Crime scene: Broken flowers

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Broken flowers
Crime scene broken blueten.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavaria Atelier GmbH for the WDR
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 205 ( List )
First broadcast May 1st, 1988 on German television
Rod
Director Hajo Gies
script Martin Gies
production Hartmut Grund
music Klaus Doldinger (opening credits)
Dieter Bohlen
camera Karl Kases
cut Claudia Minzloff
occupation

Broken Blossoms is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by WDR and first broadcast on May 1, 1988. It is the 205th episode of the crime scene series and the 16th with the chief detective Horst Schimanski ( Götz George ) and Christian Thanner ( Eberhard Feik )

action

In a Duisburg city bus, the dance teacher Prince, it seems, is the victim of a knife fight. Chief Detective Horst Schimanski finds his wife Manuela at a bus stop nearby. Manuela Prinz is obviously in shock, so Schimanski accompanies her home. The interrogated witnesses unanimously state that the perpetrator looked foreign. The man can be identified quickly.

In a rented apartment, Schimanski and his colleague Thanner find a murdered Thai man and the murder weapon, a long knife with which Prince was stabbed. The Thai killed himself with a P1 that came from the Bundeswehr stock in Wasserburg and was used in a bank robbery many years ago. Two telephone numbers can be found for the dead person. One number belongs to Manuela Prinz and the other to Atlantis GmbH. The autopsy carried out shows, however, that the Thai did not commit suicide, but was murdered.

The following night, Manuela asked Schimanski to come to her because she felt persecuted and threatened. When she receives a phone call from a stranger who wants to meet her, she arranges to meet the stranger at Schimanski's urging. When Schimanski searches Prinz's safe, he finds papers from Thai women who have been smuggled in. The next day, Schimanski, Thanner and their colleague Hänschen shadow the wired Manuela when they meet the unknown caller. The stranger is a Mr. Blatzer, who hands over Manuela's documents to another unknown man. This stranger is observed by Thanner when he picks up young girls, known as the Broken Blossoms dance troupe , from the airport (as mentioned in a letter to Prince found in the vault) and cleverly makes them disappear before Thanner's eyes. In fact, however, it is a question of Asian girls who are to be brought into the red light scene. Schimanski, who is chasing Blatzer, is led astray by him at a freight yard and beaten up by a blond giant.

Angrily, he has Prince's studio searched because he suspects that Manuela has tricked him and is in league with the girl dealer ring. Thanner steps in and brings his friend and colleague to their senses. The detectives arrest some Thai girls whose testimony confirms that Prince brought them to Germany under false promises, where they then had to work in the red light district.

Manuela's attempt to convince Schimanski that she has nothing to do with trafficking in girls ends with her seducing the investigator. A computer query the next day shows that Blatzer is really Willi Kozlowski and Manuela Prinz has been dead since 1981. Schimanski confronts Manuela with these new findings, whereupon she admits to having taken over the papers from Prince's wife. She claims to be called “burger” and to come from Wasserburg. But first of all, the officials take up the “pimp paradise” of Kozlowski, who denies the murder of the Thai man when he is questioned.

In the investigation carried out in Wasserburg, Manuela's true identity is revealed, but the photo is incorrect. In the police station in Wasserburg there is a wanted poster showing Manuela, who is wanted in connection with a bank robbery with a P1 as a murder weapon. When Thanner and Schimanski want to arrest Manuela back in Duisburg, she asks to be allowed to talk to Schimanski in private. She threatens him with a gun while telling him that the Thai man killed her husband in revenge for his violated girlfriend and then tried to extort money from her so that she saw no other option but to kill him. Schimanski manages to get Manuela to give up. But when she playfully puts the gun to his neck, Thanner shoots her from the window. Unfortunately it is discovered too late that Horst Schimanski was never in danger, because Manuela's gun was not loaded.

background

  • Renate Krößner became known for the feature film Solo Sunny and had moved from the GDR to the Federal Republic shortly before this Tatort episode .
  • After the great success of Midnight Lady from the Tatort episode Der Tausch , Dieter Bohlen again produced a song for Tatort, this time titled Broken Heroes and interpreted as the predecessor by Chris Norman .
  • This episode, which was first broadcast on May 1, 1988, had already been filmed from May 20 to June 23, 1986 under the working title The Flower from Bangkok .
  • After two side appearances in Schimanski-Tatorten ( Der Pott was the other), Miroslav Nemec has played Tatort investigator Ivo Batic since 1991, who investigates together with Udo Wachtveitl as Franz Leitmayr for Bayerischer Rundfunk .
  • The badge with a yellow hand that Schimanski wears on his jacket really does exist. It's a symbol of the club Don't turn my buddy on! in Düsseldorf, who campaigns against racism.

DVD and book

The Tatort episode Broken Blossoms is contained in “Tatort: ​​Schimanski Box Vol. 2” together with Two Kinds of Blood and Spoilers (3 DVDs, bonus material, running time 267 min., Published by Walt Disney Studios, published on July 22, 2010).

Broken Blossoms was published in 1988 in the Schimanski series as a Heyne paperback.

criticism

TV Spielfilm judged: “Commissioner of the 80s: tough, warm, fair. [...] Miroslav Nemec, who has been investigating Batic as a crime scene investigator himself since 1991, can be seen in a supporting role. "

prisma said: “Worth seeing: Once again, 'Tatort' veteran Hajo Gies staged - this time based on a presentation by his brother Martin - a case about Duisburg investigator Horst Schimanski alias Götz George, who is dealing with a gang of women traffickers. Dieter Bohlen, who has now risen to the jury of “Deutschland sucht den Superstar”, provided the music, and bodybuilder Ralf Möller ('Far Cry', ' Postal ', ' Pathfinder - Fährte des Kriegers ') can be seenin a small supporting rolein the footsteps of Arnold Schwarzenegger even made it a recognized actor. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Broken flowers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Crime Scene: Broken Flowers theme song Broken Heroes
  3. ↑ Crime scene: Broken flowers - yellow pin club Don't turn my buddy on! eV
  4. ↑ Crime scene: Broken flowers Schimanski – Box Vol. 2
  5. ↑ Crime scene: Broken flowers Heyne paperback
  6. ↑ Crime scene: Broken flowers on TV feature film
  7. ↑ Crime scene: Broken flowers at 3.rundschau-online © prisma
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