Police call 110: Old friends

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Old friends
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Polyphonic film and television
for NDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 175 ( List )
First broadcast September 10, 1995 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Markus Imboden
script Wolf-Heinrich Schulz
production Klaus-Dieter Zeisberg
music Reinhard Staub
camera Pio Corradi
cut Monika Wille
occupation

Alte Freunde is a German crime film by Markus Imboden from 1995. The television film was released as the 175th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

By chance the inspectors Jens Hinrichs and Kurt Groth end up in the village of Bandelwitz, where old Walter Donath helps them when they ask for directions. Walter still lives with his parents, even if he inherited a small property from Aunt Elli that he could restore. However, he doesn't really care, his decline is too deep: once he was innocent in prison for helping escape and espionage in the GDR for twelve years, after his release his wife looked for another man and since then he has been addicted to alcohol. His mother makes it clear to him that he just needs a new wife. Walter has already chosen one - Hilke Adler, the waitress at the Grüner Baum inn . He gives her gifts that she is reluctant to accept. At some point she makes it clear to him that she is already married to the landlord.

In Lübeck , where Walter is after his time as sea captain, he meets his prison buddies Harry and Fred again. They drink together and they both see that Walter has a lot of money with him. He claims to have inherited an inheritance, but in fact got the money through the secret sale of Ellis Hof. Walter moves here shortly afterwards, as his father throws him out for being drunk all the time.

Harry and Fred appear in Bandelwitz, where they marvel at the old angel hanging in the village church. Both men are giving Walter a motorcycle that they will only ride around a little over the next few days when they want to stay with Walter. Meanwhile, Walter keeps giving Hilke presents until the landlord throws him out. Drunk, Walter is taken to the police's sobering cell, where Hinrichs asks himself the next morning why Walter had a lot of cash with him. He thinks Walter might have been involved in two bank robberies in the area. Shortly afterwards the angel also disappears from the village church. There are no traces, apart from a shoe print.

Groth visits a woman who was injured in one of the bank robberies at the hospital. Shortly afterwards he collapses. The doctor diagnoses cardiac arrhythmias and keeps Groth there. Police officer Willy Holz replaces him in the investigation. Here it is already clear that the bank robberies were carried out with identical weapons. Walter goes to the landlord to persuade him to separate from his wife. When the landlord is violent again, Walter threatens him with a gun, but the landlord knocks him down. Harry takes the opportunity and shoots the innkeeper with Walter's gun, which he then puts back into the hand of the unconscious Walter.

Walter is arrested. He is considered an urgent suspect as his weapon matches that of the robberies and the footprints are from shoes that belong to him, but which he had been missing for a few days. Shortly afterwards, the missing angel is found in Walter's stable. Hinrichs brings Groth to the hospital with the report that he has almost solved the case. Groth has his doubts and assigns Holz to supervise Walter's farm. This is how Holz sees Harry and Fred in the yard one day: While Harry gets the money from the bank robberies that they have hidden in the yard, Fred frees the angel from the hay in the stable. Both drive away with money and figure, but are found due to the quick manhunt. Although there is now much to be said for Walter's innocence, the interrogations drag on, as Harry and Fred are interrogation professionals and will not be upset by Hinrichs. Walter is desperate that despite his apparent innocence, he will not be released. Hinrichs uses a trick to get Fred to make a confession. Suddenly he received the news that Walter had hanged himself in his cell. Hinrichs goes to Groth with the news, who only states that they both then did something wrong.

production

Alte Freunde was filmed in Brandenburg and Schwerin and the surrounding area. The costumes of the film created Heidi Plätz that Filmbauten submitted by Ulrich Isfort . The film had its television premiere on September 10, 1995 on ARD . The audience participation was 18.3 percent.

It was the 175th episode in the Polizeiruf 110 film series . The inspectors Hinrichs and Groth investigated in their 5th case.

criticism

“Markus Imboden (director) demonstrated the rural misery in atmospherically dense images,” said the Stuttgarter Zeitung , and praised Peter Franke, who “with the portrait of Walter Donat [delivered] a captivating character study that made the film above the usual level of The film's suspense crept out of the face of Peter Franke, stated the Süddeutsche Zeitung , and praised his game as “an excellent character study, best supported by Kurt Böwe as the gnarled and steamy Commissioner Groth and by Uwe Steimle as his alert superiors, whose coolness ultimately melts. Three men - a brilliant intimate play. ”For TV Spielfilm , Alte Freunde was a“ bitter, rousing story ”, whereby“ the bitter loser portrays [...] especially from the intense play of Peter Frankes [lives] ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 184.
  2. ↑ Viewed critically - Police call 110: Old friends . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , September 12, 1995, p. 0 / FIFU.
  3. ↑ Hans-Heinrich Obuch: Tormented Creature . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 12, 1995, p. 17.
  4. ^ Police call 110: Old friends on tvspielfilm.de
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