afterwards, a Mr. Lahmann, von Rahl's secretary, answers. He states that Ms. Rahl had a relationship with him. She was a nymphomaniac and couldn't get enough of men. He also suspects Rahl's chauffeur Kuenz. Berntner seeks out Hoess's lover, but meets his brother Harald, who openly threatens him. Marek asks Rahl's chauffeur Künzl, who initially stated that he had been in Yugoslavia with his wife the whole time, but then admits to having returned to Austria prematurely. He also met Ms. Rahl am Semmering, but accompanied by another man with whom she probably also had a relationship. Marek then questions Rahl and confronts him with his wife's affairs. He admits he knew about it, but had to stay with her as his company was financially dependent on her. However, he also has a younger mistress, Ilse Brinck, the stepdaughter of his friend Consul Brinck. Brinck is in love with his "daughter" and explains to Marek that she is only his stepdaughter and that this is therefore not morally reprehensible.

Berntner reports that the woman's hair that was found in the car did not come from Ms. Rahl. Shortly afterwards, this time with Wirz, he seeks up Lissy, the dead Hoess's lover. She claims to have been to her mother on the evening of the crime in Salzburg. Hoess drove them to Salzburg. It turns out that she knew that Hoess also had a relationship with Ms. Rahl. Wirz loses his temper, but he can't get anything out of Lissy. Hoess' brother Harald comes out of the back room after the two officers have left. He asks her about the kidnapping, but Lissy doesn't know either. They speculate that Ewald Hoess actually wanted to kidnap Rahl and that Rahl's friend, Consul Brinck, could have been the client. Meanwhile, Marek is talking to the housekeeper Künzl again. She claims to be beaten by her husband, but still loves him. She left her husband and children for him in Yugoslavia. In the meantime, Wirz can deliver the good news to Hoess' widow that the insurance company will no longer seek recourse against her. Berntner seeks out Rahl's lover, Ilse, but she too has an alibi.

Marek now suspects that Hoess had an accomplice or that another man drove Hoess' lover to Salzburg. Marek would therefore like to interrogate Harald Hoess. Wirz and Berntner drive to Hoess, when he leaves his house, they follow him to a subway construction site. Hoess tries to evade his arrest by shooting the officers, whereupon he is shot himself by a stranger. Meanwhile, a witness who observed Ewald Hoess' accident reports. He says that a woman was also in the car. She fell out of the car after the accident. The witness testifies that it could have been Mrs. Rahl.

Marek goes to Villa Rahl, where Rahl and Consul Brinck listen to his daughter Ilse playing the piano. Rahl's chauffeur Künzl is also present. Marek asks Brinck about the evening of the crime. This had guests, but so many that he could have disappeared inconspicuously. Marek knows that Brinck only rented his villa and that he had enormous debts. Brinck lives directly opposite the Villa Rahl. Marek knows that one of those present must be the murderer and confronts those present with his knowledge. Since Marek receives a call and has to leave, he leaves the interrogation to his assistant Wirz. Marek goes to Villa Brinck. Shortly afterwards he returns and returns with a dress by Ilse Brinck. Marek now opens his thesis to the suspect regarding the night of the crime. It was not Ms. Rahl who was kidnapped that night, but Ilse Brinck. Because Ilse Brinck was with Rahl that evening, Hoess mistook her for Frau Rahl and kidnapped Ilse. Ilse Brinck jumped out of the car after the accident and escaped. Then Mrs. Rahl came back from her outing with another man. Marek can prove his theory because her belt buckle was found in the car. Rahl or Ilse Brinck must then have come up with the idea of ​​taking advantage of the opportunity to kill Ms. Rahl and blaming Hoess, who had been kidnapped in the accident. When Rahl denies everything, Marek replies that a hair test would prove that Ilse Brinck, not Frau Rahl, was sitting in the car. Marek suspects that Ilse instigated Rahl. Harald Hoess knew about it and tried to blackmail Rahl and it was therefore Rahl who killed him. Marek announces that he will be looking for the murder weapon and traces of Rahl at the crime scene. Brinck then admits that he was also at the scene and saw Rahl there. The whole time he suspected that Rahl was the culprit and had followed him because he was jealous of Rahl because of his stepdaughter. Rahl confesses everything and states that the whole thing is based on Ilse Brinck's idea, who in turn accuses him of being the mastermind. Marek has both arrested and Rahl announces that he wants to confess everything.

Marek sums up that Rahl actually had everything, and then allowed himself to be manipulated by the young woman, who only wanted to get away from her adoptive father in love and get married richly, so that he became a murderer and lost everything.

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Woman murder was the third crime scene case involving Chief Inspector Marek. Fritz Eckhardt not only acted as the main actor, but also wrote the script and directed.

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