Crime scene: eastward

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title East
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 Austrian radio
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 298 ( List )
First broadcast October 30, 1994 on German television
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Director Oliver Hirschbiegel
script Peter Zingler
music Stefan Will
camera Wolfgang Koch
cut Gerda Ghanim
occupation

Ostwärts is a television film from the Tatort series . It was produced by ORF under the direction of Oliver Hirschbiegel and broadcast for the first time on October 30, 1994. In this 298th crime scene sequence, Chief Inspector Fichtl ( Michael Janisch ) determined his 7th case as the main investigator, after he had previously been an assistant to Chief Inspectors Hirth ( Kurt Jaggberg ) and Pfeifer ( Bruno Dallansky ). His first crime scene Money for the Greeks was only broadcast in Austria.

action

A group of Polish “tourists” is brought to Vienna. The 20 men receive city maps of Vienna from the "tour guide" Slotan and instructions on how they can most effectively steal cars. The women are referred to brothels against their will. After three days every man is supposed to return to Poland with a stolen car. As a result, thousands of cars are disappearing eastwards from Vienna. Insurance detective Leo Koschnik succeeds in smuggling a man, Karol Stykowski, into the car smuggling organization, but he is soon discovered and shot, his wife Maria is taken to a brothel and forced into prostitution. The trail leads Chief Inspector Fichtl and Inspector Kern first to Koschnik and then to Warsaw , where Fichtl is on his way with Inspector Hollocher. However, the investigation ends in chaos. Koschnik, on the other hand, is more successful. He is traveling independently from Fichtl in Warsaw and looking for the stolen luxury sedans. He works there with a Polish detective and comes dangerously close to the car doors. They find out that even a Polish State Secretary is involved in the Automafia. When Koschnik approaches with the Polish police, however, they can leave at the last minute. Numerous imitation car keys made from blanks directly by the auto industry can be secured in his apartment.

Inspector Kern continues to work alone in Vienna as long as Chief Inspector Fichtl is abroad. With the help of an informant, Kern can find Maria, the wife of the murdered man, and get her out of the brothel. Through Maria she gets on the trail of the Polish trafficker Jovan Plonsky, but she is discovered by his people and they bring her into their power. Maria can escape unnoticed and inform Koschnik, who has meanwhile returned from Warsaw and whose address she had received from her husband so that she can contact him in an emergency. The gangsters' key maker is Fichtl's friend Fredi Pöckl, he recognizes Inspector Kern and manages to unlock Kern's handcuffs unnoticed by the gangsters. Koschik has now informed the police that when they want to storm the garage, the gangsters try to flee with Kern as a hostage, which Pöckl can prevent, so that Jovan Plonsky and Slotan can be arrested and Inspector Kern can free herself. The gangsters refuse to testify, but the car theft ring can be unearthed because the brutes convict Berger, who is the general importer of the car industry for Austria, and although the officers do not meet him in his villa, they can find his accomplice, the fugitive Polish State Secretary , arrest, but there is no trace of Berger. Maria learns from Kern that Berger was the mastermind, she returns to the brothel because she knows that Berger controls it via a straw woman. There she takes his weapon and threatens him. She also demands that he turn himself in to the police. When he attacks her instead, she shoots him several times and kills him. Inspector Kern finds Maria's earring at the crime scene and looks for it together with Koschnik. She makes it clear to Maria that she has convicted her, but gives the grieving widow the earring in exchange for the weapon that Kern makes disappear. Then Kern lets Maria go.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast from Ostwärts on October 30, 1994 was seen by 7.33 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.1 percent for Das Erste .

Reviews

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm judge cautiously: "As satire okay but they mean it ..."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tatort: ​​Eastward audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on February 22, 2015.
  2. ^ Tatort - Ostwärts Filmkritik at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on April 19, 2015.
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