Police call 110: Fear justifies the means

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Fear justifies the means
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Filmpool Fiction
on behalf of NDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 361 ( List )
First broadcast January 1, 2017 on Das Erste
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Director Christian von Castelberg
script Susanne Schneider
production Iris pine
music Eckhart Gadow
camera Martin Farkas ,
Roman Schauer
cut Antje Zynga
occupation

Fear justifies the means is a TV film by Christian von Castelberg from 2016. It is the 361st episode in the crime series Polizeiruf 110 . The Rostock investigator duo Kriminalhauptkommissar Alexander Bukow ( Charly Hübner ) and the LKA officer Katrin König ( Anneke Kim Sarnau ) are investigating his 15th case. The main guest stars of this episode are Markus John , Katarina Gaub , Markus Gertken , Mathis Werner and Thomas Neumann .

action

A homeless woman is found dead in a village near Rostock - she was raped and abused. The two sex offenders Kukulies and Buschke, who live in the village and who were recently released from prison, are first in the focus of investigators Bukow and König, according to information from the villagers. Next to the victim is a beer bottle with traces of kukulies, with which the dead person was badly mistreated. Shortly afterwards, the pedophile Buschke is found hanged in their apartment, and Bukow and König find a laptop with child pornography; Kukulies has disappeared. Contrary to the opinion of her male colleagues, König is of the opinion that the murder does not fit into the perpetrator profile of the two previous convicts. She sees the villagers as suspicious, who have repeatedly announced that they want to get rid of Kukulies and Buschke from their village by all means.

In fact, the alleged child pornography trade on the laptop turns out to be a fake. The local former NVA officer Heiner Bockmann is convicted of murdering the homeless and laying the traces in such a way that they point to Kukulies as perpetrators. The former officer and two other villagers are now being held captive in an attic. The situation escalates when Kukulies takes control of a boy who has secretly given him something to drink and eat and flees with him as a hostage. Bukow and König pursue Kukulies to a lonely homestead, where he can temporarily overpower and almost rape König. Kukulies is ultimately overwhelmed and arrested. The boy was able to escape and is now in the care of the police.

In the episode-spanning, horizontal film plot about Bukow and König, Bukow learns that his father is in a coma after an operation. König had received a confirmation for a position in Berlin, but during the course of the film he is uncertain whether she should accept it. After the events surrounding Kukulies, Bukow asks her to stay in Rostock because of him. How she will decide remains open.

Production, broadcast date

The film was shot under the working title "The 5th Violence" from June 2, 2015 to July 1, 2015 in Warlow , Mestlin and Hamburg, only the final scene takes place on the Neuer Markt in Rostock. The film premiered at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck in November 2016 .

For the broadcast on New Year's Eve 2017, the scene of the crime was first : Storm and then the scene of the crime: Sons and Fathers planned, before the police call 110: Fear justifies the means was added to the program a few days before New Year's Eve .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Angst sanctify the means on January 1, 2017, was seen by a total of 7.02 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 18.6 percent for Das Erste .

criticism

“This 'police call' is tough stuff. [...] Here a social panorama is unfolded in which the instinct of one and the panic of the other work together dangerously. An unleashed, even unbounded fear scenario - which unfortunately shows considerable weaknesses in the second half. There it goes, completely unnecessary in terms of content, to Poland for a child pornography. And unfortunately the plausibility flute. That doesn't detract from the disturbing overall effect of this New Year's thriller: to a terrible 2017. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Police call 110: Fear justifies the means at crew united
  2. ↑ Michael-Günther Bölsche: Cinematic criminal case in Mestlin. In: Parchimer Zeitung. June 13, 2015, accessed January 2, 2017 .
  3. ^ The program of the film forum of the Nordic Film Days. (No longer available online.) In: Press Releases. Nordic Film Days Lübeck, October 18, 2016, archived from the original on December 31, 2016 ; accessed on December 31, 2016 : “This year a brand new“ Police call 110 - fear sanctifies the means ”from Rostock as a preview […]“ Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.luebeck.de
  4. ↑ Axel Weidemann: When the "crime scene" comes too close to reality. Channel slot roulette. In: Feuilleton. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 1, 2017, accessed on January 1, 2017 : “Terror determines the program: The originally planned“ crime scene ”will not be shown on New Year's Day. Plan B also failed. "
  5. ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime Check: New Year 2017.quotemeter.de , January 2, 2017, accessed on January 2, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Christian Buß: Rostock "police call" about sex offenders. Vigilante justice at the garden fence. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , December 30, 2016, accessed on December 31, 2016 : "Rating: 6 out of 10 points"
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