Crime scene: phone money

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Phone money
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 247 ( List )
First broadcast September 15, 1991 on ORF
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Director Hans Noever
script Peter Zingler
production Rudolf Nemeth
camera Wolfgang Koch
cut Margit Podgorski
occupation

Telefoneld is an Austrian television crime thriller from 1991. The script was written by Peter Zingler and directed by Hans Noever . It was the total of 247th crime scene episode and the fourth case of Chief Inspector Fichtl ( Michael Janisch ) as the main investigator, but only eight of the nine episodes were episodes of the official crime scene series, his first case was a crime scene sequence of the ORF, the first broadcast in Austria and only shown once in Germany on Hessischer Rundfunk on television. Fichtl and his team are dealing with illegal commodity futures and various deaths in this context. Screenwriter Peter Zingler plays a supporting role as the burglar Fredi Pöckl.

action

In the middle of the night Fichtl and his team are called into a Viennese villa, the owner Peter Manz has shot himself. His son Alfred says his father was broke because he speculated on commodity futures. He had been betrayed by the Inter Globe company. The baker's daughter Birgit Tielmann accuses her friend Benno Fuchs that her father lost three million schillings because of him. He should talk to her father and they should go to the police together and report "the guys", but he refuses because he will then also be jailed. He'll fix that in his own way. Fichtl, who is a regular customer of the Tielmann bakery, overhears Karl Tielmann suffering from a weakness when he opens a letter, it is a reminder for 1.5 million schillings. At Inter Globe, business is going brilliantly, Benno is one of the brokers who are constantly acquiring new customers. Since Benno has got a remorse from his girlfriend Birgit, he makes some letters with checks disappear so that other investors are not cheated, but is watched by his boss.

A stranger listening in on the office space overhears Benno being confronted by his boss. Shortly afterwards, Benno's body is pulled out of the Danube. In the meantime, Fichtl's niece Gabi from Germany, who is visiting Fichtl, has inherited a large sum of money and a rental house in Vienna from another uncle. The late uncle's tax advisor, Dr. Ruloff, Gabi recommends an investment with the investment consultancy Inter Globe. In the meanwhile, Fichtl learns in forensic medicine that Benno was one of the few people in whom the fontanel was not overgrown at birth; a light blow at this point triggered death, so it is likely that the attacker (s) only injured Benno , but didn't want the killing to be successful. Benno was a former citizen of the GDR and fled to the Federal Republic via Austria in October / November 1989. The West German authorities had him observed because he was suspected of having worked for the Stasi or of still doing it. Fichtl and Winter go to the baker Tielmann, who hates Benno because he ruined him. Since his wife doesn't give him a solid alibi, Fichtl arrests him.

When Fichtl comes home, he finds his niece euphoric and in a festive mood. When she tells him that her tax advisor, Dr. Ruloff has invested the money at Inter Globe, Fichtl pricks up his ears. At Inter Globe, meanwhile, they never wanted to know Benno Fuchs. Hollocher finds out that the colleagues from the fraud department don't know anything about Inter Globe, but that doesn't mean anything, since such companies quickly changed their names. In contrast, the managing directors of Inter Globe Vienna, Lothar Groll and Harry Benz, are old friends of the department. Meanwhile, Tielmann tells Fichtl how he got into financial difficulties due to the renovation of his house and was then brought to Inter Globe by Benno and thus finally ruined. Birgit, who was engaged to Benno and had initially incriminated her father, revised her statement that Benno had recently felt persecuted. At the time he was forced to work for the Stasi and was still afraid of the old ropes. In particular, he recently felt he was being followed by a man in an off-road vehicle. Fichtl then lets Tielmann go. Hollocher found out that Groll and Benz had already robbed many investors of their money in Innsbruck and Linz before Vienna. Fichtl has already worked with Dr. Putner agreed that Hollocher should work as an undercover agent at Inter Globe.

While Hollocher is informed on the first day of work that employees would be “punished” who would work on their own account, Fichtl is looking for Dr. Ruloff up. He claims not to have known Benno Fuchs and is otherwise not very informative. Outside, Fichtl notices a man in an off-road vehicle. Hollocher, for whom business with new customers is not yet going well, receives a list of interested parties from his team leader, on which he also discovers Fichtl's niece Gabi. The desperate Tielmann meanwhile brings his wife's jewelry and fur coats to the pawn shop. Fichtl learns from Gabi that she has already sent a check to Inter Globe, Hollocher had recruited her. Fichtl, who is out with Gabi to show her the Viennese nightlife, also passes the Medusa bar, where Hollocher celebrates with his “new colleagues”. In front of the bar, he again notices the SUV with the unknown man in it. Dr. Ruloff later appears in the Medusa bar, he is the mastermind behind the Inter Globe and tells Groll that the company will now move from Vienna to Luxembourg under a different name. Since Hollocher did not get anything useful, Fichtl went to see Fredi Poeckl, who was known to him, during the night, who broke into the Inter Globe business premises with him. Fichtl learns about the entanglements Dr. Ruloffs into the company.

The next morning, Fichtl can use the license plate to clarify the identity of the stranger with the off-road vehicle, it is the private detective Kowalski. While Fichtl Dr. Putner informed of the results of his investigation into Ruloff, he flies to London, followed by Kowalski. Meanwhile, Tielmann dies of heart failure during his desperate attempts to get money from the banks. Winter finds out that Groll and Benz had not been convicted in the previous trials in Linz and Innsbruck because they could all blame the fugitive Heinz Hatzdorf, Ruloff had defended Benz at the time. In London, Ruloff meets Hatzdorf, Kowalski surprises the two of them and informs them that he is working on behalf of the damaged Inter Globe customers, but that he is willing to make a deal that he will sell the information he has collected to them for two million schillings. Hatzdorf kills Kowalski after he was able to inform Ruloff about the smuggling of a police officer into the company. Hatzdorf informs Groll that he has an informant on his team, Groll can infer Hollocher. Shortly afterwards, Hatzdorf was arrested by the London police following a call from Putner. Meanwhile, Fichtl summons several officials and drives to the Inter Globe. There, Hollocher was brutally mistreated by the employees. Groll and Benz are currently trying to break away and cover up their tracks. Both can be arrested, resentment finally confesses to the fraud system. Fichtl can collect Gabi's check and give it back to her, they both want to go on vacation together, but at the airport Fichtl sees Ruloff, he arranges for his arrest and thus misses his flight into the sun.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film as mediocre and said: "Modern theme, conventional style".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Telephone money"
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