Police call 110: In mask and costume

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title In mask and costume
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 80 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
classification Episode 53 ( List )
First broadcast May 14, 1978 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Hans Joachim Hildebrandt
script Hans Joachim Hildebrandt
production Ralf Siebenhörl
music Lothar Kehr
camera Franz Ritschel
cut Karola Mittelstädt
occupation

In mask and costume is a German detective film by Hans Joachim Hildebrandt from 1978. The television film was released as the 53rd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

On New Year's Eve , the illusionist Dietmar Schuchard appears at the police station in a mask and costume and reports to Lieutenant Jürgen Hübner, drunk, that he murdered his wife Liane at Christmas. Dietmar collapses and is taken to hospital. The investigation shows that Dietmar's apartment has apparently not been entered again since Christmas. There is no corpse, but traces of blood at least indicate a major argument. When Dietmar is released from the hospital three days later, he repeats to the investigators that he killed his wife. Both had an argument because Dietmar had bought a magician's estate for 5,000 marks. He wanted to borrow the money from Helfried Wipperling, from whom he had once stretched a liana and who therefore really didn't like him. Liane reacted angrily because Dietmar lives so lavishly, although he cannot afford it. The trained hairdresser is an untalented magician who rarely has a permanent job. Liane, a trained hairdresser, once worked as his assistant, but soon decided to return to her profession. Since then, she has tried in vain to dissuade Dietmar from doing art without a job. Now she decided to treat herself to something and bought an expensive chain. Dietmar suspected that a lover had given her the jewelry and Liane replied in her anger that Helfried might have been the giver. Dietmar then beat her until she lay motionless. He then left home and lived with a friend until he went to the police. When the investigators tell him that Liane was not in the apartment, he was relieved.

Jürgen Hübner doubts whether the Liane case is actually a crime. A little later, Liane's body was found in a discarded train wagon in her home village of Wernrode. Due to the cycle times of the trains that went to Wernrode during the night, Dietmar can be excluded as a perpetrator, as it can be proven that he turned up at his friend's house shortly after midnight. Jürgen Hübner asks Helfried and also predator trainer Stefan Marwitz, who was a good friend of Liane's. Liane's path can slowly be reconstructed at night. Helfried was with a friend who lives in Dietmar's next house for Christmas. He overheard the Schuchards' marriage row and watched Liane when she came out of the house. He wanted to take her to Wernrode, but she only asked him to drive him to Amalienpark. Here she hoped to find accommodation with acquaintances who, however, weren't there. A resident of the house doctored her and lent her a dress, as Liane's top was torn by Dietmar during an argument. Stefan also lived in the house, and Liane rang the doorbell. She found out from him that he was newly married and left the house in a hurry. Stefan ran after her and saw her getting into a car - Helfried's car. He says he was waiting for Liane and, at her request, drove her to the train station in Wernrode. She didn't want to flee from Dietmar and take the last train back to town.

Helfried's and Stefan's statements appear credible. Again Dietmar is in the sights of the investigators, who, however, could not have come to Wernrode by train. Only the ABV from Wernrode can solve the riddle. Dietmar must have taken a train that went much earlier, but only to a neighboring town of Wernrodes. He could have taken a taxi from here because there were no more buses. In fact, there is a taxi driver who claims to have driven Dietmar to Wernrode for Christmas as a friendship service. Confronted with the statements, Dietmar admits to have ambushed his wife at the train station because he believed she had a relationship with Helfried. After another argument, he killed her at the train station.

production

In mask and costume , the film was shot from October 25 to December 11, 1977 under the working title An old story (Die Volte) in Schierke , Wernigerode and Magdeburg . Some station scenes were filmed at Drei Annen Hohne station. The costumes of the film created Helga Alschner that Filmbauten submitted by Jürgen Malitz . The film had its premiere on May 14, 1978 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 50.3 percent.

It was the 53rd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner investigated in his 23rd case.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 101-102.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=053 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 61.
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