Schimanski: The squadron

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Episode in the Schimanski series
Original title The squadron
Schimanski die schwadron.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Colonia Media , WDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 1
First broadcast November 9, 1997 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Josef Rusnak
script Josef Rusnak
Matthias Seelig
production Georg Feil
Sonja Goslicki
music Thomas Schobel
camera Wedigo von Schultzendorff
cut Corina Dietz
occupation

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

The film was produced by Colonia Media and first aired on November 9, 1997. It is the first episode of the Schimanski series with Götz George after he played the role in the TV series Tatort from 1981 to 1991.

action

After an armed attack on a brothel run by Albanians , ex-commissioner Horst Schimanski, who has built a new life as a boxing trainer in Belgium , is reactivated and transferred to the Duisburg police. He is told that his colleague Thanner was run over by a truck and murdered. The Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office under Ilse Bonner suspects a mole in the police in Duisburg . The suspicion falls on the officer Tobias Schrader.

The police world has changed. Schimanski meets colleagues who only solve criminal cases with ties and collars. His old colleague Grollmann introduces him to his office. Schimmi begins in an Albanian pub with the help of Schrader to collect information about the whereabouts of the survivor Amecaj, who escaped the brothel attack. When they put him with his family, he escapes into a subway , where Schimanski pursues him and offers himself as a hostage. After leaving the train, Amecaj tells him that he does not trust any "cops" because he believes that the police were responsible for the attack. But Schrader, who wants to free Schimmi, shoots Amecaj in the neck before he can tell more. Severely injured, he was taken to the hospital and kidnapped by strangers. His body is found in an industrial area with a Bible verse in his mouth, like his father, who was kidnapped and murdered in the sewer after the attack on the brothel.

It is about the Bible verse The Lord is my judge . Each victim had previously received such a note with a dead fish in the mail. Also Thanner, as it turns out, when Schimmi meets his daughter Nina. Nina, Thanner's daughter, was an eyewitness to her father's death and had seen the perpetrator. Since then she has been on the run. Schimanski hides them and asks his colleague Grollmann to take care of them. With him, Nina is supposed to describe the murderer with a phantom image and meets them at the police station. Too late she realizes that Grollmann is up to something.

In the meantime, Schrader and Schimmi check the information from Amecaj, who is said to have deposited an explosive file with his lawyer Boyson. They follow the lawyer's mother and find him under a false name in a hotel. When the assassin shows up, the suspicious Boyson is able to flee. But he is dragged out of his accident car to an old steel mill. Through Schrader's database they find out that Boyson got rid of a perpetrator who murdered a young prostitute who worked for the Albanians. Schimmi has meanwhile taken a cell phone from an overwhelmed assassin and receives a call from Grollmann, who thinks he has his employee on the phone. Schimanski's voice leads Grollmann to decide with Nina, who is with him, to go to the steel mill. The girl and the lawyer are supposed to die there.

Schimanski and Schrader get there in time and can save Nina from Grollmann's men. When Schimmi Grollmann confronts Boyson in the presence of the bound attorney, he learns that his colleague is setting up a vigilante squad in the police. The warning letters were sent by him to panic his victims. Thanner had to die because he did not support this concept and wanted to report it. Suddenly, Grollmann is shot in the back by Nina with Thanner's gun. To protect Nina, Schimanski explains to the public prosecutor Bonner, who has since appeared, that he shot him.

Schimanski takes Nina to Belgium. His team lost the boxing match and Nina is entrusted to his best student to train.

background

After Götz George played the character Schimanski for the last time in 1991 for the series Tatort, he was persuaded six years later to revive the role. The first episode dealt with a topic that had already been dealt with in famous cinema adaptations such as Dirty Harry II - Calahan (1973) or The Panther (1985) with Alain Delon . The plot and relationships were very reminiscent of the Delon film. The scenes with Nina actress Laura Tonke paid homage to the Tatort episode The Girl on the Staircase (1982), in which Anja Jaenicke played a similarly designed character.

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