Police call 110: fear

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	fear
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Thomas Wilkening Filmgesellschaft on behalf of the ORB
length	90 minutes
classification	Episode 233 ( List )
First broadcast	December 16, 2001 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Manuel Siebenmann
script	Stefan Kolditz
production	Thomas Wilkening
music	Andreas Hoge
camera	Thomas Plenert
cut	Karin Novarro
occupation
Jutta Hoffmann : Wanda Rosenbaum, chief detective Horst Krause : Horst Krause, police chief Nina Petri : Dorn Jochen Nickel : Paul Claussen Antonio Wannek : Martin Claussen Niels Bruno Schmidt : Konrad Zeitz Bettina Kurth : Annette Rosenbaum Heiko Senst : Sascha Kathrin Angerer : Tamara, forensic technician Michael Hanemann : Pastor Melchow Michael Gerber : Head of the NPP Hans Klima : Head of Operations Kai-Peter Gläser : Nico Hohnert

Fear is a German crime film by Manuel Siebenmann from 2001. It is the 233rd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 and the third case for the Potsdam chief detective Wanda Rosenbaum and the police chief Horst Krause.

action

Police chief Horst Krause is called because Paul Claussen is standing on the roof of a church and wants to throw himself down from there. Detective Chief Inspector Wanda Rosenbaum is also there and does not hesitate to climb the church tower to talk the suicide into conscience. That succeeds and Claussen is now to be taken to a clinic, but while driving in the ambulance, he jumps out of the car and flees. When Krause and Rosenbaum want to go to Claussen's wife to inform them, they find her dead on the kitchen table. It looks like Claussen killed his terminally ill wife with leukemia in order to spare her further suffering and afterwards wanted to take her own life out of grief. Since he is now on the run, they are looking for him.

Claussen's last job was in a nuclear power plant , where he had to be fired due to his personal problems. After Rosenbaum and Krause find out about Claussen, they notice a tense situation there and suspect that Claussen is blackmailing his former employer. There had already been an inexplicable detonation the day before, which was very likely triggered by the wanted person. Since a Castor transport through Brandenburg is currently being planned, the case is particularly explosive, because Claussen has nothing more to lose and becomes an unpredictable danger on his rampage. Rosenbaum tries to establish contact with Martin Claussen because she suspects that he knows where his father is hiding. But Martin does not trust her and for the time being meets secretly with his father.

At the same time, however, it cannot be ruled out that the environmental activists for their part will not shy away from radical means and that actions will overlap and endanger each other. Since Rosenbaum's daughter Annette is one of the opponents of nuclear power, the commissioner learns that something illegal is actually planned. After the train with the Castor containers set in motion despite all resistance, an unknown flying object was sighted. A remote-controlled model airplane attacks the transport and is eliminated by the armed organs with a targeted shot. Rosenbaum is certain that this is not all over. And she should be right. After Krause managed to locate Paul Claussen, the investigators learned from him that his son Martin and two friends were behind the blackmailing of the nuclear power plant. When he tried to dissuade his son, his wife got so upset that she got up from her sickbed and fell to the floor in a daze, fatally injuring herself.

Rosenbaum and Krause do everything they can to find Martin and Konrad before they can wreak havoc. They have equipped themselves with BGS uniforms for camouflage and are traveling in a minibus sprayed over as a police vehicle. They put it, equipped with an explosive device, in the middle of the tracks to stop the Castor transport. They want to blow up the car with a remote detonator, but their technology fails. At a loss, they watch as Rosenbaum arrives and Martin's father is there too. Both stand threateningly close to the minibus and Paul Claussen manages to short-circuit the car and take it off the rails. But shortly afterwards the explosive device detonates and Paul Claussen dies in front of his son. Martin and Konrad are arrested afterwards.

background

The third case by Wanda Rosenbaum and Horst Krause was first broadcast on December 16, 2001 in prime time on Erste . The idea for the film came from Glüsha Arslan and Thomas Wilkening , as a Castor transport led through Brandenburg in 2001. This was supposed to connect the real events with a fictional film story.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv thinks: “Unfortunately, the story of this“ Polizeiruf 110 ”cannot keep up with the unconventional production story. [...] Precisely because Jutta Hoffmann is so convincing as the ethereally floating investigator Wanda Rosenbaum, she does not warm to this case (and film). Three or four storylines - and each one is trimmed for big things, for fate and political struggle, for (suicide) murder and death (blow). Even the semi-documentary character knows little to captivate because of the plot that has been tried. Fear is - despite some lasting staging ideas - the only not (completely) successful of the four Hoffmann 'Police Call' episodes. Shortly thereafter, the actress announced that she would get out of line. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm are thumbs up and say: "Roughly trimmed for a difficult fate."

Web links

• Police 110: Fear in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the plot of the film on the ARD website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Jutta Hoffmann, Kolditz, Siebenmann. Castor rolls, this "police call" unfortunately not! Film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on August 22, 2015.
2. ↑ TV thriller. Wanda Rosenbaum investigates opponents of nuclear power. Short review by TV Spielfilm at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on August 22, 2015.

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