Police call 110: It doesn't work out

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title It doesn't work out
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 69 minutes
classification Episode 34 ( List )
First broadcast October 14, 1975 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Thomas Jacob
script Joachim Plötner
production Heinz Wennemers
music Peter Gotthardt
camera Walter Laass
cut Susanne Carpentier
occupation

It doesn't work out is a German crime film by Thomas Jacob from 1975. The television film was released as the 34th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

Paul Kramer comes to Tanzbar Koralle in the evening to find out from barkeeper Roman Schneider what a certain Zeitler wants from him. Schneider weighs it down. The next morning, Kramer discovers that his office has been broken into. He works in the main accounting department of VEB Taxi. Apparently an attempt was made to break into the safe, but the perpetrator was unsuccessful. He stole 35 marks from a desk and caused great chaos in the files, which are scattered all over the meadow in front of the building. The investigators Oberleutnant Peter Fuchs, Lieutenant Vera Arndt and Sergeant Lutz Subras can only determine that the perpetrator fled the building. They secure a footprint in the meadow. Apparently, the perpetrator had previously been able to gain access to the building unnoticed. In fact, it turns out that one of the master keys for the building was secretly exchanged for an almost identical replacement key. A little later, the head of operations at VEB Taxi, Paula Grünberg, reports to the investigators. When the keys were checked again, they were all back where they belong. Several employees had used the keys in the box, but they all properly acknowledged their use. Nobody would be considered for a crime, especially since Paul Kramer was at the key box.

Some time later, Kramer's neighbor Steiner reports to the investigators. She observed a violent argument between Schneider and Kramer the day before and could not reach Kramer that morning. He doesn't open the door and the windows are locked. Vera Arndt and Lutz Subras go to Kramer, who opens the door. He claims that he allowed himself to be provoked by a youth the day before and started a fight with him. Kramer denies that the other person was a tailor. Schneider, on the other hand, is not at home. He drove with his wife and children to his father-in-law Walter Bräuner in Gernsbrück. It becomes clear that Bräuner and Schneider bought an old farmhouse three years ago, expanded it and since then have rented three rooms for holiday guests. Schneider has his share of the rental income paid out by Bräuner, which amounts to around 2000 marks. When he asks him for more money because he is in financial difficulties, Bräuner refuses. He believes Schneider has taken over: Like two other builders, he is building a holiday bungalow not far from the farmhouse, which will later bring in money. What Bräuner does not suspect is that Schneider is also the owner of the two other bungalows. He handled the building applications through straw men. The funds come together through sham deals, primarily through the sale of non-existent cars. The start-up financing for the bungalows of 22,000 marks was a payment from Zeitler for a car, which he never received. Since then, Zeitler has been vigorously demanding his money back. The income from renting the farmhouse helps to motivate the construction workers on the construction site to continue working. Schneider has just received a down payment for a car of 5,000 marks from Rudi Semmler, the nephew of the bricklayer Pracht who works on the construction site. With the money he can give Zeitler a down payment. Zeitler demands that the remaining debt be paid within 48 hours.

Investigators begin to examine Schneider more closely. They learn that he was serving a prison term for fraudulent theft, was released early and is currently on parole. You also come across the bungalows and learn of the splendor that he met Schneider when his car broke down. Schneider was able to get him a car for a corresponding additional charge, as he had done in another case before. The investigators now monitor Schneider's house, but only see Zeitler appear there, who reacts angrily because Schneider is not there. He goes to the police, where Peter Fuchs, Vera Arndt and Lutz Subras are already waiting for him. Zeitler reports that he paid down money for a car, which he never received. He also complained to Paul Kramer that Schneider was cheating on him. Now the investigators suspect that Paul Kramer is involved in the case. In fact, it turns out that the footprint found belongs to Paul Kramer. In a compilation of things stolen during the break-in, only documents are missing that provide information about new acquisitions of cars from VEB Taxi. During the interrogation, Kramer confesses that employees of a chemical combine once refused to accept six cars that had been ordered for them. Kramer and Schneider sold them to interested customers for the original price and received a commission of 4,000 marks each. The original price went to VEB Taxi, so that no one suspected. Kramer only found out later that Schneider was continuing to “sell” cars to customers that did not exist, using his previous sales as a reference. In a panic, he broke into his own workplace to cover up the traces of the six illegally sold cars.

Vera Arndt looks for a tailor in disguise and pretends to be interested in a new car. Schneider is immediately ready to sell her such a car with a cash deposit. Zeitler appears and Schneider tries to put him off. Vera Arndt now gives up her incognito and arrests Schneider.

production

The calculation does not work out (working title: The Knäuel / The trick with the car ) was from March 3 to April 13, 1975 a. a. filmed in Oberbodnitz-Seitenbrück . The costumes of the film created Christel Richter , the Filmbauten come from Christa Koppen . The film had its premiere on October 14, 1975 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 51.7 percent.

It was the 34th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs investigated in his 21st case, Lieutenant Vera Arndt in her 26th case and Sergeant Lutz Subras in his 17th case.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 42.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=034 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 42.
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