The bull from Tölz: the amigo plot
| Episode of the series Der Bulle von Tölz | |
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| Original title | The amigo plot |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Season 1, Episode 1 1st episode overall ( list ) |
| First broadcast | January 14, 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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The Amigo plot is a German TV film by Walter Bannert from 1996 based on a script by Claus Peter Hant . It is the first 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 14, 1996 on Sat.1 .
action
The head of the water management office , Franz Dechansreiter, is in the steam bath of the bath king Dr. Fink found dead. Heart failure is assumed to be the cause of death; however, Dechansreiter has a hand injury which suggests that he tried to open the door. Commissioner Benno Berghammer knows the dead man's wife from before and brings her the sad news. The pharmacist Andrea Dechansreiter reacted calmly and let him know that their divorce was imminent. Then they hear gunshots from the deceased's apartment. When they look there is no one to be seen, but the apartment is devastated. The inspector finds a projectile that turns out to be a homemade Colt from 1850.
Benno Berghammer has a new colleague, Chief Inspector Sabrina Lorenz from Berlin , who is to support him from now on. So that she gets to know the country and its people, he immediately takes her on an investigation tour.
Traces of Hexagen, a substance that disinfects and numbs at the same time, are found in the dead man's blood. Above 50 ° C it evaporates and, if inhaled in a concentrated manner, leads to circulatory failure, especially in a sauna or steam bath. Berghammer takes the bottle of Hexagen that was found in the bathroom.
Contrary to Andrea Dechansreiter's statement, according to which her husband was gentle as a lamb, Berghammer finds out that Franz Dechansreiter did have enemies, including a large number of farmers whom he wanted to make happy with the connection to the public drinking water supply. During a visit to the water management office, the two inspectors get caught up in a peasant demonstration and learn that many wells have dried up because the water table has dropped as a result of the new bath from bathing king Fink. The farmers are now blaming Dechansreiter for having classified the project as harmless. Dechansreiter's secretary hands the inspectors the relevant documents, but the geological report and its copy have disappeared. The questioning of Prelate Hinter, who on behalf of the Church, sold the said property to Dr. Fink has sold, the investigation is not getting any further.
Berghammer learns from an employee of the bath that Dechansreiter has often beaten the masseuse Mahima Sanlong. She met and fell in love with him in Hong Kong five years ago . Ms. Sanlong cannot explain why he hit her. She couldn't leave him because Dechansreiter paid for everything and she needs a work permit, which she can only get through Dr. Fink gets. She doesn't know how things will go on without her sponsor.
A photo from Dechansreiter's apartment, taken in Hong Kong, shows five people: Prelate Hinter, District Administrator Siegfried Wallner, Dr. Fink, Franz Dechansreiter and Mahima Sanlong. Since at the moment the district administrator is most likely to be the perpetrator, the commissioners drive to Wallner, who is in the middle of the election campaign but still has time to spare. He admits that Fink paid for the trip to Hong Kong, but denies that his positive decision about approving the bath had anything to do with it.
A nun reports to the police station because she surprised a stranger while he was rummaging through Prelate Hinter's papers. Benno Berghammer tries in vain to create a phantom based on her description . When Sabrina Lorenz, following an inspiration, depicts the farmer Toni Göbel, the spokesman for the demo, she hits the mark. The nun says the thief was on contracts that were at least five years ago.
The inspectors found the Colt that was fired in Dechansreiter's apartment at the farmer's Göbel's, along with other handguns; the owner just rode in. He calls his property under renovation "Westerntown". He is angry with District Administrator Wallner because he refuses him permission. At first he denies the break-in at Prelate Hinter and the devastation of Dechansreiter's apartment, but he gives in when Berghammer offers him not to confiscate the weapons in exchange for a confession. The commissioners learn from Göbel that the prelate has sold the property to Fink for well below the price. You confront the bath king with the facts, but he rejects all accusations; they take all business documents with them. While looking through them, Sabrina Lorenz discovers two transfers of one million marks each to accounts in Luxembourg . The recipients are Prelate Hinter and Mr. Dechansreiter, whose widow now inherits one million marks plus interest. When asked about her new wealth, she says she has always managed her husband's money and that she has now made two of that million. In the event of a divorce, they would have split the money. But it will benefit the rebuilding of the day care center for children with cancer anyway.
Under the pretext of inviting her to an election event, District Administrator Wallner gains access to Resi Berghammer's pension and puts her under pressure to influence her son so that he returns the confiscated business documents to Fink. When the inspector refuses to accept it, someone from the labor inspectorate comes to find out that the rooms are 10 cm too low.
At an election event, Toni Göbel told the commissioner that he was in possession of a letter from Wallner to his front man, the building contractor Schwarz, from which it could be seen who the company really belongs to. He doesn't want to hand the letter out of hand, but he is allowed to take a look inside. The extremely interested Benno Berghammer made an appointment with the farmer for the following day at 12 noon in an inn, but the appointment broke because Göbel had meanwhile handed over the letter to Wallner and received the permit for "Westerntown" in an urgent procedure.
Benno Berghammer remembers that when he was questioned he saw a photo of Mahima Sanlong's brother, who has a hole in his heart and is about to undergo an operation. In the clinic, the inspector learns from a nurse that Mahima Sanlong is paying for the operation out of his own pocket. How to do that becomes clear to him when he meets Ms. Sanlong and Andrea Dechansreiter on the ward, who are clearly friends. Mrs. Dechansreiter tells him that she too was treated like dirt by her husband.
When Resi Berghammer tells her son by phone that her operating license has been withdrawn, he is deeply angry and wants the district administrator to be arrested, but his colleague objects that there is no evidence against Wallner. Shortly afterwards, Ms. Berghammer called again and sent a message to her son that she needed a heart drop. At first he gets angry again because he thinks the heart drops are superfluous, but then suddenly he has an inspiration and rushes to Andrea Dechansreiter's pharmacy. He shows her the bottle of Hexagen and asks if she can get something like that. It can only be made to order, she replies. When asked whether she has ordered it more often recently, she replies that this information can be found in the bookkeeping.
The pharmacy's business records show that the Hexagen was ordered for Mahima Sanlong, so the inspector goes back to the clinic. Ms. Sanlong confesses to the murder, but Berghammer wants to wait until her brother has finished the operation before arresting them. Andrea Dechansreiter arrives and admits that she knew it would come to this, whereupon the inspector arrests her for aiding and abetting murder.
Resi Berghammer and Sabrina Lorenz have now found out that the guesthouse cannot be closed due to the existing monument protection. Now the commissioners fear that District Administrator Wallner, Prelate Hinter and Bäderkönig Fink will not be able to prove anything. So that the “Amigos” don't get away scot-free, Berghammer and Lorenz collect seven-figure donations from them for the benefit of the day care center for children with cancer.
background
The shooting was carried out in Bad Tölz and in Schäftlarn monastery ; The Hollerhaus Irschenhausen served as the setting for the "Pension Resi" .
criticism
The program magazine TV Spielfilm writes: "The crime thriller critically illuminates the political province."
Web links
- The Amigo conspiracy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Amigo plot at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Amigo plot - derbullevontoelz.de ( Memento from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Der Bulle von Tölz: The Amigo plot - film review at TV Spielfilm
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