Crime scene: bill without host

Invoice without host is a link to this article. See also: " The bill without the landlord ", German title of When the postman rings twice (film) .

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Bill without host
Country of production	Germany
original language	German , Italian
Production company	Bavaria Atelier GmbH for the WDR
length	89 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 164 ( List )
First broadcast	December 9, 1984 on ARD
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Director	Peter Adam
script	Peter Adam
production	Hartmut Grund
music	Stefan Melbinger , Toni Miccoli , Klaus Doldinger (opening credits)
camera	Axel Block
cut	Hilwa from Boro
occupation
Götz George : KHK Horst Schimanski Eberhard Feik : KHK Christian Thanner Chiem van Houweninge : Hänschen Wilfried Blasberg : Wolf, chief detective Guido Gagliardi : Guido Tessari Pietro Giardini : Gino Uwe Hacker : Guido's cook Conny Glogger : Susi Steuben Hans Zander : Sattmann Gerd Rigauer : Berger Gert Burkard : Crime scene witness Traute Hoess : crime scene witness Luigi Tortora : Mafiosi 1 Biagio Piccolo : Mafiosi 2 Vy Nguyen : adopted child Leonard Lansink : restaurant owner at the crime scene

Bill ohne Wirt is a TV film from the TV crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by WDR and first broadcast on December 9, 1984. It is the 164th episode in the crime scene series and for the chief detective Horst Schimanski ( Götz George ) and Christian Thanner ( Eberhard Feik ) their ninth case.

action

When Kriminalhauptkommissar Schimanski was picking up his adopted Asian child (from the episode cuddly toys ) from the foster mother, he was called to a crime scene by his colleague Thanner. The boxer Bubi Kantmeier was shot on the street, got a heart attack from the excitement and died. In addition, there was an accident between a man and a woman who did not turn out to be helpful witnesses .

In Kantmeier's notebook, there is the name of Schimanski's friend, the Italian restaurant owner Guido Tessari, who only admits to having known Kantmeier after receiving a hint from Thanner. Schimanski witnessed an attack on Guido's restaurant, who told him that he refused to pay protection money, as his compatriots in Duisburg do. Later, Guido is even attacked by thugs, whereby Schimanski protects him from further harm. When the two thugs hide in Guido's apartment, they are overpowered by Schimanski and Tessari. Guido suggests that Schimanski hide the two of them somewhere for a day, because he wants to secure the advantage of their boss that he will no longer be threatened. You hide them with a friend who is involved in illegal gambling.

After Guido has signed a contract with the negotiator Sattmann, they release the thugs in the pouring rain. Unfortunately, Thanner finds her at a taxi stand with the new Chief Detective Wolf. Guido tells Schimanski that he wants to get married soon. The next morning Schimanski learns about the arrest of the suspects and tries desperately to find Guido, who seems to have disappeared. The detective tries to distract his superior Wolf and at the same time to get information about the two arrested persons. In the meantime, Thanner visits Kantmeier's friend Susi Steuben again, who seemed very repellent to him when they first met, and tells her about an Italian whose description fits Guido. Schimanski went to the address he was able to take from the files and met Sattmann there, who believed that Schimanski was working with Guido, which the investigator vigorously denied. The restaurant owner at the crime scene confesses to Thanner that Kantmeier wanted to take over the protection money business together with Guido, as he had been asked by the two to pay the protection money to them. Guido appears again and Schimanski explains that his situation has worsened. Wolf has to release the two Mafiosi from custody due to a lack of legal basis.

Schimanski and Thanner decide to shadow Guido to wait for the clan boss to take the next step. When Guido locks his bar, the two thugs appear and try to run him over. Thanks to Schimanski, he was only slightly injured, but was arrested along with the others. The thugs are identified as perpetrators by the crime scene witnesses during a confrontation .

Background and production notes

• The preliminary working titles for this episode were Würstel con Kraut and And don't you want to be my brother .
• Guido Gagliardi already played alongside Marius Müller-Westernhagen in Theo against the rest of the world in 1980 . He only had his breakthrough in the ARD series Lindenstrasse , in which he played the role of Enrico Pavarotti from 1988 until his death in 1996.
• This Tatort episode was the third collaboration between director Peter Adam and the Ruhrpott team after The Girl on the Staircase and Miriam . This team's final collaboration in the Tatort series followed with Das Haus im Wald .
• The title song of this episode is called Mari and was interpreted by Toni Miccoli.
• Leonard Lansink appears on television for the first time in this episode.

The film was shot in Duisburg and the surrounding area and in the Bavaria Filmstudios Geiselgasteig in Munich . Filming lasted from August 29 to September 30, 1983.

Quote and DVD

This Tatort episode reached 15.47 million viewers when it was first broadcast, which corresponds to a market share of 40.00%.

The invoice without a host is included on DVD in the “Tatort: ​​Schimanski Box, Vol. 3”; in the box are the other episodes Grenzgänger and Der Tausch . The box is published by Touchstone, the date of publication was May 19, 2011. The episode is also contained in the "Schimanski Complete Box, Part 1" (14 discs) with the first 14 episodes, also by Touchstone, the date of publication January 26, 2012.

criticism

TV Spielfilm awarded four out of five stars and wrote: "When Schimmi was still number 1 ..."

Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv said that it was "a beautifully filthy Ruhrpott thriller by Peter Adam" that does the "rude Schimanski image all credit."

Web links

• Invoice without host in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the action of bill without host on the ARD website
• Bill without host at the crime scene fund
• Bill without host at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Invoice without host . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
2. ↑ Kölnische Rundschau
3. ↑ Note in interview, in Schalke ist im Herzen, derwesten.de from September 19, 2015 , accessed on October 9, 2015
4. ↑ ^{a b} invoice without host from the Tatort fund, accessed on June 29, 2012
5. ↑ Tatort DVD Box on x-zine ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
6. ↑ Information on the Schimanski complete box in the Amazon.de online shop, accessed on June 29, 2012
7. ↑ cf. TV feature film
8. ↑ cf. tittelbach tv

previous episode November 25, 1984: The Man with the Roses

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next episode January 6, 1985: Order is half the battle