Police call 110: cats and dogs

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	Cat and tomcat
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	NDR
length	89 minutes
classification	Episode 202 ( List )
First broadcast	June 14, 1998 on Das Erste
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Director	Manfred Stelzer
script	Gert C. Möbius Manfred Stelzer
music	Lutz Kerschowski
camera	Michael Wiesweg
cut	Inge Bohmann
occupation
Kurt Böwe : Kurt Groth Uwe Steimle : Jens Hinrichs Inga Busch : Caroline Petersen Karl Kranzkowski : Max Armin Rohde : Klaus Lederer Hermann Lause : Detective Wollfuß Ulrich Wildgruber : Dr. Moser Birgit Bockmann : Policewoman Marie Anne Fliegel : Eva Storm Dorothea Gädeke : Policewoman Ernest Hausmann : Mike Fabian Vera Lohr : fish seller Jeanette Schulze : supermarket cashier

Katz und Kater is a German crime film by Manfred Stelzer from 1998. The television film was released as the 202nd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

In Schwerin , several police officers report that their cats have suddenly died. Investigations show that it is not an act of revenge by motorists, but a blackmailer wants to put the cat food company Catfresh under pressure via poisoned cat food. Officially, press spokesman Klaus Lederer informs investigators Jens Hinrichs and Kurt Groth that the blackmailer wants 500,000 D-Marks to stop poisoning the cat food. In reality, however , the blackmailer requested Catfresh to get a certain model of a Catfresh advertisement in exchange for his standing still. Lederer and his superior Dr. Mosers believe that they are dealing with a madman. You turn on Detective Wollfuß and his men. They also contact model Caroline Petersen and ask her to act as a courier for the alleged handover of the money, since the blackmailer wanted this. Caroline receives 50,000 D-Marks for the "job". It is equipped with a microphone and transmitters so that Lederer and Wollfuß are in contact with her at all times while the money is being handed over. However, the action goes wrong. The blackmailer Max, who disguised himself as a taxi driver, escapes the shadows. A little later they only find the empty taxi. Apparently, Caroline was also completely undressed, so that all channels are useless.

Caroline wakes up wearing only a fur coat in a motorized trolley that is on its way to a Hallig . She wants to flee and Max lets her get out, but the country is wide and empty as far as the eye can see. Max is the only one who lives on the Hallig in the cold autumn. The rails leading to the house are regularly washed over by the tide. Caroline tries unsuccessfully to flee, never gets very far and finally comes to terms with her life with Max. He doesn't press her, but simply wanted her to be the future wife, whom he had to save from the inhuman world of big cities and advertising. He hopes that over time they will both get used to each other and learn to love each other. He repulses Caroline's impetuous attempts at seduction in astonishment, and she realizes that he is really serious. Her hope of rescue is dashed when she hears about a press conference on the radio in which Lederer and Moser announce that the case is closed for them because the blackmailer had received the money.

Meanwhile, in Schwerin, Wollfuß tries to make a profit from his knowledge of Caroline's disappearance. For his part, he blackmailed Moser for 200,000 D-Marks, which the original blackmailer claimed. Hinrichs and Groth notice this, who believe that the money will be handed over again and that they can catch the blackmailer. They don't know anything about Caroline. Only Mike Fabian, who brought Caroline to her meeting with Lederer and Moser, becomes impatient when Caroline remains as if swallowed by the ground even after several days. Although he is threatened by Wollfuß, he goes to Hinrichs and Groth. They, in turn, confront Wollfuß, who finally confesses everything. He also gives them a postcard that Caroline was able to send secretly from Hallig and in which she refers to her whereabouts near Dagebüll .

Meanwhile, Caroline is in love and Max believes her. They kiss and sleep together. Max eventually takes Caroline to the mainland to do some shopping. Here the cashier at a supermarket recognizes Caroline, who is now being searched for in the newspaper. Max runs out of the supermarket in a panic and drives back to the Hallig with Caroline. The cashier alerts Hinrichs and Groth, who are driving to Hallig with other police officers by trolley. Max knows that the investigators will appear on the Hallig shortly. Since he will not be able to live with Caroline, but does not want to be separated from her either, he plans their death together. He sets the house on fire, but Caroline manages to leave the house with a trick. Max dies in the flames, Caroline looks into the flames and begins to cry.

production

Katz und Kater was filmed from November 1997 in Schwerin and the surrounding area as well as Dagebüll and the surrounding area (with Halligbahn). The costumes of the film created Heidi Plätz that Filmbauten come from Peter Bausch and Marion Strohschein . The film had its television premiere on June 14, 1998 in the first . The audience participation was 19.6 percent.

It was the 202nd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . The inspectors Hinrichs and Groth investigated in their 11th case.

criticism

“This time [...] the brave inspectors [Hinrichs and Groth] turned out to be criminal of the sad figure. The latest case pretty much passed them by, ”said the Leipziger Volkszeitung . Although the film begins as a thriller, it develops "into a kind of psychological study about loneliness and pathological love", treads on the spot in the second half and is meaningless in the end. Above all, the motives of the perpetrator remained in the dark. Katz und Kater is a "crime untypical story, nicely painted and somehow also pleasant in deliberation, but ultimately too little pointed."

Even if the film ended tragically, it was "again an original, sometimes highly amusing, depressingly beautifully photographed and great cast Manfred Stelzer film", judged the Sächsische Zeitung , but limited that it "did not deserve the name crime fiction". Even if Katz und Kater is less a crime thriller than a drama, it is “nonetheless exciting and wonderfully played right down to the supporting roles, especially wonderfully weird,” wrote the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung .

Web links

• Police 110: Cat and cat in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Police call 110: Katz und Kater at filmportal.de
• Police call 110: Katz und Kater on Das Erste.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 211.
2. ↑ Reinhard Meyer: Insignificant . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , June 15, 1998, p. 10.
3. ↑ Jens Hölzig: Sad-funny . In: Sächsische Zeitung , June 16, 1998, p. 17.
4. ↑ Maik Ressel: Wonderfully weird thriller . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , June 16, 1998.

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