The bull from Tölz: the candidate for marriage
| Episode of the series Der Bulle von Tölz | |||
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| Original title | The candidate for marriage | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Season 10, episode 2 45th episode overall ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | October 29, 2003 on Sat.1 | ||
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| Director | Wolfgang F. Henschel | ||
| script | Andreas Föhr , Thomas Letocha | ||
| production | Ernst von Theumer junior | ||
| music | Uli Kümpfel | ||
| camera | Thomas Schwan | ||
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The Marriage Candidate is a German television film by Wolfgang F. Henschel from 2003 based on a script by Andreas Föhr and Thomas Letocha . It is the 45th episode of the crime series Der Bulle von Tölz with Ottfried Fischer as the main actor in the role of Chief Inspector Benno Berghammer. It was first broadcast on October 29, 2003 on Sat.1 .
action
Investigative journalist Bertram Söllner is dragged dead out of a lake by an angler. At first all investigators are shocked because the body looks very similar to Benno Berghammer, but then he suddenly stands behind them. Sabrina Lorenz falls relieved around the neck of the startled inspector.
Forensic doctor Dr. Sprung finds out that Bertram Söllner was given a sedative in the form of a tea. So incapacitated, the victim was pulled by the hair under water and drowned.
The police investigations show that Bertram Söllner had several contacts with women through a marriage agency; However, he was not so strict about loyalty. Among them are the devotional goods dealer Rita Wrobbel, whose past as a prostitute Söllner has uncovered, and the fortune teller Martha Wunderlich, whose car was seen by the angler at the lake.
Another suspect is the glazier Fritz Karner, who specializes in church windows, who no longer receives any orders because the journalist has reported about Karner's church thefts.
Markus Söllner, the dead man's brother, claims that Bertram owned a gold Rolex watch, but it has disappeared without a trace. Katja Flemisch, the head of the marriage brokerage and friend of the building contractor Anton Rambold, found the watch on the toilet of the dating agency and kept it as a deposit because Bertram Söllner was in arrears with the payments. Rambold is not at all enthusiastic that he now has evidence in his hands in a murder case. Without further ado, he decides to use the watch to lubricate a high-ranking official in the State Chancellery so that Rambold can propose him for the Bavarian Order of Merit.
The Glaser Karner is watched by Inspector Berghammer and Policeman Pfeiffer as he hands over a watch to another person. It is the dead man's Rolex. The State Chancellery official wanted the watch to be monetized without anyone knowing he was in financial trouble.
The fortune teller Martha Wunderlich directs the trail of Anton Rambold while reading cards and during a spiritualistic session with Benno Berghammer, and what is actually found buried in the garden of the villa is a cigarette case that belonged to the dead man. Rambold is arrested and taken to the police prison. Nevertheless, the inspectors somehow do not believe that he is a murderer and set the tipster a trap with an alleged diary in which Bertram Söllner could have entered who poisoned his tea. Martha Wunderlich falls for it and finally admits that she manipulated the tea so that her lover would feel sick and she could then take care of him.
Rita Wrobbel and Markus Söllner fall in love, but when he finds out about Wrobbel's past while rummaging through his brother's documents, he is disappointed. The merchant of devotional items, however, puts him under pressure: she saw him arguing with his brother at the lake and the police did not yet know anything about it. Söllner then puts the two debt collectors who have been threatening him for some time on Wrobbel. You should take care of her so that she can no longer endanger his legacy; then he will be able to pay off his debts. The debt collectors knock the woman down in her shop and tell Söllner that they will take her to the clinic, which is ready to be demolished. Söllner fears that Rita Wrobbel could be dead and informs the police, who immediately go out and free the bound and gagged devotional merchant. Police officer Pfeiffer is injured, who fired a shot and got the ricochet in his knee.
When it turns out that Markus Söllner has speculated the entire inheritance of his parents on the stock exchange and is also in debt to a loan shark, he too comes under suspicion. Rita Wrobbel tells the police that she saw the Söllner brothers arguing at the lake. Finally, Markus Söllner confesses that he drowned his brother to get his inheritance.
Suddenly it occurs to the commissioners that in the heat of the investigation they have forgotten that Anton Rambold is still in police custody. When they release him, he threatens to file a lawsuit and pulls out the cell phone to call his lawyer. But when Benno Berghammer reminds him of the Rolex and informs him that the State Chancellery has decided to award him, Rambold, the Bavarian Order of Merit, the building contractor puts the cell phone back in his pocket and says there is justice after all.
Subplot
Resi Berghammer finds a yellowed document in the attic , written in Sütterlin , which her late uncle Walter left behind. Behind the faded scribble she suspects some kind of treasure map. When trying to decipher it with a magnifying glass in sunlight, the paper is burned and the relevant text passage is destroyed. Ms. Berghammer has the document examined by forensic technology - without her son's knowledge. The result expresses Dr. Jump into the hand of Commissioner Berghammer, who is not at all enthusiastic that his mother is abusing police facilities for private purposes.
Making the writing legible does not help Ms. Berghammer, and an acquaintance's attempts to dig in the garden do not achieve the goal either. But when she learns that her son has to do with the fortune teller Martha Wunderlich in the course of an investigation and just wants to contact her, she comes to the "Pension Resi" and asks about Benno. While the two are trying to establish contact with the deceased uncle, the commissioner bursts into the meeting. Another attempt to contact the deceased fails because the two women cannot find his old hut, which is in a moor in Jachenau . Resi Berghammer sinks into the swamp and has to be rescued by the fire department.
Following a flash of inspiration, she tears up the floor in Benno's bedroom and picks up the "treasure". It's a box filled with bits and bobs. The superintendent says that Uncle Walter was still a small child when he lived here; in addition, the letter showed infantile traits from the start.
background
The shooting took place in Bad Tölz and at the Kirchsee in Sachsenkam . Anton Rambold's new villa is Vagen Castle , which already served as the “Hotel Fürstenhof” in Sturm der Liebe ; The Hollerhaus Irschenhausen served as the setting for the "Pension Resi" .
criticism
The program magazine TV Spielfilm writes: "Not exactly fast, but nice and quirky."
Web links
- The marriage candidate in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The marriage candidate at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Marriage candidate - derbullevontoelz.de ( Memento of 29 April 2016 Internet Archive )
- ↑ Der Bulle von Tölz: Der Marriage Candidat - Film review at TV Spielfilm
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