Crime scene: cross-border commuters

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Frontier workers
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Bavaria Atelier GmbH for the WDR
length	92 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 131 ( List )
First broadcast	December 13, 1981 on German television
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Director	Ilse Hofmann
script	Felix Huby
production	Martin Gies
music	Klaus Doldinger Marius Müller-Westernhagen
camera	Axel Block
cut	Dorothee Maass
occupation
Götz George : Horst Schimanski , chief detective Eberhard Feik : Christian Thanner, chief detective Ulrich Matschoss : Karl Königsberg, chief detective Günther Maria Halmer : Gerhardt Hollai, Chief Detective Inspector Beatrice Kessler : Hanni Willi Thomczyk : Udo "bomb" Blickel Charles Brauer : Kessenich Reinhold Olszewski : Friedrich Grete Wurm : landlady Michael Lesch : Assistant to Schubert Karl-Heinz von Liebezeit : man in telephone booth Peter Espeloer : Peter Becker Heinrich Prince Franziska Grasshoff Franz Kollasch

Grenzgänger is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by WDR and first broadcast on December 13, 1981. It is the 131st episode in the crime scene series and the second case for Commissioners Horst Schimanski ( Götz George ) and Christian Thanner ( Eberhard Feik ).

action

One of the well-known motifs in “Grenzgänger” and other Schimanski films: the Thyssen works in Duisburg

Superintendent Charles Konigsberg informed Schimanski that he with the undercover agent was seen Gerhardt Hollai and Hollai could apply busted as. Schimanski then wants to meet Hollai, a former friend and colleague, in his official apartment, but finds it ransacked. From the informant Blickel, known as the bomb, he learns that Hollai was probably dragged into the basement of his shop by the toy dealer Kessenich. When Schimanski and Thanner enter there, they discover Kessenich in the company of two thugs and Hollai is also present. Schimanski has now completely blown Hollai's camouflage, since he assumes that Kessenich already knows everything. At the station, Hollai asks himself who knew the hiding place, and Schimanski immediately goes to informant “Bomb”, whom he finds badly mistreated.

Now Hollai is supposed to work again as a police officer with Schimanski. Königsberg instructs Schimanski to take care of him and possibly find out whether he has not changed sides. Schimanski looks for clues as to how things are going with Hollai and goes to see Hollai's friend Hanni, who runs a boutique . When Hollai surprised Schimanski at Hanni's, there was a squabble between the two after Schimanski revealed Hollai's true identity to the young woman. She throws both of them out of business. Schimanski has not remained hidden that Hanni is in love with Gerhardt Hollai.

Hollai discusses his idea with his colleagues of how to arrest Kessenich and tells them about a planned attack on a money transporter . An abandoned house is said to serve as the base for the attack, but Schimanski becomes suspicious of the cheap food he can find there. Hollai tries to explain all of this plausibly. Thanner informs Schimanski that Hanni had met with Kessenich and had gone to Hollai's actual apartment. When Schimanski visits Hollai, he discovers her there. Hollai is becoming increasingly reserved and also slightly disgruntled towards Schimanski. Especially when Hanni meets Schimanski in a coffee house .

The day the attack is supposed to take place dawns. Surprisingly, the money transport is robbed at a different location than assumed. The perpetrators are quickly caught, however, by Hollai alone, who deliberately led his colleagues on the wrong track in order to be able to take the money from Kessenich in the event of an arrest by pretending to secure it as evidence . He escapes abroad with his girlfriend Hanni, where he is caught by Schimanski some time later.

Background and production

• Günther Maria Halmer also tried his hand at the crime scene inspector Siggi Riedmüller once in 1986.
• After Charles Brauer was seen twice in the Schimanski crime scene (he also played Schimanski's opponent in the 1985 film Tooth for Tooth ), he became the partner of the Hamburg crime scene commissioner Stoever as commissioner Brockmöller from 1986 .
• For this crime scene, Marius Müller-Westernhagen contributed the song Here in the pub I feel free and three other songs. Westernhagen had worked with George in the crime scene Transit into the afterlife .

The shooting for this crime scene took place in April / May 1981 in Duisburg and Munich and the surrounding area. The quota when it was first broadcast was 13.61 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 37.00%.

criticism

• TV Spielfilm : said that "the psycho duel gets under your skin" and awarded four out of five stars.

• The TV magazine prisma was of the opinion that the director Ilse Hoffmann “with this second crime novel about the popular Duisburg investigative duo Götz George / Eberhard Feik” [...] “an exciting Ruhr crime story with [...] Günther-Maria Halmer in the role of a police officer who can no longer find his way after an undercover mission, succeeded. "

Web links

• Frontier workers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Cross-border commuters in the online film database
• Cross-border commuters at the crime scene fund
• Cross-border commuters at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: cross-border commuters . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
2. ↑ Tatort: ​​Cross-border commuters at tatort-fundus.de (production notes)
3. ^ Tatort: ​​Grenzgänger at tvspielfilm.de.
4. ↑ Crime scene: Cross-border commuters at prisma.de. Retrieved March 9, 2013.

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