Police call 110: Alibi for one night

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Alibi for one night
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 71 minutes
classification Episode 48 ( List )
First broadcast July 24, 1977 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Hans Joachim Hildebrandt
script Hans Joachim Hildebrandt
production Ralf Siebenhörl
music Lothar Kehr
camera Bernd Sperberg
cut Silvia Lever
occupation

Alibi for one night is a German crime film by Hans Joachim Hildebrandt from 1977. The television film was released as the 48th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Elke Knaack marries Manfred Poser in winter. She has also invited her grown son from her first marriage, Thomas, to the wedding. However, he prefers to stay away from the wedding ceremony. Thomas has a close relationship with his father Heinz and both were surprised by Elke's marriage plans, especially since Heinz and Elke only divorced a year ago. Both had worked together in GPG Immergrün's large nursery , of which Elke is the boss. Heinz left the production cooperative six months ago. He is now the head of a SERO acceptance point and is very enthusiastic about alcohol. Thomas, who still lives with Elke, is supposed to move into Manfred's apartment, which is now empty after Manfred's move to Elke's house. Thomas, always cared for by his mother, believes that they both want to get rid of him and reacts defiantly and uncontrollably. After an ambiguous accusation, Manfred slaps him at dinner and throws him out. During the nightly inspection tour through the nursery, Manfred notices that the rooms are not heated and that the GPG watchdog is locked in his kennel. When Manfred tries to turn on the heating, there is an explosion in which he is seriously injured. He comes to the hospital with burns and broken bones. First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs and Master Lutz Subras take over the investigation.

At first everything looks like an accident. The overpressure valve had been defective for a long time, but Elke took the risk of having the flower rooms heated anyway, otherwise the plants would have died in the winter temperatures. She now takes responsibility for the accident, especially since Heinz tells her that he made Manfred aware of the poor condition of the entire heating system. The GPG was to be connected to a newly built boiler house shortly. Since Manfred cannot yet be questioned about the course of the accident in the hospital, Peter Fuchs and Lutz Subras first question GPG employees. One says he saw a motorcycle drive away that night. The driver wore a red helmet. It can also be determined that a person entered the GPG premises via the fence during the night. Since the dog did not strike, the human must have been familiar to the animal. Manfred, in turn, had called the name "Thomas" after his admission to the hospital.

Elke suspects that her son secretly turned off the heating valves at night in order to get revenge on her and Manfred. She wants to cover her son and gives him an alibi. You and Heinz testify that Thomas was with Heinz the entire night of the crime. Both would have been drinking. Elke can also reveal the alibi to Manfred in the hospital and Manfred also covers Thomas. He's been working at the zoo for three weeks and that night also went to his job and slept there in the hay. Since Manfred had thrown him out, Thomas initially finds accommodation with his colleague Hannelore Weigel. He doesn't care about discipline and so he pretends that he is not feeling well while he listens to loud music in Hannelore's apartment, takes a bath and drinks wine in bulk. The investigators leave the message in the zoo that Thomas should report to the local police station. Hannelore tells him this and Thomas drives to Elke that night. She tells him which alibi he has for the night of the crime and Thomas also states when he is questioned by the police that he was with his father on the night of the crime and that they both drank. The questioning dragged on until the following morning, as the investigators know that Elke Thomas wants to cover. Elke, in turn, reacts nervously due to the long interview time and wants to revise her false statement. But before that, Thomas testifies. He had found shelter in his shed not far from his parents' house that night when Manfred made his nightly tour. Thomas hid from him and then continued. The investigators had already learned from Hannelore that she had found him early in the zoo straw. Thomas is allowed to go. He rushes to his father, where the police are already waiting. Since Thomas was not with Heinz all night, he has no alibi for part of the night of the crime. The dog knew him too, Heinz was familiar with GPG technology and its weaknesses - he is urgently suspect.

Heinz goes to Elke and wants to prevent her from revoking her statement to the police. He confesses to her that he was the culprit, and Elke is desperate because she suspected her own son. When Heinz wants to leave, the investigators are waiting for him and arrest him.

production

Alibi for one night was filmed from January 5 to February 25, 1977 under the working titles The Trap and Alibi in Teltow and in Leipzig and the surrounding area. The scenes in the zoo take place in the Leipzig zoo . The costumes of the film created Christel Nowotny , the Filmbauten derived from Werner Jagodzinski . The film experienced on July 24, 1977 the first program of the television of the GDR its television premiere. The audience participation was 57.5 percent.

It was the 48th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs investigated in his 30th case and Master Lutz Subras in his 28th case. It was the last police call that Master Lutz Subras appeared. The criticism found that Alibi for one night “is definitely not one of the best films in the series. Director Hildebrandt works all too willingly with common clichés and bridges weaknesses in the fable and suspense with pictures of animals in the zoo [...] Nevertheless, this film also impresses with the technically clean work of its actors. "

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 83-84.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=048 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 56.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 84.
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