Friday, May 3, 2013

French TV refused to continue running TV series "Inspector Derrick" after learning about the Nazi past, the leading man - TASS-Telecom

PARIS, May 3. / Correspondent. ITAR-TASS Ivan Batirev /. French television viewers no longer see the iconic German detective series “Inspector Derrick,” still goes on air national channel France 3. Such a decision announced today the company’s administration after last week the German media to make public information about the Nazi past, the actor Horst Tappert, has performed a major role in the film.

How to assure the French TV crew, the decision to abandon the show that has already become a classic teledetektiva was taken long ago, but because of the scandal had “to complete the show earlier than planned.” The last series of “Derrick” will be aired on France 3 in the Monday, May 13, after which the TV series ever give way to other programs of the broadcasting schedule.

scandal surrounding questionable points in the biography of Horst Tappert broke out in Germany last week, when employees of the national archive of documented information of the newspaper “Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, according to which the actor during the Second World War he served in the formation of the “Waffen SS” in Specifically, in the SS Panzer Division “Totenkopf”. The actor, who died in 2008, has always maintained that during the war he was a medical orderly.

TV series “Inspector Derrick” was filmed from 1974 to 1998 and was broadcast in more than 100 countries, including Russia, becoming a cult classic. In the film, the Munich police inspector, together with his partner investigate the murders and other crimes in the city. Because of the scandal decision to stop the show “Derrick” previously adopted channels in Germany and the Netherlands.

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