Police call 110: night taxi

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Night taxi
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 57 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 29 ( List )
First broadcast December 15, 1974 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Werner Röwekamp
script Werner Röwekamp
Hans Siebe
production Ralf Siebenhörl
music Rainer Hornig
camera Rolf Sohre
cut Susanne Carpentier
occupation

Nachttaxi is a German crime film by Werner Röwekamp from 1974. The television film was released as the 29th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

During a night tour, taxi driver Kurt Großmann is pulled out of the car by a hooded man while checking the cashier and beaten with an ox pizzle . Großmann flees into an empty house, is pursued by the man and finally falls down from a window while trying to escape. The emergency call is dialed anonymously. Großmann is admitted to hospital seriously injured, while Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner, Lieutenant Vera Arndt and Master Lutz Subras begin the investigation.

It can be reconstructed that at the time Großmann was driving a blonde lady in the car, which he took along as a passenger after his break in his local pub. There was a bag at the scene of the crime, the contents of which must have belonged to a stage worker. In fact, the owner of the bag can be found in stage worker Hinkel. He wants to flee when he sees the investigators, but can be caught. He was at the house during the time of the crime and observed the attack, as a result of which the passenger also fled. Hinkel took the opportunity and took the taxi driver's money, as his wallet was on the driver's seat. The attack was therefore not an attempted robbery. A second lead leads to a case that happened a year ago. At that time, Großmann witnessed how a Wartburg driver almost rolled over a cyclist at excessive speed. Großmann took up the pursuit of the car at the time and ended up hitting the youngster Uwe. Since the car was also stolen, Uwe received a year of youth arrest and was thrown from school shortly before graduation. In his new company he is now doing an apprenticeship and has proven himself.

The investigators ask Uwe where he was on the night of the crime. It turns out that he went to a concert with his parents, although not he, but his older sister Birgit, likes classical concerts. Uwe's mother falsely states that her son was by her side the entire time. Uwe's father corrected this when he was questioned: Uwe left the concert early because of nausea. In Uwe's questioning about what happened a year ago, an important detail came to light. He was instigated to steal a car by his sister. She fled from the car before Uwe could be caught by Großmann. Uwe, in turn, did not reveal her. In addition, Großmann and other taxi drivers now testify that both Uwe's mother and Birgit tried to bribe them before the trial at that time so that they change or withdraw their testimony. Birgit offered to Großmann herself.

At a go-cart race, Lutz Subras asks the worker under whose guidance Uwe is learning to be a mechanic. He makes the acquaintance of Birgit, who lets him drive her home and flirts with him. Subras' car follows a motorcycle, and the man jealously reproaches Birgit. Birgit is now being observed. The ox pizzle can be assigned: It belongs to a circus, but a certain Willi Runge had borrowed the ox pizzle from the fair and never brought it back. When Birgit learns that her family has been questioned by the criminal police, she goes to the fair and retires to one of the fairground cars with Willi Runge. When he heard about the police questioning, he didn't want anything more to do with the whole thing, it was just about giving Grossmann a lesson, as Birgit wanted. Birgit wants to make him forgive and puts on the blonde wig that she had also worn in the taxi - she was the passenger on the back seat. When she tries to seduce Willi Runge naked with a wig, as is so often the case, Lutz Subras appears and arrests them both. During interrogation, neither of them can explain why they hate Großmann. Both wanted to go on vacation together a year ago, but could not do so when Uwe was arrested. Out of the diffuse anger, the plan for the attack developed, which Jürgen Hübner in the end indignantly describes as hooliganism .

production

The hall of mirrors at Rammenau Castle, a location for the film

Night taxi was filmed from May 20 to June 20, 1974 in Berlin , Leipzig , Meißen , Niesky and Dresden . The entrance scene with the performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's A Little Night Music was filmed in the Hall of Mirrors at Rammenau Castle . The scene with the go-kart was filmed in a building yard of the BMK Coal and Energy in Mohorner Strasse (Dresden- Löbtau ). The costumes of the film created Ruth peoples who Filmbauten come from Hans peoples . The night taxi had its television premiere on December 15, 1974 in the first program of GDR television. The audience participation was 56.3 percent.

The song Birgit and her friends dance to before Birgit incited her brother to steal a car is The Sweets Hell Raiser . The English-language song was a number one hit in 1973 with " Class Enemy ".

It was the 29th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner investigated in his 12th case, Lieutenant Vera Arndt in her 24th case and Master Lutz Subras in his 12th case.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 37.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=029 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 37.
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