Crime scene: Kressin and the truck to Liège
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Kressin and the truck to Liege |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR |
| length | 79 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 5 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | March 7, 1971 on German television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tom Toelle |
| script | Wolfgang crowd |
| music | Klaus Doldinger |
| camera | Jan Kalis |
| cut | Lothar Kirchem |
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Kressin und der Lüttich truck is the fifth TV film in the crime series Tatort . It was produced by WDR and shows Sieghardt Rupp for the second time in the role of the customs investigator Kressin . The German first broadcast took place on March 7, 1971.
action
Customs inspector Kressin watched Edelgauner Sievers at the station as he boarded a train. On the way back, Kressin speaks to a strange woman on the platform. Although she is carrying a heavy suitcase, she initially refuses his help. Nevertheless, with his charm, he manages to land with Elisabeth, that is her name, and brings her home.
A fully loaded truck drives up to customs at the inner-German border and is only superficially checked, which is common with transit deliveries . This means that the semitrailer can continue its journey unhindered. The driver, Vondracek, telephones his client from a rest stop that he is now at the agreed point. He takes a room for the night and watches two men pick up the truck for unloading. He goes unnoticed and watches as the two men unload barrels from the truck. In the process, however, he is discovered and brought to Strauss, the obvious boss of the gang, and confronted. Vondracek is demanding more money for the risk it takes on every trip. But since Strauss is only governor of Sievers, he cannot afford rebellious people. Therefore, Vondracek is forcibly silenced by throwing him in front of a moving truck.
The customs council, Kressin's superior, calls Kressin to a scene of the accident. Your smuggled customs officer Vondracek was found run over by a truck. Obviously, however, he was already dead when he was dumped on the highway. Since this is probably a murder, Inspector Lutz is now investigating. He finds out that Vondraceck's last tour with 100 barrels of boiled linseed oil was from Bulgaria via Germany to Belgium, where Kressin suspects alcohol smuggling - the reason for Vondraceck's undercover investigation. Since Aachen is assumed to be the border crossing point to Belgium, Inspector Lutz and Kressin drive off immediately to catch the truck and possibly the murderers there before they leave the country. You arrive at customs in good time and examine the truck and its cargo; a damaged sealing wire indicates that cargo has been exchanged. Without further ado, Kressin took over the truck as the new driver to bring it to its destination in Liège . This is the only way they can finally get to the smugglers' gang. When he arrived in Liège, Kressin took the truck to the address given on the delivery papers, but this was not planned. While Kressin is looking around the storage area, he discovers Sievers, who is getting back into his Rolls-Royce and driving off. Company boss Desroches is irritated and suspicious of the new driver, especially since a second driver was not there as usual. For the return trip, Desroches sends two of his own drivers to the border. You are supposed to take out Kressin on the way, but Kressin can overwhelm you and escape with the truck. On the way he was suddenly followed by two vans with the familiar barrels. He manages to shake off both vehicles.
Back in Cologne, the Customs Council reprimanded him for his arbitrary behavior, but Kressin did not care. He contacts Desroches and offers him the goods and the truck, pretending to be the driver. Then he waits for a response. Since he has made his home in Elisabeth's apartment under a false name, he is keeping her with his aunt for security. Back in the apartment, he noticed strangers watching him from the street. The next day, Kressin lures the men to a café. He is so fixated on two of them that he does not notice that a third man is putting drops in his coffee. When Kressin collapses unconscious, a fake ambulance picks him up and brings him to Strauss at the gang's headquarters. Conscious again, Kressin takes a good beating and is forced to reveal where the vice is hiding. Here he also learns from Strauss that the headquarters should be "near Lüdenscheid ". While two people are looking for the truck, Kressin is locked up. When he looks through a window, he again sees Sievers briefly talking to Strauss and disappearing in his Rolls-Royce. When the two crooks find the truck, they can report by phone that everything is okay, but are arrested immediately afterwards by Inspector Lutz. Kressin can free himself, but the building has already been surrounded by the police and is stormed after a fire fight.
background
This time Werner Schumacher has a longer guest appearance as investigative commissioner Lutz. The music for the film comes from Klaus Doldinger . When it was first broadcast, the film had a market share of 61%.
Locations
Larger parts of the film were shot on Friedrichstrasse in Aachen as well as in the Aachen and Monschau districts . The former Reichenstein Monastery near Kalterherberg served as the smuggler's headquarters . At that time this was only used for agriculture and was uninhabited. The corpse of "Vondracek" was deposited not far from there between the Rur Bridge and the Norbertus Chapel. Today the spot is marked by a wayside cross set up by Tatort fans . Kressin hid the truck under the Vennbahn Viaduct in front of the monastery. The customs officers at the Lichtenbusch border crossing are real customs officers deployed as extras . When Kressin appropriated the eponymous truck, a short time later he was followed by two smaller trucks belonging to the smugglers' gang. He pushes them off the road. One of the two falls into the hump line of the west wall .
Web links
- Kressin and the vices to Liege in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Kressin and the vice after Liège on the ARD website
- Kressin and the truck to Liège at the crime scene fund
- Contemporary and current images from the locations
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for the crime scene: Kressin and the truck to Liège . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 075 V).
- ↑ Kressin and the truck to Liège at tatort-fundus.de
- ↑ Article with pictures of the locations , accessed on March 15, 2013.
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previous episode February 7, 1971: On the open road |
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next episode April 4, 1971: Frankfurter Gold |
Kressin and the Dead Man in the Fleet (1971) | Kressin and the vice after Liège (1971) | Kressin stops the Nordexpress (1971) | Kressin and the Painter's Wife (1972) | Kressin and the Man with the Yellow Suitcase (1972) | Dead Dove in Beethovenstrasse (1973) | Kressin and the Two Ladies from Jade (1973)