Police call 110: The man

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title The man
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 76 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 30 ( List )
First broadcast March 23, 1975 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Manfred Mosblech
script Manfred Mosblech
Horst Bastian
production Hans W. Reichel
music Hartmut Behrsing
camera Günter Eisinger
cut Margrit Schulz
occupation

Der Mann is a German crime film by Manfred Mosblech from 1975. The television film was released as the 30th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

Franz Werker was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. Three days after his return from captivity, he killed a woman over bread. Now he is being released early after around 30 years in prison. He returns to his parents' house on the Baltic Sea. While his mother is waiting for him and has also visited him regularly in prison, his father is bitter. He never wanted to see him again and is now avoiding him. Franz, however, proved himself in a local road construction brigade and hesitantly made friends, even if some workers avoided him. However, everyone wants to give him a second chance and the young colleague Frieda Kirsch goes for a walk with him and one day invites him to her home. Both want to watch a football game on television. Franz buys chocolates and rides his bike to her house. Nobody responds to his ringing, even though the TV is loud. Franz enters the apartment and sees Frieda lying dead in the living room. Panicked, he flees and gets drunk in a bar.

Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner and Master Lutz Subras are entrusted with the investigation. Subras spontaneously considers Franz suspicious as a criminal record, which Huebner strictly rejects. Franz, however, makes himself suspicious when he tries to escape from the construction site when he sees the police. It is clear to him that the case will be put on him, regardless of whether he was the killer or not. In fact, everything initially points to him as the perpetrator. His footprints and fingerprints can be found on Frieda's apartment door and in the hallway. The heavy air pump on his bicycle served as a weapon, but Franz hadn't missed it. It was cleaned with Fit, but its use as a murder weapon can be proven by remains of hair from Frieda. Since the investigators cannot prove that Franz ever got further than the hallway, he is not considered to be the culprit. No further measures can be taken because it is not known whether Frieda ever owned a lot of money or other valuables that the perpetrator could have stolen.

The investigations stall and the residents of the village become restless because they see Franz as the perpetrator and now feel threatened. Jürgen Huebner's superior, Major Wagner, soon doubts his suitability to solve the case. Jürgen Hübner concentrates on Frieda's environment and soon contacts everyone who has had anything to do with Frieda. He learns from her former lover that Frieda was in hospital for several weeks 18 months ago. Jürgen Hübner can only reconstruct a murder motive through her roommate, a blind woman: Frieda had told her that she had won 24,000 marks in the lottery. She never spent the money, but kept it in the house. Jürgen Hübner now has Franz's house searched, who, after the information that the woman has a guide dog, suspects who the perpetrator is. His colleague Heiner Krüger is lazy but very fond of animals. He once also trained guide dogs, borrowed a thousand marks from his colleagues for a year in order to be able to celebrate New Year's Eve for free with the interest, and usually thinks of himself first. Franz suspects that the blind woman once got her dog from Heiner and told him about the money. Jürgen Huebner is also directed to a possible lead by Franz asking whether the woman had a guide dog. Franz goes to Heiner and is able to get him to confess that he killed Frieda. It comes to a bitter duel. Jürgen Hübner, on the other hand, only learns when the blind woman is questioned that the guide dog seller was Heiner Krüger. The subsequent large-scale manhunt leads the investigators and parts of the brigade to Franz and Heiner. Heiner appears to be dead, but is only slightly injured. He is being led away. Brigadier Hannes Schacht accuses Franz that vigilante justice is not a means and brings him to the investigators' car.

production

The man was filmed from September 10 to November 1, 1974 in Bad Doberan , Bergen auf Rügen and Caputh . The opening scenes of the film take place in Rostock , as Franz Werker looks at the Seven Sisters Fountain there. The football game shown is a recording of the first leg of the European Cup semi-final (Cup Winners' Cup) on April 24, 1974 between 1. FC Magdeburg and Sporting Lisbon. Among other things, you can see the perimeter advertising of the Magdeburg “Volksstimme”, to hear the moderator of the television of the GDR, Heinz Florian Oertel.

The costumes of the film created Christel Richter , the Filmbauten come from Britta Bastian born Pelzner. The film underwent on 23 March 1975 as the first program of the television of the GDR its television premiere. The audience participation was 61.9 percent.

It was the 30th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner and Master Lutz Subras investigated in their 13th case. After a criminal record (1973), it was the second police call to deal with the rehabilitation of offenders. The man was in turn strongly influenced by the Soviet film Kalina Krassnaja - Roter Elderunder , which was first seen in the GDR in 1974. In both films, convicted murderers try to regain a foothold in (socialist) society. The man quotes the beginning of the Soviet film in the first scenes and the basic structure of both films is the same, so the released man returns to a rather remote area in order to integrate himself into society. The man is nevertheless “a realistic crime film, the narrative style of which is broken here by lyrical sequences. […] However, the film's social message has hardly any poetic quality. It simply reads: the socialist society must not tolerate any prejudices against convicts who have atoned for their wrongdoing and want to earn a place in the community. "

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 72-75.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=030 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 38.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 75.
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