The bull from Tölz: death from space
| Episode of the series Der Bulle von Tölz | |||
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| Original title | Death from space | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 89 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Season 3, episode 8 20th episode in total ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | February 7, 1999 on Sat.1 | ||
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| Director | Walter Bannert | ||
| script | Claus Peter Hant , Franz Xaver Sengmüller | ||
| production | Ernst von Theumer junior | ||
| music | Kristian Schultze | ||
| camera | Hanuš Polak | ||
| cut | Ingrid Träutlein-Peer | ||
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Death from Space is a German television film by Walter Bannert from 1999 based on a script by Claus Peter Hant and Franz Xaver Sengmüller . It is the 20th 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 7, 1999 on Sat.1 .
action
The young farmer Sepp Gschwendner wakes up after a night intoxicated with alcohol and drugs on the Keltenschanze in Kogelreuth, next to a woman's corpse he doesn't know. The young journalist Alice Treffler from the "Tölzer Kurier" smells a story and secures the exclusive rights with the farmer, who thinks he remembers having been in a UFO with aliens.
The dead person is the writer Anna von Wert, who at first glance shows no external injuries; there is also nothing to indicate poisoning. During the autopsy, however, a straight cannula is discovered whose cross-section suggests a projectile the size of a pin that pierced the heart on its way. Since no material is known that has the necessary properties, voices are being raised that it must be an alien alloy.
In Anna von Wert's house Benno Berghammer and Sabrina Lorenz meet the publisher of the dead, who complains about the disappearance of the manuscript of their latest book about the machinations of ufologists.
At the Celtic place of worship, the inspectors meet Dr. Eisner, an acquaintance of the victim who works for a materials testing company and who corresponded regularly with the writer. The parapsychologist Dr. Brettschneider is on site and picks something from the grass - a process that Benno Berghammer does not attach any importance to at this point in time.
The murder case, meanwhile, attracts the attention of the media and ufologists, who go to the Keltenschanze to make contact with the aliens. Annoyed by this crowd, the landowner Andreas Gschwendner, Sepp's father, fired several shots in the air until the commissioners disarm him.
When investigators discover that parapsychologist Dr. Brettschneider embezzled the projectile and had it examined by a colleague of his friends at the Institute for Materials Research at the Technical University of Munich , take the evidence from her.
The parapsychologist can persuade the young farmer Sepp Gschwendner to hypnotize to find out whether he really had an encounter of the third kind. Alice Treffler asks the commissioners to prevent this hypnosis, because it would reveal that Sepp Gschwendner was under the influence of ecstasy. She gave him the drug.
The two commissioners rush to the hotel where the parapsychologist is staying and find the frightened Sepp Gschwendner and Dr. Brettschneider before. Another person is hiding behind a curtain. Sabrina Lorenz hits him in the solar plexus , whereupon a futuristic firearm - the murder weapon - falls to the ground and Dr. Eisner appears. The latter admits that he killed Anna von Wert and destroyed the manuscript because the writer wanted to expose him and his fellows. He belongs to an extraterrestrial species that has long been nonviolent and observes the behavior of the human race. He slipped into this Earthling as a camouflage. He received the weapon from an inventor who wanted to have it tested in his materials testing company and then sell it to the arms industry. He immediately successfully tested the weapon on the inventor. When asked for his real name, Dr. Eisner, in his species the individuals have a 15-digit number combination, but you, the commissioners, are allowed to call him 4739, which is his first name, so to speak.
background
The shooting took place in Bad Tölz and Spitzingsee ( Keltenschanze ); The Hollerhaus Irschenhausen served as the setting for the "Pension Resi" .
criticism
The program magazine TV Spielfilm writes: "Back then, the episode boldly coped with ' Tatort: Tod im All '." Conclusion: "As fun as ever - thanks to the theft of ideas."
Web links
- Death from space in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Death from space on Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death from space - derbullevontoelz.de ( Memento from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Der Bulle von Tölz: Death from Space - film review at TV Spielfilm
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