Police call 110: mad love

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Love madness
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Filmpool Fiction
on behalf of NDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 341 ( List )
First broadcast January 12, 2014 on Das Erste
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Director Thomas Stiller
script Thomas Stiller
production Iris pine
music Fabian Römer
camera Marc Liesendahl
cut Simone Sugg-Hofmann
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Liebeswahn is a German crime film by Thomas Stiller from 2014. It is the 341st episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 and the ninth case for Chief Inspector Alexander Bukow ( Charly Hübner ) and the LKA officer Katrin König ( Anneke Kim Sarnau ). The main guest roles in this episode are Sandra Borgmann , Alma Leiberg and Isis Krüger .

After a man's tongue was brutally cut out of the mouth with secateurs, whereupon he ultimately bled to death, the commissioners Bukow and König initially suspect a mafia-like background.

action

Detective chief inspectors Bukow and König are summoned to a mysterious death during the night. A man bled to death after someone cut off his tongue. For the investigators, this looks like Mafia methods. You contact the Hamburg police, where there was a similar case years ago in a swingers club . One difference, however, is that the Hamburg victim's tongue was not clamped off beforehand, as was the case in Rostock.

In order to clarify the identity of the dead person, a photo is published in the newspaper. The medical-technical assistant Martina Reuter then reports and identifies the victim as Jürgen Heinze. According to her, her ex-boyfriend had recently met a new woman. Although Reuter hadn't said anything about BDSM practices, Bukow and König found clear evidence of this in Heinze's apartment. You can also find the Rostock Club, where he used to hang out with his girlfriend at the time. Since Martina Reuter tended to act more brutally than usual, both were banned from the house. As a result, Martina Reuter is the focus of the investigators' attention, although they do not notice that they are the perpetrators themselves.

Strange things have been happening for some time: someone has scattered rose petals in front of Bukow's house, he receives a letter with a declaration of love, while his wife Vivian was seen meeting with Bukow's colleague Thiesler. Her car is obscenely smeared and someone on the phone insults her in a disguised voice as "filthy whore". But Katrin König is also being secretly observed. She is initially insulted via chat and assaulted the next day while jogging. When Bukow follows his colleague to the clinic, the stalker takes the chance and breaks into his house and slits Vivian's clothes. This is the doctor Clara Fischer, who Bukow met by chance in the hospital when he had to have his son treated there. Bukow suspects, however, that Martina Reuter is behind it and does not suspect that he himself is falling into the trap. After Fischer realizes that her almost delusional love will not be returned by Bukow, she incapacitates him with an anesthetic, takes him to the basement of the clinic and ties him to a chair. In order to improve his situation, he tries to make it clear to her that he would like her after all. But Fischer does not want to hear this and cut off his tongue for this mendacity. She couldn't let him lie to more women and break more hearts.

Bukow's colleagues notice just in time that he has suddenly disappeared and find out that there is a connection to Samuel's treatment and the doctor treating him. You follow the trail into the clinic's basement. To save Bukow, König has to shoot the mentally ill woman who is fatally wounded in the process.

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast on January 12, 2014 on ARD , this police call episode with the detective duo from Rostock reached 8.88 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 23.6%.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv appraised: “Rostock is becoming a thriller country, the crime scene is a torture cellar, the hooded monster is going around. Author-director Thomas Stiller leads the viewer into the sick parallel world of a love-mad person. This case is good for the top duo. And Sarnau & Hübner also suits Stiller's sense of style perfectly. "

At Spiegel Online , Christian Buß found that the crime thriller “scores points” despite the rough “genre kit” and some “logic gaps”. All of the characters in the Rostock 'Police Call' are generally so believable that they also work in negligently soldered plot structures. "

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, on the other hand, considers this police call to be “unsuccessful” and calls it a “cheap horror film.” It goes on to say: “We have already seen a lot and endured a lot, but that now crowns the public contempt: the 'police call' - The episode 'Liebeswahn' has a good chance of winning the title 'Dumbest Screenplay of the Year' even though it's only at the beginning of January. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anneke Kim Sarnau, Charly Hübner, Thomas Stiller. Commissioners in mortal danger at tittelbach.tv, accessed on October 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ Christian Buß : In the torture cellar of love at spiegel.de, accessed on November 9, 2016.
  3. ↑ Oliver Junge: Opportunity for blows at faz.net, accessed on November 9, 2016.
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