Crime scene: cuddly toys

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Cuddly toys
Tatort kuscheltiere.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavaria Atelier GmbH for the WDR
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 143 ( List )
First broadcast December 12, 1982 on German television
Rod
Director Hajo Gies
script Chiem van Houweninge
production Hartmut Grund
music Klaus Doldinger
Thilo von Westernhagen
camera Axel Block
cut Felicitas Lainer
occupation

Kuscheltiere is a television film from the crime scene crime series by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by WDR and first broadcast on December 12, 1982. It is the 143rd episode in the crime scene series and the fifth case for chief detective Horst Schimanski ( Götz George ) and Christian Thanner ( Eberhard Feik ).

action

The corpse of an Asian child is in a basket that has also been put into a plastic bag and is fished with accessories (white carnations etc.) from a canal off Duisburg . During the autopsy , it turns out that the little girl died of typhus . Now the investigating detective chief inspectors Schimanski and Thanner need to be in a hurry, who have to determine the origin of the child, since the disease is notifiable and could lead to an epidemic. When the tabloid press turns on, the commissioners are exposed to hostility that even leads to Thanner being injured in a pub. When a concerned neighbor calls in from a settlement, the officers track down another child who has been adopted by a married couple. Worried about losing the child, the couple fled, but were stopped by Schimanski and Thanner, and gave the commissioners the address of an agency in Amsterdam that found children from Asian countries without much bureaucracy .

Schimanski and Thanner travel to Amsterdam with their colleague Hänschen. The police there, however, have their hands tied when they are asked by their German colleagues for assistance in securing the agency's file, since such brokerage transactions are legal in the Netherlands. Born of necessity, Schimanski comes up with the plan to pose as a married couple with a Dutch woman who wants to adopt a child. When this project fails, and Thanner's official attempt to gain access to the agency's file is also negative, Schimanski breaks into the institute and is caught by its boss. He claims to have recognized a self-defense situation and let one of his men shoot the commissioner. But it comes to a scuffle between the two, whereby the agency boss escapes. Thanner comes to Schimanski's aid and two police officers also discover the trio. The henchman was shot while fighting with his own weapon. Outside, in the meantime, Hänschen was able to arrest the agency boss by accident.

It doesn't look good for the three officers. A coincidence comes to their aid and the tide turns. In the suitcase of the arrested head of the agency are the same monkeys that were found with the children. It turns out that the animals contain drug packets. The Dutch officials are relieved and celebrate their German colleagues as heroes before they release them to Duisburg.

There Kriminaloberrat Königsberg has absolutely no sense of Schimanski's approach and suspends him. Since Schimanski and Thanner took an index card with them, they can identify the alleged adoptive parents of the girl who was sunk in the Rhine. At this address, however, they only meet the grandmother, who has a living adopted child with her. Schimanski and Thanner are confused.

Giving in to public pressure initiated by the press, Königsberg has to withdraw Schimanski's suspension. A pair of dogs puts Schimanski on the right track; there must have been two children. As luck would have it, the adoptive father appears on the precinct with the second child, albeit to get rid of him. Annoyed, the father describes his odyssey with the children and that his wife has gone mad because of the hostility. Schimanski has no choice but to take over the child for the time being, he takes it home and meets Thanner, who has been kicked out of the door by his girlfriend Sylvia because of a sports teacher.

background

The adopted child from this episode got a guest scene in each of the Schimanski cases between 1982 and 1985, in which the inspector lovingly takes care of the girl. In one episode he picks it up from a foster mother and in another, for example, he dines with the child in a traveling restaurant.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: cuddly toys . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
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