Police call 110: nightmare

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title nightmare
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 DEFA
for television in the GDR
length 91 minutes
classification Episode 71 ( List )
First broadcast May 10, 1981 on GDR 1
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Director Peter Vogel
script Fred Unger
production Irene Ikker
music Hermann Anders
camera Peter Süring
cut Helga Krause
occupation

Alptraum is a German crime film by Peter Vogel from 1981. The television film was released as the 71st episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Bernd Broske wanted to give his wife Angela a life of luxury. For this he committed theft and was eventually imprisoned for several years. Now he is released early after three years. His cell neighbor Wilhelm Gurak waits for him in front of the prison and joins him. Together they drive to Broske's house in the Spreewald , but Angela is not there. She didn't write Broske's return on her calendar until the following week. What Broske doesn't know is that Angela wants to leave him. She has long since found a new friend in shift engineer Josef Hansen, whom she wants to marry. She didn't want to tell Broske about it until after his imprisonment, so as not to make life behind bars even more difficult. However, Broske and Gurak both see at a dance event in a restaurant when they want to get cigarettes. The men wait for the couple in the married couple's house and the four of them confront there. Gurak pushes Hansen against the furniture, where he injures himself. At Broske's instruction, Gurak fills Hansen with hard liquor, takes him out of the room and leaves him numb. Broske knocks Angela down and the Gurak who has stepped up says that she is dead, which Broske does not examine and believe.

Lieutenant Manfred Bergmann, who arrested Broske, learned from his girlfriend that he was at large again. She saw Broske and his companion outside the restaurant where Angela and Josef were sitting. Manfred Bergmann therefore drives by the Broske's house shortly before the start of the shift to be on the safe side. The building is on fire. At the risk of his life he rescues Angela, who shows no signs of life, from the flames. After the fire brigade extinguished the flames, they found Josef Hansen's body in the charred remains of the house. Captain Peter Fuchs from the homicide squad is called in. The search for Broske and Gurak is initiated.

Gurak had accidentally lit the fire with Broske's cigarette when he tore it out of his mouth. Both men fled to cover up the murder of Angela, who in reality was seriously injured. Broske and Gurak flee to Dresden , where Gurak's mother lives. They are hiding in a house in an allotment garden. Gurak steals a rabbit and gets Broske to eat something. The investigators meanwhile have the streets checked and tighten the investigation network. They are waiting for the fugitives to make a mistake. In fact, Gurak is raiding to get money. Broske, in turn, gets in touch with his brother Ernst, who rejects him. From him he learns that Angela survived and waits in the hospital park to see her. Angela goes into hysterics when she spots him in the park, and Broske flees. Gurak has meanwhile gone to the train station and is recognized by a police officer in the toilet. After an exchange of fire, Gurak flees back to the gazebo, but Broske is not there. Gurak chases the police with a stolen laundry vehicle and is finally stopped at a roadblock. Broske, however, remains gone. Lieutenant Colonel Fischer explains to Lieutenant Manfred Bergmann that the knowledge that Angela survived could only have led Broske to one place and that Lieutenant Colonel found Broske sitting in the ruins of the burned house. Broske's mother walks around the property screaming hysterically ...

... and Broske wakes up in his cell. He will shortly be released from prison. He tells his fellow prisoner Gurak that he had a nightmare. He has doubts whether he will get a grip on his life in freedom. But Gurak encourages him: "We can do it . We have to do it."

production

Nightmare was filmed from March 11th to May 14th, 1980 in Cottbus , Dresden (including in Dresden Central Station ), various locations in the Spreewald and in Potsdam-Babelsberg. The working title of the film was Action . The costumes of the film created Dorit Gründel that Filmbauten submitted by Heinz lions village .

There is no uniform name for the restaurant in the film. In the dialogues it is called Krug or Spreewaldperle , on the sign above the door it says Cafe Venice .

First broadcast

Nightmare had its premiere on May 10, 1981 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 52.6 percent.

It was the 71st episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Captain Peter Fuchs investigated in his 45th case and Lieutenant Manfred Bergmann in his 2nd case.

criticism

The criticism found that the film "offers all possible bad chains, as they can only happen to a returnee to freedom." The plot is "full of exaggerations and improbabilities that constantly question the seriousness of the topic." Film series would be deliberately broken. “The dissolution of the plot into the 'nightmare' [...] marks the impossibility of locating such a story in the 'actually existing' GDR. For such a story only openly exhibited fiction was possible as an appropriate narrative. "

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 122-124.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Representation according to the large «Polizeiruf110» dictionary: 071 - nightmare ( memento from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 79.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 122.
  4. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 123.
  5. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 124.
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