Police call 110: Please pay
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
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| Original title | Please pay |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Television of the GDR |
| length | 72 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 43 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 12, 1976 on GDR 1 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Vogel |
| script | Peter Vogel Rudolf Bohm |
| production | Hans W. Reichel |
| music | Hermann Anders |
| camera | Tilmann Dähn |
| cut | Gisela Schmidt |
| occupation | |
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Please pay is a German crime film by Peter Vogel from 1976. The television film was released as the 43rd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .
action
At the inauguration ceremony of Wolfgang Polisch, head chef of an Interhotel , Polisch's friend Christa surprised a burglar in the house. It's about Udo Kröger, whom Polisch knows because he supplies the hotel with meat from a slaughterhouse. Polisch only calls the police under pressure from the guests present. Lieutenant Jürgen Hübner, Lieutenant Vera Arndt and Detective Lutz Subras are soon faced with a riddle: Polisch is playing down the break-in, while Kröger claims to have mistaken Polisch's villa for a bar when he was drunk. The investigators hope to be able to induce Kröger to make a statement, but he refuses to give a statement. Kröger is released, but is shadowed by the police. His first path leads him to his fiancée, who is expecting a child from him. A short time later he received a call from Polisch who wanted to meet him.
Polisch, waiter Erwin Loderer and Udo Kröger have been working together for four years. Since then, Kröger has been selling meat from the slaughterhouse. Polisch processes the meat in the hotel kitchen and Loderer bills less than he sells. All three have made profits over the years, but unequal. While Kröger was able to get around 8,000 marks aside in four years, Polisch can live a life of luxury with a new villa. Loderer was only able to steal a fraction of the money from Polisch. However, shortly after Kröger's release, Polisch and Loderer received blackmail letters. They are asked to pay 10,000 marks in order not to be betrayed. Polisch believes Kröger is blackmailing her and beats him up at the meeting. Subras, who was shadowing Kroger, takes Kroger to the station. Kröger says that Polisch believes he is being blackmailed. Polisch, in turn, denies this, but inadvertently reveals that Christa must have reported the blackmail to the investigators. She actually found and read the ransom note. During her questioning, she now reports to the investigators about the money claim, so the 10,000 marks are to be placed in the basement of the hotel.
The investigators are prepared on the day of the handover. Subras is smuggled into the hotel team as the new waiter. Surveillance cameras cover the basement area. In fact, the investigators see how Polisch has deposited the requested amount in the basement. Loderer comes in briefly to find out the current status, but is sent away by Polisch. The money is stolen from an area not captured by the camera, but the investigators recognized the man: It was Loderer who finally wanted to have the big money. Loderer and Polisch are arrested and imprisoned - like Kröger before.
production
Please pay was shot from May 12th to June 26th 1976 in Berlin , Frankfurt an der Oder and Halle (Saale) . Filming locations in Berlin included a café in the skyscraper at Rüdersdorfer Str. 21 on the corner of the street of the Paris Commune on Franz-Mehring-Platz in Friedrichshain , the corner of Kaskelstrasse / Hauffstrasse near the Nöldnerplatz S-Bahn station , the Schulze-Boysen- Straße as well as Mollstraße and Berolinastraße near the former Interhotel Berolina . A shot was also shot in the Haus des Reisens with a view of the intersection of Mollstrasse and Hans-Beimler-Strasse (today Otto-Braun-Strasse) in the Mitte district. In Halle, exterior shots were taken in what was then Klement-Gottwald-Strasse, today's Leipziger Strasse.
In a take that takes place in a pedestrian underpass, a sign like a signpost can be seen briefly at the beginning, on which the name of the cameraman of the film Tilman Dähn is written.
The costumes for the film were created by Ursula Wolf , the film structures were made by KPM Wulff . The film had its television premiere on December 12, 1976 in the first program of East German television. With audience participation of 69.8 percent, Please Pay is the most watched police call of all time since the introduction of audience participation determination .
It was the 43rd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner investigated in his 20th case, Lieutenant Vera Arndt in her 30th case and Detective Lutz Subras in his 24th case.
literature
- Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 88-89.
Web links
- Police 110: Please pay in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Police call 110: Please pay at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=043 (link only available to a limited extent)
- ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 51.
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