Police call 110: A Maria from Stettin

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	A Maria from Szczecin
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	AllMedia Pictures on behalf of NDR
length	90 minutes
classification	Episode 297 ( List )
First broadcast	September 21, 2008 on Das Erste
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Director	Stephan Wagner
script	Eckhard Theophil
production	Heike Richter-Karst , Studio Hamburg
music	Ali N. Askin
camera	Thomas Benesch
cut	Friederike von Normann
occupation
Uwe Steimle : Jens Hinrichs, chief detective Felix Eitner : Markus Tellheim, chief detective Agata Buzek : Maria Frank Giering : Gregor Karolewski Dirk Borchardt : Kai Mertens "Speedy" Tomek Nowicki : Commissioner Andrzej Kaminiski Malina Ebert : Ewa Margarita Broich : Bärbel Nadja Becker : Corinna Heinemann Hermann Beyer : Hinrich's father Katharina Heyer : Dr. Niethnagel, coroner Katja Räpricht : Chantal, detective assistant Fritz Roth : Clerk Volkmar Kleinert : Torsten Wendland Gunda Ebert : Dorothea Wendland

A Maria from Stettin is a German crime film by Stephan Wagner from 2008. The TV film was released as the 297th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Commissioner Hinrichs is investigating his 29th case. For his colleague Tellheim it is the 5th case.

The two commissioners investigate in the red light district and establish a connection to previous murders.

action

Jens Hinrichs finds a badly injured Polish prostitute in the bushes. Maria almost dies, but despite being stabbed three times in the back, she disappears from the clinic on the same day. The doctor thinks it is possible that the girl is staying illegally in Germany and is not insured. He has also found evidence of a recent delivery. Although there is no direct homicide here, Tellheim and Hinrichs are investigating. This incident fits in with two previous cases in which young prostitutes from Poland who had just given birth were killed.

Everything points to illegal child trafficking, but Tellheim has to investigate alone because the execution has to stay in hospital for a long time after a recreational accident. The first track leads to Szczecin . The local criminal police had taken over the two murders and soon put them on file as unfinished. Tellheim contacts the Polish officials and then works with Commissioner Andrzej Kaminiski, who accompanies him to Germany.

Meanwhile, Maria is determined to get her child back. She succeeds in locating the adoptive family and starts working there as a nanny. Already on the first evening she takes the opportunity to disappear with her child. The Wendlands report the kidnapping as they are not aware of any guilt and allegedly the child was officially assigned to them by the Polish authorities. Tellheim now has one more reason to look for Maria, as she is the key to the people behind the child traffickers. Since the two previous victims had worked in a brothel, Tellheim and Kaminiski try to find them there. Since the pimp there, Gregor Karolewski, is currently imprisoned, the inspectors stick to his henchman Kai Mertens. He is so naive that he admits the attack on Maria at the first interrogation. Karolewski had asked him to do this because Maria threatened to become uncomfortable. Karolewski himself would have "flattened" the other two prostitutes.

While Tellheim is searching for more evidence of Karolewski's machinations, Maria notices that her pimp, who was recently released from prison, does not love her, even though she had given birth to his child. She beats him in anger and injures him so badly that he is retained for permanent damage. Gregor Karolewski is then taken to a prison hospital. Maria left for Poland with the child and went into hiding.

background

A Mary from Stettin was in the 21 September 2008 First for prime time broadcast for the first time.

For reasons of time, Hinrich's role almost exclusively plays in the hospital. The reason for this was scheduling overlaps with Suddenly Millionaire , on which Steimle worked.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv writes appreciatively: “The fifth case of Uwe Steimle and Felix Eitner is a strong outlier from the investigator routine.” A police call 110 that “ comes up with a lot of irony that turns into sarcasm” “The viewer has [...] increasingly less reason to smile. 'We start relatively conventionally and then approach the topics of murder, kidnapping, forced adoption and prostitution', Wagner describes the dramaturgy. 'The viewer only realizes later that he has laughed at the characters' suffering in an ironic way.' "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and said: “Dirty milieu study, idiosyncratic”.

Web links

• Police 110: A Mary from Stettin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the plot of the film on the ARD website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Conversation with Uwe Steimle in the NDR press kit, accessed on November 14, 2016.
2. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Beyond Irma-La-Douce-Romantik: Weird and brutal in the middle of the milieu Film criticism at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 14, 2016.
3. ^ Police call 110: A Maria from Stettin on tvspielfilm.de

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