Crime scene: short circuit

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Short circuit
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	NDR
length	96 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 58 ( List )
First broadcast	December 7th, 1975 on German television
Rod
Director	Wolfgang Petersen
script	Herbert Lichtenfeld , Wolfgang Petersen
production	Dieter Meichsner , Günter Handke
music	Nils Sustrate
camera	Hans-Joachim Theuerkauf
cut	Karin Baumhöfner
occupation
Günter Lamprecht : Holger Freidahl Dieter Laser : Piet Kallweit Klaus Schwarzkopf : Commissioner Finke Wolf Roth : Assistant to Jessner Henry Kielmann : Inspector Beck Horst Stark : Chief Police Officer Bolljahn Charlie Rinn : Police Chief Enke Ingeburg Kanstein : Ella Freidahl Johanna Liebeneiner : Barmaid Dagmar Georg Lehn : representative of Karl Höllbrock Hans Fitze : Grandpa Fritz Hollenbeck : Mr. Schönau Bruno Vahl-Berg : kiosk owner Jochen Köppel : Bank Branch Manager Wörremann Ilse Seemann : Mrs. Wörremann Sylvia Dudek : Bank employee Inge Balke

Kurzschluss is a television film from the television crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by NDR and broadcast for the first time on December 7, 1975. It is the 58th episode in the crime scene series and the 5th case for Inspector Finke .

action

Barmstedt, one of the locations. The entrance to the Linden police station is on the right.

The petty criminal Piet Kallweit has successfully attacked a bank branch in the small town of Linden in the Ostholstein district . During the escape, the gasoline line of his vehicle was damaged and he had to stop. Sales representative Höllbrock wants to go back home after visiting a customer, although his driver's license was recently taken away because he was drunk. When he wants to drive off, he is threatened with a pistol by the bank robber who has found his replacement vehicle with it.

Chief of Police Freidahl is on the way to a workshop in the patrol car . He has significant debts that weigh on the family budget. He currently has no solution for this financial problem. The bank robber and hostage-taker wants to escape the patrol car driving behind him and forces the sales representative to perform daring driving maneuvers. A dangerous chase develops when he tries in vain to get the driver to stop. In a depression, Kallweit jumps out of the car with the booty and escapes in the direction of the embankment . Freidahl follows him and there is an exchange of fire. Kallweit manages to hide his prey on the way, to jump on a freight train and to escape. On the way back Freidahl discovers the booty, but leaves the find where it is.

The bank robbery has now been discovered and Commissioner Finke is starting the investigation. So that the loot is not found, Freidahl makes some false statements and thus leads the investigators to believe that the driver of the escape vehicle has the money. He claims that he couldn't see the license plate correctly. The sales representative, however, is surprised that, according to the newspaper, his license plate was illegible. Using a list of vehicles based on the fragments of the number, Finke's assistant Jessner also questions Höllbrock, but he is clueless. Kallweit now wants to get the prey, but has to find out that it is no longer there. He finds out that Freidahl has the money and blackmails him, whereupon the latter gives him the money. Then Kallweit kills Höllbrock and forces the policeman to help remove the corpse. When Kallweit's VW Beetle is found, he gets Freidahl to repair the car in order to cover up the incident.

The body is found, however, and Finke doubts the theory that there were two perpetrators. The suddenly repaired beetle and the testimony of a neighbor of the representative put Finke on the trail of Freidahl. But since Freidahl notices that everything is being revealed, he meets with Kallweit at the boatyard. There is an exchange of fire when Freidahl wants to wash his conscience clean by being arrested. When Finke and Freidahl's colleagues arrive, they find the injured Kallweit who they arrest, but Chief Police Officer Freidahl has already succumbed to his gunshot wounds.

background

The city of Linden is fictional. Outdoor shots were taken in the Schleswig-Holstein town of Barmstedt in the Pinneberg district , which had already served as a backdrop for the subsequent sheet metal damage .

Web links

• Short circuit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the action of short circuit on the ARD website
• Short circuit in the crime scene fundus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: short circuit . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2007 (PDF; test number: 110 710 DVD).

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