Crime scene: double play

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Double play
Doppelspiel.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Italian
Production
company		 Bavaria Atelier GmbH for the WDR
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 167 ( List )
First broadcast March 31, 1985 on German television
Rod
Director Hajo Gies
script Christoph Fromm
production Hartmut Grund
music David Knopfler ,
Klaus Doldinger (opening credits)
camera Joseph Vilsmaier
cut Hilwa from Boro
occupation

Doppelspiel is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by WDR and first broadcast on March 31, 1985. It is the 167th episode in the crime scene series and the tenth case for the chief detective Horst Schimanski ( Götz George ) and Christian Thanner ( Eberhard Feik ).

action

Jutta Stark lies dead in front of her apartment block. The assumed suicide harbors too many inconsistencies for the investigating chief detective Schimanski and Thanner. The interrogation of Stark's husband reveals that his wife was suffering from depression and that he had taken her early from the hospital after a collapse . At the time of the crime he had an appointment with a Paul Gassmann, the head of a sect . He hoped that his wife could be cured of her depression through alternative methods. A bracelet, however, testifies that the Starks were members of the sect "Church of the Community", so that Schimanski and Thanner suspect that the victim wanted to get out.

However, Gassmann does not confirm Stark's alibi. The investigators meet him again with the therapist Ann Silenski, with whose help he had got his wife from the hospital against the wishes of the attending doctor. However, under their influence, Stark remains silent. After the results of the crime scene traces are available from the forensics department, it is clear that the victim could not have jumped down the parapet himself. When Stark interrogated him, his secretary made him jump through the window and flee into Gassmann's villa. Schimanski and Thanner pursue him, however, and arrest him.

In the “Black Jack” disco, which is also financed by the sect, Schimanski meets Ann Silenski and the American Parker, who is also a member of the sect. At the same time, Thanner and Hänschen search Ann's therapy practice for clues and find a notebook of the dead with the name "Linda Horn". As it turns out later, the "Linda Horn" is a ship used to smuggle drugs . On the ship, Schimanski surprises the therapist Ann, who leads him to Koblak, the ship's owner. However, this can escape into "Black Jack". Schimanski now suspects that the sect is financed through drug deals. Before Koblak can be questioned, he is shot by the American Parker. When Gassmann and Parker are questioned in the sect's villa, they deny everything. Ann becomes increasingly suspicious of Gassmann, so that Schimanski can get her to make herself available as a decoy . Gassmann complained in writing to Kriminalrat Koenigsberg about how Schimanski and Thanner are conducting their investigations, since this had seriously disrupted his masses .

Schimanski succeeds in sneaking into a bus of the sect and thus gaining access to the villa. There he meets Ann, who shows him access to a secret hiding place. Schimanski becomes an ear witness to how Parker negotiates with a compatriot there and arranges a meeting point at the Roland colliery for two o'clock in the morning. The meeting point is right at the villa. Together with Thanner and Hänschen, he ambushes Parker, Gassmann and his men when they drive up in a MAN truck that has loaded weapons and unload them. The officers engage in a firefight with Parker, Gassmann and Co., in which Parker is shot by Schimanski. Gassmann flees to the villa and takes Ann hostage. He affirms that Stark killed his own wife. Stark is brought to the villa, but can be influenced by Gassmann to withdraw his statement that Gassmann killed his wife. But then Ann pushes down a bust that contains a key to the Stark apartment. Schimanski can disarm and arrest Gassman.

Background and production notes

The shooting took place in Duisburg and in the Bavaria Film -Studios Geiselgasteig in Munich and lasted from May 2nd to June 6th 1984.

Quote and DVD

When it was first broadcast on March 31, 1985, this episode reached 11.6 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 35%.

Doppelspiel is contained in the “Schimanski Complete Box, Part 1” (14 discs) with the first 14 episodes. The publisher is Touchstone and was published on January 26, 2012.

criticism

TV Spielfilm was of the opinion: "Classic Schimmi crime thriller: damn real" and awarded four out of five stars.

Kino.de found "that the film works with common 'sect' clichés".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Doppelspiel . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ cf. Music for the crime scene episode Doppelspiel
  3. ↑ a b cf. Details of the crime scene episode Doppelspiel
  4. ↑ DVD for the crime scene episode Doppelspiel
  5. ↑ cf. TV feature film
  6. ↑ cf. Kino.de
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