Alarm at the lake

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Alarm at the lake
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 54 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
classification Episode 15 ( list )
First broadcast April 15, 1973 on GDR 1
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Director Jerzy Bednarczyk
Jan Laskowski
script Jerzy Bednarczyk
Jan Laskowski
Gerhard Branstner Scenario
production Fred Retzlaff
music Wolfgang Pietsch
camera Jan Laskowski
cut Sylvia Desch
occupation

Alarm am See is a German crime film by Jerzy Bednarczyk and Jan Laskowski from 1973. The television film is counted as the 15th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 , but was shown without the series title in the afternoon program when it was first broadcast.

action

Shortly before an international ice sailing competition , a student team is training in a team camp. The crew is on the ice when suddenly heavy smoke is coming from their accommodation. When they get to the house, it is already on fire. The caretaker Krenzel still rushes into the house and saves the suitcase of team captain Klaus Grabowski. In the case there is a graphic that Klaus says he has never seen before: It is a graphic by William Hogarth . The graphic was stolen from the collector Sander six weeks earlier. Until the case has been resolved, Klaus is not allowed to leave the country. His start in the cup competition, for which the athletes would have to leave in three days, is thus at stake. Klaus starts in a two-man sailor with Richard Friebel, who is now supposed to train with Kurt Löwe, who is less athletic. In solidarity with Klaus, Richard refuses.

During an X-ray examination, Lieutenant Leissig found that there was another, deleted graphic from Hogarth under the Hogarth graphic. First Lieutenant Jürgen Hübner and Lieutenant Helga Lindt, who were entrusted with the case, now ask themselves whether the graphic could possibly be a forgery. If the smaller graphic was deleted after Hogarth's death, the larger one can only be wrong. Jürgen Hübner also learns that the graphic A Harlot's Progress is part of a graphic series. The remaining parts are in private hands in the very city in which the team has their competition. Jürgen Hübner instructs the art connoisseur Dr. Elsholz to find a possible cataloging of the deleted graphic. He also commissioned Sander to prepare an expert opinion on the authenticity of his Hogarth graphic. The investigations show that the fire in the team house is due to a technical defect and was not started.

Klaus finds out that the rescued suitcase was his, but the suitcase itself was replaced. His had a characteristic scratch. He finds him in a shed and gets into a fight with caretaker Krenzel. Before Klaus can report his find to the police, Krenzel has already reported to the police. He states that Klaus wanted to steal the suitcase and that he had scratched the scratch beforehand. Klaus becomes discouraged and doesn't believe that the truth will come out. Krenzel, on the other hand, manipulates Klaus' ice sailer during the final training session, rendering him unable to maneuver. Klaus falls with the sailor, but remains uninjured.

Sander writes in his report that the smaller graphic was deleted by Hogarth himself, who then made the large graphic himself on the same paper. Dr. Elsholz, on the other hand, finds out that the smaller graphic was listed in catalogs until 1944 and has since been considered lost. Sander also worked in the last museum to have the graphic in his possession in 1944. Jürgen Hübner appears at Sander when Krenzel reprimands the failed graphic smuggling. Krenzel is arrested and Sander is also arrested. He wanted to sell the forged artwork to the foreign collector for many thousands of marks. The original had never been stolen from him. He had hidden it behind another picture.

The case will be clarified in good time and Klaus can travel to the competition with his comrades.

background

A Harlot's Progress , panel 2, the graphic stolen in the film

Alarm am See was filmed from January 24 to February 20, 1972 under the working titles The Markowsky Trap and Double Trick in the Polish Zegrze ( Zegrze reservoir ), in Gernrode and Friedrichsbrunn . The final scene as well as other station scenes were created at Leipzig Central Station . The costumes for the film were created by Isolde Müller-Claud , the film structures were created by Christian Neugebauer and Werner Ölschläger .

After the completion of the film, the acceptance committee found it too lengthy, sometimes confusing and not exciting enough. As a result, it was revised and shortened several times. Fundamental design deficiencies could no longer be eliminated. The film had its television premiere on April 15, 1973 in the first program of GDR television, but not as part of the Polizeiruf 110 series , for which it was originally produced. Rather, it was broadcast in an unusually short version with 54 minutes without a police call opening credits in the afternoon program. The main reason for the decision to take the film out of the Polizeiruf 110 series was ultimately the concerns about the technical and artistic quality of the film. Nevertheless, it was subsequently added to the official Police Call 110 broadcasting card of GDR television. The first broadcast was the only broadcast of Alarm am See on GDR television. It was not until October 16, 2001 that the film was broadcast a second time as part of the Polizeiruf 110 series on MDR television and has been repeated at irregular intervals since then. During the reruns, it will be broadcast with series credits.

Over time, six more feature films - Yellow Is Not Just the Color of the Sun (1979), Autumn Time (1979), Die Liebe Luder (1983), Classmates (1984), Outsiders (1985) and Cold Angel (1986) - were initially made also produced for the series Polizeiruf 110 , but then broadcast as single films without series opening credits. Here, however, there were rather concerns that the films could “go beyond” the scope of the series in terms of content and design, the reason for taking them out of the series. Another episode, Rosis Mann (1984), was completely produced, but was not allowed to broadcast by three actors due to the flight from the GDR and was destroyed. These films were first recorded chronologically as individual films during private research. Some of the first six films mentioned have already been broadcast with the official police call opening credits during current reruns.

Jürgen Frohriep as first lieutenant Jürgen Huebner investigated in Alarm am See in his 4th case. It was also the second and last case after blood group AB in which Karin Ugowski investigated as Lieutenant Helga Lindt. Andreas Schmidt-Schaller , who first joined the police investigators in the 1980s as Lieutenant Andreas Schöpke, later as Lieutenant Thomas Grawe and who achieved great fame and popularity in this role, appeared here for the first time in a film produced for the series, however still as a suspect.

The graphic allegedly stolen in the film, but actually falsified, is William Hogarth's second panel in the A Harlot's Progress series . The series consists of six different graphics; in the film, however, it is mentioned as part of an eight-part graphic cycle.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 23.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Representation according to {{web archive | text = archive link | url = http: //www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php? Number = 015 | wayback = 20071011150907 | archiv-bot = 2018-03-28 20:18: 20 InternetArchiveBot}} (Link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ↑ Representation according to {{web archive | text = archive link | url = http: //www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php? Number = E01 | wayback = 20130114145620 | archiv-bot = 2018-03-28 20:18: 20 InternetArchiveBot}} (Link only available to a limited extent)
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