Crime scene: Schimanski's weapon
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Schimanski's weapon |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language |
German Italian |
| Production company |
Bavaria Atelier GmbH for the WDR |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 234 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | September 2, 1990 on German television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Noever |
| script |
Hans Noever , Wolfgang Hesse , Uwe Erichsen |
| production | Hartmut Grund |
| music |
Nellis Du Biel , Ina Siefert , Klaus Doldinger (opening credits) |
| camera | Kurt Lorenz |
| cut | Ingrid Broszat |
| occupation | |
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Schimanski's weapon is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by WDR and broadcast for the first time on September 2, 1990. It is the 234th episode in the crime scene series and the 25th with Commissioners Horst Schimanski and Christian Thanner .
action
During an incident in Giovanni Salvatore's restaurant there is an exchange of fire between Schimanski and the Mafia killers Baretti and Hooken, whereby Schimanski's girlfriend Renate gets into his line of fire and dies a little later. The two escape first and Giovanni Salvatore, who was injured, prefers to hide on his small yacht on the Rhine .
Baretti and Hooken are always on his heels, however, and watch as Schimanski helps the landlord to get to the hospital. Before that, however, Giovanni asks his son Mario to bring a suitcase to safety. This is exactly what the two killers are after. They hunt down Mario and his friend Erwin Spilonska. Christian Thanner, who is involved in the search for the two perpetrators, is seriously injured in a dangerous car maneuver. Schimanski, who put down his gun after the death of his girlfriend Renate, is now completely on his own. Schimanski hopes to get more information from Mario's friend Martina and visits her. At this point in time, her brother Erwin arrives with his boat and the coveted suitcase. When Schimanski and Martina get on the boat, Erwin runs away and hides the suitcase in the bushes. In fact, Baretti and Hooken arrive shortly afterwards and demand that the suitcase be returned. In order to emphasize their demand, they lock Schimanski and Martina in the boat's machine house and let the boat sink. Erwin attacks the killers by throwing stones, injuring Baretti in the head, so that they retreat for the time being, and can free Schimanski and Martina from the sinking boat at the last minute. Erwin, who is mentally retarded, has sworn to Mario that he will not reveal anything about the whereabouts of the suitcase.
A little later, Mario's body is found and his father Giovanni breaks his silence: he says that there are protection money in the suitcase that he wanted to keep. Baretti and Hooken, however, do not give up and kidnap Erwin and lock him in an abandoned ruin and set up a trap with an immersion heater in a bucket of gasoline. Schimanski let them know that if he wanted to save Erwin, the condition was: suitcase against Erwin's life. Schimanski, however, succeeds in exchanging himself as a hostage for Erwin. He asks Erwin to see Thanner in the hospital. Thanner then already knew what to do so that he could be freed. But Thanner has been given a sleeping pill , so Erwin decides to take his suitcase and improvise. He returns to the ruins, places the suitcase in front of it and asks the two gangsters to release Schimanski, which the gangsters do. When Hooken takes the suitcase, the gasoline trap explodes: the suitcase opens and the money flies around. Baretti is killed and Hooken can be arrested.
In the hospital, Giovanni Salvatore goes to himself and decides to be available to the police and to bear the consequences for his actions.
background
- After the end of the Schimanski-Tatort era, Klaus J. Behrendt was chosen as one of his successors and has played investigator Max Ballauf since 1992, initially as assistant to Commissioner Flemming in Düsseldorf. Since 1997 he and his colleague Schenk have been investigating for the WDR crime scene in Cologne.
- The title song Stai , produced by Paul Vincent and Stefan Waggershausen , was sung by Etta Scollo .
DVD
Schimanski's weapon is included in the DVD Tatort: Schimanski Complete Box Part 2, released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, running time 1,152 minutes (13 cases).
Reviews
TV Spielfilm judges "A strong piece about pain and anger."
prisma explains : “Girlfriend dead, Thanner seriously injured, son of the innkeeper friend murdered and also involved in an argument with the Mafia - in this episode of the Duisburg“ Tatort ”, Schimanski, alias Götz George, gets stumpy. After “Katja's Silence” this was the second “Tatort” that Hans Noever staged with the extremely popular Duisburg duo. After the script, which Noever wrote with Uwe Erichsen (“The Cat”, “Tatort - Nice Weekend”) and Wolfgang Hesse, a gripping and action-packed crime thriller emerged, in which Schimanski, irritated to the bone, can no longer be stopped. Nina Petri and Klaus J. Behrendt can be admired here in early roles, the character actor Remo Remotti (“Falcone - In the crosshairs of the Mafia”) from Rome […] skillfully plays the innkeeper Giovanni. “
Web links
- Schimanskis weapon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Schimanski's weapon in the crime scene fund
- Schimanski's weapon at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Schimanski's weapon . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Etta Scollo - Stai. Retrieved August 14, 2019 .
- ↑ DVD Tatort: Schimanski Complete Box Part 2 ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Tatort: Schimanski's weapon on TV feature film
- ↑ Crime scene: Schimanski's weapon at 3.express.de © prisma
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