Police call 110: On fire

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title In flames
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Filmpool Fiction
on behalf of NDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 369 ( List )
German-language
first broadcast		 June 10, 2018 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Lars-Gunnar Lotz
script Florian Oeller
production Iris pine
music Sebastian Fillenberg
camera Jan Prahl
cut Philipp Thomas
occupation

In Flammen is a TV film by Lars-Gunnar Lotz from 2018. It is the 369th 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 17th case. The main guest stars of this episode are Atheer Adel , Michael Wittenborn , Pauline Rénevier , Patrick von Blume as well as Lisa Hagmeister and Hildegard Schroedter .

action

The corpse of right-wing populist politician Sylvia Schulte is found in a field, burned beyond recognition. She is currently running for the office of Lord Mayor in Rostock and held an election rally on the eve of her death. The detective chief inspectors Bukow and König are investigating the case. The victim was obviously burned alive, which for König shows an extreme hate motivation. Due to the political explosiveness, the case arouses great interest. König and Bukow, who also have to grapple with an internal investigation, are not discouraged. You concentrate on Schulte's private environment and her past. Her ex-husband lives with a new family on a farm and has an alibi for the time of the crime. Schulte's rival for the mayor's office, as well as her personal assistant, are also not seriously considered as perpetrators. Likewise, there are no specific indications of perpetrators from the right-wing extremist scene to which Schulte had once belonged. On the other hand, Schultes' former friends in these circles are getting impatient and wanting to see results. In order to get the police to act quickly, they kidnap what they think was the culprit Karim Labaneh, Schulte's advisor. Bukow and König quickly track down the kidnappers and free Labaneh. Both kidnappers are killed during the operation.

The inspectors are gradually discovering a dark secret from Sylvia Schulte's past. 18 years ago she and two men from the right-wing extremist scene had carried out an arson attack on a refugee home in Anklam . A Birte Köppen, who worked in the home and whose life got completely out of hand after this fire, was injured. Her health is so bad that she can no longer work, she has only been a Hartz IV recipient for years. Your statement that there were three perpetrators at the time, and not just two, who could also have been held legally responsible, had not been taken seriously. Sylvia Schulte remained unpunished because there was no investigation against her. Only Birte Köppen knew that there was another perpetrator whose eyes she could not forget in all these years. When she saw these eyes on the election posters hanging up everywhere, she made the decision to take revenge for her fate. When Bukow and König find out and question the woman, she immediately admits that she burned Sylvia Schulte. At least that was what she wanted to "manage" in her life.

Filming

The film was shot from April 24, 2017 to May 23, 2017 in Rostock and Hamburg. The premiere took place on November 4, 2017 at the Nordic Film Days Lübeck .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Polizeiruf 110: In Flammen on June 10, 2018 was seen by a total of 6.31 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 20.2 percent for Das Erste .

criticism

Christian Buß from Spiegel Online judged: “Left and right, up and down, in and out, that is topographically close together in this very cleverly constructed social thriller […]. Ambivalences allowed, relativizations forbidden. [...] The conversations of this 'police call' are ambivalent at the pain threshold, the processes of division in society appear almost physically noticeable: a crime bomb before the long summer break. "

The Berliner Zeitung wrote: “Florian Oeller got caught up in the many storylines in the meantime, but still wrote a crime thriller that developed tremendously and raised many, even painful, questions. As is so often the case with the 'police call' from Rostock, the interaction between Charly Hübner and Anneke Kim Sarnau was worth seeing. The discussions of their characters about the question of how to counter increasing right-wing extremism were particularly thought-provoking. "

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv rated: "The Rostock 'Polizeiruf 110 - In Flammen' [...] stirs the brown soup vigorously." "And so this 17th 'Polizeiruf' with Sarnau & Hübner is not just a politically engaged theme film, but on the home stretch there was also a rather wildly constructed - albeit exciting - robber pistol. The film does not develop the pull of other episodes of this offshoot. The new confusion of the right-wing scene is not only reflected in the story, but also in the dramaturgy. The physical, the specific signature of the Rostock crime novels, remains largely limited to the performance of the actors. "

The film service awarded two out of five possible stars and criticized the film as overly constructed and touching on many aspects, but remaining vague in its societal intentions. In addition, there is ultimately a lack of daring to leave the narrative standards behind.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Police call 110: In flames at crew united
  2. ↑ Barrier-free German film versions. In: 59th Nordic Film Days Lübeck. October 2017, accessed June 7, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Sunday, June 10th, 2018. In : quotemeter.de . June 11, 2018, accessed June 11, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Christian Buß: I understand you. And hit you in the face. In: Spiegel Online . June 8, 2018, accessed June 8, 2018 .
  5. ↑ "In Flammen" raises many, even painful, questions at berliner-zeitung.de , accessed on August 12, 2018.
  6. ↑ Sarnau, Hübner, Adel, Oeller, Lotze. Cast out the devil with the Beelzebub at tittelbach.tv , accessed on August 12, 2018.
  7. ^ Polizeiruf 110 - In Flammen , in: Film-Dienst , accessed on May 10, 2020
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