The bull from Tölz: a first-class funeral
| Episode of the series Der Bulle von Tölz | |||
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| Original title | A first class funeral | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Season 12, episode 3 55th episode overall ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | November 16, 2005 on Sat.1 | ||
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| Director | Wolfgang F. Henschel | ||
| script | Petra Lüschow , Carolin Otto | ||
| production | Ernst von Theumer junior | ||
| music | Uli Kümpfel | ||
| camera | Thomas Meyer | ||
| cut | Michael Breining | ||
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A First-Class Funeral is a German television film by Wolfgang F. Henschel from 2005 based on a script by Petra Lüschow and Carolin Otto . It is the 55th 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 November 16, 2005 on Sat.1 .
action
The corpse of the undertaker Martin Bichler is found at the Walchensee power station . The autopsy by Dr. Jump reveals that Bichler was first knocked unconscious, then suffocated and finally thrown into the water. Benno Berghammer and Sabrina Lorenz meet employee Anderl Federer, a former classmate of the inspector, at the power plant, who explains to them how a hydropower plant works, and that the paddle wheel of the turbine would have shredded the corpse had it not got stuck somewhere.
The inspectors are investigating the area around the funeral parlor "Heimkehr", where Martin Bichler, together with his cousin Christian Pohl and the employee Gustav Unertl, led the dead from Bad Tölz to their final resting place.
Resi Berghammer, who once again became aware of her own finitude on the day her mother died, had Gustav Unertl put together the full program of a funeral. At the thought that her mother has died at her current age, she becomes scared to death and has her family doctor examine her. But this gives the all-clear.
The commissioners soon find out that Bichler has made a lot of enemies: he has constantly humiliated the staff; In addition, he settled unpaid services and stole valuable grave goods, for example at the funeral of René Hofer's mother. Hofer is Anderl Federer's colleague at the power plant and therefore knows exactly when is a good time to have a corpse disappear. However, Hofer has an alibi.
Martin Bichler was not only an unpopular contemporary in business terms, his family also suffered from him. His wife Marianne, who is secretly cheating and inheriting his stake in the company, and his cousin Christian Pohl, who will be able to make decisions on his own in the future, benefit from his death. The stonemason Stefan Meiser also makes himself suspicious because he runs away when police officer Anton Pfeiffer tries to check his van. According to a testimony, such a vehicle hastily left the location of the body at the time in question. But the delivery truck key is accessible to every employee in the funeral home.
From René Hofer, Commissioner Lorenz learns that Gustav Unertl wants to invest a larger amount in a crematorium for Christian Pohl in order to counteract a rival company. When asked about his origin, Unertl says he won the lottery. At his home, Lorenz and Berghammer discover a Tut-Ench-Amun statue that they are taking with them for an investigation because it could be used as a murder weapon.
Unertl is now increasingly plagued by remorse. He sends a letter to the public prosecutor Dr. Lenz, who entrusts Benno Berghammer with the arrest, but withholds the letter so as not to endanger the winning of a bet he made with the inspector, namely that Benno does not manage to catch the perpetrator within two days; the loser should pay for a joint dinner from Sabrina Lorenz and the public prosecutor. Resi Berghammer also receives an envelope from Unertl, with the request not to open it until the following day.
Inspector Berghammer refuses to arrest Gustav Unertl because there is no evidence that he used the murder weapon - the Tut Ench Amun statue.
Finally, Christian Pohl exposes himself as the perpetrator by pretending that he only wanted to help Unertl to make the body disappear. He had convinced himself that Bichler was dead, then he loaded him on the van and drove to the reservoir, where he threw him into the water. Commissioner Lorenz replied that Martin Bichler's fresh fingerprints had been found on the back of the delivery van, which proves that he was still alive at the time of transport.
Meanwhile, Resi Berghammer gets a bad feeling about the envelope from Unertl and calls her son, who tells her to open the letter immediately and read it out. From the contents, the inspector concludes that Unertl wants to take his own life where Bichler was thrown into the water. The commissioners reach the power station just in time and with some difficulty can convince Unertl that it is not he who is the murderer, but Pohl, who wanted to blame him for the crime in order to get rid of him too.
When Berghammer and Lorenz meet prosecutor Lenz in the police station, he admits that he has lost the bet. He withheld Unertl's confession for tactical reasons. When Commissioner Lorenz learns that she should serve as a betting object, she leaves the office angrily.
Benno Berghammer has another job to do at the “Heimkehr” funeral home: his late elementary school teacher, Miss Birkel, asked for a burial at sea, but her estate is insufficient to finance a professional implementation. So he improvises together with Anderl Federer and goes out on the lake in a rowboat. Anderl stands up in awe while Benno reads the religious notes while sitting for safety reasons. The boat starts to sway anyway and the urn falls overboard.
background
The filming locations were Bad Tölz , the Walchensee power plant in Kochel am See and Lenggries ; The Hollerhaus Irschenhausen served as the setting for the "Pension Resi" .
criticism
The program magazine TV Spielfilm writes: "At least: Benno brings a few bold sayings." Conclusion: "Wrong title: This is rather second class."
Web links
- A first-class funeral in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A first-class funeral at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ A first-class funeral - derbullevontoelz.de ( Memento from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Der Bulle von Tölz: A first-class funeral - film review by TV Spielfilm
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