Crime Scene: Two Lives (1976)

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Two lives
Country of production Germany
Production
company		 WDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 61 ( List )
First broadcast March 14, 1976 on ARD
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Director Wolfgang Staudte
script Karl Heinz Willschrei
production Werner Kloss
camera Gernot Roll
cut Lilian Seng
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Zwei Leben is a television film from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by WDR and broadcast for the first time on March 14, 1976. It is the 61st episode in the crime scene series, the seventh case with Commissioner Haferkamp .

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The American millionaire Vivien Hamilton has rediscovered her former husband and Mafia key witness Scheller in Germany . He lives there, hidden by the FBI , as a photo lab technician Franz Scheller with his new wife in Essen .

Since she wants to win him back, she sends the Mafia lawyer Whitman to Scheller's photo shop to contact him. Scheller, who now sees his disguise lost, follows Whitman on his way through the city. He notices his pursuer and takes a picture of him. Little does he know that Scheller is pursuing him in order to kill him. After getting off a ferry, Whitman is ambushed by his pursuer and shot with a rifle. Scheller had previously set fire to the mailbox in which Whitman had thrown a postcard to the Mafia boss Titus Capelli, against whom Scheller once testified.

Commissioner Haferkamp is entrusted with the investigation of the murder and through the photo in Whitman's camera, Scheller's attention is drawn. He has his rifle checked, whereby Scheller withholds the murder weapon from the inspector. Since his employee Claudia has noticed that the police are investigating her boss, she begins to blackmail Scheller. As a result, he gets more and more into a corner but is unable to kill Claudia in order to silence her, especially since she warned him that she had deposited the incriminating information in a closed envelope with a notary. Scheller then tries to win the requested amount in an illegal poker game. With four women in hand, he is confident of victory. However, his opponent has four aces. Suddenly his wife finds $ 80,000 in a box in the house. Strangely enough, it is the same amount that Claudia asks for hush money in DM . His wife accuses him of having withdrawn the entire joint balance. But he cannot explain how the money got into his house.

While Claudia is developing pictures of a horse show in the darkroom , Scheller discovers a picture in which he recognizes Vivien. Since he now knows that she is in Germany, he sends her a message. The two of them meet, and Scheller is surprised by a mafia killer . Before this Scheller can kill Vivien and shoots the killer. Scheller is grateful to her and she then explains to him that Whitman's appearance, the blackmail and the killer, and finally the deposit of the 80,000 dollars were only initiated by her to make him flee back to America with her. Scheller pretends to accept it and takes Vivien and the money to a private airport.

Haferkamp visits Ms. Scheller after finding out about her husband's past life. She did not know anything about it and reports to the inspector that her husband had behaved strangely for some time and has now disappeared. It is clear to the commissioner that Scheller wants to rebuild a new identity and can find him on the private airport by means of a large manhunt. In the meantime, Scheller has stunned Vivien on the plane and installed a bomb. He plans to disembark before departure and fake his death over the Mediterranean . Haferkamp was able to prevent it at the last moment and arrested Scheller for murder.

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The film was shot from October 27 to November 26, 1975 in the Bavaria Atelier in Munich-Geiselgasteig with exterior shots of Munich , Essen and Düsseldorf . The opening scene in the castle hotel was created at Hugenpoet Castle in Essen-Kettwig . The scene in which Whitman is shot at Lake Baldeney was shot at the pier near the Scheppen house in Essen-Fischlaken . Another scene was filmed at the Pörtingsiepen colliery, which has since been demolished .

The choice of music is unusual and interesting: The first movement of the symphony in F sharp by Erich Wolfgang Korngold , which at the time the crime novel was written, should have been known to musical archaeologists at best , is heard over long distances . In addition to his opera Die tote Stadt , Korngold was especially famous for his compositions for the big Hollywood films of the 1940s; a renaissance, which also included the rest of his work, did not begin until the late 1980s.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Staudte - actor, director . In: CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Films, Lg. 20, F 31
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