Crime scene: The swap
Episode of the series Tatort | |
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Original title | The exchange |
Country of production | Germany |
original language |
German Persian |
Production company |
Bavaria Atelier GmbH for the WDR |
length | 88 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
classification | Episode 180 ( List ) |
First broadcast | April 13, 1986 on ARD |
Rod | |
Director | Ilse Hofmann |
script |
Hartmut Grund Chiem van Houweninge |
production | Hartmut Grund |
music | Dieter Bohlen |
camera | Karl Kases |
cut | Gisela Thielens |
occupation | |
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The exchange (working title: Hands up, Schimanski! ) Is a television film from the TV crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF .
The film was produced by WDR and first broadcast on April 13, 1986. It is the 180th episode in the crime scene series. It is their twelfth case for the chief detective Horst Schimanski ( Götz George ) and Christian Thanner ( Eberhard Feik ).
action
In the Duisburg prison, an Iranian commando tries to free the electronics scientist Bohm junior in order to kidnap him. The prison officials can prevent this. A member of the gang takes his own life while trying to escape.
Chief Detective Schimanski, who recently started living with his new girlfriend Veronique and her son Simon, and his colleague Thanner interviewed the scientist Bohm jr. He can't figure out what happened, and so they go to his uncle at the company, who tells them that he is making microchips for rockets. Bohm junior, who was fatally imprisoned for drunk driving, played a key role in the development of these chips. In the meantime, Schimanski's colleague Hänschen has found an oriental journalist who had visited Bohm in prison before the action. This is murdered before Schimanski and Thanner arrive at the hour hotel.
After Schimanski tried in vain to get information from the Iranian guest worker scene, the Iranian commando kidnapped Veronique's son in a night-and-fog operation. Thanner is distracted by Sheila, a member of the commando, in a disco. Schimanski was lured to a meeting with Hanschen so that he could not interfere.
When Veronique, devastated, reports the kidnapping to Schimanski, attempts are made to track down the command by means of an interception system. Unfortunately, the perpetrators have thought ahead and mislead the police. Schimmi now offers himself as a hostage for Simon. He is apparently exchanged and dragged to a villa outside. When he managed to break out of the room he was locked in, he overpowered Sheila and found Simon. Another boy was exchanged for him. Schimanski is discovered and flees to the parking lot with Simon and Sheila as his hostage. He tries to escape with an off-road vehicle parked there, breaks through the electrified gate and lands upside down in the ditch after being shot at. After he got up and flees into the forest with Simon and Sheila, Sheila manages to run back, where she is shot by her own people. The command withdraws and leaves the villa. Schimanski brings Simon back to Veronique in the precinct, while Thanner recognizes the girl from the disco the next morning in the villa in Sheila. Schimanski joins them. Later, a BKA and a CIA investigator appear at the scene and surprisingly declare the case to be political. Schimanski, who reacts indignantly, is put down by the CIA man after a language misunderstanding.
Soundtrack
The title song Midnight Lady was written by Dieter Bohlen and sung by former Smokie singer Chris Norman . The song was number one in the German charts for six weeks in May / June 1986 . Roland Kaiser sang the German version ; it was used in 1997 as a kind of homage in Schimanski: Hart am Limit .
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
- Crime scene: The exchange in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The exchange in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of Der Tausch on the ARD website
- The exchange at the crime scene fund
- The exchange at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: The exchange . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ http://www.hitparade.ch/song/Roland-Kaiser/Midnight-Lady-(Einsam-so-wie-ich)-15374
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