The bull from Tölz: Among friends
| Episode of the series Der Bulle von Tölz | |||
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| Original title | Among friends | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Season 1, episode 3 3rd episode in total ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | January 28, 1996 on Sat.1 | ||
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| Director | Walter Bannert | ||
| script | Claus Peter Hant | ||
| production | Ernst von Theumer junior | ||
| music | Kristian Schultze | ||
| camera | Hanuš Polak | ||
| cut | Ingrid Träutlein-Peer | ||
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Unter Freunde is a German television film by Walter Bannert from 1996 based on a script by Claus Peter Hant . It is the 3rd 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 January 28, 1996 on Sat.1 .
action
A car bomb explodes in front of the Bad Tölz tax office and kills the tax officer Gisela Rose. In the immediate vicinity of the wreck, newspaper clippings are found, all of which report on a financial scandal: the building contractor Anton Rambold is said to have been released from a tax debt of 43.5 million marks.
Meanwhile, Resi Berghammer receives a tax bill, according to which she should pay 30,000 marks. When she wants to complain to the tax office, she meets her son Benno and his colleague Sabrina Lorenz. The commissioner promises his mother to settle the matter - which he forgets again and again in the confusion of the investigation.
The inspectors learned from the tax auditor Elfriede Seidl that she had been in the hospital for a long time due to an accident and that Chief Financial Officer Hecht had taken over her duties until her return. Since he is currently carrying out a company audit at the large butcher shop Traxl, Lorenz and Berghammer visit him there and receive information from him that only he was involved in the Rambold tax affair, but that Gisela Rose could have inspected the files.
The next day, Commissioner Lorenz found out that Hecht had sold his car to Ms. Rose the day before the attack, which could mean that the bomb was not aimed at her, but for Hecht. They receive the information from his partner Eva Ackermann that he is in the tax office. The commissioners announce themselves by phone, but when they arrive at the office, there is no trace of Hecht. It looks like a fight has taken place. On the computer, Commissioner Lorenz discovers a file about a tax audit at the Traxl company. In the police station she finds out that this company has difficulties with several authorities and that their boss is considered a terrorist in South Africa and is wanted by an arrest warrant. Traxl firmly denies having anything to do with the tax officer's abduction.
In the investigation committee of the Bavarian state parliament into the "Rambold tax affair", State Secretary von Gluck argues that insisting on the tax claim would cost several hundred jobs, and that the decision for tax exemption was essential. In a personal conversation, he lets the committee chairman know that it should not be his damage if he interferes with the investigative committee as Rambold intended. He gets a piece of land at a "preferential price" and Rambold builds him a house on it - also at a preferential price.
During a cozy dinner in the hotel restaurant "Residence", Elfriede Seidl told the inspector that Anton Rambold had already invited Mr. Hecht to this restaurant and even offered him a lucrative job, which the incorruptible official refused, which Rambold was very angry about. She promises Berghammer to find out what Hecht could have uncovered at Traxl.
Anton Rambold replies evasively when the commissioners question him about the tax officer Hecht. He appeals to Benno's common sense that they are old friends. But Sabrina Lorenz does not give up until the building contractor shows an alibi from the operations manager of one of his breweries.
Elfriede Seidl finds out that Rambold is building a new house for the tax office director Glann, although he already has one. At first, Rambold denies building single-family houses, but then he gives in, that goes along with the major projects. But that has nothing to do with the tax scandal, Glann pays like everyone else. Since the Rambold company also carries out demolition work, the commissioners want to see the explosives store. The detonators that the demolition officer shows them are identical to the one used for the car bomb. Since material is missing from the warehouse and the demolition manager admits that the lock was recently broken, Anton Rambold is gradually finding it difficult to explain.
Ms. Seidl visits Benno Berghammer in the police station and informs him about the behavior of the Traxl company. The operation is absolutely clean, only the boss tried twice to cheer her on a pleasure trip as a business trip. She thanks again for dinner and suggests repeating it. As a farewell she kisses the inspector.
Caretaker Duffner from the tax office only reports to the inspectors after several days of drinking. He saw a man outside the office shortly before the explosion. He recognizes Anton Rambold in a photo. The building contractor testifies that he drove to the tax office because an anonymous caller had promised to help him with the tax affair. In reality a trap was set for him.
When State Secretary von Gluck learns that Rambold is now the main suspect and is to be charged with murder and kidnapping, he informs the tax office director Ulrich Glann about it. They decide to let the building contractor jump over the edge and persuade the investigative committee to reverse the decision, so that Rambold has to pay 50 million marks in taxes including interest. When Rambold learns that the committee of inquiry has changed its mind, he bursts into an ongoing meeting of the Secretary of State under wild abuse and only calms down again when von Gluck guarantees him an order to demolish a nuclear power plant.
After Resi Berghammer has now received several letters from the tax office and visits from the bailiff, her son Benno confidently turns to Ms. Seidl, who wants to take care of it immediately.
In the office of the kidnapped tax officer, Benno Berghammer presses the redial on the phone to find out who Hecht called last. It is the private number of the judge Dr. Hit. However, he only knows that Hecht wanted to deposit highly explosive material about bribery of officials, but that did not happen.
In search of clues about Hecht's whereabouts, the detective split up: Sabrina Lorenz goes to Hecht's apartment, while Benno Berghammer drives to Eva Ackermann's. There is utter confusion in both places. Ms. Ackermann found that no valuables were missing, but when Berghammer asked what she had taken from Hecht's safe when she moved out of the shared apartment, she remembered that she had "accidentally" taken a pack of bank statements with her that showed that 15,000 Marks were transferred to a Swiss account every month, from Traxl to Frau Seidl's benefit. But now the extracts are gone. Ackermann finally admits that she wanted to confront her partner with the bank statements, but by then he had already disappeared. In Hecht's personal notes, Berghammer finds concrete evidence that Traxl evaded taxes on a large scale and that Ms. Seidl covered him. The commissioners want to arrest Traxl, but he is not to be found in the company. In his office, Berghammer finds a framed picture of his hut near the Schliersee . While the investigators are on their way there, Traxl explains to the tied and gagged finance officer that he is at war and that war costs a lot of money. He couldn't use an incorruptible tax officer. He cuts Pike's artery and lets the blood drip into a bucket. The worst was already behind him, he would soon fall asleep. Incidentally, his girlfriend also had to die because she saw the bank statements that he couldn't take any chances. Lorenz and Berghammer arrive just in time and arrest Traxl.
Resi Berghammer is just thanking Elfriede Seidl with a bouquet of flowers because the proceedings have been put down and no additional payment is due, when her son arrives and arrests the tax officer for complicity in murder.
background
The shooting was carried out in Bad Tölz , Holzkirchen , in the Benediktbeuern monastery and in Berg am Starnberger See (boat yard); The Hollerhaus Irschenhausen served as the setting for the "Pension Resi" .
Web links
- Among friends in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Among friends at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Among friends - derbullevontoelz.de ( Memento from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
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