Police call 110: On the edge

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title In the abyss
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 65 minutes
classification Episode 60 ( List )
First broadcast September 2, 1979 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Hans Werner
script Fred Unger
production Fritz Delp
music Jens-Uwe Günther
camera Winfried Kleist
cut Renate Foldesi
occupation

Am Abgrund is a German crime film by Hans Werner from 1979. The television film was released as the 60th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Peter Januschowitz's wife Monika dies when, during her first attempts at driving on the road, while overtaking a tractor, she evades an oncoming car and falls down a slope with the car. The car goes up in flames. From now on Peter has to cope with everyday life alone with his two small children. Although his sister-in-law, Monika's sister Krümel, helps him, Peter is overwhelmed and begins to drink. The trained plasterer increasingly fails at work, but is covered by his brigade. She also allows him to disappear into a bar during work hours and lets him go home early drunk. Nobody really knows where Peter got the money for his alcohol consumption, especially since he is owing more and more to colleagues and relatives.

One day the agricultural bank is broken into. The bank employee Marion Seiffert is locked in a storage room during the lunch break and the key is placed on a chest of drawers. 12,000 marks are missing from the cash register. Marion cannot describe the perpetrator. However, the perpetrator must have known his way around the bank, as the chamber is not visible from the entrance and it is also the only room in the building without a window. At the request of the investigators Lieutenant Vera Arndt and Captain Peter Fuchs, the employees draw up a list of all the people who knew about the chamber. The investigators question the 40 people on the list, but there is no trace. Also on the list is Peter, who was supposedly drinking at the time in question. Since he has money problems, he has a motive, but Vera Arndt hesitates to request a house search. Even without specific suspicion, Peter is seen by many in the village as a perpetrator and is cut. His brigade is also suspicious, especially since he can partially pay off his debts. Marion states that the perpetrator looked like Peter, but cannot identify him as the perpetrator.

Vera Arndt reappears at Marion a little later because she believes the list is not complete. Her husband confirms that people are missing, for example he knew the chamber himself. He reports to Vera Arndt that a few days ago he and his wife bought a piece of land for a garden shed. He wants to show the investigator the savings account immediately to dismiss any suspicion, but Marion allegedly has the book in the bank. Vera Arndt takes a look into the savings book and notices that although money was continuously deposited into the savings book for a while, the sum has been steadily decreasing for some time until the savings book was empty. It turns out that Marion has a lover to whom she gives valuable gifts. So the money for the property cannot come from the savings account.

Peter hid a large wad of money at his place of work. One day he takes the bills home and hides them between two nested buckets. While having a coffee with Krümel and her boyfriend, coffee is spilled and Krümel gets a bucket to mop up. This is where she finds the money. She thinks Peter robbed the bank, but he says he sold Monika's jewelry. He can't show a receipt for this, and he throws Krümel and her boyfriend out of the house angrily. Reconciliation comes later when Peter's son complains of a stomach ache. His daughter realizes that her father is helpless and calls for help from Krümel and her boyfriend, who take the child with appendicitis to the hospital.

Vera Arndt ponders the possible perpetrator at home. Through a game of her children and a remark from her husband, she recognizes how the key could have gotten from the lock to the cupboard without any help. The key under the door to the closet could have been pulled via a kind of pulley connection with a rope. Fiber traces on the key and on the door indicate this method. A tram driver had also used the toilet in the bank during his lunch break and almost tripped over a rope that went across the room. Marion admits that she stole the money herself. She wanted to hide the expenses for her lover from her husband. She is arrested and Peter is fully integrated into his brigade again.

production

Am Abgrund was filmed from December 6, 1978 to February 28, 1979 under the working title A small yellow teddy bear in Berlin , Halle and Köthen . The costumes for the film were created by Tamara Schramm-Bansen , the film structures were created by Werner Hölzel . The film had its premiere on September 2, 1979 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 55.1 percent.

It was the 60th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Captain Peter Fuchs investigated in his 36th case and Lieutenant Vera Arndt in her 37th case. The theme music of the film is the song I want to stay honestly by the group Carousel .

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 68.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=060 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 68.
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