Crime scene: red - red - dead

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Red - red - dead
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SDR
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 83 ( List )
First broadcast January 1, 1978 on ARD
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Director Theo Mezger
script Karl Heinz Willschrei
production Werner Sommer
music Jonas C. Haefeli
camera Justus Pankau
cut Hans Trollst
occupation

Rot - rot - tot is a television film from the crime scene crime series by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by SDR and first broadcast on January 1, 1978. It is the 83rd episode in the crime scene series, the 8th with Inspector Lutz.

action

Actuarial mathematician Konrad Pfandler lives with his much younger second wife Julia and his son Uwe in a villa in the elegant Stuttgart district of Killesberg . Since he cannot satisfy his younger wife in all things, he simply accepts her affairs with younger men. His son Uwe suffers from the oversized personality of his father and mostly drowns his complexes in alcohol.

However, Pfandler's antics and constant loneliness are increasingly hurting Pfandler, which is why he plans to kill Julia. Since his wife has red hair, he first strangled two randomly selected young women with the same hair color in order to put the police on the wrong track. That succeeds at first. Commissioner Lutz believes it is a series of murders in which red-haired women are deliberately murdered. Uwe is initially suspected.

In order to bring Julia into the line of the victims, Pfandler lures her into the park by calling over the phone that he sprained his ankle during a walk and that she should pick him up. When she gets there, he uses a trick to strangle her. But he makes a mistake: Julia has put on a black wig for fear of the alleged serial killer. Pfandler then buries them in a panic in the garden. But Lutz finds her with the help of Pfandler's dog. The convicted Pfandler sees the only way out is suicide and shoots himself in his study.

background

This crime scene is the most successful crime scene of all time in terms of audience numbers. The film received 26.57 million viewers and 65% market share when it was first broadcast.

The opening scene, in which Julia Pfandler drives up a steep path in her red vehicle, takes place below the Bismarck Tower in Stuttgart . However, the path up to the tower is a path that is only accessible for pedestrians. The scene in which Konrad Pfandler calls his wife early in the morning to kill her takes place at the (former) telephone booth at the foot of Willy-Reichert-Staffel / corner of Humboldtstrasse. The scene when Konrad Pfandler is sitting on a park bench waiting for his wife and then kills her when she comes running with the dog, does not take place in the Killesberg Park , but on the Karlshöhe . The stairs through the vines that Pfandler takes to escape lead directly into a path that in turn leads to Humboldtstrasse.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: red - red - dead . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Tatort Waiblingen: A city plays along. Winnender Zeitung , January 18, 2011, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ digitalfernsehen.de: "Rot - rot - tot": The record "crime scene" at SWR , accessed on December 27, 2011.
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