The prosecutor has the floor: risk

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Episode in the series The Prosecutor has the floor
Original title risk
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 84 minutes
classification Episode 134 ( List )
First broadcast May 13, 1990 on DFF 1
Rod
Director Helmut Krätzig
script Helmut Krätzig
production Television of the GDR
music Karl-Heinz Schröter (theme music)
Karl-Ernst Sasse
camera Walter Laass
cut Karola Mittelstädt
occupation

Risk is a German, criminological television film by Helmut Krätzig from 1980 . It was only published in 1990 as the 134th episode in the series The Public Prosecutor has the floor because it was previously not allowed to be broadcast in the GDR .

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Film plot

On a German autobahn, a young man falls from a bridge onto the roadway and injures himself. Since the cars driving here can just brake or drive past him, he gets away with his life and is taken to a hospital. Here he looks back on the history that led to this disaster.

It starts on the golden sands in Bulgaria , where Robert spends his vacation. Here he sees a young woman at the next table in a restaurant who he immediately takes to be the most beautiful girl in the world. Since the elderly gentleman accompanying her looks very elegant, he suspects that she is definitely from the Federal Republic . In the evening he meets her again in a folklore restaurant and repeatedly, with success, invites her to dance. Her name is Jutta, it's her birthday and she brings him to the table where she is sitting with her uncle Lothar, whom he first thought was her father. Now it turns out that the uncle is a German citizen and the two young people come from the GDR . During the night walk on the beach that follows, Robert and Jutta fall in love.

The next morning in the hotel, Uncle Lothar receives the message that Jutta's ordered pass will not work. In this way, the viewer learns the real reason for uncle and niece's vacation on the Golden Sands. Uncle Lothar had ordered a Federal German passport through old friends so that he could bring his niece to the West, which is her dearest wish. When Jutta hears that she has to go back to the GDR, she is not as disappointed as Lothar expected, which is certainly due to the young man she has just met. While taking a walk, Robert learns that her parents had been killed in a car accident four years earlier. Her uncle Günther and aunt Käthe, who lived in Mecklenburg, then took her in and together they moved to Thuringia. But Jutta cannot cope with the private and political tightness, also because Uncle Günther defends everything that affects the GDR.

After their vacation in Bulgaria they both go back to the GDR, Robert to Berlin , where he works in a car repair shop, and Jutta to Dresden , where she is studying. But they can't leave each other anymore, become a couple and have a child a year later, whom they call Anna. Uncle Lothar is also present at the baptism , who is still looking for a way for Jutta to escape , who is still pursuing this intention. It was here that he suggested to her for the first time that he should also take Robert with him, because as a future master craftsman he could be of great use in his business. Jutta moves with Anna into Robert's one-room apartment in Berlin, so that the constant driving finally stops. During a visit by Uncle Lothar to East Berlin , Robert first heard from Jutta that she still wanted to go to the West and that he should come with the child. He doesn't want to run away, however, but when she makes it clear to him that she'll be going alone with the child, he agrees, because he can't live without Jutta and Anna.

Uncle Lothar takes over the organization of the escape. He takes over the 30,000 West Marks for Jutta and the child, and Robert has to take out a loan for his 30,000 Marks after his escape , which he can then repay on fair terms. In a West Berlin pub , Uncle Lothar meets with the escape helper, Mr. Holzhäuser, to discuss the details of the escape with him and to hand over the deposit. On the agreed day, two cars with the same license plate drive from West Berlin to the Federal Republic. One car, the driver of which is entering the GDR, picks up the refugees in Halle (Saale) , while the second drives through the GDR in transit traffic . Robert and Jutta with Anna, who had previously been given a sleeping pill, hide in a suitable place in the trunk on the way. Both cars are supposed to meet at a rest stop, where the drivers swap cars and thus the refugees lie in the transit vehicle that is not checked. Since the driver with the refugees is carelessly driving the trunk road in the wrong direction, which he only notices relatively late, they only arrive at the meeting point long after the agreed time. Although the young people knock and shout to alert that they can no longer breathe in the narrow trunk, it is not opened for safety reasons. After the engine breaks down on the autobahn, the new driver tries to find a car, which tows him over the border, while the calls for help from the trunk get louder and louder.

At the border crossing, Uncle Lothar and Mr. Holzhäuser wait impatiently for the long overdue car. When it finally arrives, Robert and Jutta are freed from the stifling confinement, only Anna did not survive the journey alive. Jutta's whole anger is directed against Robert, whom she accuses of not having allowed her to get into the car in the first place. As always, she only looks for the blame on others and not on herself, which Robert now realizes. Full of disappointment over her accusations and the death of his daughter Anna, he jumps off the nearby motorway bridge to take his own life, which he fails to do.

Legal evaluation

No information can be given here, as in the screening of the Berlin Zeughauskino on October 6, 2019, the introductory words as well as the concluding remarks of the public prosecutor at the public prosecutor of the GDR Dr. Peter Przybylski were shown with pictures but without sound.

production

Risk arose in 1979/1980 on television in the GDR on ORWO-Color and was originally intended to be broadcast in August 1980, but this was banned. That is why it could only be broadcast on the first program of German television on May 13, 1990 after the reunification in the GDR .

Günter Karl wrote the scenario , loosely based on a court case. Dramaturge was Käthe Riemann , who wrote the commentary and spoke to Dr. Peter Przybylski . The production design came from Werner Richter . Some of the outdoor shots were taken at Golden Sands ( Bulgaria ), Interhotel Panorama, Oberhof , Köpenick Castle , Luisenhain (Köpenick) , Interhotel Metropol, Berlin , Neptunbrunnen in Berlin , Halle (Saale) and West Berlin .

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