Schimanski: Rat's Nest

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Episode in the Schimanski series
Original title Rat nest
Schimanski rat nest.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Colonia Media , WDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 5
First broadcast November 15, 1998 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Hajo Gies
script Horst Vocks
production Georg Feil
Sonja Goslicki
Alexander Wesemann
music Günther Illi
camera Axel Block
cut Guido Krajewski
occupation

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

The film was produced by Colonia Media and first aired on November 15, 1998. It is the 5th episode in the Schimanski series with Götz George .

action

While Schimanski is celebrating his birthday in Belgium, the street boy Janni gets into a blackmail case in Duisburg. Two street kids are murdered, and Janni, who discovers the bodies, leaves Schimanski's old police badge next to them.

After the end of his birthday party, Schimmi received a call from Duisburg in which his girlfriend Marie-Claire told him that she was pregnant . With the idea of ​​becoming a father, he sets off for Duisburg.

Prosecutor Schäfer and her two helpers Krieger and Scholl as well as Schrader, who is entrusted with the investigation, are already waiting for him at the scene. But Schimmi fends off any hostility with wit and little sensitivity. Suddenly he discovers the armchair Schrader is sitting in as his own, in which he had deposited money 25 years ago. With this he goes to his old apartment and has to find out that Janni has given it to the street kids as a home.

Meanwhile, Janni is desperately looking for his girlfriend. Schimmi, who was in a relationship with Janni's mother, seeks her out, believing he will find him there. When Janni meets his friend Rumpelstiltskin, he sends him to the old swimming pool. But this is the perpetrator's trap. Janni's girlfriend is tied to a lattice as bait: the perpetrator ambushes Janni with a stun gun and hands him the gun , which kills his girlfriend. Out of desperation, Janni calls Schimmi in his apartment, who has already been feverishly looking for him.

Schrader interrogates Janni, but Schimanski lets him go because he believes in his innocence. The boy also has the problem that the Albanian Ali urges him to sell drugs to children, which he refuses. Schimmi can protect him from Ali in time and forcefully urges Janni to inform him about the scene. As the two of them infiltrate Ali's hideout, Schäfer shows up with her people, and there is a shooting with Ali's guards. Ali is arrested and accused of having also committed the murders.

But then Janni discovers a photo of the industrialist Herstein in the newspaper and claims to have seen him on the line . Herstein is in the process of laying off 2000 employees and is struggling with a strike that is currently being exploited by the media.

Schimmi asks Janni to hide in his apartment and pays Herstein a visit by entering his company headquarters through massive destruction. Schäfer reappears and has Schimmi persuaded to leave. Now it is Janni's turn. He is supposed to order Herstein to the last crime scene in the old swimming pool and demand hush money. But Herstein is the father of the drug addicted son Uwe, who actually committed the murders. Since Herstein does not know the location of the crime scene, it is clear to Schimmi that he cannot be the perpetrator. When Schäfer arrives, it is found that Herstein is covering his son. Janni, who has meanwhile returned to Schimmi's apartment, not only has a visit from Schimmi's friend Marie-Claire, but also from Uwe, who has gone into hiding. Schimmi races home and can save Janni from death when Uwe tries to throw him down. Schimanski and his girlfriend want to bring Janni to his mother. But Schimmi has a heart and gives him his apartment key again. Marie-Claire's pregnancy turns out to be a mistake, but Schimmi causes a traffic jam on the bridge, to perhaps become a father.

background

The film led to a controversy while it was being shot, as local politics were disturbed by the distorted image of the milieu in Duisburg. Cabaret artist Matthias Beltz , who died in 2002, can be seen as a reporter and heard on the radio.

The pop song "Wonderfly", which can be heard in the final sequences of the film, was recorded under the direction of producer Günter Illi by the Stuttgart alternative rock band The Brandalls and released both as a single and on their album "Frequently". In the run-up to the third anniversary of Götz Georges death, on June 19, 2019, it was republished.

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