Police call 110: The missing lords

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title The missing lords
Polizeiruf110 logo 1972.svg
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 62 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
classification Episode 24 ( list )
First broadcast May 12, 1974 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Werner Röwekamp
script Werner Röwekamp
production Hans W. Reichel
music Kiril Cibulka
camera Walter Küppers
cut Brigitte Bergmann
Angelika Hortscht
occupation

The Vanished Lords is a German crime film by Werner Röwekamp from 1974. The television film was released as the 24th episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

In a furniture store, nine living room furnishings of the “Lord” type with a total value of 30,000 marks disappear. The equipment was delivered and sold by the manufacturer according to the documentation, but not invoiced. The receipts bear the stamp and signature of the employee Bettina Schwarzbach, who is considered very reliable. She is asked for an interview by the management and is appalled by the accusation of fraud. She is released from her job. A little later, her roommate, the young cosmetics salesman Agnes Neubert, finds her unconscious in the kitchen. The gas tap is turned on and on the table there is a letter to her son Jürgen that has begun and looks like a farewell letter. Bettina is admitted to the hospital.

Oberleutnant Peter Fuchs, Lieutenant Vera Arndt and Sergeant Lutz Subras take over the investigation. They compare the carbon copies of the invoices for the missing furniture with other copies from Bettina that have survived. It turns out that the lord bills are stamped with a forged stamp. Vera Arndt wants to tell Bettina's son Jürgen about his mother's hospital stay, but she only meets his wife Elke. Elke and Bettina don't get along well, but Elke doesn't believe that Bettina could withhold goods or commit suicide. Bettina also denies suspicion of attempting suicide in the hospital. She wanted to make coffee and was probably too excited to ignite the gas. Before sending the letter to her son, she also wrote a letter of complaint to the district council. The letter was never found, but a torn first copy of a lord's bill to a certain Herr Schultheiss in the bath stove. When Bettina is asked whether her son has a key to her apartment, she denies it. However, Jürgen has a key to the apartment and freely admits this.

Mr. Schultheiss reports to the investigators that he bought his Lord facility through an advertisement in the newspaper. It was new and had to be handed in by a young, blond woman because of the circumstances. He paid the full new price for the wall unit. Jürgen's wife Elke matches the seller's description. Jürgen, in turn, works with his colleague Kurt Baltruschat to pull out the wall units on behalf of the furniture store. Both are currently involved in the renovation of the “Zur Linde” inn in their free time, where they regularly make stopovers on their tours. Mr. Schultheiss calls the warehouse manager, Mr. Krüger, from the delivery point of the furniture store and complains about his wall unit because it is faulty.

When Bettina wants to visit Jürgen after her hospital stay, she only finds his children in the apartment. They play mail and give Bettina a stamped letter - with the imprint of the forged stamp. Both children found it in an envelope on the terrace. Elke comes home and Bettina accuses her of criminal activities. She goes to the police, but first accuses herself of embezzlement before telling the real story of finding the stamp. Shortly afterwards she continues, and Elke also takes two days off. The investigators now know that all cupboards were always picked up and acknowledged from the production plant. A wall unit is always unloaded on the way to the furniture store. The criminals also stole an invoice pad from the furniture store. The buyer for the stolen wall unit is found via advertisement, which is delivered by the blonde woman who also collects the money. The buyer receives the forged original invoice, the first copy is destroyed and the second is taken into the files by the inaugurated warehouse manager Krüger. The role of Bettina is still unclear to the investigators. However, they suspect the “Zur Linde” inn, which Lutz Subras is observing, as the reloading point for the cupboard walls. In a shed he finds the truck that was used to transport the stolen Lord equipment. During a soccer game, one of those present sneaks out of the room and loads a wall unit from Jürgen and Kurt Baltruschat's truck. Kurt arrives and wants to prevent it because the police are already on his heels. The loaders accuse him of having profited from the embezzlement in the past. It becomes clear that Kurt, the host of the "Linde", Kreibig, and his sister are in cahoots. The sister is Agnes Neubert, Bettina's roommate, with whom Kurt is in love. In fact, Agnes shows up at Mr Schultheiss's with a blonde wig and is upset about his complaint, saying that the wall unit was complete on delivery. Agnes also had the stamp copied and secretly thrown it on Jürgen's terrace in order to draw suspicion on blonde Elke. Like Kurt and Kreibig, she is arrested. Jürgen, Elke and Bettina speak up, and especially Elke and Bettina make up.

production

The Vanished Lords was filmed from December 4, 1973 to the end of January 1974 in Potsdam and Thuringia . The costumes of the film created Isolde Müller-Claud that Filmbauten submitted by Klaus Poppitz . The film had its television premiere on May 12, 1974 in the first program of East German television.

It was the 24th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series . First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs investigated in his 17th case, Lieutenant Vera Arndt in her 20th and Sergeant Lutz Subras in his 9th case. It was the only film in the series in which Christel Bodenstein took on a role.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 32.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=024 (link only available to a limited extent)
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