Crime scene: dead without a wish

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Desirably dead
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 196 ( List )
First broadcast August 30, 1987 on ORF
Rod
Director Kurt Junek
script Kurt Junek (idea / template: Bert Steingötter )
production Peter Müller
Ernst Petz
music Ewald Beit
camera Wolfgang Koch
cut Hildegard Leitner-Ohandjanian
occupation

An Austrian television thriller from 1987 is dead without a wish . The script was written by Kurt Junek , who also directed. It was the 196th Tatort episode and the fourth case by Chief Inspector Pfeifer ( Bruno Dallansky ), but only three of his eight episodes were part of the official Tatort series, the remaining five were Tatort episodes on ORF, which were only broadcast there and were sometimes not shown on television in Germany.

Pfeifer and his team are dealing with two murders, one kidnapping and drug trafficking within the red light district.

action

Old Ms. Springer is found dead by her neighbors in her apartment in an average Viennese apartment building. The Pfeifer team, supported by the young colleague Inspector Passini, found that the old lady was strangled and stabbed. Neighbor Neuhold says that Ms. Springer played cards with her neighbor Spanntaler the night before, that he was drunk again and that the two got into an argument. She heard a noise that could have meant that the woman had fallen. Spanntaler denies a dispute with Pfeifer and Passini. She put all of her money in her nephew, who turned up the day before and wanted money from her. The nephew's name is Robert Hauser, Pfeifer and Passini go to see him, he is obviously drugged. He states that he is not really related to her, but that she was an acquaintance of his grandmother. Pfeifer confronts him with the fact that her savings of 35,000 schillings have disappeared. Passini rules out Spanntaler as a murderer, he left the apartment shortly before the act and the act did not fit in with Spanntaler’s long-term friendship with the dead, Hauser, however, was suspect.

During interrogation with Passini, Hauser protests his innocence, although he has no alibi for the time of the crime, but he admits that he was addicted to heroin and that he had traded with it. Using a trick, he escapes Passini from the security office. The next morning, Fichtl and Passini go to see Robert's mother, the "red Trude" who is on the road. She can give the officers the information about an acquaintance of her son, Jenny works in a red light bar. Fichtl receives information from Jenny about Josef Peischl's red light size, and shortly afterwards Robert Hauser is found hanged with an iron cord. Fichtl and Passini doubt that it was suicide. Pfeifer speculates that Hauser had an accomplice in the Springer murder who killed him. Passini goes to Peischl's red light bar and asks about Jenny, who no longer works there. He is thrown out, where he is beaten up by two of Peischl's henchmen, then Peischl's henchman Brauneder calls the police and depicts the facts, in order to compromise Passini, in such a way that he threatened passers-by with a knife when he was drunk. The next day, the tabloid press had Passini and the security office in their sights, as planned by Peischl's people. Pfeifer interprets this as a warning that the security office should not interfere with Peischl's red light districts. Dr. Putner sends Passini home for a few days.

Hollocher visits the bar during the day and asks Brauneder, after he gets caught up in contradictions, he takes him to the security office for further questioning. Fichtl and Hollocher later seek out Peischl, who supposedly doesn't know anything about Jenny's whereabouts. In the meantime, Passini is transferred to another police station with immediate effect, Pfeifer reacts indignantly, and Brauneder also has to be released. Pfeifer takes Peischl again, but he is unimpressed. Peischl must be released immediately the next morning on instructions from above and Pfeifer is warned. Dr. Putner advises him to keep his hands off Peischl, as his allies are too powerful. Passini, still on sick leave, is visited by Rita, the animator whom he had asked about Jenny that evening, who told him that she could not relieve him because she and the other girls were being put under pressure. Finally she tells Passini that Jenny is being held in a private brothel near Munich, where Peischl had brought her. Meanwhile, Fichtl observes a handover of money to Peischl, but when Pfeifer and Fichtl can check his car, the suspicious suitcase has already disappeared.

Fichtl found the man who gave Peischl the suitcase, it is a Turkish drug dealer, but Pfeifer informs Fichtl that they have both been suspended from duty. Passini informs his colleagues about Jenny's whereabouts, since only Hollocher is on duty, Pfeifer assigns him the task of finding Jenny. Hollocher informs his Munich colleague Lenz, who has the brothel excavated and finds Jenny. Jenny told Lenz and Pfeifer, who had traveled privately to Munich, that Robert Hauser called her after his interrogation by the police, that Peischl had taken the receiver away from her and that Hauser was accused of having to do with the police. He hid Hauser and drugged Jenny and kidnapped Jenny to the brothel in Bavaria because she secretly overheard the phone call after Peischl had sent her away. Pfeifer, who had the full backing of Dr. Jenny persuaded Putner to return to Vienna with him. Jenny testifies that cables like the one that Robert Hauser was strangled with were used for the electric ovens in the brothel. Rita steals such a cable for Passini, it is identical to the murder tool. Dr. Putner obtains an arrest warrant against Peischl, who pulls a gun when he is arrested. When Dr. Putner joins, Pfeifer and his team can disarm Peischl.

Brauneder now says that Peischl asked for a rope that evening, whereupon Brauneder handed him the cable. Peischl then drove away with Hauser and returned after an hour alone. Brauneder also fully testifies about Peischl's drug deals. Peischl is then arrested, but Jenny commits suicide that night. While Peischl confesses, Passini quits his job and returns to his old job as a gentlemen's outfitter, because he could neither protect Jenny nor Robert Hofer, and nobody cares about the murder of old Frau Springer.

Audience and background

Desirably dead reached 13.73 million viewers and an audience rate of 36.0% when it was first broadcast on September 21, 1987. The episode was shot between February and April 1987 in Vienna and Munich. The later Oscar winner Christoph Waltz has his only appearance here as a crime scene investigator.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film as mediocre and said: "Small wishes remain unfulfilled".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the crime scene: dead without a wish . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 565 V).
  2. ↑ “Desirelessly dead” at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 26, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Dead without a wish". TV feature film, accessed on January 23, 2019.
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