Police call 110: Self-deception

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	The self-deception
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Production company	Television of the GDR
length	77 minutes
classification	Episode 85 ( List )
First broadcast	September 4, 1983 on GDR 1
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Director	Hans-Werner Honert
script	Hans-Werner Honert
production	Hans-Hermann Ostermann
music	Igor Stravinsky
camera	Wolfgang Voigt
cut	Margrit Schulz
occupation
Jürgen Frohriep : First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner Wolfgang Dehler : Captain Strahl Werner Godemann : First Lieutenant Willi Mertens, ABV Günther Grabbert : Karl-Heinz Schreiner Annemone Haase : Inge Schreiner Frank Lienert : Bodo Macher Barbara Zinn : Rica Siskin Peter Kalisch : Paul Zeisig Doris Thalmer : Elfriede painter Bruno Carstens : Wilhelm painter Frauke Poolman : Ilona Bauer Horst Weinheimer : Willi Bauer Herbert Olschok : Olaf Hölzel Renate von Wangenheim : Mrs. Artloff Wolf-Dieter Lingk : Mr. Artloff Carl-Hermann Risse : Klaus Munk Horst Kotterba : Scientist Doris Otto-Franke : Conductor Hans-Joachim Leschnitz : Forensic Technician Wolf Goette : Porter

The self-deception is a German crime film by Hans-Werner Honert from 1983. The television film was released as the 85th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Karl-Heinz and Inge Schreiner find a message from their son Jürgen in their mailbox. In it he writes that he apologizes. Karl-Heinz takes the letter as a sign that Jürgen wants to part with his girlfriend Rica, who is rejected by his parents. Karl-Heinz would have preferred the solid Ilona, ​​daughter of the innkeeper. Karl-Heinz goes to Rica's parents with his motorcycle team and takes some of his son's clothes with him, believing that Jürgen wants to move in again. A little later, the new hall of the building yard, whose manager is Jürgen, is on fire. In the charred remains of the hall, not only Jürgen's keys but also a corpse are found. On the basis of a broken leg in his youth, it can be clearly established that the dead person is Jürgen. For Karl-Heinz it is now certain that his son was murdered.

First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner is entrusted with the investigation. Again and again he has to stop the careless acting Karl-Heinz. On the day before the fire in the hall, Jürgen had a dispute with bricklayer Artloff, who worked in the building yard. Jürgen had reported Artloff for stealing building materials. Artloff received a suspended sentence. During interrogation, Artloff admits to having set fire to the hall with gasoline. His friend Klaus Munk alerted the fire brigade immediately after the first flames. But Jürgen's body was at the other end of the hall. Investigators soon come to the conclusion that fire and death were two different offenses.

Rica appears in the village. She is looking for Jürgen, who, according to witness statements, drove to her in town the day before. However, Rica did not see Jürgen, even if the doorman of the dormitory where Rica lives confirmed that Jürgen was there. After a short time he ran out of the dormitory. It turns out that Rica cheated on Jürgen with gardener Bodo Macher. Ilona, ​​who was in love with Jürgen herself, knew about Rica's behavior and wrote Jürgen a false telegram inviting him to the dormitory in Rica's name. She hoped to open Jürgen's eyes that way. It turns out that Jürgen came back to the village that night and waited at the train station. Macher arrived in the village two hours later, but said he did not see Jürgen.

Jürgen's mother Inge wants to send the investigators Jürgen's letter, which she found in the mailbox on the day of the fire. Karl-Heinz burns the letter because he wants to prevent his son from being viewed as a suicide. Lieutenant Jürgen Hübner procures Jürgen's diaries and has them analyzed by a psychologist, who also comes to the conclusion that Jürgen may have committed suicide. The realization that his only livelihood, Rica, betrayed him, could have been too much for him. Inge reports the letter to the investigators and the case is clear. Karl-Heinz, however, armed with a rifle, visits Bodo Macher in a greenhouse and threatens him. He wants to blackmail him into confessing that he murdered Jürgen. The investigators shout at him through the window that Jürgen has committed suicide, but Karl-Heinz insists on a confession. ABV Oberleutnant Willi Mertens advises Bodo to confess the act to Karl-Heinz, and Bodo agrees. Only now does Karl-Heinz let him go and Inge approaches her husband soothingly.

production

The self-deception was filmed from September 15 to November 14, 1982 under the working title Hühnergott in Zwenkau , Halle and Pegau . The costumes of the film created Barbara Voigt , the Filmbauten derived from Lothar-Hermann Schneider . The film premiered on September 4, 1983 in the first program of GDR television. The audience participation was 48.7 percent.

It was the 85th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series . First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner investigated his 41st case. Music from the ballet suite The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky can be heard in the film. The criticism called Der Selbstfrug the “first police call with an ecological background”, this is how the inventive Jürgen Schreiner is working on a biogas plant that he wants to build in the village.

literature

• Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 140-141.

Web links

• Police 110: The self-deception in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Police call 110: Self-deception at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=085 (link only available to a limited extent)
2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 93.
3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 140.

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