Das Paar im Kahn
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| Directed by | Marie-Louise Bless |
| Produced by | Markus Fischer |
| Written by | Peter Purtschert |
| Starring | Mathias Gnädinger |
| Music by | Marcel Vaid |
| Cinematography | Hansueli Schenkel |
| Edited by | Christian Iseli |
| Distributed by | PS Film GmbH |
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76 minutes |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Language | Swiss German |
Das Paar im Kahn is a 2004 Swiss German language television film that was filmed and produced at locations in Basel respectively in Switzerland and in France. It is the first film of the six-episode serial starring Mathias Gnädinger as Kommissär Hunkeler.
The young Roma Zarah burgles an apartment in Basel, witnesses a murder, and escapes undetected but loses an amulet. In the meantime, Reto Hunkeler (Mathias Gnädinger), Kommissär (inspector) of the Basel Police, reflects on his impending retirement – in fact his boss, (prosecuting attorney) Staatsanwalt Suter, has already written him off and sends Hunkeler to Alsace to research a study about youth crime, but he prefers to spend his time at the local spa.
When Hunkeler returns to Basel, a colleague tells him about the murder case that his partner is investigating: Aische Aydin, a young woman of Turkish origin, is found slain in her apartment in Basel where she lived the past five years. Her husband Ali Aydin (Baris Eren) is suspected, but he keeps silent, and Hunkeler's ambitious young colleague Madörin (Giles Tschudi) leads the investigations and arrests the victim’s husband. Later, Aydin even attempts suicide when alleged staff of the Turkish consulate tried to get further information.
Hunkeler is assailed by doubts, and finds an amulet in the apartment – representing a couple in a boat – that attracts his attention. Hunkeler meets a colleague in a bar that recommends him to ask a narc of the drug police in Basel, and Fredy later 'assists' Hunkeler to complete his investigations. Hunkeler is looking for further hints, surveys Theo Ruf who gave a job as charwoman to Aische, and a neighbor of the Aydin's tells Hunkeler that she observed a Roma girl escaping the house. Hunkeler investigates the strange amulet in the neighbouring Alsace in France in private, as he assumes that Madörin is wrong, where Hunkeler meets Roma families to find the girl.
Shortly afterwards, the heroin addict Theo is found murdered, Hunkeler is sandbagged by the murder, but the police assumes a drug delict as there is a greater amount of heroin. Acquaintances of Aydin confirm that the amulet belonged to Aische, but the forensic scientist Anne de Ville (Emanuela von Frankenberg) remarks that there's no forensic hint that Aische was wearing an amulet, but she was beaten, and Theo even was tortured by his murder. Aydin remains hospitalized, but now is also associated by the police with drug trafficking: Madörin investigates the drug case and homicide, and Hunkeler now officially investigates the murder of Aische. Advised by his lawyer Spälti who also assisted Aische to bring their children to Switzerland, Ali still keeps silent. Attorney Spälti introduces Hunkeler the Turkish diaspora in Kleinbasel, and informs Hunkeler about the Basel drug scene, doubting that the police will try to solve the homicide, but rather will concentrate their effort to solve the 'drug' case. Theo's alleged killers continue to search for the missing material. Hunkeler contacts again the narc Fredy to get further information, and once again, travels to Alsace to find the supposed witness, the Roma girl.
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