The bull from Tölz: The potato king
| Episode of the series Der Bulle von Tölz | |||
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| Original title | The potato king | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 92 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Season 14, episode 5 68th episode overall ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | July 2, 2008 on ORF 1 | ||
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| Director | Wolfgang F. Henschel | ||
| script | Doris Jahn | ||
| production | Ernst von Theumer junior | ||
| camera | Thomas Meyer | ||
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The Potato King is a German TV film by Wolfgang F. Henschel from 2008 based on a script by Doris Jahn . It is the 68th 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 July 2, 2008 on ORF 1 .
action
The Tölzer Boys' Choir gathers early in the morning on the Tonihof to sing a birthday song for the potato farmer Toni Angermeier. But according to Lisa Angermeier, her husband is not there. After a short search he is found dead in the greenhouse next to his farm. Forensic doctor Dr. Robert Sprung found that Toni Angermeier fell into the greenhouse around midnight with a strong punch to the head and bled to death from cuts on his neck that he suffered from broken glass.
The commissioners Benno Berghammer and Nadine Richter start the investigation and learn from a choir member that the soloist Lukas Lösl was not there because his mother had a violent argument with the potato grower about a certain Hedwig. As it turns out, "Hedwig" is not about a woman, but a variety of potato bred by Toni Angermeier, which is grown and sold by Bettina Lösl, Lukas' mother. But Toni Angermeier wanted to ban this.
Because there is an intense smell of liquid manure on the small sports field next to the Tonihof, the inspectors ask the Lösl family, the owners of the property, when the liquid manure was spread. Matthias Lösl claims that he started at 8:00 p.m. the previous evening and finished it before 9:00 p.m. then he played Schafkopf in the "Post" .
Commissioner Richter notes that some perennial selected breeding plants are missing in the greenhouse. She finds it in a shed and brings it to the laboratory. It's about the missing potato plants from the crime scene; the victim's blood is on it, as are the fingerprints of the agricultural engineer Steffen Kern, who is employed by Angermeiers. When it turns out that Kern broke into Angermeier's house in order to secretly bring back the stolen papers for the plant variety protection application, Lisa Angermeier is certain that he is her husband's murderer. Berghammer and Richter take a folder with bank statements that the widow wanted to hide from them and bring the suspect to the police station. Kern denies the murder and claims that he only wanted to save the plants from the stomping police horde, but the commissioners do not believe him because the plants exactly match the previously stolen papers and take him into custody. However, since it turns out that the plants have frost damage because they were in the broken glass house overnight, Kern can only have taken them after he discovered the body. Thus the suspicion of murder out of greed falls away and the agricultural engineer is released.
Lisa Angermeier also has a strong motive because her husband wanted to get a divorce. According to the marriage contract, she would have received nothing. However, because of her physical inferiority, it is unlikely that she could inflict a punch on her husband that would bring him down.
The inspection of the confiscated bank statements shows that Toni Angermeier withdrew 10,000 euros shortly before his death. According to his widow, he wanted to donate the money to the church. Prelate Hinter donated half of it to Monsignor Testelli as a donation for the maintenance of the Sistine Chapel , thereby enabling the Tölzer Boys' Choir to perform in the Vatican . In addition, Angermeier transferred 800 euros each month to the director of the boys' choir so that he would prefer Lukas Lösl. The choir director is beside himself; he does not tolerate corruption in the Tölzer boys' choir and resigns the choir director.
For the inspectors, the suspicion is gradually growing that Toni Angermeier is Lukas Lösl's biological father. That would explain why Angermeier did not report Bettina Lösl, although she continues to cultivate and sell the "Hedwig" potato variety without permission. Berghammer and Richter want to speak to her about it, but her husband claims that she is on a country women excursion.
The agricultural engineer Steffen Kern has also lost his job; the commissioners meet him at the Tonihof when he is collecting his papers. When she asked, he said that on the eve of the murder at 9:00 p.m. there was no smell of manure. According to this, Matthias Lösl lied; in addition, the sheep's head ended at 11 p.m., which broke his alibi. When the commissioners found out that the country women’s excursion was not taking place for three weeks, they drove back to the Lösl family, but the farm was orphaned. They feed the hungry cattle and pigs and find a bloody scarf.
The genetic test confirms the assumption that Toni Angermeier is Lukas Lösl's father. Berghammer and Richter confront Lisa Angermeier with their latest findings. At first, she denies having known about her husband's affair, but the hint that Matthias Lösl may go nuts and do something to his wife finally leads her to tell the truth. Accordingly, she woke up because of the penetrating smell of manure. She went to the window and heard her husband curse Matthias Lösl and tell him that he - Lösl - is not Lukas' father. Then she saw her husband get a hard punch and fall into the greenhouse. Then Lösl drove away with his tractor and she went to sleep again, not realizing that her husband is critically injured. Ms. Angermeier also admits that she put Matthias Lösl under pressure. She promised him that she would not reveal anything to the police if he could get his wife not to make any inheritance claims for her son.
The search for Matthias and Bettina Lösl is unsuccessful, but when Berghammer and Richter arrive at the police station, the people they are looking for are waiting for them and filing a voluntary report. Mr Lösl confesses to having knocked Toni Angermeier down, but he did not find out about his death until the next day from the police. Mrs. Lösl feels complicit because she wanted to capitalize on the fact that her son was fathered by Toni Angermeier; she didn't know what to do about the debt. She said about the bloody scarf that she wanted to throw it away, because it was full of piglet blood.
background
The shooting took place in Bad Tölz , Gaißach and Mittenwald ("Tonihof"); The Hollerhaus Irschenhausen served as the setting for the "Pension Resi" .
criticism
The program magazine TV Spielfilm writes: “The last episode of the new season is their best, but still far from the wit of the early episodes. The 'bull mother' Ruth Drexel, who was seriously ill at the time of shooting, is represented in this episode by Christiane Blumhoff, alias Aunt Anni. "Conclusion:" Not great despite Tuber, but very entertaining. "
Web links
- The Potato King in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Potato King at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Potato King - derbullevontoelz.de ( Memento from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Der Bulle von Tölz: The Potato King - film review by TV Spielfilm
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