Crime scene: Colportage

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Colportage
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 333 ( List )
First broadcast May 19, 1996 on ORF
Rod
Director Hans Noever
script Peter Zingler
production Heinz Ambrosch
music Nellis Du Biel
camera Wolfgang Koch
cut Gerda Ghanim
occupation

Kolportage is an Austrian television crime thriller from 1996. The screenplay was written by Peter Zingler , based on the study "Die Situation der Zeitungskolporteure" by Dr. Roman Hummel from 1992, directed by Hans Noever . It was the 333rd Tatort episode and the ninth and last case of Chief Inspector Fichtl ( Michael Janisch ) as the main investigator, but only eight of the nine episodes were episodes of the official Tatort series, his first case was an ORF crime scene episode which was only broadcast for the first time in Austria and only shown once on television in Germany on Hessischer Rundfunk. Fichtl and his team deal with the deaths of two newspaper carriers from Pakistan and the exploitation of these people, as well as human trafficking.

action

In Vienna, the Pakistani newspaper street vendor Sahi is apparently killed in an accident with a hit-and-run accident. The police determine that the license plate number of the accident vehicle noted by witnesses may have been forged. Fichtl informs his informant Fredi Pöckl again to research a possible motive. Fichtl and Kern look around the asylum seekers' home where Sahi lived and where the other salespeople are also housed. There they learn that Sahi was a kind of foreman who had incited the other salespeople against Tiegelmann, their boss. You are allowed to work as “self-employed” despite being an asylum seeker. There they also learn from the refugees' German teacher, Ingrid Teschke, with whom Sahi was recently married. When Fichtl visits Frau Teschke's apartment, he finds it broken into and ransacked. Meanwhile, Kern encounters a wall of silence among the Pakistanis. When Fichtl returns to the Presidium, Ingrid Teschke is waiting for him there. She has just returned from Pakistan and has found out about her husband's death. She does not yet know anything about the break-in in her apartment. She testifies that her husband was murdered by Gerhard Tiegelmann. She researched Tiegelmann's human trafficking in Pakistan. He recruits Pakistanis there, whom he then smuggles into Austria as cheap labor. He then enslaves people through incorrectly translated employment contracts.

Meanwhile, Kern visits Wadlazek, the owner of the original license plate for the accident vehicle. He has now died, his widow had sold the old car to a scrap dealer after the death of her husband. Ingrid Teschke continues to report to Fichtl and Kern that Sahi's brother was murdered four weeks earlier in Linz in the same way as Sahi is now. While Tiegelmann learns that over a hundred original contracts have been stolen from his office in Pakistan, Fichtl and Kern drive to Linz to investigate the alleged accidental death of Sahi's brother. The colleagues there suspect that the man was run over by a drunk youth in a stolen car. Sahi's brother had been fired by Tiegelmann a few weeks earlier, but he had hired him again before the imminent deportation. Shortly afterwards, Kern found out from Ms. Waldazek that the scrap dealer to whom she had sold the car was Tiegelmann's employee, Josef Prybilla. Kern asks her uncle Justus, who is a high-ranking official in the Ministry of the Interior, about Tiegelmann, whom he knows personally, but Justus can't say anything bad about Tiegelmann. Meanwhile, Teschke tells Fichtl that she believes that Tiegelmann's henchman killed Prybilla Sahi, and tells him that his family has a car cemetery in Linz.

Fichtl and Kern go to Prybilla car recycling, where they find out that Ms. Prybilla's accident vehicle was reported as stolen three days ago. Fichtl has the scrapyard monitored, while Ingrid Teschke puts Tiegelmann under pressure with copies of the employment contracts. Fichtl seeks out Tiegelmann, who pretends to be a benefactor for Pakistanis, he just laughs at Fichtl's suspicion of murder. Fichtl learns that Ingrid returned from Pakistan a few days earlier than she had testified to him. She announced to Fichtl that she would single-handedly convict Tiegelmann. Meanwhile, Fredi Pöckl can get his friend Fichtl from Tiegelmann's vault the permission of the Ministry of the Interior, according to which Tiegelmann was allowed to employ the Pakistanis in Austria. The document is signed by Kern's uncle Justus. Dr. Putner warns Fichtl not to go too far with his investigations, Tiegelmann has influence. Meanwhile, he meets with Ingrid Teschke. Inspector Kern learns from the refugees, now accompanied by a woman from the Pakistani community, that a few weeks earlier there had been a colporteurs strike in Linz, financed by Ingrid Teschke. Tiegelmann then fired Sahi's brother, but hired him again with the promise of better working conditions. He was killed on his first day at work after being reinstated. As a result, the others never dared to strike again. The Linz police are able to seize the accident vehicle with which Sahi's brother was killed at the Prybillas junkyard. In Vienna, Fichtl and his colleagues prepare a trap for Tiegelmann with the help of Ingrid Teschke. He got involved in blackmail by Teschke. Based on Kern's investigations, the Vienna accident vehicle can be pulled out of a gravel pit near Linz. Since the gravel pit is in the immediate vicinity of her parents' house, it is clear that Ingrid Teschke sank the accident vehicle there. At the handover location, where Teschke is waiting under the close watch of the police as a decoy, Prybilla appears with his brother and wants to run over Teschke, but she is rescued by a police officer, Prybilla and his brother are arrested. Fichtl confronts Ingrid Teschke with his findings. She admits that she killed her husband after learning in Pakistan that he is married and has five children. When she reproached him after his return, he only replied that as a Muslim he was allowed to have several wives. She ran him over because she felt humiliated by him. Fichtl arrests her, but promises to bring down Tiegelmann. Fichtl takes on Prybilla's brother, who finally admits that he and his brother were commissioned by Tiegelmann to kill Sahi's brother and the attempted killing of Ingrid Teschke, together with Kern Fichtl looks for him and arrests him.

Audience and background

The crime scene Kolportage reached 6.21 million viewers when it was first broadcast on ARD, which corresponds to a rate of 19.0%. Screenwriter Peter Zingler plays a supporting role as the burglar Fredi Pöckl.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film positively and commented: “Hard reality in deceptive Heurigenseligkeit”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Colportage audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on April 23, 2015.
  2. ^ Colportage short review at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on April 23, 2015.
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