Outsider (film)

Movie
Original title	outsider
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1985
length	83 minutes
Rod
Director	Peter Vogel
script	Günter Karl Karl-Heinz Berger
production	Television of the GDR
music	Bernd Wefelmeyer
camera	Kurt Bobek
cut	Edith Kaluza
occupation
Jürgen Zartmann : Lieutenant Lenz Reimar J. Baur : Captain autumn Renate Geissler : Barbara Schulte Volkmar Kleinert : Paul Schulte Ezard Haussmann : Fritz Krüger Gojko Mitić : Klaus Grunow Hans Knötzsch : Dr. hammer Lothar Förster : Wandrey Hans-Edgar Stecher : Eddie Christian Grashof : Pastor Christian Steyer : organist Marga Legal : Superior Marijam Agischewa : Waitress Uta Eisold : Waitress Gesine Laatz : Paul's girlfriend Werner Kanitz : Kurhaus employee Horst Kempe : Man Wilfried Pucher : K technician Wolfgang Kühne : Man in the Esplanade Hanna Mönig : waitress in the esplanade

Outsider , (spelling in the opening credits Aussenseiter ), is a German crime film by Peter Vogel from 1985 . The television film produced in the Polizeiruf 110 working group is based on motifs from the novel Whitewashed Graves by Karl Heinz Berger , who was also involved in the script.

action

A dead person is found near a sanatorium on the Baltic Sea. Although he suffered from a cardiac aneurysm , it would be typical for a heart attack to curl up and thus to lie on his stomach at death. However, the body was found lying on its back.

A few days earlier: Actor Paul Schulte cheats on his wife with a younger one. His wife Barbara also meets with other men, including the criminal Klaus Grunow. The former dancer wants to steal a valuable saint figure with Grunow in a minster . In fact, the police suspect that such a theft is planned in one of the churches by the sea. Because Grunow, whom they shadowed, went to a spa town on the Baltic Sea, the investigators guessed a church there, in which the pieces were completely unsecured. Barbara can also travel to the health resort unsuspectingly if her husband, who has a heart condition, should be treated again in the local sanatorium. In the sanatorium, Barbara meets Fritz Krüger, her former husband, who is also there for treatment. She innocently agrees to meet Paul and Fritz that evening. However, Paul reacts jealously. The excitement worsens his condition and threatens a heart attack. He is therefore connected to a drip and must not leave the bed. Fritz offers to call Barbara and cancel the meeting, but Paul asks him to personally deliver the cancellation to Barbara.

Barbara has meanwhile met with Klaus Grunow, with whom she is supposed to carry out the art theft. During a church service she manipulates a lock. After meeting Fritz alone in the evening and even kissing him in the car, she goes to the church, where she breaks into. When she tries to take the figure of the saint, a contact alarm goes off, as the police have long since protected the figure. The organist, with whom she was still flirting at the service, appears and covers her up from the police officers who appear: he bumped into the base of the figure so that the alarm went off. He secretly promises to help Barbara with the robbery.

The next day Paul confronts Barbara, after all spa guests saw her and Fritz kissing in the car. She calms him down, but he doesn't believe her. He also suspects that she is committing criminal acts with Klaus Grunow again. He has accepted her past behavior and made a good living from her crimes. In view of his health, however, he wants to start a new life with her, but Barbara is not ready for it. He secretly flees the sanatorium and clings to her heels. She goes to a concert. In the meantime he breaks into the cathedral and cuts a painting out of its frame. Later he sees Barbara coming out of the concert hall and shortly afterwards stops Fritz, who wants to follow her. Together they go to a party where Paul gets drunk. Barbara has meanwhile gone to the church where she meets the organist. When she asks him to lead her to the figure, he says that she has already stolen the picture. Barbara is puzzled, looks at the empty frame and leaves, suddenly scared of the church.

The investigators, including Lieutenant Lenz, are at a loss as to why a thief would steal a relatively worthless painting. Meanwhile, Barbara has met with Klaus Grunow and both of them have discussed how they can get the figure. If they don't manage the theft, Grunow is broke. Suddenly Paul appears with the stolen painting, which he throws at both of them. He announces that he will report her to the police. Both follow him into the park, Klaus drives him into a corner and pushes him away. The excitement was enough for another heart attack and Paul dies in the park, while Klaus and Barbara go on unnoticed. The next day the body is found and Barbara has to identify her husband. During interrogation, she finally admits that Klaus had something to do with Paul's death. The stolen painting is found in his room. When the investigators want to arrest Klaus, he jumps out of the window and flees. In the end he fell into the water with the car, but was able to get out of the car and slowly came to the bank, where the investigators were already waiting for him.

production

The Doberaner Münster, a location for the film

Outsider was filmed from October to November 1984 in Berlin , Heiligendamm and the surrounding area and Bad Doberan . One of the scenes was the sanatorium for working people Heiligendamm; the church in the film is the Doberan Minster . The interior shots of the concert scene were shot in the Putbus Theater on Rügen, the car stunt with a flight into the sea at the end in Mariendorf / Alt Reddevitz, also on Rügen. The costumes were created by Jutta Burkhardt , the film structures were created by Christa Köppen . Jürgen Zartmann, who previously appeared as investigator Manfred Bergmann in episodes of police calls, can be seen here in his only role as Lieutenant Lenz. The film premiered on January 27, 1985 in the first program of East German television.

The film was originally produced as a result of the TV series Polizeiruf 110, but was broadcast out of series. It belongs with it, like the films

• Yellow Isn't Just the Color of the Sun (1979)
• Fall Time (1979)
• The lovely babes (1983)
• Classmates (1984)
• Cold Angel (1986)
• At the age of ... (1974)
• Rosi's husband (1984)

to the police call episodes produced which, for various reasons, were not included in the police call series or were not allowed to broadcast.

Web links

• Outsider in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Outsider at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Representation according to {{web archive | text = archive link | url = http: //www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php? Number = E06 | wayback = 20160304131551 | archiv-bot = 2018-03-31 03:19: 52 InternetArchiveBot}} (Link only available to a limited extent)
2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 94-95.