The dead body of a tourist is found in the mountains of Tyrol. The murder investigation focuses on the residents of a seemingly quiet village.
Midsummer Night's Murder
Sommernachtsmord is a 2016 Austrian television film directed by Harald Sicheritz and starring Katharina Straßer and Gregor Bloéb. The screenplay was written by Felix Mitterer. The film was broadcast for the first time on ORF.PlotThe old dairywoman Adelheid Falkner lays tarot cards on a high-altitude alpine pasture in Tyrol, which indicate death. Some time later, a laid out young woman with an alpine flower wreath on her head is found, around her burning grave lights. When the police, who were able to see the scene from a helicopter, arrive at the scene, the body has disappeared without a trace. The deceased is Monika Löffelhart, a German tourist. Before her death, she had donated 10,000 euros to the organist Florian Falkner for the construction of an organ tower he had planned.
As a bar pianist and organist, Florian Falkner made an impression above all on the female guests. His girlfriend, the hotel employee Regina Tiefenbrunner, was jealous every time he was able to conquer the heart of a tourist again, and thus belongs to the circle of suspects. Just like Monika's husband Elmar, an investment fraudster who was just as unenthusiastic about her flirtation, spied on the two and wanted his money back from Monika. Elmar suspects Florian of murdering Monika and stealing her money.
Major Claudia Wegscheider from the State Criminal Police Office of Tyrol from Innsbruck is to solve the case together with the local policeman Franz and post commander Fritz Haspinger. In the trunk of Elmar Löffelhart they find three million euros. Wegscheider initially suspects that Elmar Löffelhart did not want to share the money with his wife and that he had therefore murdered his wife. Elmar Löffelhart states that three million each were earmarked for him and three million for his wife. Later, Wegscheider Florian Falkner suspects of having killed Monika Löffelhart on behalf of her husband and of having received the half of the money originally intended for her.
Wegscheider notes that the money from Kothgasser, the branch manager of the bank where the Löffelharts had deposited their money in the locker, was replaced by counterfeit money. He claims to have speculated not only the six million of the Löffelharts, but a total of 150 million euros. At the site where the body was found, the traces of Elmar Löffelhart's shoes can be found. He confesses to having been there on the night of her murder, but assures that he did not kill her. He had followed and observed Florian Falkner and Monika Löffelhart, but had been beaten down and only regained consciousness the next day.
Elmar Löffelhart finally finds his wife alive on a lonely alpine pasture, where he threatens the Falkners until he dies after a hand shot by Isidor Falkner. In a flashback, it is shown that Monika's death was faked by the falconers only to allow Monika to go into hiding and escape from her husband.
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