Crime scene: trail of blood

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Blood trail
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Bavaria Film GmbH for the WDR
length	85 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 222 ( List )
First broadcast	August 20, 1989 on ARD
Rod
Director	Werner masts
script	Peter Steinbach
production	Wolfgang Hesse
music	Leszek Zadlo , Fritz Brause
camera	Wolfgang Simon
cut	Michael Breining
occupation
Götz George : Commissioner Horst Schimanski Eberhard Feik : Chief Detective Christian Thanner Gerhard Olschewski : Ossmann Chiem van Houweninge : Hänschen Marita Marschall : Ela Michaela Wolko : Roswitha Vadim Glowna : Leszek Rolf Zacher : Freddie Dieter Pfaff : violinist Veronica Ferres : Snack service Kostas Papanastasiou : Samara Günter Spörrle : Hotel porter Hans Zander : BKA man Thomas Rech : Taxi driver

Blood trail ( working title: Polenblut ) is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF .

The film was produced by WDR and broadcast for the first time on August 20, 1989. It is the 222nd episode in the crime scene series, the 21st with Inspector Schimanski .

action

An Arab terrorist squad raided a representation of its opponents in Essen-Steele that evening . The morning after, Schimanski and Thanner are on their way to hunt an exhibitionist who can be identified by a dragon, although that is not part of their job. When the tip turns out to be a warehouse for Polish truck drivers , Schimanski first has to call Ossmann to get rid of his displeasure. So they stop briefly at his informant Leszek, who runs the warehouse and a junkyard . When Schimmi wants to make a phone call, they are suddenly shot at by the terrorist squad that was also active in Essen-Steele. Schimanski's car goes up in flames.

You are promptly embroiled in a case of international magnitude. Shortly before, the terrorists shot all Poles at the camp site. Schimmi and Thanner discover a large pool of blood in the truck and suspect either an animal slaughter or a mass murder . Since they are now without a car and Thanner has not yet received his new vehicle, they have to make do with a taxi. A trip to Essen-Steele confronts her with obdurate BKA investigators who are of no help to either of them.

Back in Duisburg they can find Leszek in an hour hotel . But the terrorists , disguised as window cleaners, are there too. Schimanski hears the conversation between the ominous Samara and Leszek in an air shaft, but cannot understand everything and suspects agreements for a weapons smuggling from Poland to the Middle East behind. Suddenly hand-fire explosives fly through the window and kill Samara and a passport forger . Leszek survives and escapes undetected. Since both corpses are unrecognizable by the fire and the passport forger was mute and invisible, Schimmi believes Leszek is dead. In front of the hotel they can grab his girlfriend Ela and interrogate him in the police station.

For lack of evidence , Hansen releases her and she hides with her friend, a belly dancer . In order to find her, the police even activate their former pimp, Freddie. He can guide her into his rental car in the middle of the night , as she is on her way to Leszek. Schimanski follows them with Thanner's new car, while his colleague feels the belly dancer's body. Schimmi follows Ela and Freddie to Leszek's junkyard. To appease Freddie, she offers him the opportunity to get into business with the Poles. But then Schimanski bursts in and takes the goods. Ela can escape. Schimmi warns Freddie to find his Ela again, whom he soon finds with Leszek in a construction trailer and watches.

Meanwhile, Thanner has followed the belly dancer to her club, where the BKA and terrorists are hand in hand. Schimmi joins them, and both are asked in the toilet by colleagues from the BKA to leave the bar.

When Freddie shows up at the station the next morning without Ela, he suggests that they take him to the junkyard. There Leszek is surprised by the investigators as he is preparing a truck with a delivery. But the scene is disturbed again by the terrorists who blow up Thanner's new car and perforate the truck. Blood flows in the process. Schimmi takes the initiative and turns circles with the uncoupled truck in which Ela is hiding in order to slow down the terrorists. Thanner can set their car on fire with aimed shots, whereupon they surrender. But Ela was fatally hit by bullets in the truck cab. In truth, Leszek served the Palestinians as a supplier of blood plasma of a rare blood type that is often found in Poland and the Middle East. Only now does Thanner notice that his new car has burned out.

background

Subaru L1800 GL Coupe

• The new car Thanner is so excited about was a Subaru L1800 Turbo Coupe .
• Because of its brutality, this crime scene sequence was not repeated for the first time until 1999 after it was first broadcast ( poison cabinet sequence ).
• In one scene the song Winds of Change is played, sung by a woman. The same song was used in 1985 for Das Haus im Wald , where it was sung by Mark Spiro.

Soundtrack

The song for the film Only Lies was delivered by the pop formation Fritz Brause .

literature

• Heiko R. Blum: Götz George - The lovable Raubein. Heyne Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-453-08120-X .
• Holger Wacker: The big crime scene book. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89487-353-1 .

Web links

• Trail of blood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Blood trail in the online film database
• Summary of the plot of Blutspur on the ARD website
• Blood trail at the crime scene fundus
• Blood trail at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: blood trail . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
2. ↑ http://tatort-fans.de/tatort-haben-222-blutspur/

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