The bull from Tölz: peasant wedding
| Episode of the series Der Bulle von Tölz | |||
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| Original title | Country wedding | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 95 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Season 2, episode 4 8th episode overall ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | February 2, 1997 on Sat.1 | ||
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| Director | Walter Bannert | ||
| script | Jörg Graser | ||
| production | Ernst von Theumer junior | ||
| music | Kristian Schultze | ||
| camera | Hanuš Polak | ||
| cut | Ingrid Träutlein-Peer | ||
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Bauernhochzeit is a German television film by Walter Bannert from 1997 based on a screenplay by Jörg Graser . It is the 8th 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 February 2, 1997 on Sat.1 .
action
The morning after the wedding, the newly wed Klara Hopfner finds a dead pig in bed instead of her husband Franz; She discovers her husband stabbed to death in the barn. Commissioner Sabrina Lorenz notes that the victim is missing a wedding ring. Xaver, one of his brothers, who has n't really sobered up since the bachelorette party , saw Klara run out into the field with a rifle, whereupon the superintendent rushes after her. Klara Hopfner testifies that she is glad that her husband is dead, that she only married him so that she would have a father for her illegitimate son Max, who was almost eight , but that she did not stab Franz. She doesn't want to reveal who the child's father is. Finally she hands the rifle over to the inspector.
The head of the family Alois Hopfner no longer wants his daughter-in-law on the farm; he is of the opinion that the marriage is invalid anyway because the wedding night did not take place. He also complains that Max was not baptized and that his mother raised him with no religion. He saw Franz sitting alone at the wedding table at around 5:00 a.m.
From Karl Hopfner, Commissioner Benno Berghammer learns that he and his brothers Franz and Xaver have put the pig in bed and that Franz has attacked Klara several times.
The autopsy shows that Franz Hopfner was close to alcohol poisoning, but the sting with a butcher's knife led to internal bleeding and ultimately to death. With immediate medical help, he could have been saved.
Days later - Franz has meanwhile been buried - Max carries a lamb to the hayloft and wants it to learn to fly. He has prelate taken back too literally, as he has explained to him that only the Lamb of God , the evil could defeat. Karl offers Klara to fetch the lamb down, but she refuses his niceties and prefers to free the animal herself. When she descends the ladder with the lamb under her arm, Karl takes it from her and threatens Max, who is standing next to it, with roast lamb. Clare demands the lamb back for her son. Karl only agrees to the return on condition that she kisses him in return, but she indignantly refuses. So the lamb is slaughtered, which makes Max very angry.
Shortly afterwards, while cutting the lamb, Karl Hopfner was knocked down by the farm's own tractor , seriously injuring his legs; he was probably able to see the driver from his position, but he suffers from amnesia . Klara and Xaver claim to have been in the kitchen at the time in question. Nevertheless, Hopfner Senior now suspects Xaver, after initially suspecting Karl of stabbing Franz in order to move up in the line of succession. Xaver is angry and doesn't want his father to tell him anymore; then the latter beats him with a whip and tells him to admit it until the commissioners intervene. On the instructions of public prosecutor Dr. Zirner brings both police officer Pfeiffer to the police station for interrogation, but they refuse to testify and can go home again. There Xaver asks his father to hand over the farm to him, he wants to bring Klara back and marry, but the senior refuses. Xaver then drives to Klara's parents' house, the Eggerhof.
Police officer Pfeiffer convinced the public prosecutor that Xaver Hopfner was responsible for both acts. When Zirner and Pfeiffer arrive with the arrest warrant, Alois Hopfner sends them away and says that Xaver is not at home and that he wants to sort it out himself. Pfeiffer wants to pursue him when he sees Hopfner getting into the car with a rifle and driving away, but the farmer has tricked him and stabbed the tires of the police car.
Benno Berghammer stayed at the Eggerhof because he played cards there all night. When he hears shots from outside, he rushes out and sees Alois Hopfner shooting Xaver. While the superintendent tries to convince Hopfner Senior of the innocence of his son, Xaver sneaks up and disarms his father, who falls hard in the process. Alois Hopfner lets himself be brought home, but doesn't want anyone to call a doctor.
After Xaver and Klara have said yes at the registry office, Xaver goes to his father's bedside and asks him again to hand over the farm to him; Karl comes in on crutches and the brothers get into an argument. Alois Hopfner's condition worsened and he asked for a pastor . Prelate Hinter carries out the anointing of the sick and takes confession from him. The dying confides in him that he raped Klara, and her son Max was fathered. However, he secretly took care of the child financially and with gifts, raising up without religion was Klara's revenge.
When the prelate announces to the family that Mr. Hopfner has made his peace with the world, Xaver makes a last desperate attempt to get the court transferred, but his father closes his eyes forever.
Following a suggestion, Inspector Lorenz climbs up to the attic of the Hopfner estate together with her colleague Berghammer, where she discovered a horror cabinet of toys days before. She shoots down a helium- filled balloon floating under the roof with the victim's wedding ring attached. When asked whether Max could operate a tractor, Klara replied that every boy who grew up on a farm could drive a tractor. This means that it is finally clear for the investigators that Max committed both acts. The boy says he was hungry and wanted to get something to eat, but Franz didn't move. He just wanted to hurt him a little because he hit his mother; the knife went in by itself.
background
The shooting was done in Bad Tölz ; The Hollerhaus Irschenhausen served as the setting for the "Pension Resi" .
Web links
- Country wedding in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Farmer's wedding at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Farmer's Wedding - derbullevontoelz.de ( Memento from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
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Previous episode January 26, 1997: Murder if awarded |
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Next episode February 16, 1997: Death in the brewery |