Crime scene: playing with cards

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Playing with cards
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 114 ( List )
First broadcast July 27, 1980 on German television
Rod
Director Wolf Dietrich
script Theo Regnier
production Peter Hoheisel
music Ernst Brandner
camera Werner Kurz
cut Karin Fischer
occupation

Playing with Cards is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk was first broadcast on July 27, 1980 on ARD's first program. It is the 114th episode in the crime scene series. It is his 14th case for Chief Detective Melchior Veigl.

action

Hansgünther Geroth, editor of an advertising paper, leaves the “Waldschänke” restaurant, gets into his car and drives away quickly. When he tries to brake in a sharp bend, the vehicle does not react despite his desperate efforts, flies out of the bend and overturns several times. Geroth is taken away by ambulance . When his wife Angelika arrives at the clinic a little later, she learns that her husband has just passed away. When you asked whether he had said anything else, the doctor replied in the negative, indicating that he was unconscious until the last minute. Angelika Geroth thanks her pretty emotionless and leaves. When recovering the vehicle, it turns out that the brakes on the vehicle did not respond. Chief Detective Ludwig Lenz informs his superior Chief Detective Melchior Veigl that the municipal depository has just received a report that the brake lines of Geroth's car have been cut. Veigl has been called in to clarify the circumstances that led to Geroth's death. Veigl and Lenz talk to the motor vehicle expert Stumpf, who explains to them that the brakes would have reacted first so as not to raise suspicions when driving slowly that the severed and poorly reconnected contacts would only have completely loosened when driving faster so that the vehicle could no longer be braked. When asked, he explains that the brake lines are not easily accessible, the perpetrator should have been lying under the car or using a jack . That is definitely possible in a period of three to four minutes, if someone takes the place. Investigations are being made in the "Waldschänke", where the landlord Rudi Schmidtbauer tells them that, apart from Geroth, a few regulars and his waitress Rita were present yesterday evening. Veigl has the names of the guests given. They also learn from the landlord that Geroth was not popular and that he was considered to be quite a show-off. Rita Huber denies Veigl's question whether she had a relationship with Geroth. He had invited her to the racetrack, where he had often been, where he lost 2000 DM in a single race, but didn't care much about it.

Veigl wants to speak to Angelika Geroth himself. When he asks her about her alibi for the time of the crime, she frankly tells him that she hated her husband, even if that would probably make her suspicious now that she was home alone with her young son Sascha at the time in question. Her husband was the most disgusting and ruthless person she had ever met. You tried unsuccessfully to get away from him. When Walter Schwarz flirted a little with her at a party, her husband put him down so that he left the hall. She doesn't know if he lost a lot of money on the racing course. Her husband was of the opinion that it was no more her business than anything else he had done.

Shortly thereafter, Veigl received a call from his colleague Wiegand from the fraud department , who informed him that the textile manufacturer Paul Kronhoff was sitting in his office and that he claimed to have been blackmailed by Geroth. Kronhoff was also a guest at the “Waldschänke” that evening. He tells Veigl that Geroth blackmailed him because he knew about an affair with his au pair girl Denise. First he asked for 18,000 DM and now even 50,000, although, as he learned from the newspaper, he was killed in a car accident. The Geroth agency has been broken into. Veigl says dryly that a special commission will soon have to be formed from three departments, murder , blackmail and burglary . The officers record the next call from the blackmailer explaining how the money will be handed over. When Kronhoff drives over the motorway towards Nuremberg , his car is unobtrusively accompanied by various police vehicles. Kronhoff throws the package from the designated motorway bridge. As soon as the perpetrator wants to acquire it, access takes place . The man is Berthold Hoffmann, a former employee of the Geroth advertising agency. Hoffmann's fiancée Gisela Holzner volunteers for the police. She admits her involvement in the blackmail and that the agency break-in was only fake. Hoffmann got hold of the index cards on which Geroth noted down all the misconduct of high-income people in order to blackmail them. Her fiancé saw these cards quite by accident when Geroth once forgot to lock them away. When Veigl takes a closer look at the documents, he notices a capital X on the cards Steffen, Kronhoff, Klinger and Schwarz. All four were in the “Waldschänke” that evening.

After Veigl asked Werner Steffen extensively and then asked Walter Schwarz further questions, the latter went to Steffen and asked for help because he had to disappear. Steffen replied that he had already covered him once when he ran over a cyclist and ran away. Black replies bitterly that he used to blackmail him. Through an anonymous call, the jack that was used to manipulate Geroth's car can be found on the premises of Steffens Spedition. After Schwarz tries to blackmail Steffen with the sketch that Steffen made and which contains instructions on how to proceed when cutting the brake lines, the latter tries to run over him. A passer-by notifies the police and the ambulance. Schwarz whispers to him to inform Veigl from the homicide squad. When Steffen wants to fetch the sketch deposited in Schwarz's apartment with his fingerprints on it, Veigl and Lenz are already there. He still manages to escape. When he tries to start his car, however, another officer is waiting for him there who says: "You are under arrest, Mr. Steffen."

Production notes

The episode was shot in February / March 1980 in and around Munich . The editor was Peter Hoheisel. Theo Regnier's screenplay, whose first work was Spiel mit Karten in 1980, contained a car chase that was filmed on a section of the motorway near Munich-Riem Airport that was specially approved for this purpose . It took long negotiations to get clearance. The cast of the car mechanic Walter Schwarz with the author, director and actor Franz Xaver Kroetz should also be emphasized in this Tatort episode.

In the episode rating of the Tatort ranking list, Spiel mit Karten ranks 625 out of well over 800 episodes that have now been broadcast.

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on July 27, 1980, the crime scene episode Spiel mit Karten reached 11.89 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 37%.

Reviews

TV Spielfilm said: "See you again with grumpy parade Bavaria."

The television magazine Gong judged: "Easy" and gave three out of six points, which corresponds to the rating "average".

The television magazine Hörzu gave one of three points for humor, tension and feeling and came to the overall rating: acceptable.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Playing with cards. Crime scene fund, accessed on April 23, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Ratings for the next game with cards (114, Veigl) at tatort-fundus.de. (Ranking list).
  3. ↑ Crime scene: Playing with cards "TV crime thriller on the 20th anniversary of Gustl Bayrhammer's death" († April 24, 1993). In: TV Spielfilm.de. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
  4. ^ Tatort: ​​Spiel mit Karten In: Fernsehmagazin Gong No. 16. of April 12, 2013, p. 84.
  5. ↑ Tatort: ​​Spiel mit Karten In: Fernsehmagazin Hörzu No. 16. of April 12, 2013, p. 64.
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