Police call 110: About gang

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	About gang
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Polyphonic film and television for NDR
length	89 minutes
classification	Episode 167 ( List )
First broadcast	January 29, 1995 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Manfred Stelzer
script	Gert C. Möbius , Manfred Stelzer
production	Klaus-Dieter Zeisberg
music	Mario Lauer
camera	David Slama , Jochen Moess
cut	Marion will
occupation
Kurt Böwe : Groth Uwe Steimle : Hinrichs Steffen Schult : Erwin Renz Horst Krause : Paul Renz Sirimad Link : Siam Noy Hans-Helmut Müller : Detective Director Dr. Stuber Y. Ahcene-Djaballah : Eleonore "Leo" Pleinert Frank-Michael Köbe : Rolf DW Buck : Fritz Renz Arno Reckers : Franz Renz Horst Weinheimer : Father Eugen Hans-Martin Stier : Willy wood Gabriele Völsch : Juliane Groth Ralf Knebel : Hans Christoph Hofrichter : Copy shop operator Harald Kempe : Siegfried Groke Arnim Mühlstädt : man at rest area

About Bande is a German crime film by Manfred Stelzer from 1995. The television film was released as the 167th episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

In Schwerin , the showman brothers Erwin, Fritz and Franz Renz steal a truck with eight new color copiers. They use Eleonore Pleinert's copy shop key that she left in Erwin's play library. Eleonore, with whom Erwin is in love and from whom he likes to be paid with counterfeit money, had previously reported to them that a copier is worth around 70,000 Deutschmarks . However, stealing the truckload was more of an emergency plan, as a single device was too heavy for the brothers to transport. Suddenly new to the black market traders' business, the three of them take the truck to their uncle Paul, who runs a junkyard. He puts them in touch who can possibly pick up the copier. The meeting point is a rest stop on the motorway.

Chief Inspector Jens Hinrichs and Inspector Groth begin the investigation, as Hinrichs knows that color copiers have been used to forge banknotes for some time. Eastern Europe in particular serves as an import area for flowers, as hardly anyone there knows what the new currency should look like. Eleonore is asked about her missing key; the investigators shadow her after work and see how she visits Erwin Renz's toy library. The Renz family is well known to Groth, but one of the numerous minor offenses could never be proven to the members. Hinrichs and Groth drive to the junkyard, where they find smaller truck parts, but nothing that can be used. Groth overhears the phone call during which the meeting for acceptance of the copier is discussed. The two later meet the Renz brothers at the service station, but their truck is empty. From the amazed faces of the brothers, Groth concludes that the copiers themselves were stolen. A survey of the people at the rest area shows that shortly beforehand at the rest area opposite, the brothers were talking to a blond man who was driving a conspicuous car with a Hamburg license plate.

Hinrichs and Groth are granted a business trip to Hamburg. There they don't find out much about the case, but they take the young Thai woman Siam Noy with them to Schwerin, who Groth had saved from a brutal man on the Reeperbahn . Soon Groth and Hinrichs will be talking in the hallway at their workplace. Detective Director Dr. Stuber is not very enthusiastic and orders Noys to be returned to Hamburg immediately. However, Groth found her an apartment in Schwerin, which he was gradually furnishing.

The blonde from Hamburg - Rolf - comes to Schwerin with a friend, as Noy is one of his “girls”. He initially suspects her to be in the Schwerin brothel and is eventually brought on the trail of the Renz brothers. When they are contacted and threatened again by Rolf, they believe in protection racket. Hinrichs and Groth, who turn up because of a false banknote from Erwin's shop, quickly realize that Rolf is in Schwerin because of Noy. Rolf finds Noy and wants to take her to Hamburg, but is prevented from doing so by Groth and Hinrichs. First a power word Dr. Stubers, who knows that Noy's disappearance in Hamburg could trigger a gang war, enforces Noy's return to Hamburg. Before that, the investigators were able to find parts of the color copier truck in Paul's scrapyard, they arrested Paul and shortly afterwards the Renz brothers. In addition to Noy, they will also take Erwin to Hamburg. You now know that Eleonore has disappeared since the copier was stolen and you suspect that she is working with Rolf. They receive Eleonores' contact details from Erwin: She is staying in a small hotel on the Polish border. The investigators there secure large amounts of cash in false bills and can arrest Eleonore. She abused the Renz brothers and Rolf for their own purposes and brought the copiers over the border while Rolf and the brothers met. Shortly afterwards, Hinrich and Groth meet the Renz brothers at the station, who have Noy in their midst. Since she lived legally in Hamburg and had no family ties, Fritz and Franz brought her back to Schwerin, especially since Erwin took her to the heart. Hinrichs already sees the next confrontation with Dr. Stuber come.

production

About gang was shot from July to August 1994 in Schwerin and the surrounding area as well as in Hamburg. The costumes of the film created Stephanie Polo , the Filmbauten submitted by Ulrich Isfort . The film had its television premiere on January 29, 1995 on ARD . The audience participation was 19.7 percent.

It was the 167th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . The commissioners Hinrichs and Groth investigated in their third case. The episode was broadcast on the occasion of the death of Kurt Böwe in June 2000 by the first as part of the program change.

In this film, Groth is addressed differently by the first name Karl .

criticism

"Original fun with real characters," said the TV Spielfilm . "The NDR has put a shining northern light on the gray TV crime scene", wrote Der Spiegel , and certified Über Bande "a dimension into which it [the television crime novel ] seldom ventures, that of humor and self-irony".

Web links

• Police 110: About gang in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Police call 110: Via gang at filmportal.de
• Police call 110: About gang on Das Erste.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 176.
2. ↑ NDR: On the occasion of the death of Kurt Böwe Das Erste takes "Polizeiruf 110: Über Gang" into its program . presseportal.de, June 15, 2000.
3. ^ Police call 110: About gang on tvspielfilm.de
4. ^ Police call 110: About gang . In: Der Spiegel , No. 4, 1995, p. 204.

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