STORY LINE (in english):
'The felons Brockhoff' and 'Katolli caught in Sweden' are being 'escorted 'by the 'detectives Kaufhold and Markowski by train - more precisely: the Nordexpress via Copenhagen and Puttgarden - from Malmö to Germany, as transport by plane seems too
delicate with regard to possible liberation actions. However, this is exactly what the seedy gang boss Sievers is up to: He has brought together a large group of specialists in a remote property who are busily rehearsing the technical aspects of the
railway to carry out a' possible liberation 'for both of them': including 'driving a locomotive, the duties of a train driver, the subtleties of the Zugpostfunks '(train's communication assistance)', and even a dining car waiter. All of them are
supposed to gain control of the Nordexpress in an operation planned 'to accordingly bring it to a stop at a designated place' - 'of course in a way that leaves the remaining passengers unsuspecting until the actual liberation.
Meanwhile, customs' investigator 'Kressin' investigates a possible case of porn - smuggling' 'in Copenhagen' and uses this' time 'to' try 'to have fun 'with his girlfriend Birgit'. He is' urgently recalled by his superiors in Cologne by instruction
while on the 'train, since a flight is not readily available' on such short notice. The final deciding factor for the train journey, however, is a blonde, young woman who Kressin notices in the travel agency when she buys a ticket for the Nordexpress.
Coincidentally, he later sees the same woman coming out of a sex shop with a heavy suitcase. On the train he arranges a seat next to her in the same compartment, her suitcase travels unobserved in the next compartment. Of course, Kressin,' as a 'jack of
all trades, immediately' engages' the young woman named Pernille, in' conversation.
A part of Sievers' gang meanwhile takes a waiting position in the restaurant of the Puttgarden ferry station. The individual members work in independent groups according to a precisely worked out schedule.
When Kressin is not' flirting/talking with 'Pernille, he passes the time by making extremely expensive,' train-provided 'phone calls in the writing compartment', creating expenses. Along the way, he learns from the train secretary, who makes him look
good, that the train crew will change in Hamburg .
The train driver of the Nordexpress receives the order from the dispatcher at Puttgarden station to stop unscheduled at Heringsdorf station' in order to let the member of the Bundestag from Stolz board on his trip to the federal capital. Meanwhile, the
gangsters' disable 'a supervisory officer in the Puttgarden train station and thus gain access to the signal box, whose staff on duty they' also 'overpower. From now on 'they 'have control of all train traffic on the route.
Gradually, Sievers' people get on' board' and 'they overpower' more staff. One of them, Doppel-Otto, slips into his' new 'role; the train secretary, and a sympathizer. 'The wrong train driver' now 'commandeers 'the passengers from the first car behind
the locomotive in which Brockhoff and Katolli are also sitting' along 'with their guards, under a pretext and' then 'into another car. The gangsters Bruno and Salomon - the latter of' possibly 'African 'descent - climb into the rear driver's cab of the
locomotive' while in motion 'with the help of a folding ladder through a smashed window.
'At this very moment the train passes a track construction site ; a construction worker observes the process, but is initially not taken seriously by his foreman' (saying something similar to:' "A Negro' climbed onto the locomotive!"). 'The train driver
is also' forced out, 'but because of his fierce resistance there is an emergency brake 'activation.
'After Bruno has taken his 'commandeered 'place in the driver's cab, the train, now under direct control of the crooks, continues its journey. What Bruno and Salomon have no idea of is the unscheduled stop in Heringsdorf. They promptly let the
train pass, the supervisor stunned, leaving the MP behind them angrily. This little incident is watched by Kressin from the train window. Two travelers evacuated from the first car give Kressin the decisive clue about the two prisoners. Further clues
prompt Kressin to call the customs council - his 'superiors'- in Cologne from the writing compartment, to whom he gives clauses' or 'clues about a possible liberation action. The now fake train secretary gossips unsuspectingly by pretending to Kressin,
who knows better, that she will ride on the train to Cologne. Until then, the gangsters don't suspect anything.
At first, Kressin's' higher-up on the phone doesn't know what he's talking about, but eventually it dawns on him what Kressin wanted to tell him. The customs council notifies the Hamburg police, but Inspector Trimmel is on vacation, so his assistant Hö
ffgen goes to the overhead train line after some research.'
'Independently of each other, Kressin and the officials around Höffgen forge plans to thwart the act. Kressin gathers some courageous fellow travelers around him, the 'police have the train diverted to a siding at the Cloppenhoff switch, where a
hundred of the riot police are expected to await'. 'However, the investigators do not yet know that the Puttgarden signal box is in the hands of the gangsters, and so Sievers' men manage to reset the switch at the last moment and let the train pass the
police presence. But through this action, the gangsters in the signal box reveal themselves.
This' turns difficult 'for the liberation action. The railway police can recapture the signal box and arrest the gangsters. Finally, Kressin and his colleagues also manage to overpower the crooks on the train. He himself also climbs onto the
locomotive, frees the driver, who is tied up in the rear driver's cab, and lets him perform an emergency stop, all, until then unnoticed by the gangsters. Then, the riot police arrive and arrest the gangsters.'
'Pernille's suitcase was damaged during the action: due to the emergency braking, it fell from the luggage net to the floor, opened and scattered its contents over the entire train compartment ...
At the point on the route designated for liberation, the remaining gangsters are now waiting in vain for the train.' The gang boss Sievers, 'leaves complete with Rolls-Royce and chauffeur.
SOURCE: (updated)
from Wikipedia Germany, Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
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