Schimanski: Siblings

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Episode in the Schimanski series
Original title siblings
Schimanski Geschwister.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Colonia Media , WDR
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 6
First broadcast December 6, 1998 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Mark Schlichter
script Horst Vocks
production Georg Feil
Sonja Goslicki
Alexander Wesemann
music Klaus Wagner
Bell, Book & Candle
camera Markus Hausen
cut Guido Krajewski
occupation

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

The film was produced by Colonia Media and first aired on December 6, 1998. It is the 6th episode in the Schimanski series with Götz George .

action

The criminal police officer Andy Bergmann is desperately looking for his sister Laura, who last worked in the local brothel “Pascha”. He has already been banned from the local area and if he is asked again he will be shown outside the door again. Little does he know that his sister lives in the mansion of the building lion Ewers, who also owns the brothel. He asks Laura to influence her brother and gives her two watchdogs. After Laura cannot calm him down, they try to kill Andy, but Andy kills both of them in self-defense and fled to Schimanski's apartment during his interrogation by the police.

Schimanski is briefly imprisoned in a Belgian prison after catching his girlfriend Marie-Claire in bed with a Belgian policeman in bed and assaulting him out of jealousy. As a refuge, he returns to his apartment in Duisburg, where Andy is already waiting for him. He asks Schimanski to find his sister. Schimmi owes him a favor because Andy saved his life a few years ago. Schimanski's request in the brothel also falls on deaf ears and he seeks help from public prosecutor Schäfer, who has just been through a failed court case against Ewers, because the prosecutor, his rival Schiller, did not show up.

When Schimanski tries to get information about Andy's proceedings from Schäfer by telephone, he sees her screaming in panic and rushes to her. At the last second he can get the confused prosecutor in her nightgown off the street before she is run over and takes her to the hospital. A search of their apartment by Schimanski and Schrader reveals no trace of a corpse, which they allegedly saw in bed next to them, or any other oddities. Instead, they mess about their food in the refrigerator. But on the drive home, Schimanski suddenly felt uneasy, which in his apartment turned into delusions, during which he even saw his deceased colleague Thanner. A call to Schrader fails because he too suffers from these delusions.

Prosecutor Merkel is appointed to represent Ms. Schäfer. Schimanski pays Ewers a visit, where he meets Laura. He keeps it to himself, however, so that Andy doesn't run amok, but a visit to his apartment opens up Schimanski's true relationship with his sister, who adores Andy like a lover. However, Ewers panics at the reputation of the prosecutor Merkel and instructs his henchman van Meeren to silence the lawyer. Van Meeren kidnaps Merkel's daughter and has a severed ear sent to him as proof. The next day, Merkel surprisingly declares the Ewers case closed, but Schimanski visits him at home and realizes the blackmail by the cut off ear. Ewers is promptly summoned and interrogated, among other things because the hallucinogenic mushrooms in Schäfer's food come from a restaurant that Ewers owns.

Ewers is silent and is clueless, but Laura anonymously gives Schimanski the tip on where to find the girl. Behind the Belgian border, Schimanski can find van Meeren and his partner Pele, who want to torture and kill him. Andy's intervention prevents the worst, and they can track the child down in a dungeon. The child's ear can be sewn back on and, by the way, through a carelessness by Van Meeren, Schimanski can tell the police that Schiller's body is on an Ewers construction site. Schimanski finally reveals to Andy that Ewers is with Laura, and Andy drives his car to Ewers' villa while Schimanski is in the hospital. Schäfer and her people discover Schiller's body on a construction site. When Schimmi discovers Andy's disappearance, he sets off for the villa in a stolen patrol car. Andy lurked Laura there and wants to force her to return by force of arms, but when Ewers suddenly appears, Andy wants to kill him and is shot from behind by Laura. Schimanski is late and returns to his girlfriend Marie-Claire to forgive her for her affair.

background

For the hallucination Schimanski experienced in his apartment, modern computer morphing was used (similar to that in the film Casper ) to transform his appearance in the mirror. In order to implement the Thanner appearance, scenes from earlier Tatort episodes with Eberhard Feik were used and they were used as a fade-in in front of Schimanski.

Hannes Jaenicke already played the role of Melting in the Schimanski crime scene Zabou (1987) and a police officer in the later Schimanski episode Schuld und Sühne (2011). The best-known collaboration with Götz George, however, was Carl Schinkel's 1984 film Abwärts .

Max Herbrecht played the murdered vet in the Schimanski crime scene up to his neck in the dirt . Paul Faßnacht was seen as a farmer in the eponymous episode.

The song Bliss In My Tears for the episode contributed the group Bell, Book & Candle .

Trivia

  • When Schimanski is released from prison at the beginning of the film and Marie Claire is waiting for him, her Citroen van "Fourgonnette" is on the street in front of the snack bar; when she leaves the diner he's standing in the back of the parking lot.
  • When, at the end of the film, Schimanski 'borrows' the police car, a Ford Sierra, in front of the hospital and drives down the door of the Opel Senator, he demolishes the front section. In the further course of the journey to Ewers' house, the front is undamaged. The brand emblem, the 'plum', is missing in all scenes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for Schimanski: Siblings . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2003 (PDF; test number: 84 728 DVD).