Crime scene: The house in the woods

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	The house in the woods
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Bavaria Atelier GmbH for the WDR
length	93 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 171 ( List )
First broadcast	August 18, 1985 on German television
Rod
Director	Peter Adam
script	Peter Adam
production	Hartmut Grund
music	Klaus Doldinger , Stefan Melbinger
camera	Klaus Eichhammer
cut	Margot von Schlieffen
occupation
Götz George : KHK Horst Schimanski Eberhard Feik : KHK Christian Thanner Christiane Lemm : Ulla András Fricsay : Sonny Dominic Raacke : Franz Rolf Zacher : Neat Werner Schwuchow : Kissling, criminal inspector Anke Engelsmann : Bar service Hartmut Nolte : Rolf 'Skinny' Teuber Nicolas Brieger : Michael 'Mungo' Mangold Ludwig Haas : Judge

The house in the forest is a television film from the television crime series Tatort of ARD and ORF . The film was produced by WDR and first broadcast on August 18, 1985. It is the 171st episode in the crime scene series and the eleventh case for the chief detective Horst Schimanski ( Götz George ) and Christian Thanner ( Eberhard Feik ).

action

During an after-work beer, Chief Detective Schimanski is asked by a woman on the phone in the apartment of his colleague Thanner to meet her in the “boomerang bar”. The shy woman named Ulla asks Schimanski for help because her boyfriend has disappeared. He is a journalist and he was on to a hot topic. Ulla takes Schimanski to an outlying house in the forest because her boyfriend has hidden evidence against the Sunshine Tours company there. But at first she doesn't find anything and both have to spend the night in the house. During the night she still finds what she is looking for, but keeps the secret that her friend Mangold's suitcase hides to herself.

When they both want to leave the next morning, the car doesn't start. Shortly before, a telephone conversation between Schimanski and Thanner was abruptly interrupted. Suddenly they are shot at on the house and have to barricade themselves. Since Schimanski was supposed to testify in court , Thanner got into trouble and had to put up with the accusation from the prosecutor that Schimanski had been bribed not to appear. A little later, Mangold's brother appears at the house and is dragged into a bush and beaten by the strangers. He escapes into the house, but cannot provide any further information about the attackers. Thanner is meanwhile assumed by his colleague Nasig that Schimanski would botch his investigations because his informant Mangold had suddenly disappeared. After careful research in the “boomerang bar”, Thanner can find a witness who knows Ulla and Mangold.

Things get more and more depressing in the house in the forest after an attempt to escape has failed. During the night the somewhat strange Sonny suddenly stands in front of the window and demands the return of his goods, which Mangold had stolen from the company. But Ulla pretends to be unsuspecting until she admitted in a panic that the drugs are in the car. But Sonny believes there is a trap and disappears again. Now Schimanski dares the advance and Sonny appears with the abused Mangold. Mangold is so scared that he has revealed the whereabouts of Ulla's child Betty if she doesn't bend over to hand over the goods. An exchange occurs and Sonny escapes with his accomplices. But Thanner has already had the area around the house extensively surrounded and lies in wait a few meters away. As luck would have it, Sonny's gang's car crashes into Thanner's official vehicle and the men have to flee on foot. They can be caught quickly through Thanner's measures.

background

• The title song Winds of Change was sung by Mark Spiro .
• From 1999 onwards, Dominic Raacke himself was seen as Tatort investigator Till Ritter in Berlin.
• András Fricsay was shortly before known as a member of the diamond thieves in the super noses film Two noses fill up super .

The house in which this episode takes place is not in Bruckhausen , as mentioned in the film , but in Inning am Ammersee in Bavaria. It's on Alte Landsberger Strasse. It was previously inhabited by the moderator Thomas Gottschalk and belonged to his brother Christoph Gottschalk . In autumn 2018 it became known that Christoph Gottschalk had sold the property.

Web links

• The house in the woods in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The house in the forest near the crime scene fund
• The house in the forest at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Certificate of release for the crime scene: The house in the forest . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
2. ↑ SCHIMANSKI FILMING LOCATIONS. Retrieved August 13, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Unobstructed view of Gottschalk's former villa. December 18, 2018, accessed August 13, 2019 . 

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