Schimanski: Mother's Day

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Episode in the Schimanski series
Original title Mother's Day
Schimanski muttertag.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Colonia Media , WDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 4
First broadcast October 25, 1998 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Mark Schlichter
script Horst Vocks
production Georg Feil
Sonja Goslicki
music Klaus Wagner
camera Markus Hausen
cut Guido Krajewski
occupation

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

The film was produced by Colonia Media and first aired on October 25, 1998 on Das Erste . It is the fourth episode in the Schimanski series with Götz George .

action

Croatia , shaken in the civil war, tried two German detectives to open a grave at night. They are abducted by mercenaries , one of whom is executed for demonstration in front of the other.

While Schrader interrogates the disturbed surviving officer in Duisburg , Schimanski receives the message in Belgium that he will have to collect his pension personally in the future. Furious, he went to the district in Duisburg and smashed doors to make it clear that he would like his money to be transferred. When he is thrown out by the police, he ends up right at the feet of Chief Public Prosecutor Julia Schäfer, who is Ilse Bonner's successor. She promises to sort out his problem if Schimanski investigates the disappearance of her friend's son, Frau Wörner, for her. From Mrs. Wörner, a well-heeled lady, Schimanski receives the information that her son Christian served as a soldier in the German Armed Forces in Croatia and allegedly died there. But she doesn't believe in it.

Armed with money, a photo of Christian and a card for Mother's Day , he sets out for Croatia and promptly drives his jeep to a mine. On foot he meets an old woman with a child and helps her get her truck back on the road. He drives with them to the hotel from where Christian had sent his last Mother's Day greeting. Only the coroner Dr. Gordon and a couple of business people. Schimmi tries to make copies of the photo from the village photographer, but the latter is cruelly executed by the mercenaries of a certain Marco. When Schimmi visits the shop, Dr. de Koning saved from opening the door that had been prepared with a hand grenade.

So Schimanski asks Marco personally, who shows him the grave and claims that Christian fell as a mercenary in his service. Dr. de Koning advises him to secure a piece of bone from the grave for the DNA analysis, and Schimanski tries to open the grave at night. He is caught by Marco's men and chased into a minefield . There he simulates an explosion so that it can take off. The morning after he is rescued by SFOR troops by helicopter . In the hotel he learns from Dr. de Koning that he is looking for the body of his wife, an American doctor. Incidentally, Schimanski notices through a man with a barrel that the war makes old and realizes that Marco is Christian Wörner.

So he visits Marco again. He reveals himself to be Christian, now without broken German, and explains to him that the Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office is looking for him. Schimanski is said to be executed by a hand grenade booby trap, but escapes and forcibly forces Wörner to come along. Wörner shows Schimanski and the doctor the place where he u. a. the American doctor buried. With the help of the hotelier Wörner, Schimanski smuggles out of the country and lands in a private plane near Duisburg to be met by Schrader. But they are watched by Scholl and Krieger, who take away the prisoners from them. Schäfer wants to do a deal with Wörner, in which he should reveal his organizational network to them and in return benefit from the leniency program.

But Schimanski suspects that his friends want to get Wörner out of the way beforehand and prevents his execution at his whereabouts . With the help of a gambling buddy, Schimanski takes him by ship to The Hague to the war crimes tribunal. A survivor of his deeds identified him there. Ms. Wörner travels there and is convinced how her son has changed for the worse. When the survivor seizes the opportunity to take the gun from a policewoman, she is overwhelmed. But the gun falls close to Frau Wörner, who picks it up and shoots her son, disappointed. This is the end for Schimanski, but Dr. de Koning wants to continue working for the investigation of war crimes in Croatia. Schimmi returns to Belgium by ship in the rain.

background

Mother's Day marked the first episode to be filmed in a former socialist country. The Bundeswehr provided an SFOR unit for the shooting.

Locations

The film was shot in Croatia , Belgium , the Netherlands , Duisburg , Düsseldorf and the surrounding area.

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