Police call 110: end of winter

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	End of winter
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	AllMedia Pictures on behalf of NDR
length	90 minutes
classification	Episode 259 ( List )
First broadcast	September 12, 2004 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Andreas Kleinert
script	Beate Langmaack
production	Heike Richter-Karst
music	Andreas Hoge
camera	Johann Feindt
cut	Gisela Zick
occupation
Henry Hübchen : Tobias Törner, KHK Uwe Steimle : Jens Hinrichs, KHK Marlen Diekhoff : Johanna Preusler Birge Schade : Marianne Dammers Helga Göring : Greta Gerber Hermann Beyer : Hinrich's father Agnieszka Piwowarska : Anjeschka Jawlenski, domestic worker Johannes Terne : Jansen Marek Wlodarczyk : Pavel Jawlenski Anna Stieblich : Doctor

Winterende is a German crime film from 2004. The television film was released as the 259th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 and was produced for the NDR under the direction of Andreas Kleinert . Chief Detective Jens Hinrichs ( Uwe Steimle ) is investigating his 22nd case. For his colleague Tobias Törner ( Henry Hübchen ) it is the third case in Schwerin .

action

Undertaker Preusler dies in his own sauna. Someone had turned the thermostat to 120 degrees Celsius and wedged the door. Ultimately, he died there of circulatory failure. The wife cannot imagine who wanted her husband bad, he would have been a "soul of man" and it could only be a mistake. A few days later, Johanna Preusler was threatened by telephone. Fearful, she asks Commissioner Törner to protect her and to pull her into his house. There he found out that Preusler was not quite as flawless as his wife had described it, because they employed a Polish couple as domestic servants and Preusler had Anjeschka Jawlenski as a lover. He had given the husband a loan as a "settlement".

Hinrichs meanwhile has private worries with his father. He recently moved to the nursing home and doesn't feel at home there at all. His son therefore visits him almost every day and finds out that Preusler's employee Jawlenski also works as a caretaker in the old people's home. He regularly brought with him information about dying residents of the home, so that Preusler could contact the bereaved at an early stage and secure the contracts.

Törner is now convinced that the threatening phone call to Johanna Preusler was just invented so that she would not be so alone. Likewise, a perpetrator of the Jawlenskis is ruled out for him, as he had got to know both of them as extremely lovable and honest people. On the other hand, Preusler's employee Janson seems to him more and more suspicious. Since his boss had a relationship with the pretty funeral orator Marianne Dammers before Anjeschka and Janson himself was in love with this woman, he had agreed, out of love for her, to get Preusler out of the way. Dammers was deeply offended that Preussler had found a younger mistress and developed feelings of revenge. Since the funeral home used to be partly owned by her parents before they teamed up with Preusler, Marianne Dammers would inherit the funeral home after his death. This was contractually agreed and contributed to the decision to get Preusler out of the way.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best rating (thumbs up) and said: "Inconvenient topics, cleverly conveyed".

Web links

• Police 110: end of winter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• End of winter summary of the plot of the film on the ARD website
• End of winter at Fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TV thriller from Meck-Pomm short review at TV Spielfilm.de , accessed on October 3, 2016.

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