Schimanski: blood brothers

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Episode in the Schimanski series
Original title Blood brothers
Schimanski blutsbrueder.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
French
Production
company
Colonia Media , WDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 2
First broadcast November 16, 1997 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Hajo Gies
script Hansjörg Thurn
production Georg Feil
Sonja Goslicki
music Chris Rea
camera Wedigo von Schultzendorff
cut Moune Barius
occupation

Blood Brothers is a television film from the Schimanski crime series on ARD .

The film was produced by Colonia Media and first aired on November 16, 1997. It is the second episode in the Schimanski series with Götz George .

action

Klaus Mandel was the main suspect of insurance fraud six years ago in which his general manager was killed. Schimanski had worked on this case, but could not convict Mandel. Mandel is now in prison in Belgium. He allegedly wants to testify against his friend and then partner Krüger in order to obtain exemption from prison. Schimanski, who is about to lose his girlfriend Marie-Claire to the Belgian Maurice, is supposed to bring him to Germany.

Already on the way they are stopped by false police officers who are supposed to free Mandel. Schimanski flees with Almond and shakes off the pursuers. After Schimanski changed cars, Mandel tells him about his life. Incidentally, flashbacks show the crime scene inspection from back then and Schimanski doubts whether Mandel really started the fire. At a gas station, Mandel urgently needs to go to the toilet and is only trying to buy time so that Romanian ex-agents can free him. But Schimanski prevents this, although the Romanians want to kill Mandel instead of freeing them. The suspicion quickly falls on Krüger, who wants to prevent Almond from unpacking. They continue to flee in a vehicle stolen from a car wash and end up in the ditch during an argument. Schimanski passed out and was saved from the burning car by Mandel. Schimanski immediately handcuffs him. Both travel to Germany by train. On the train there is another attack by the Romanians, with one of them being killed by Schimanski. Schimanski looses the handcuffs and jumps out of the moving train with Almond.

In the meantime, Schimanski has learned the real reason from Mandel. Mandel has a daughter who is in a coma in Maria Laach . At a factory site, they meet the Romanians again and can hijack their bus, which is armed with weapons. They take them to the hospital monastery and look for his daughter there. The doctor explains to Mandel that the girl wanted to attempt suicide and was found with photos showing her with Krüger. In addition, Krüger impregnated his daughter. Suddenly the Romanians reappear, whom Schimanski can turn off with a fire extinguisher in the elevator. Mandel, on the other hand, escapes alone on the bus.

Back in Düsseldorf, Schimanski reports to public prosecutor Bonner about his mishap in her private apartment. Unfortunately, a lot has changed because Krüger has been warned and they are afraid of losing the trial. But Schimanski knows where Almond could be and drives her car to the closed Blue Café, which Almond has told him a lot about. There, Mandel tries to force Kruger to speak by force of arms. Schimanski goes in and can make Almond give up. Krüger, seeing no way out, takes his own life. The police believe everything is lost, but in the presence of Schimanski, Krüger has admitted to his friend Mandel the murder of the general manager.

Reviews

“If the overture to the return of the Ruhrpott-Rabauken mit Herz was more of a pilot film, a kind of acclimatization therapy, Horst Schimanski has been the same since yesterday. And that's precisely because in 'Blood Brothers' he did not integrate himself into the ritual investigation of the Duisburg cell phone cops, but did his thing. In this atmospheric road movie the eternal loner came to himself again. No paragraphs, no annoying public prosecutor, instead a powerful body, blue eyes, soft heart, the much smiled at dirty jacket - the myth lives on! "

- Rainer Tittelbach : Tittelbach.tv

Soundtrack

The music for the film was composed and played by Chris Rea . A song heard repeatedly in the film is called The Blue Cafe . Twice there is a flashback to the stage of the café of the same name to a time when it was still busy. You can see the musician in a similar way to how he and his group play the song during a live performance. Although the film is not a crime scene , the song was released on the anniversary CD along with Tatort songs. The song is also featured on Chris Rea's 1998 album The Blue Cafe .

particularities

The film thrives on the interaction between the two actors Götz George and Christoph Waltz and their dialogues. For the greater part of the film, they experience an odyssey for two by train, in the car or on foot, where in between they are chained to each other in the true sense of the word or one of them carries the other on his shoulders through nature.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Series "Schimanski - Blood Brothers". In: tittelbach.tv. 1997, accessed July 29, 2016 .