Crime scene: night patrol

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Night patrol
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF
length 86 minutes
classification Episode 172 ( List )
First broadcast September 15, 1985 on ORF
Rod
Director Jochen Bauer
script Leo Frank
production Peter Müller
music Roland Baumgartner
camera Wolfgang Koch ,
Michael Ferk
cut Isabelle Collard ,
Monica Parisini
occupation

Nachtstreife is an Austrian television thriller from 1985. The script was written by Leo Frank and directed by Jochen Bauer . It was the 172nd crime scene episode and the third case by Chief Inspector Hirth ( Kurt Jaggberg ), but only the second case in the official crime scene series. Hirth and his team have to do with an attempted murder of Inspector Ullmann and with the murder of a prostitute, the perpetrator has to be looked for in the drug environment.

action

Inspector Franz Ullmann is admitted to hospital after being shot while on night patrol. He barely survived after being resuscitated in the hospital. His colleagues, Hirth's assistants Fichtl, Schulz and Hollocher, swear that they will get the perpetrator. Since Ullmann was apparently shot by a moped thief, the three inspectors hunted down suspects from the relevant scene in the following weeks and arrested several suspects. Two prostitutes, who fear for their customers because the three officers are now hunting the shooter every evening in the red light district, visit their pimp Freddy, who is supposed to do something about the police actions and promises to act. Four months after the crime, Ullmann is still in the hospital, fearing an amputation of his leg. Fichtl can only prevent his desperate colleague from attempting suicide at the last moment. The three colleagues arrest Zwinker, who they believe to be the perpetrator because he has a weapon that can be used as a weapon and also comes from the red light district. This protests his innocence. After threats by the officers, he gives a clue as to who he bought the weapon from.

An analysis shows that the weapon confiscated from Zwinker is actually the murder weapon. With Zwinker's help, Fichtl, Schulz and Hollocher, the seller of the weapon, arrested in a bar. The suspect, Alois “Ali” Kupetzky, denies the act, he has a criminal record for drug offenses. During a body search, the officers also find a large amount of heroin. Zwinker refuses to give further evidence without his lawyer. The next day, Hirth calls his assistants to him, he tries to curb his assistants in their fanaticism. He continues to inform them that Kupetzky hanged himself in his examination cell that morning, but the assistants are still convinced that they have caught the shooter. Hirth, however, informs his colleagues that it couldn't have been Kupetzky, he had the best alibi in the world: he was in custody on the day of the crime and only fled from it several weeks after the crime! Hirth makes it clear to his assistant that from now on only his instructions will be followed. He puts Fichtl on the woman who owned the moped on which the shooter was sitting and which Kupetzky later drove. The woman reported the moped as stolen after the shooting, but Hirth believes that she knows the shooter and lent him the moped. Fichtl is supposed to pretend to be a former fellow inmate of Kupetzky and so collect the crucial findings undercover.

Fichtl was sitting in the Orientbar that same evening in a typical get-up, where his identity as a former fellow inmate of Kupetzky's was taken from him. So he gets to Sandra, the moped owner. Fichtl is shocked by Kupetzky's suicide. Sandra and the waiter point out a friend of Kupetzky's, whom Fichtl should follow. This friend could also get Fichtl drugs. Fichtl discovers older puncture marks on Sandra's arm, she assures him that she will make it this time, whereupon Fichtl also approaches her physically. The next morning, Fichtl reports to Hirth that he has tracked down a friend of Kupetzky's and that a prostitute who is friends with Sandra and who works for Freddy has clues about the shooter. Hirth seeks out Freddy and Puppi and asks them about Kuptetzky's boyfriend, whom everyone just calls "the Turk". His real name, however, is Josef, he got his name because of his drug contacts in Turkey. Püppi had contact with Josef the day before, she gives Hirth the address. Hirth finds out that "the Turk" is called Josef Kaller and obtains an arrest warrant against him. Hirth and his three assistants raid and arrest Kaller. They find a large amount of drugs in his apartment. The next day, Hirth and Fichtl bring the good news to their colleague Ullmann, whose leg is completely recovered. While Ullmann announces to Hirth that he would like to quit his job, Fichtl informs Hirth that Kaller has broken out. Hirth is afraid for Puppi, whom Kaller identified in the confrontation, because she fears the dangerous gangster's revenge. Fichtl and Schulz visit Freddy and inform him about the outbreak of Kallers. Hirth and his team are feverishly looking for Puppi, her friend thinks she is dead, murdered by Kaller.

The next morning the fear comes true that Puppi is stabbed to death in the trunk of a car. When Hirth brings him the news, Freddy swears vengeance. He refuses to cooperate with the police because he wants to get Kaller himself. Hirth now wants to stick to Sandra because she is the only remaining witness who can help the officers in their search for Kaller. Hirth seeks out Sandra, she refuses to cooperate, but Hirth shows her photos of the murdered Puppy, whereupon she claims that she did not work with Kaller, he simply took her moped. He provokes Sandra so that she tells everything. She met a pimp who sent her on the line. She then ran away from her parents, who rejected her new boyfriend and drove him away. She was meanwhile addicted to drugs, so Puppi brought her and Kaller together so that Sandra could get new drugs. In return for him, she was supposed to go on the street, but she refused to dress up as a schoolgirl because she feared perverted suitors. Hirth takes her home so that she is safe from Kaller. He succeeds in gaining their trust. A week later, Sandra lives with her parents again and has started working in the supermarket where she first met Kaller. She expects Kaller to reappear there, which is what happens. After seeing him and seeing him again, she calls the police, and Hirth and his colleagues rush over there. When Kaller leaves the supermarket, Sandra follows him, Hirth and Fichtl join them at that moment and Fichtl takes up the pursuit of the two.

Kaller, who noticed the chase, ambushes Sandra with a knife, but Fichtl can intercept her unnoticed by Kaller and bring her to safety. He goes into the cellar where Kaller has holed himself up, then a shot is fired. Fichtl comes out and claims to have shot Kaller in self-defense. Hirth realizes that Fichtl put the gun into Kaller's hand only after the shooting, but he keeps his knowledge to himself and confirms Fichtl's self-defense version.

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast on September 15, 1985, Nachtstreife reached 19.66 million viewers and an audience rate of 49.0%.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film as mediocre.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Nachtstreife" at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on October 17, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Night patrol"
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