Schimanski: At the limit

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Episode in the Schimanski series
Original title At the limit
Schimanski hard at the limit
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Colonia Media , WDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 3
First broadcast November 23, 1997 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Hajo Gies
script Uwe Erichsen
Hartmut Grund
Horst Vocks
production Georg Feil
Sonja Goslicki
music Irmin Schmidt
camera Axel Block
cut Moune Barius
occupation

Hart to the Limit is a television film from the ARD crime series Schimanski .

The film was produced by Colonia Media and first aired on November 23, 1997. It is the third episode in the Schimanski series with Götz George .

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Terrorist Dirk Vogel once escaped from the BKA officer Keller and his men, but his girlfriend Uta Maubach was arrested and imprisoned. But five years later, at the behest of the BKA, public prosecutor Bonner dismissed her to serve as bait. In return for a new diesel engine in his boat, Schimanski is asked by Bonner to protect the girl. He agrees and shadows her when she meets her sister Regina in her apartment.

There she is already under constant surveillance by the BKA people Freese and Berger. But Schimanski sees through the trick of luring the BKA officers away with a taxi and follows Uta to an outlying restaurant, where she meets Vogel. This is protected by new friends, Japanese terrorists. When Freese and Berger arrive and a firefight with Vogel begins, Schimanski can grab Uta and hide with Inspector Schrader.

Schimanski now wants to find out the real reason from Bonner after he was rudely asked by BKA director Keller to stay out of it. She tells him that the BKA is looking for a mole who warned Vogel when two GSG-9 officers were killed while he was fleeing. Meanwhile, Uta outwits Schrader and fled to a hideaway. But the friend Erich, who found her the apartment, betrays her to her sister. The conversation is also listened to by the BKA. Schimanski is asked by Regina to help her get to Uta's apartment undetected, and with Schrader help they hang out on their pursuers.

Keller tries to squeeze more information out of Erich because he knows that Regina is the former terrorist Andrea. Uta has taken a new cover address from Vogel in her apartment and when Regina arrives at her apartment she realizes that she is actually the wanted top terrorist Andrea. But Regina wants to bring Uta to her senses, since Vogel seems to have long lost control of his actions. When Schimanski meets Regina in this apartment, Uta has escaped and both are tracked down there by Keller and his men. Both are to be arrested, but Regina brings Keller into distress with the memory of Operation Viktoria, in which Vogel was able to escape, so that he lets her go and arrests Schimanski. But the rough leg can overwhelm Freese and Berger and catch up with Regina when she tries to continue with a taxi. But before she can tell him anything else, she is shot from an ambush.

However, Uta has returned to Schrader's apartment and is pounded hard by Schimanski to find out whether Vogel shot her sister. But she doesn't know anything and just tells him the cover address where she'll meet Vogel again. On the way there Schimanski noticed parallels in Vogel's résumé with Keller's employment. In the apartment they find a message from Vogel on the answering machine. Keller's BKA team is already on site and is monitoring the apartment. Suddenly, however, Freese and Berger are withdrawn from Keller. Berger doesn't trust the peace and follows Keller, who gets an MP5 from the trunk of his car. In addition, Berger Vogel's Japanese friends can be locked up in a garage.

Meanwhile, Uta is able to outsmart Schimanski and Schrader with a gun hidden in the apartment and escape to Vogel in the apartment opposite. But Vogel discovers Keller downstairs in front of the door and confesses to her that Keller is his father, who is intent on catching him because it could damage his career considerably. There is a meeting in the hallway between father and son, which ends in a violent fight. Schimanski lets things take its course, and only Bonner can defuse the situation and have the two arrested. Keller previously admitted to Schimanski that he shot Regina.

Berger, Schrader and Schimanski close the case under the influence of alcohol in a bar that Schimmi leaves silently in order to later receive his new diesel engine from public prosecutor Bonner.

Soundtrack

In the bar at the end of the episode, the German version of the Chris Norman hit Midnight Lady by Roland Kaiser can be heard in the background . The original song came from the Schimanski crime scene episode Der Tausch (1986).

Irmin Schmidt wrote the soundtrack for the episode, which already contributed the title song Roll On Euphrates to the Schimanski-Tatort episode Friends .

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