Davidswache police station
Police station Davidswache is a on the Kiez in Hamburg-St. Pauli playing, semi-documentary film by Jürgen Roland with Wolfgang Kieling and Günther Neutze as patrol officers.
action
The everyday life of some police officers in the middle of the red light district of St. Pauli is told within 48 hours. Hauptwachtmeister Glantz and Hauptwachtmeister Schriever postpone their duties on the eponymous district and on the Reeperbahn . Their everyday life consists of numerous encounters with the people who live there, dealing with their quirks and inadequacies and the small and large problems of the St. Paulians. Glantz and Schriever also have to take care of fallen girls, Nepp and other scams as well as robbed and cheated tourists, break-ins, shoplifting or beating drunks. Trials with arrogant defense lawyers are part of everyday life. A US fleet is approaching, which promises good business for St. Pauli, but also a lot of additional police work. Both Udls always have an ear for the daily concerns of the residents and help people in need with advice and action.
One day the unscrupulous criminal Bruno Kapp (called the beautiful Bruno ) is released from prison after four years, eagerly awaited by his girlfriend Margot, who has secretly announced this to Glantz at the station to warn him. Because Glantz had once put Bruno under lock and key, and Kapp may want to take revenge on the patrolman for this. The honest Margot does not belong to the milieu and works "solidly" in a schnapps factory on St. Pauli. She has signed home loan and savings contracts for herself and Bruno and is hoping for a future together with him. However, he has other plans that he is hiding from her. He wants to rob a jeweler, get weapons with his young accomplice Manfred and pull the young prostitute Chérie over to his side, who initially lets him be turned down.
The next day, early in the morning, the widower Glantz plans to pick up his daughter Lilo from the train station. Both have not seen each other for a long time. At night, Kapp tries to clear the till in a perfumery and injures the old shop owner in the head. Shortly afterwards he visits Chérie and reaches into her till. She defends herself and Kapp kills the prostitute. The whole Reeperbahn was informed in no time, Kapp is trapped.
Glantz and Schriever finally put the gangster in a dump on St. Pauli. Pursued by Glantz, he tries to escape over the roofs of St. Pauli. He succeeds in disarming Glantz on the roof. Then he throws the gun back to Glantz, laughs at him and lets himself be arrested. Down in the street Manfred, who has the weapons organized by a Bundeswehr soldier, meets the desperate Margot, whose illusions have now been shattered. When the police arrested Bruno Kapp, a shot was fired. Glantz sags, hit in the back. Margot shot. Shortly afterwards, his daughter arrives at Hamburg Central Station and is asked over the loudspeaker to report to the railway police immediately.
production
The film was shot on location in Hamburg-St.Pauli in May 1964. The working title was St. Pauli Reeperbahn . The shooting took place mostly in the evenings and at night. The interiors of the Davidwache were recreated in the Hamburg studio . The film premiered on September 10, 1964.
Police station Davidswache is the only film in which all three acting Neutze brothers (Günther, Horst Michael and Hanns Lothar ; di HL Neutze) have worked together. Lothar's wife Ingrid Andree took on a guest role like her husband.
A plethora of other well-known actors, mostly employed on Hamburg theaters, took on guest roles for a second, often undisclosed by name, which did not even appear in the opening or closing credits. Among them were Erna Nitter , Christa Siems , Ernst H. Hilbich , Gerda-Maria Jürgens and Günther Jerschke . Roland himself can also be seen briefly in the picture.
F.-Dieter Bartels and Dieter Reinecke designed the studio buildings.
The film cost 600,000 DM and had over three million viewers after just one year.
Police station Davidswache was one of the eight most successful (federal) German feature films by the end of 1989.
Several scenes from the Davidswache police station, enriched with striptease scenes from St. Pauli premises, were released in cinemas in December 1970 under the film title Das Loch Born. Jürgen Roland protested in vain.
The first television broadcast of the Davidswache police station took place on June 17, 1972 on ARD .
criticism
In its issue 39/1964, Der Spiegel stated on page 134: “Ex-police reporter," Stahlnetz "- and Edgar Wallace director Jürgen Roland succumbs to the lure of slapstick in places, but gives his St. Pauli a respectable criticism. The film, which is made up of professional actors and Reeperbahn professionals, has what German Lichtspiele mostly lack: speed and a real environment. "
The film's large personal lexicon praised the semi-documentary character of the film: “The crime drama“ Police station Davidswache ”could not fully live up to its claim to provide an authentic picture of everyday police life in the Hamburg neighborhood because of all sorts of concessions to the entertainment value but nevertheless one of the best and most honest cinema productions of this type of film in Germany after 1945 ”.
The lexicon of international films judged the Davidswache police station : “A sequence of unadorned incidents and conditions that, held together by a cliché plot, did not end up in the 'realistic report' intended by Roland and Quantity, but in a film that made comparable productions towers. "
The online presence of Cinema found: "Credible crime thriller without pathos".
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to Hamburger Abendblatt of October 29, 1965.
- ^ Film review in the mirror
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 605.
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexicon of International Films. Volume 6, p. 2970. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
- ↑ Police station Davidswache on cinema.de
Web links
- Polizeirevier Davidswache in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Police station Davidswache at filmportal.de