Trust versus trust

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Television broadcast
Original title Trust versus trust
Country of production Germany
original language German
year 1986
length 100 minutes
genre Television game
Director Marcus Scholz
script Marcus Scholz
music Graziano Mandozzi
First broadcast October 13, 1986
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in other roles: Claudia Schermutzki , Ulli Lothmanns , Verena Wiet , Charlie Rinn , Joachim Richert , Daniela Strietzel , Matthias Wiebalck , Harald Eggers u. a.

Trust versus trust is a crime comedy broadcast by ZDF in 1986 with Inge Meysel in a double role.

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Susanne Thiemann, owner of Hamburg's Thiemann AG, has been receiving threatening letters for some time asking her to pay two million Deutschmarks. Since she persistently refuses, her legal counsel Dr. Rabenhorst, the gangsters could alternatively plan to kidnap the old lady in order to emphasize her demand. In fact, Bodo Lück and Harry Glieneke are pursuing exactly this plan. Susanne then gets in touch with her twin sister Lotte Bauernfeld, who runs a flower shop in Husum, pretends to have to travel to London, which is why Lotte has to take her job for a few days for business reasons. The promised 100,000 D-Marks are crucial for Lotte, who, unlike her sister, lives in simple circumstances, to take part in this game.

As soon as Susanne has left, Lotte, who is mistaken for her sister, is kidnapped and taken to the house of Max Knauerhase, a friend of Harry's. After initially truthfully insisting not to be Susanne Thiemann, she finally gives up under the influence of the violent Harry and pretends to be her sister. In the meantime, however, Bodo has found out that the trio really got the wrong one. In a lengthy conversation, he reveals his identity to Lotte and confides in her. He was an accountant at Thiemann AG for eight years and became the pawn of Susannes and Dr. Rabenhorst's tax manipulation and spent several years in prison for it. With the kidnapping he wanted to get revenge on Susanne. Lotte also learns from Bodo that her sister has made a fortune with their father's supposedly senseless inventions. Since Susanne persistently refuses to pay the ransom demanded, Lotte makes common cause with her kidnappers. The quartet shoots a video in which a fearful Lotte threatened by firearms begs her sister to pay the ransom and then sends it to the press. Now Susanne feels compelled to act and accepts the demands. In a lively cat-and-mouse game, the gangsters send Susanne, who is supposed to hand over the money alone, and the police accompanying her across Schleswig-Holstein and northern Lower Saxony.

In the meantime, Bodo and Lotte have come up with a plan how they can disembark Harry and Max. Harry can be arrested by the police at the designated handover location, and a short time later Max ends up in a police vehicle control. Lotte has now taken the money and can, disguised as a seemingly harmless mushroom picker, bring it to a lonely forest hut, where Bodo is already waiting for her. He tied her up in a sham and went via Amsterdam to Zurich, where he deposited the money in two lockers. The code word for the first locker is "trust", that for the second "against trust". Then he flies to Argentina, where he wants to start a new life with a false passport.

Lotte identifies Max and Harry as kidnappers based on their voices. She cannot help identify the third man, as she said the kidnappers wore face masks all the time. When she returns to Susanne, she suspects that her sister was in league with the gangsters, but leaves it at hints, as does Lotte, who is now aware of Susanne's tax evasion. Finally, Susanne gives her sister the 100,000 D-Mark in the form of a check.

criticism

The television magazine Hörzu ruled in issue 44/1986 among other things:

“The double role gave Inge Meysel the opportunity to demonstrate her skills on different characters. It's just a shame that unnecessary brutality spoiled the fun of the witty crook comedy. "

The crime website says:

“A crime comedy tailored to Inge Meysel, a bit long. Pinkas Braun is wonderful, the story in and of itself average. You have to like the Meysel to make it through the 100 minutes. "

Others

The film locations were among others Hamburg and Lüneburg. Ben Becker was seen as a uniformed police officer in one of his first roles in front of the camera.

The film can be seen in full length on YouTube .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Trust versus trust on the crime thriller website , accessed on November 29, 2017