Police call 110: Short dream

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Short dream
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Ost-Film Hoffmann & Loeser Production
on behalf of ORB
length 84 minutes
classification Episode 185 ( List )
First broadcast December 22, 1996 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Bernd Böhlich
script Scarlett Kleint
music Tomas Kahane
camera Eberhard Geick
cut Susanne Carpentier
occupation

Kurzer Traum is a German crime film by Bernd Böhlich from 1996. The television film was released as the 185th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

The village of Lessin on the border with Poland : The brothers Gerd and Armin Kulick live on farms opposite each other. Both grew up with their grandmother after the death of their parents; the childlike, good-natured Armin still lives with the old woman Kulick. Gerd has been married to Helga for 15 years and lives on the farm of his father-in-law, carpenter Goertz. The marriage is about to end. Goertz and the old Frau Kulick, on the other hand, are enemies, as Goertz was granted land after the land reform that had previously belonged to the Kulick farmers. Goertz is now even twice as lucky: the new Oder bridge is to be built on the former Kulickschen Land, so that a sale would bring Goertz around one million D-Marks . Gerd swears to his grandmother to bring the country back.

As is so often the case, Gerd and Armin guard the Oder at night as part of the Lessin militia, which separates the village from Poland. In doing so, you support the village police officer Herbert and want to protect your belongings, as thefts occurred again and again. Gerd stops a boat that is loaded with Romanians . He threatens her, but does not want to report if one of the young men does him a favor. The young man breaks into Goertz and empties the safe. Goertz surprises the man, hits him with an iron bar and follows the fugitive. Since daughter Helga fears that Goertz will kill him in a rage, she notifies Herbert. When he arrives, Goertz and Gerd are with Helga. Goertz claims to have not caught the man, while Gerd knows nothing, he was only briefly on the dike. Herbert finds the body of the young man who was slain shortly afterwards. Armin, who returns from his tour of the dike, discovers a young woman not far from the corpse, whom he hides in the barn of his yard.

Chief Inspector Tanja Voigt is called directly to the crime scene from her birthday party. You and also Grandma Kulick notice that both brothers contradict each other in their testimony. While Gerd claims to have only been on the dike for a short time, Armin says that Gerd, like himself, did his normal dike walk. Because Goertz's blood-smeared iron rod is found, Goertz has to be remanded in custody. Meanwhile, Armin secretly takes care of the young woman, whose name is Lilja, comes from Romania and is the sister of the man who was killed. Armin, who has always dreamed of a woman at his side and wants to escape the control of Grandma Kulick, falls in love with Lilja and plans to go away with her. Lilja, in turn, tells him that Gerd killed her brother, so she witnessed the murder on the dike.

The autopsy of the corpse shows that the iron bar is out of the question as a murder tool. Goertz is released and it is assumed that Gerd was the murderer. In addition to cash that was found with the dead person, there was also a deed of ownership for the land that had suddenly become valuable. Goertz assumes that Gerd instigated the now dead man to steal the certificate for him and killed him after the document was handed over. Since the relevant pages are also missing in the land registry - the person responsible remembers that Gerd carried out assembly work for a long time in the office without prior notification - the certificate is the only proof that Goertz and not Kulick is the owner of the land. In Lessin, Armin has meanwhile announced his plans to leave with his new girlfriend. Since the new friend's home country is Romania, Gerd knows that the woman can only be someone who is related to the deceased. He knows that she is hiding in the barn that Armin has been guarding very carefully over the past few days. He sets fire to the barn, but is stabbed to death with a pitchfork. When Tanja Voigt appears, Helga admits that she killed her husband out of hatred. Armin and Lilja flee across the Polish border, but are caught and taken to Tanja Voigt. She realizes that only Lilja has burn marks; Lilja admits that by murdering Gerd, she avenged her brother's death. She is arrested; for Armin everything was just a short dream.

production

Oderdeich and Oder near Zollbrücke, a location for the film

From April 1996, Kurzer Traum was filmed in Gröben as well as in Zollbrücke , zackericker Loose . At the time of the shooting, eight people lived in the hamlet of Zollbrücke, six of whom played an extra role in the film. The costumes of the film created Christine Zartmann that Filmbauten submitted by Eduard Krajewski . The film had its television premiere on December 22, 1996 on the first . The audience participation was 17.3 percent.

It was the 185th episode in the Polizeiruf 110 film series . Tanja Voigt investigated in her 8th case. It was also the third police call for Tanja Voigt, directed by Bernd Böhlich.

criticism

“'Kurzer Traum' is a strong piece from the Brandenburg province, a powerful family drama,” wrote the Sächsische Zeitung . "Turbulent plot, convincing characters", summarized TV Spielfilm and called Kurzer Traum a "prominent episode with lots of local color". “Everything is just as one generally imagines a village on the German-Polish border: cloudy weather and cloudy outlook for the residents. The ORB thriller is saved by the actors alone, "said Der Tagesspiegel .

“Can you accumulate more clichés than in this film? Can you squeeze even more brute force and hollow gestures into a TV film? ", However, asked the Stuttgarter Zeitung , and added:" Nothing develops in this film. In this film there is only one unwinding and checking off: sex, violence, family tragedy. It used to take place in the Alps, today it must obviously be in the East. ”The Süddeutsche Zeitung also criticized the film, in which“ family tragedy and politics, psychological and tension, rough men and self-confident women ”come together. “Could have turned out to be a good crime thriller, but it never turned out to be - because once again, less would have been more. Mental needs in abundance paralyzed this story. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A terrible family secret . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , December 21, 1996.
  2. ↑ Kammerspiel in Brandenburg . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , May 23, 1996, p. 0 / FIFU.
  3. ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach : Kindmann wants a woman . In: Sächsische Zeitung , December 21, 1996, p. 20.
  4. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 194.
  5. ^ Police call 110: Short dream on tvspielfilm.de
  6. ↑ sle: Gloomy weather, brilliant actor. An ARD “police call” on the German-Polish border . In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 22, 1996, p. 25.
  7. ↑ ke: Viewed critically - Police call 110: Short dream . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , December 24, 1996, p. 0 / FIFU.
  8. ↑ Hans-Heinrich Obuch: And always one more . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 24, 1996, p. 23.
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