Police 110: Bounty Hunter

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Bounty hunter
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Infafilm
on behalf of the BR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 213 ( List )
First broadcast November 21, 1999 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Ulrich Stark
script Wolfgang Limmer
production Manfred Korytowski
music Birger Heymann
camera Wolf Siegelmann
cut Ulla Möllinger
occupation

Kopfgeldjäger is a German crime film by Ulrich Stark from 1999. The television film was released as the 213rd episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

In the Chiemsee the corpse of the computer scientist Dr. Klaus-Peter Reck found. She has a gunshot wound in the head, so that the Traunstein inspector Anselm Keller asks for administrative assistance from the Munich chief inspector Jürgen Tauber in the case . Reck worked at the Beersdorf company, where he worked in software development. Apparently stockbroker Iris Scheufele was his girlfriend; it also identifies his body. It turns out that Reck am Chiemsee attended a personality seminar for top managers. The seminar of the company Business Dynamics is led by Max Ortheil, the methods seem rather strange to Tauber and Keller.

A 9 mm case is found on the beach at Chiemsee, but Keller forgets to tell Tauber: Keller is under stress, as his daughter marries the police pathologist Dr. Eli Haddhad. This in turn means that Tauber has to wait a long time for the autopsy report, which delays the investigation. Tauber gets help from the Nuremberg psychologist Dr. Silvia Jansen, who asks the course participants about Reck in one-on-one interviews. However, Ortheil suggested to the participants that the questionnaires were part of a game, so that Silvia Jansen was not taken seriously. Tauber has had enough and announces a 24-hour room arrest for all course participants. The only woman in the group, Krista Vitzthum, indicates to Silvia Jansen that she was "hit on" by Reck.

In the Chiemsee, 150 meters from the bank, the weapon was found with which Reck was shot. There is no way the gun was thrown that far into the water from the bank. A check by Krista Vitzthum, on the other hand, shows that she does not work for the company that she stated as her job before Silvia Jansen. Reck's girlfriend Iris, on the other hand, seems to have an unusually close relationship with Hagen Beersdorf, Reck's superior. Meanwhile, the course participants are looking for someone to blame. In group meetings, they finally agree that Krista must be the perpetrator, as she was ensnared by horizontal bar. Ortheil also urged her in a one-on-one conversation to play the murderess in front of the investigators, who acted in self-defense. She will get away without penalty, but will save the company: Krista is Ortheil's employee who, as a female "decoy", solves communication blocks and gets the men to talk in groups.

Shortly after the conversation with Ortheil, Krista calls Tauber anonymously and shows him the way to a secret room in the seminar building. Here Tauber not only find the handcuffed Ortheil, but also a furnished room full of surveillance camera tapes. Ortheil's and Krista's secret conversation is played back in a loop. Other tapes show the meetings of the group when, for example, the greatest fears should be written down. In the picture you can see Ortheil not burning the letters as advertised, but putting them in his pocket. Further records make it clear that Reck was humiliated and ostracized from the group more and more often in the course of the meetings. In the end he was a mental and nervous wreck. As well as his sexual inclination to role-play - Krista was introduced to him in the course as the figure Virtuella and thus as a figure that otherwise only Iris embodied for him - Reck took his own life. The current drove him out onto the Chiemsee. Shortly before his suicide, he had tried in vain to contact Iris, assuming that she had betrayed his sexual inclinations to Ortheil. In fact, there are photos in Krista's possession showing Reck and the disguised Iris making love.

Tauber finds out that Reck's boss Beersdorf deliberately let him drive to his death in the seminar. Reck had a blocking minority in Beersdorf's company and refused to sell. This threatened to burst a lucrative takeover by a US company. The takeover will take place before Reck's funeral is over.

production

Villa Knorr, a location for the film

Bounty hunter was filmed in Munich in the summer of 1999 , especially in and around the Villa Knorr in Niederpöcking on Lake Starnberg , in the film the Business Dynamics training building . The costumes of the film created Rosemarie Hettmann that Filmbauten derived from Michael fungus . The film had its television premiere on November 21, 1999 on the first . The audience participation was 21.6 percent.

It was the 213rd episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series . Silvia Jansen investigated in her 5th case and Jürgen Tauber in his 2nd case.

criticism

“The pun sparkles and the mind has work. What more do you want? ", Asked Der Spiegel , and called bounty hunters " an exciting story [...] about the insanity of training programs for managers. " The Frankfurter Rundschau stated that it was “pleasantly tightly staged” . For the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , the film was “more of a grotesque than a… crime thriller […], a wild game about managers and power.” The Tagesspiegel again called the film “something between Heimatfilm and Edmund Stoiber criticism.”

For Rainer Tittelbach , Edgar Selges Jürgen Tauber was “the center of the fifth and best Bavarian 'Polizeiruf 110' so far.” According to the Stuttgarter Zeitung , Christian Berkel had received the most grateful role in the film as the “slick psycho-charlatan”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 222.
  2. ↑ Switch on - Police call 110: Bounty hunter Sunday, 8.15 p.m., ARD . In: Der Spiegel , No. 46, November 15, 1999, p. 135.
  3. ↑ düp: excursion into barren landscapes of the soul . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , November 20, 1999, p. 10.
  4. ↑ Gerd Dehnel: Smart villains . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , November 23, 1999.
  5. ↑ Joachim Huber: The Bavarian, a victim. In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 23, 1999, p. 31.
  6. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Deadly training for top managers . In: Berliner Morgenpost , November 21, 1999, p. 31.
  7. ↑ gump: Under a false flag . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , November 23, 1999, p. 32.
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