Schimanski: Asylum
| Episode in the Schimanski series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | asylum |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language |
German Russian Albanian Czech |
| Production company |
Colonia Media , WDR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 11 |
| First broadcast | December 8, 2002 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Edward Berger |
| script | Horst Vocks |
| production |
Georg Feil Sonja Goslicki |
| music | Jan Tilman What a shame |
| camera | Oliver Bokelberg |
| cut | Dora Vajda |
| occupation | |
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Asyl is a television film from the Schimanski crime series on ARD .
The film was produced by Colonia Media and first aired on December 8, 2002. It is the 11th episode in the Schimanski series with Götz George .
action
Chief Detective Thomas Hunger and investigator "Hänschen" order ex-Commissioner Schimanski to a crime scene. 24 illegal immigrants from Chechnya were painfully suffocated in a container . Only young Attila survived and disappeared without a trace. The former police officer Schimanski is asked for help to infiltrate the gang of smugglers, but he refuses. On the way to Belgium he notices Attila in his trunk at a border crossing and takes him on his houseboat. There he should first help his girlfriend Marie-Claire and also go to school.
Inspector Hunger und Hänschen then succeeds in ensuring that Schimanski's driver's license is revoked, whereupon he still agrees to join the smugglers as a driver. In Pilsen (Czech Republic), Schimanski succeeds in getting a truck driver to let him have his vehicle. Schimanski hands this vehicle over to haulier Eisner and gets a job. As a camouflage he lives in the truck motel, which in turn is managed by the ex-police informant "Elvis". Schimanski is said to be picking up refugees at a border point with the truck driver whose truck he was driving back. The organization is led by the Albanian chemo, whose right hand gives Albano Schimanski the instruction to pick up exactly 16 refugees. Unfortunately, refugee Lara gets injured and is left behind in the forest. Schimanski, in a panic because of the number, looks for them and drags the woman who has been injured in the leg across the border. He gives the truck driver instructions to drive up alone. He will be picked up by Albano. At the last minute they can avoid the BGS , which drives across the border in a VW bus .
The young Attila visits some of his compatriots in Duisburg on his own initiative. A Chechen wholesaler , also known as “the General”, got him a job. There he meets Lara, whom he knows from before. Hunger and Hänschen monitor Eisner's haulage company and listen to a conversation with Chemo and Eisner. It's about a “big day” and “the general” should act as a mediator. Schimanski, who joins them and is brought up to date, pursues Chemo and the general to the wholesale market. There he meets Attila and sends him back to Marie-Claire. At the same time he discovers traditional wedding utensils and reports to Thomas Hunger that the “big day” is the wedding between Chemo and Lara to unite the Albanian and Chechen clan.
But the truck driver and smuggler Will wants to take revenge in Chechnya on the young woman who tried to poison him. She is tortured and murdered by the Albanians, and Schimanski's cover is exposed. Elvis is killed in his motel and Schimanski is kidnapped to the wholesale market. When Attila finds out about this, he evades Marie-Claire and asks “the general” for help. However, chemo succeeds in bringing Attila under his control. He has come up with the perfidious plan to execute the young man and leave Schimanski as his murderer. Schimanski, mistreated and chained, has to watch the goings on helplessly. Before the worst can come, Lara intervenes and fires at chemo. A little later, the police storm the hall and find only the murdered Chemo.
Schimanski was forced to drive to the Chechen border with Lara and Attila. On the way, Attila gets the chance to get out and go to Marie-Claire. When Schimanski is supposed to show his driver's license at the border, which he doesn't have, he has to get out. When Lara's compatriot tries to cross the border, Schimanski grabs the customs officer's gun and fires at the car. The customs officer takes the gun from him and asks the driver of the no longer drivable car to get out.
Schimanski returns to Marie-Claire. Attila only left a letter saying that he had returned to Chechnya . Schimanski sets out to visit him. Attila is very happy about the friend's visit.
Awards
The episode Asyl was nominated for a Grimme Prize in 2003 and an Emmy Award in 2004.
criticism
"Thematically quite ambitious (television) crime thriller about a resigned (crime scene) superintendent who once again proves his ability to take physical as well as psychological evidence."
“Director Edward Berger, who staged the 'Schimanski' episode 'Children of Hell' the year before, staged an exciting and atmospherically dense case that not only shows the suffering of the refugees who are marked by the need for security, the horrific one Paying sums of money to smugglers and putting themselves in extreme danger when attempting to escape, but also the harsh and often deadly methods of the unscrupulous gangs of smugglers. The successful script was delivered by 'Tatort' veteran Horst Vocks ('Friends', 'Deserters', 'Treason'). "
Web links
- Asylum in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Asylum at Colonia Media
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Schimanski: Asylum . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2003 (PDF; test number: 92 725 DVD).
- ^ "Schimanski" (1997) - Awards. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved August 17, 2012 .
- ↑ cf. Schimanski: Asylum in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ cf. Schimanski: Asylum at Prisma.de
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