The bull of Tölz: death of a priest
| Episode of the series Der Bulle von Tölz | |||
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| Original title | Death of a priest | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 89 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Season 4, episode 3 23rd episode in total ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | October 20, 1999 on Sat.1 | ||
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| Director | Walter Bannert | ||
| script | Walter Bannert, Regina Gmeiner | ||
| production | Ernst von Theumer junior | ||
| music | Kristian Schultze | ||
| camera | Hanuš Polak | ||
| cut | Ingrid Träutlein-Peer | ||
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Death of a Priest is a German television film by Walter Bannert from 1999 based on a script that he wrote together with Regina Gmeiner . It is the 23rd 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 October 20, 1999 on Sat.1 .
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The Kurdish asylum seeker family Gürkan has found shelter in Father Arnold's church and a group of seminary students bring food every day, but their deportation to Turkey is imminent. Father Arnold no longer wants to oppose the bishop's order to hand over the refugees to the authorities, which is why there is a dispute with the novice Johannes. In the middle of the night, Johannes and his colleagues secretly bring the gurkans to another place.
The next morning the housekeeper Maria Burgicz finds her dead pastor in the church, who must have fallen from the gallery . When Commissioner Benno Berghammer rushes to the scene of the crime, he discovers that a deportation squad headed by public prosecutor Dr. Zirner stands and demands admission. However, Maria Burgicz only opens when Berghammer knocks.
When inspecting the gallery, the inspector noticed an intense smell of garlic, but was initially unable to classify its significance. For public prosecutor Zirner it is immediately clear that the asylum seekers killed the pastor.
The investigation quickly leads Benno Berghammer and his colleague Sabrina Lorenz to the seminary, but the four boys remain silent about the whereabouts of the Gürkan family. The prosecutor therefore instructs police officer Anton Pfeiffer to shadow the seminarians. His efforts are rewarded when Resi Berghammer gets into the monastery pick-up to the novice Lukas and drives away with him. On the way to the new refuge - a nunnery - Ms. Berghammer's former gynecologist Dr. Schweiger, who is supposed to take care of the heavily pregnant Ms. Gürkan. When Pfeiffer tries to get the refugees out, he encounters such fierce opposition that he withdraws without having achieved anything and notifies the public prosecutor. But when she looks around the nunnery, there is no trace of the Gürkan family to be found.
In the presence of the commissioners, the bishop and prelate behind the novice John speak into conscience and put him under pressure because the bishop has campaigned in Rome for John to get a place at a papal university , but John still refuses to To reveal the hiding place of the refugees.
When Benno Berghammer learns that his mother is hiding the Kurdish family in her pension, he is initially furious; on the other hand, this fact finally brings the investigation further. Sabrina Lorenz, who learned Turkish from a former lover , learns from Ms. Gürkan that not only she, but also Maria Burgicz is pregnant; she doesn't know who the father is.
The laboratory results of the forensic investigation in Commissioner Berghammer sprout the theory that Ms. Burgicz is pregnant by Johannes, and because a priest with a child at a Pontifical University is unthinkable, it would have meant the end of studies in the Vatican . Berghammer suspects that Father Arnold found out about the pregnancy and asked Johannes to give up the priestly profession in order to marry Maria Burgicz. Johannes denies everything, he only admits paternity when the inspector calls in Frau Burgicz; However, proof is no longer possible because the housekeeper had an abortion the day before in order not to stand in the way of Johannes' career. But when Berghammer confronts him with the fibers of his trousers and the garlic-covered shoes in size 45, he testifies that the pastor threatened to tell the bishop everything if he did not want to take responsibility. Father Arnold grabbed him by the sweater and made him ready; then he pushed him away, whereupon he lost his balance and fell over the parapet.
In the meantime Resi Berghammer and Sabrina Lorenz have worked as midwives and are happy with the Gürkan family to have a healthy pair of twins.
background
The shooting was done in Bad Tölz , Sonntagberg ( Basilica Sonntagberg ) and Seitenstetten ( Stift Seitenstetten ); The Hollerhaus Irschenhausen served as the setting for the "Pension Resi" .
Web links
- Death of a priest in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Death of a priest at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ death of a priest - derbullevontoelz.de ( Memento of 29 April 2016 Internet Archive )
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