Crime scene: medicine men
Medicine Men is a television film from the television crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by WDR and broadcast for the first time on May 13, 1990. It is the 230th episode in the crime scene series and the 23rd case for Commissioners Horst Schimanski and Christian Thanner .
action
Jochen Bähr, head of department in a pharmaceutical company, is discovered shot dead in his fishing boat on a lake. Hidden beneath him is his son Thomas, who has apparently become mute as a result of a shock. Karin Bähr, the murdered man's wife, reports that her husband goes fishing with his friend Peter Schatz every Saturday morning. Peter was not there that day because of a business trip. When Schimanski is playing ball with Thomas near his house, the boy runs away and is kidnapped.
Videos about intoxicated Africans can be found in Bähr's working documents . A specialist in this field tells investigators that pharmaceutical companies have started selling drugs that are banned in Germany at a profit to Africa. When she met his colleague and friend Dr. Ask Peter Schatz, he barely escapes an attack. A glasses case takes the investigators to Rotterdam , where Bähr's company has a warehouse so that medicines can be shipped to Africa from there without any problems. A witness can be found who has seen the boy disappear into the same warehouse. When you find Thomas's hat there, that's further evidence that the boy was kidnapped. Presumably he is being held on the cargo ship lying in the port.
The Dutch colleagues can only help Schimanski and Thanner to a limited extent because the Netherlands have not signed a law on the export of medicines. A search of the ship by Dutch police officers reveals no trace of the boy. The investigators also have to grapple with German-Dutch clichés.
However, Schimanski seizes the chance to smuggle himself onto the ship before it departs. He finds the boy, but the captain captures them both. During the night Schimanski and Thomas were able to escape from the ship by means of an inflatable boat and were rescued by the coast guard a little later . The boy regains his ability to speak through another shocking experience and points out some remarks to Dr. Treasure as the culprit Back in Duisburg, Schimanski is looking for Dr. Sweetheart, forcing him to swallow his own intoxicating medication. Schatz then admits the act. The attack on him was only fictitious to distract from himself as a possible perpetrator.
background
- Especially for this crime scene, director Peter Carpentier had the artist Jean-Jacques Lemêtre create a musical sound image, which was refined with voices by the singer Azra, who also sang the title song Only Love Can Help .
- Finding a suitable ship turned out to be very difficult for the production team, as the rental costs would have exceeded the production framework. Finally, two ships were shot, which can be seen from the fact that it was painted black and red at the beginning and later white.
- Chiem van Houweninge, in most of the Schimanski episodes as "Hänschen" (Hans Scherpendeel), wrote the script for this episode, as he did before for the episodes Kuscheltiere , Kielwasser and Der Tausch . In 1991 the script for the episode Up to the Neck in the Dirt followed .
The shooting took place in Duisburg , in the Bavaria Filmstudios Geiselgasteig in Munich and in Rotterdam in the Netherlands .
The DVD with this episode is contained with numerous bonus material in the Schimanski Complete Box Part 2 (13 cases), published by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, running time 1,152 minutes.
criticism
“Staged in a gripping way by director Peter Carpentier, Nikolai Bury, who was 11 years old at the time, is convincing in his first TV role as the initially silent kidnapping victim who finally begins to speak again after another shock. Bury, who the year before had played his first role in 'Sommertage', the award-winning graduation film of the later Oscar winner Caroline Link at the University of Film and Television in Munich, was subsequently recognized by his permanent role as Peter Rombach in the Wald-und- Wiesen family series 'Forsthaus Falkenau' (1990 to 2006) known. "
Web links
- Medicine men in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the action of medicine men on the ARD website
- Medicine men at the crime scene fundus
- Medicine men at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: medicine men . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Locations Tatort: Medicine Men
- ↑ cf. Crime scene: Medicine men Schimanski complete box part 2 ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ crime scene. prisma-Verlag, accessed on August 28, 2019 .
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