Police call 110: Above the roofs of Schwerin

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Above the roofs of Schwerin
Police call 110 Logo.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company
NDR
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 212 ( List )
First broadcast July 18, 1999
Rod
Director Hans-Erich Viet
script Leo P. Ard
Rainer Butt
Hans-Erich Viet
production Klaus Michael Kühn
Klaus-Dieter Zeisberg
music Kambiz Giahi
camera Udo Franz
cut Birgit Levin
occupation

Above the roofs of Schwerin is a German crime film by Hans-Erich Viet from 1999. The television film was released as the 212th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . The film was produced by NDR .

action

The chimney sweep Jens Meister photographs Schwerin from above during his working hours , and he also photographs people from an unusual perspective. Coincidentally, he also photographs the chairman of the interior committee, Dr. Schwedler, who is having fun with a prostitute at the open window. Since Jens Meister has financial problems that ultimately lead to the seizure of his cameras, he blackmailed Dr. Schwedler with the photos for 5,000 D-Marks to be able to pay off his debts. Dr. Stuber hires Hinrichs to investigate this delicate matter, without telling him the identity of the blackmailed. Meanwhile, a video store in Schwerin goes up in flames. Dr. Stuber relies on Groth for this "insurance case" because the blackmail of Dr. Schwedlers is too explosive and should only be processed by Hinrichs.

Groth's granddaughter Juliane and the former prostitute Nina, with whom Hinrichs fell in love while investigating his last case , now work together in a travel agency . Groth arranges a reunion for Nina and Hinrichs. Both meet for dinner, but Hinrichs ruins the evening when he shows Nina the blackmail photo and wants the prostitute to be identified. Only later can he reconcile Nina and book a trip for two to the south with her.

Hinrichs believes that the strings in the blackmail case come together with the noble prostitute Marlene Motzko, but he made numerous mishaps during the investigation. He follows Marlene too conspicuously, arrests a homeless man who he believes is the blackmailer and finally, wrongly, believes that politician Dr. Bortscheller was blackmailed. Groth, in turn, investigates in the event of a fire and soon realizes that the fire was started by the video store owners Kraus and Tanard. While asking around in the area, he is shown a photo that Jens Meister took of a local resident. He and Hinrichs go to Meister’s apartment, where they find a small development laboratory. While Hinrichs arrests a fake man again shortly after, whom he believes to be a master, Groth can arrest the real master in the pawn shop. He has the negatives of the pictures with which he was Dr. Schwedler has blackmailed, meanwhile given to Kraus and Tanard. Kraus was photographed by him when he left the video store during the arson. Both men therefore believed the photo was evidence that they wanted to destroy. Now they have the photos developed, Dr. Schwedler in the pictures, and demand 30,000 Deutschmarks from the politician. When handing over the money, Hinrichs succeeds in arresting both men, even if he barely escapes death.

Dr. Stuber brings Hinrichs on behalf of Dr. Schwedler a gift basket for his work. Dr. Schwedler and also Dr. Stuber wants to refrain from charges in order not to let the case become public. Hinrichs is outraged and returns the present basket. Also on a planned application for a post in the LKA, the Dr. Stuber would now support, he waived. A little later, Hinrichs goes on vacation in the south with Nina. Before his departure, he gave Groth a new briefcase as a thank you for all the support he gave him, but he quickly stowed it in his beloved GDR bag.

production

The shooting took place above the roofs of Schwerin in and around Schwerin. Beate Pohl created the costumes, Marion Strohschein designed the film . The film had its television premiere on July 18, 1999 on Das Erste and achieved an audience rating of 17.3 percent when it was first broadcast.

It was the 212th episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 and after Rasputin the second Polizeiruf directed by Hans-Erich Viet. The inspectors Hinrichs and Groth are investigating their 13th case.

Among the films that burned in the video store was The Naked Man on the Sports Field , in which Kurt Böwe had his first leading role in 1974. His character Groth comments on the work with the words "Good film." The poem by Theodor Storm , which Groth quotes in the film, is Die Stadt from 1852.

Reviews

For Die Tageszeitung , the film was “a balanced mix, albeit a crime comedy rather than a thriller”, with particular emphasis on the numerous allusions to “Eastern products” and the various puns of the film. The Passauer Neue Presse called the police call worth seeing, as it had “an imaginative story, a highly realistic description of provincial police work, lots of local color and credible dialogues, everything as lifelike as the cow dung on a rubber boot. Compliments! ”“ In the best moments, a wonderfully bizarre small-town thriller ”, summarized the Hamburger Abendblatt , while the Leipziger Volkszeitung praised the film as“ a wonderfully light, lightning-smart comedy ”with a“ firework of situational comedy ”.

"In the film [...] a moderately exciting story develops that is only bearable because [the investigators] are brilliant as always," said Der Spiegel . The Mitteldeutsche Zeitung also wrote that the case itself was not very interesting, but that it was not the focus either: "The new 'police call' from Schwerin was primarily about the dumb blond [Hinrichs] - the crime thriller was due to the satirical undertone [... ] an easy-to-consume summer pleasure. ”“ A bit naive, sympathetic and quite North German, the whole thing ”, Rainer Tittelbach summarized in the Stuttgarter Zeitung , and wrote that it was a police shout“ with humor and without fuss ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 221.
  2. Anke Westphal: The good person from Meck-Pomm . In: Die Tageszeitung , July 17, 1999, p. 23.
  3. Anke Wittrock: Lifelike like cow dung . In: Passauer Neue Presse , July 19, 1999.
  4. Günther Wolf: Viewed critically - Polizeiruf 110 (Sunday, ARD) . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , vol. 52, no. 16, July 19, 1999, p. 7.
  5. Thomas Huebner: Delicious . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , July 20, 1999, p. 10.
  6. ^ Preview - Police call 110: Above the roofs of Schwerin . In: Der Spiegel , No. 28, 1999, p. 87.
  7. Cornelia Wystrichowski: Nothing understood . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , July 20, 1999.
  8. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: chimney sweep in bad luck . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , July 17, 1999, p. 40.