Crime scene: flotsam

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Flotsam
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 NDR
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 19 ( List )
First broadcast June 25, 1972 on German television
Rod
Director Wolfgang Petersen
script Herbert Lichtenfeld
production Rüdiger Humpert ,
Karl Heinz Knippenberg
music Nils Sustrate
camera Jörg-Michael Baldenius
cut Karin Wagner
occupation

Strandgut 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 June 25, 1972. It is the 19th episode in the crime scene series, the second case for Commissioner Finke .

action

The brothers Helmut and Karli Possky use Christa and Manuela on Sylt to blackmail wealthy men with compromising photos. When Christa falls in love with her victim, the prospective State Secretary in the Warrlau Ministry of the Interior, she wants to flee the island. She is intercepted by them at the train station and pressured to continue to participate. When Warrlau and Christa are having fun in the dunes, the Posskys appear and beat him up. Christa flees in fear. But you are seen by a couple of hikers fleeing.

Inspector Finke and his assistant Jessner (disguised as a building contractor with son) are sent to Sylt to investigate the blackmail. Warrlau is silent and dismisses the incident as an accident so as not to endanger his career. However, thanks to the hiking couple, Finke can quickly locate and interrogate the brothers. These, however, are clueless, although the police have noticed them negatively many times in the past.

Manuela also no longer wants to play the brothers' game and with the doctor Dr. Rudolph Kühne start a new life. Her sister Brigitte in Lübeck is terminally ill and is being treated by Kühne. When Christa was washed up dead on the beach the next morning after going to the disco, the Posskys asked about her and came under suspicion of murder. When Manuela's body was washed ashore a little later, the case seemed almost clear. For Finke, the Posskys are suspected of having murdered their apostate girls. For this, Finke sends Jessner to Frankfurt to one of the blackmail victims , from whom he believes he will now get an honest testimony. Jessner gets help from Inspector Konrad , but his interrogation turns into an embarrassing debacle and does not bring any result.

When a young couple testifies that they saw the beach attendant Hannes with a sack on the beach at night, Finke and Jessner start researching in this direction. You observe the beach attendant and witness how he often interacts with Dr. Kühne meets. She is also amazed by the way Kühne has received Manuela's death. Meanwhile, Manuela's sister has arrived and is staying with Dr. Bold one. The very close relationship and the habits make Finke suspicious.

The sudden testimony of young Detlef Kannisser, who was with Christa on the evening of her death, turned the tide. He states that Christa took her own life and that he could not save her because he cannot swim. Finke now suspects that Manuela might not have been murdered by the Posskys and questions Kühne again in his house in the presence of Brigitte. He discovers that the two sleep in one bed and not separately. Brigitte panics and locks herself in the bedroom. But suddenly she steps out again as Manuela.

Dr. Kühne tells of Brigitte's suffering and that Manuela faked her death to escape the Posskys. But she has no idea that Dr. Kühne helped with Brigitte's death in order to quickly solve her problem with the help of Hannes.

criticism

TV Spielfilm gives the thumbs up and remarked: "Petersen early work with Sylt flair."

Trivia

The wall in the police station where Finke hears witnesses is adorned with a wanted poster for a real crime in Flensburg-Weiche . Two years before the crime scene episode, on January 7, 1970, a girl was murdered there on the railway embankment. Only 42 years later could the crime be cleared up using DNA . The perpetrator, a Bundeswehr soldier , had died six months earlier.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Strandgut . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Crime scene: Strandgut on TV Spielfilm (with pictures of the film)
  3. ↑ shz.de: Woman murder 42 years ago: Much unclear again Article from February 3, 2012
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