Crime scene: Kressin and the two jade ladies

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Kressin and the two jade ladies
Crime scene 0031 Kressin and the two ladies from Jade.jpeg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 31 ( List )
First broadcast July 8, 1973 on German television
Rod
Director Rolf von Sydow
script Karl Heinz Willschrei
music Klaus Doldinger
camera Hans-Danklev Hansen
cut Eva David
occupation

Kressin and the two women from Jade is the 31st TV film in the crime series Tatort . It was produced by WDR and shows Sieghardt Rupp for the seventh and last time in the role of customs inspector Kressin . The German first broadcast took place on July 8, 1973.

action

Kressin is on the return flight from a conference in Istanbul . Shortly before landing in Düsseldorf, he is still hooking up with the Asian Lyn. As he waits for his suitcase, passenger Ulf Bender rolls dead off the baggage carousel. Hoping to find the perpetrator, Kressin immediately runs into the baggage area and clashes with the investigating commissioner Pertram. So that Lyn doesn't have to wait so long, he smuggles her through customs. Before he knows it, however, it is gone, along with the suitcase. However, she left a bag that Kressin takes. While looking for Lyn, he meets Mona Capell, the dead man's lover, who is standing in the reception area, disturbed. She lets him bring her to her luxurious home, past the police in her car. Mona asks Kressin to stay because she doesn't want to be alone. It doesn't take long for Inspector Pertram to appear. He reprimands Kressin for getting in his way again. Pertram asks Mona about Bender and how he interacted with him, but doesn't find out much.

Kressin takes Lyn's bag into the office and examines it for its contents. In it he finds two female figures from a chess game made of jade and the visiting card of an antique dealer. With him he found out Lyn's address, and Kressin noticed a valuable chess game there from the early 18th century with very similar pieces. When he shows up at Lyn's, she is not very surprised and is happy to get her bag back. While he is flirting with her a little and asking her about the characters, her boyfriend appears and Kressin says goodbye.

In Café Elite, where Bender often played chess with his fellow students, he meets a girl named Christina and the not very talkative Axel, a friend of Bender's. In front of the café, Kressin discovers Mona. She confesses that she recently entrusted all of her jewelry to Bender in a codeword- secured cassette. He had loaned this to the pawnbroker Göbel for 250,000 DM in order to make a deal with it. When Bender returned, however, he had 350,000 DM with him. Kressin asks Mona to redeem the jewelry for her. He confronts Göbel - after all, he would have had a motive to kill Bender in order to be able to keep the much more valuable jewelry. When Kressin delivers the cassette to Mona, she cannot open it immediately because the code word has been changed to "Tina". Mona looks nervous and distraught.

Kressin goes back to the airport and meets Lyn, who is flying to Hong Kong ; there you can buy chess pieces like the two in question at half price. Then he visits Christina. She claims to know who killed Bender, but doesn't want him to be punished. He also learns from her that Axel and an acquaintance are up to something again. So he observes Axel and follows him to a larger property, into which he penetrates, but is knocked down. When he wakes up, he is in a room with his old rival Sievers. Kressin suspects him of smuggling, whereas Sievers explains to him that he exports gold to Singapore and sells it there with a 50% profit. However, the import of gold is not allowed in Singapore and is therefore dangerous for the couriers. Kressin suspects that Bender wanted to handle the lucrative business past Sievers and was therefore eliminated. Sievers assures Kressin, however, that all he needs to do is give the Singapore authorities a tip in order to get rid of a courier - and he doesn't know the couriers, as everything is organized through Axel.

Kressin speaks to the customs council, his superior, about the case, which remembers a case in Saarland when a larger amount of gold was found on a dead person. Kressin contacts Commissioner Liersdahl in Saarbrücken, but that doesn't get him any further. So he looks for Axel in the café and wants to confront him when Inspector Pertram appears and asks about Christina, whose forged passport he found in Bender's pocket. When she appears in the café, she confesses that she wanted to go to Peru with Bender .

Kressin suspects that the name Christina ("Tina") is the reason for the changed code word on the jewelery case, and confronts Mona with the facts. She admits that she shot Bender out of jealousy. Since Kressin thinks that Inspector Pertram will come to Mona himself, he leaves her alone and goes to the airport just as Lyn arrives again. He informs the customs officers to take a closer look at Lyn and her luggage. Mona also arrives at the airport to leave, but the police manage to arrest her on the plane at the last moment.

background

In this episode there is again a guest appearance by investigators from another crime scene : The inspectors Liersdahl ( Dieter Eppler ) and Schäfermann ( Manfred Heidmann ) give brief information over the phone. Hans Hass jr., The son of the diving pioneer Hans Hass , plays the murder victim right at the beginning. He achieved greater fame in 1972 as the singer of the German version of American Pie . When it was first broadcast, the film had a market share of 59%.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.tatort-fundus.de/web/haben/chrono/1/1973/031-kressin-und-die-zwei-damen-aus-jade.html

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