Crime scene: sky blue with silver stripes

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Sky blue with silver stripes
Crime scene 0071 Sky blue with silver stripes Title.jpg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 71 ( List )
First broadcast January 30, 1977 on German television
Rod
Director Theo Mezger
script Fritz Eckhardt
production Werner Sommer
camera Justus Pankau
cut Hans Trollst
occupation

Sky blue with silver stripes is a German television film by Fritz Eckhardt and Theo Mezger . The 71st episode of the Tatort television series was produced by Süddeutscher Rundfunk and broadcast on German television for the first time on January 30, 1977 . Compared to today's television viewing habits, the plot is rather simple; However, the film contains chamber play-like elements and allows a reunion with the former top line of Swabian folk actors .

action

The single, well-heeled real estate agent Paul Seifert from Weilerburg is woken up one night by a noise in his apartment. In his living room he is surprised by a burglar - Seifert recognizes the perpetrator, but he strikes with a blunt object ...

On the way home after an obviously boozy evening, Seifert's neighbor, Säuberlich, and the Viennese Chief Inspector Marek  , who was coming to tomorrow's foundation festival of the Weilerburger Gesangsverein - as it turns out later, at the time of the crime - discover light in Seifert's apartment and a hidden Opel Kadett , sky blue with a silver lining, the little later roars away at high speed. Neither of them initially attach any importance to this.

In fact, the vehicle we are looking for is an Opel Olympia A Coupé, similar to this one.

The next day the detective of the Heilbronn criminal police, Lutz , arrives by train in Weilerburg, where his assistant Wagner is already waiting for him at the train station. At the scene of the crime it turns out that Seifert's safe has been broken into; It is initially unclear whether valuables are missing. The door to the apartment was not opened by force; a key was on the dead man.

The group of suspects is vague: For now there is the murdered man's brother, Erwin Seifert, who found him on Sunday morning at eight o'clock, supposedly he wanted to clarify a family matter. He pretends not to have a key to the dead man's apartment, which later turns out to be a lie. He owes Paul Seifert's debt for a loan for his photography business. Then there is the department store owner Enderle, who lives opposite, who pretends, under a flimsy pretext, to have visited Paul Seifert at around 8:30 p.m. on the evening of the crime. The dead man's housekeeper, Ellen Kollmann, living separated from her husband, who has a key to the apartment and who is said to have had a relationship with Seifert, was obviously away on the night of the crime, but refuses to disclose exactly where she is stayed at the time of the crime. Her grown son Alex, who still lives with her, snuggly evades the questioning by Lutz and Wagner; however, he cannot provide a reliable alibi . Ms. Kollmann's copy of Seifert's apartment keys, which she finds in her handbag, shows her both nervously and relieved to the two policemen.

Chief Inspector Marek visits Inspector Lutz and reports to him about the nightly observation. If the sky-blue cadet was involved in the crime, the time of the crime was exactly 12:30 a.m. Lutz then lets Wagner look for such a vehicle.

From the murdered man's lawyer, Dr. Hatred, Lutz learns, that Enderle has not been the owner of his department store for a long time, but is now the managing director. In addition, Dr. Hate that a large part of Seifert's fortune will go to a charitable organization. Enderle's wife Ruth incriminates her husband insofar as she does not give him an alibi for the time of the crime - she claims to her husband that she was with a lover at the time.

Ellen Kollmann's absence is cleared up: Her husband is in custody in Stadelheim , which is a well-kept secret. She was verifiably in Munich at the time of the offense and is therefore eliminated as the perpetrator.

On top of that, the local pharmacist Bolz reports that he is being blackmailed by a stranger. In the meantime, the search for the sky-blue Kadett with silver stripes ( "and black engine hood" , so Wagner) remains unsuccessful. The director of the local bank, Schröder, learns Lutz that Seifert had large amounts of cash kept in his safe, and that Enderle Seifert exchange worth sixty thousand German marks owed. This makes Enderle the main suspect. However, Enderle asserts that he has paid off the debt and that he subsequently destroyed the bills of exchange as such.

Meanwhile, the pharmacist's blackmail turns out to be a rascal prank.

Neighbor cleanly corrects the time of the crime to 1 a.m. He also says he saw Enderle in front of Seifert's house at exactly this time. This statement pulls the noose around Enderle further - but ...

When Wagner went to Alex Kollmann's workplace to check his alibi, he noticed an Opel Kadett parked there that exactly matched the description of the vehicle he was looking for, sky blue with silver stripes, with a black roof and black bonnet. However, Kollmann himself cannot be found initially. When Wagner prepares to ask the staff about him, Kollmann piles up in the sky-blue cadet. (With silver stripes.)

Kollmann (who had learned to be a tool fitter at a locksmith) flees to his mother's apartment and confesses to her. He only wanted to look for cash to pay the sky-blue cadet and was surprised by Seifert. He demands money from her for a longer escape, but he is still in the apartment by the police, alerted by Wagner. His mother tries to take all the blame on herself, but the game is over: Alex Kollmann confesses the crime to the police.

Locations

Behind the window above this bay is the table at which Commissioner Lutz holds a council of war and a meal.

The old town of Wimpfen am Berg was the inspiration for the old town scenes of the fictional Swabian town of Weilerburg . The "Weinstube Eppeler" in the "Schwanengasse", where Lutz resides, is actually the Weinstube Feyerabend in the main street. Lutz meets Ms. Enderle for the first time in the Birkensee café-restaurant (back then without any extensions) on Neutorstrasse. The lawyer Dr. Lutz finds hatred in the former Dominikaner inn in Klostergasse, Mr. Bolz's pharmacy is the previous one in Apothekergasse. "Photo Seifert" is located in Marktrain 8.

The interior scenes in the Paul Seiferts house take place in the villa of the entrepreneur Rolf Böhringer in Waiblingen , some sources also speak of further shoots there or in Stuttgart-Birkach .

The fictitious license plate of Weiler castle WE ; At the time of the film production this letter combination was reserved for Weimar .

background

The film was shot between August 16 and September 21, 1976. When it was first broadcast, it achieved an audience rate of 65%. The screenplay for the film comes from Fritz Eckhardt, who immortalized himself in a role as a guest commissioner.

criticism

"A thriller so exciting that even heart patients can safely watch it."

- TV movie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tatort: ​​Sky blue with silver stripes at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on May 2, 2015.
  2. ↑ Tatort Waiblingen: A city plays along. Winnender Zeitung , January 18, 2011, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Verena Mayer: Lonely Mannequin . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , edition of June 11, 2013, web edition , accessed on May 2, 2015.
  4. ↑ Tatort Waiblingen: A city plays along. In: Waiblinger Kreiszeitung , edition of January 18, 2011, web edition , accessed on May 2, 2015.
  5. ^ Comment by user andi on www.tatort-fans.de , accessed on May 2, 2015.
  6. ↑ TV feature film archive , accessed on April 29, 2015.
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