Police call 110: Really Mallorca

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Really Mallorca
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavaria Film
for WDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 201 ( List )
First broadcast June 7, 1998 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Ulrich Stark
script Dirk Salomon
Thomas Wesskamp
production Veith von Fürstenberg
music Birger Heymann
camera Wolf Siegelmann
cut Felicitas Lainer
occupation

Murderous Mallorca is a German crime film by Ulrich Stark from 1998. The television film was released as the 201st episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

The patrol officers Sigi Möller and Kalle Küppers from Volpe in the Bergisches Land are on their way to Mallorca with colleagues and Mayor Huffer for a cultural exchange . As members of the men's choir Bergische Bachstelzen eV , they want to bring German folk songs to the people. Of necessity, Sigi's girlfriend Gabi from the homicide department also came along. Because she wants to go on vacation, but Sigi has reserved the first three days on the island for performances with the wagtails , the house blessing is crooked.

Shortly after arriving in Mallorca, there were initial delays in hotel transfers, as a bomb went off in the travel agency of your airline Dülmen Air . The airline belongs to Consul Ekki von Dülmen, who is interested in the Volper police giving as little as possible of the case to the public. In addition to Ekki, his wife Heike and detective inspector Miguel Fletcher arrive at the hotel where the wagtails perform. Gabi is bored and frustrated in the evening, drinks too much and ends up sleeping with Miguel. Sigi has also drunk too much and at the same time gambled away a lot of money in Rolf Radic's casino. Kalle had tried in vain to keep him from playing, as Johann Meyer, who was previously unknown to him, had made it clear to him that Sigi would lose all his money in the end. Sigi visits Radic at night when he found out from Kalle that it was all a pre-arranged game. He's demanding his money back. The next day Sigi is arrested by Miguel for killing Radic. In fact, Radic's body was found in his pool. Sigi's assertion that he can't swim at all, i.e. that Radic couldn't have killed in his pool, is not believed.

While driving to the prison, Miguel is called to another case: In an anonymous letter it is reported that a bomb is hidden in a bus from the Dülmen company. Miguel can find the bomb and destroy it; Meanwhile, Sigi manages to escape. He's looking for Meyer, whom he considers a key figure in the whole game. Meyer tells him that he was actually dead - Radic was rightly shocked the day before when he saw him in the casino.

Sigi and, at the same time, Kalle and Gabi begin research. They find out that Meyer once belonged to a notorious five-person gambling group on the island. Other members were Ekki and Radic and a man who had already died. The fifth member is unknown. Meyer disappeared in 1980 without a trace and was considered dead. They also find out that Ekki is now almost bankrupt due to the various bomb attacks. In the past, too, he was close to bankruptcy when he tried his hand at being a ferry operator. A ship went down as a result of an explosion, killing 32 people. The young Antonia, von Dülmen's secretary, helps Sigi with research into the case. She wants the perpetrators of the ferry accident to be caught, was the one responsible for the accident, since the captain is allegedly alcoholic, but her father. Sigi finds out that Miguel was leading the investigation into the case at the time. He concludes that Miguel was the fifth member of the gambling gang.

Sigi meets with Meyer again. It turns out that the gamblers also gambled when the ferry crashed. The whole thing turned out to be a big insurance fraud. The game was played about who should bring the bomb on board and detonate it, with Meyer losing and having to go on board. He was able to save himself in time; his brother pronounced him dead and collected 400,000 marks in insurance money. Now Meyer believes the gang is up to something new. Sigi suspects that an airplane is about to be blown up. After a tip from Antonia, Sigi and Kalle clear the plane in which Gabi, Huffner and the other colleagues wanted to fly home. Meyer takes control and maneuvers the plane away from the airport before it explodes. Shortly thereafter, Miguel is arrested, is able to escape and ultimately takes his own life. Sigi goes to Meyer's house, where Meyer himself appears. He saved himself from the explosion again; now he wants to flee with a large amount of cash. He was commissioned by Ekki von Dülmen's competitor Barthels to explode the machine in order to drive Dülmen into ruin for good. The driving force behind Meyer's behavior is the game of the time about the installation of an explosion on the ferry: Like Sigi in the casino, Meyer was cheated back then, which is why he had to risk his life. Now his revenge on Dülmen and Miguel is perfect. Antonia suddenly appears and shoots Meyer - in revenge for her father. In the end, the only question left is Radic's murderer. It turns out that like Sigi, Radic was a non-swimmer. Sigi had pushed him into the pool during an argument and left. Radic drowned.

production

Really Mallorca was filmed in Mallorca from September 22nd to November 1st, 1997. The previous location of the Möller-Küppers episodes, Brilon (in the film the fictional town of Volpe), can be seen briefly on an advertising brochure. The costumes for the film were created by Annette Popp and Miriam Tümmers , the film structures were created by Petra Heim . The film had its television premiere on June 7, 1998 on Dem Erste . The audience participation was 14.5 percent.

It was the 201st episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Sigi Möller and Kalle Küppers investigated in their 4th case.

criticism

"This is where the nonsense of the 'undercover investigations' is dragged through the cocoa," wrote Peter Hoff. The Süddeutsche Zeitung praised the film and found that Martin Lindow and Oliver Stritzel were "once again in top form". Even the somewhat confusing plot is insignificant, since the film "lived mainly from the skillful amalgamation of puns and punch lines, tension and a bit of melodrama, so that thanks to Ulrich Stark's brisk direction it became a fast-paced fun thriller".

"The badly constructed story does not get going," wrote the TV Spielfilm . The Leipziger Volkszeitung described the film as "unspeakable" with a confused plot. The film "was bursting with clichés, rough effects and a truly outrageous story reminiscent of a cheap South American robber gun."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Police call 110: Murderous Mallorca on bavaria-film.de
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 210.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 228.
  4. ↑ Hans-Heinrich Obuch: Sigi and Kalle on Malle . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 9, 1998, p. 17.
  5. ↑ Police call 110: Murderous Mallorca on tvspielfilm.de
  6. ↑ Roland Blüthner: Flashback - Unspeakable . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , June 9, 1998, p. 10.
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