Police call 110: Farewell song for Linda

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Farewell song for Linda
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 92 minutes
classification Episode 116 ( List )
First broadcast December 20, 1987 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Christa Mühl
script Werner Hecht
production Jutta Henning
music Jürgen Corner
camera Michael Albrecht
Jürgen Heimlich
cut Marion Fiedler
occupation

Farewell song for Linda is a German crime film by Christa Mühl from 1987. The television film was released as the 116th episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

It is Mardi Gras and insurance cashier Linda Ulmer begins in a high-rise building with the annual cash, which she announced some time in advance in the house. The next morning the elevator is broken. Linda's body is found during its repair; she was strangled. There are colorful fiber traces on their clothes. Witnesses also testify that they saw a man with a larva in the house that evening . A search for the disguised man seems hopeless, even if three investigators are working on the case: Captain Peter Fuchs, Lieutenant Lutz Zimmermann and Lieutenant Thomas Grawe. The motive for the crime seems to have been the annual insurance income of around 10,000 marks that Linda had with her, which is now missing.

The single saleswoman Beate met the singer Rikki on Mardi Gras. He stays afloat with appearances on small stages and, in his charming way, regularly ensnares single women and then entangles them in supposedly lucrative deals, where he relieves them of a lot of money without ever delivering goods.

Linda and Rikki knew and loved each other. In Linda's apartment you can find Rikki's single farewell song with a dedication “for Linda”. At the time of the crime, however, Rikki was in the hotel room with Beate after his appearance at the carnival party. Beate, in turn, can testify that he was lying next to her in the morning, but doesn't know anything about the hours before because she was very drunk. Rikki's car was not moved on the night in question and the alibi seems perfect.

He promised Beate an import car for her 40th birthday and received a deposit of 10,000 marks from her. However, neither car nor Rikki appear for his birthday, and Beate finally reports him to the police. Rikki is no stranger to First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner, so he has just met psychologist Dr. Elisabeth Thiel had an expert opinion drawn up on such men. Elisabeth is Beates best friend and wants to help her to her rights by making Rikki's acquaintance. Elisabeth soon makes it clear that she is looking for a piece of land, and Rikki wants to help her quickly with the mediation and purchase of a property. She can also ask him to take part in one of her experiments. It's about role-playing games in which certain behavioral patterns are to be uncovered through discussions. Rikki agrees, but doesn't know that all the other participants have already received their dialogues from Elisabeth.

Rikki is initially employed as a mediator between a quarreling superior and an employee. The superior had been turned away by the woman and had therefore refilled her position while the employee was on vacation and kept this position when the woman returned from vacation. After a level-headed phase as a mediator, Elisabeth now asks Rikki to take on the role of superior. The discussion is turning more and more into a discussion about Rikki's possibly purely sexual motive to take Beate to his room on Mardi Gras. In the end he defends himself that he never wanted to sleep with her, just wanted to get her drunk so that she was still asleep when he came back into the room. After saying this, Rikki realizes that he has just given himself away.

Peter Fuchs and Jürgen Huebner appear to arrest him. A taxi driver has now been identified who drove Rikki from the remote location to Berlin and back again during the night. The scarf that Rikki throws on is the last piece of the puzzle, as the fibers that were found on Linda's upper body come from him. Rikki insists that he only wanted to take the money from Linda because he was in debt due to his lavish lifestyle. During the scramble in the elevator, she suddenly collapsed lifeless. Rikki is arrested for intentional homicide.

production

Farewell song for Linda was filmed from December 9, 1986 to February 13, 1987 in Berlin , Wurzen and Hessenwinkel am Dämeritzsee . The costumes for the film were created by Helga Dürwald , the film structures were created by Reinhard Wiegand . The film premiered on December 20, 1987 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 47.6 percent.

It was the 116th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Captain Peter Fuchs investigated in his 70th case, Oberleutnant Jürgen Hübner in his 54th case, Oberleutnant Lutz Zimmermann in his 13th case and Lieutenant Thomas Grawe in his 11th case. In retrospect, the review wrote that “this film [had] almost nothing to do with reality in the GDR a good two years before it ended. Here the game with crime was entirely up to the author and the director [...] Here, the crime story should obviously be no more than fun, taking part in the cheerful suspect rate. "

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 167–168.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=116 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 124.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 168.
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