Crime scene: Vacation murder

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Vacation murder
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF
length 93 minutes
classification Episode 55 ( List )
First broadcast September 28, 1975 on ORF and ARD
Rod
Director Peter Weck
script Fritz Eckhardt
production Helmut Pascher
camera Peter Jasicek ,
Gerd Hoss ,
Kurt Wimmer
cut Erich Burkl
occupation

Urlaubsmord is an Austrian television crime thriller by Peter Weck from 1975. It was created as the 55th episode of the crime series Tatort .

action

Chief Inspector Marek is in Carinthia for a three-week cure . He has lost over ten kilos and is looking forward to his return to Vienna the next day. During his stay, a dead person is found in the nearby lake. Marek had heard the shots but hadn't thought they were significant. The dead turns out to be Mr. Winkler from Vienna. The Munich chief inspector Veigl, who has also arrived at the Kartser Spa, identifies the deceased as a drug smuggler. He wanted to meet him on site, as Winkler wanted to testify against the drug ring. The next day, Marek and the Tornay couple start their journey home to Vienna. In Tornay's locked house, the couple finds a woman's body in Marek's presence. Mrs. Tornay immediately suspects her husband of murder, as he had disappeared for some time the previous evening and is also known for his infidelities . Marek's department, which receives a murder to process once a year, is allowed to solve the case of the woman's corpse. Marek, in turn, is confronted with two more unexpected events: His service weapon has already disappeared a few weeks ago. In addition, the Ministry of the Interior is planning to award his colleague Wirz a newly established medal, and Marek has to work with the ministry.

The dead woman is the prostitute Maria Kopf, known as Mia. Investigators soon discover that Mia kept a secret book in which she noted the earnings of suitors. From the money it can be reconstructed that Mia blackmailed the men, and in fact numerous victims testify that Mia threatened to tell the respective wives everything about the affair of the men. At the brothel operator Ms. Pretzel, the investigators find out that Mia had a long affair with Mr. Kemater, the owner of a transport company. Marek seeks out Kemater, but he denies that he was blackmailed by Mia. Marek announces that he will appear for another questioning if Kemater does not come to the police station to testify.

At the spa, Marek met a young policeman who works for the uniformed police in Vienna and everyone just called "boy". Boy's dream is to become a criminal inspector one day, and so he works hard as a detective. One day he checks Tornay and asks him where he was on the night of the murder, because the mileage of his car was 500 kilometers more the next morning than the night before. Tornay confesses to having been with a prostitute in Velden that night and announces that he will also confess to Marek. In the meantime, he has received a reference to strange people in her house from a citizen. Since this address was previously suspected to be a meeting place for drug smugglers, Wirz and Inspector Berntner, who had fallen out with him, went to the apartment. The door is ajar. When they both enter the apartment, they are shot at. Berntner intercepts the shot that should hit Wirz and collapses. He is taken to the hospital but survives. Wirz and he are now making peace.

Because of a misunderstanding, Tornay is brought to Marek's station. He is allowed to leave after a short time, but asks Marek to be able to testify about Mia's murder. Although he always claimed not to know her, he is now correcting himself. He knew her and was her customer because she looked very young. He confesses to Marek that he is a pedophile but that he has been suppressing his drive for years. He married his wife because she looked younger than she was. Now he hate her. Tornay asks Marek to help him, fearing that he will kill his wife. However, Marek is called to the phone and Tornay disappears before Marek returns. On the phone, Marek found out that a truck had been checked that was loaded with a large amount of drugs. The car belonged to Mr. Kemater's company. Kemater is arrested as the head of the drug ring. Marek suspects that the murder of Winkler and Mia are related, because Winkler wanted to betray the group and Mia knew about smuggling and blackmailed Kemater. Kemater, however, refuses to testify about the murderer.

Marek visits Tornay and learns that his wife died in an accident a few days ago. She accidentally stumbled in front of a truck and was run over. Marek can hardly believe what he has heard, but the death has already been investigated and the death actually assessed as an accident. After a while, Marek goes back to the Mia murder case. He was concerned about what happened on the penultimate day of the cure. He had sat at a table in the evening with some of the spa guests, including the Tornays and Boy, and Frau Tornay had looked for the key to her spa hut and put the key to the house that she found first on the table. Mr. Tornay found him in his jacket pocket outside the house the next day. Tornay, however, no longer knows exactly what happened with the key that evening, and Marek can no longer reconstruct the situation exactly.

Marek is summoned to his superior Hofrat Neloda because of his missing service weapon, who gives him a reprimand. Marek learns that guns and uniforms have recently become rampant. Among other things, a policeman had been fired for comradeship theft and had taken his entire uniform with him. The man has not been caught until today. Due to another description of a police officer having a key stolen from a table, Marek suddenly has an idea who the perpetrator was. He gains access to Boy's apartment and confronts him with his suspicion on his return. He was only apparently a spa guest, but in reality the intermediary of the smugglers' ring in Carinthia, who was supposed to eliminate Winkler. The day before his departure he had taken the Tornay's house key, which Frau Tornay had put on the table while looking for the key to the Kurhaus. He drove to Vienna in his sports car and killed Mia. He then took her to Tornay's apartment, the location of which he had learned from the freely accessible spa documents. The next morning he was back at the cure and was able to secretly slip the Tornay key into his jacket. Boy denies the fact, but suddenly pulls out a revolver that he had hidden in a drawer. The gun is not loaded, Marek had already found it and unloaded it. It's his weapon that Boy stole from him during the cure. When Boy tries to flee, he is overwhelmed and led away by the police officers waiting in the other apartment rooms. Marek now only has the task of coming to the Interior Ministry with Wirz for the medal ceremony. Wirz is uncomfortable with the honor, as he is supposed to be awarded for the rescue of a boy, which only came about due to a series of coincidences and mishaps. At the ministry it turns out that the computer has swapped the data and the certificate and medal are now written out on Marek. The ministerial secretary Vodicka is embarrassed, but Marek and Wirz promise that the mix-up will never become public. In any case, Marek is ready to accept the award, and so one proceeds to the award.

production

Vacation murder was the fifth crime scene case involving Chief Inspector Marek. Fritz Eckhardt not only acted as the main actor, but also wrote the script. For the first time, Peter Weck directed a crime scene . He and Eckhardt had already stood in front of the camera in films (including 1971 in the television series When the father with the son as father and son) and had appeared in numerous plays by Eckhardt. After the holiday murder , Weck also shot the crime scene advertisement murder published in 1976 with Eckhart as Marek .

The costumes of the film created Barbara long leg , the Filmbauten submitted by Gerhard Hruby . As Munich guest commissioner Veigl, Gustl Bayrhammer can be seen at the beginning. Holiday murder had its television premiere on September 28, 1975 on ARD and ORF and achieved an audience rating of 56 percent.

criticism

"No vacation for Marek: The viewer is happy ...", summarized TV Spielfilm .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Weck: Is that it? Memories . Amalthea, Vienna 2010, p. 79.
  2. ↑ 55/75 Vacation Murder (ORF) . In: Rüdiger Dingemann: Tatort. The encyclopedia. All the facts, all the cases, all the commissioners . Knaur, Munich 2010, p. 69.
  3. ↑ See tvspielfilm.de
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