Police call 110: pollen

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Pollen
Polizeiruf110 logo 1972.svg
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 58 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
classification Episode 10 ( list )
First broadcast October 22, 1972 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Gerhard Respondek
script Hans Lucke
Gerhard Respondek
production Marianne Birkholz
music Wolfgang Pietsch
camera Manfred Marderwald
cut Imke Jacoby
occupation

Pollen is a German crime film by Gerhard Respondek from 1972. The television film was released as the 10th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

Mr. König's pharmacy was broken into overnight. First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs and First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner, who represents Vera Arndt, who is on vacation, take on the case. Apparently nothing was stolen except some ether and ethanol . In the double-locked poison cabinet, however, morphine and large amounts of strychnine are missing . The first suspicion falls on cleaning lady Greta Immendahl, who was the first to notice the break-in and promptly spilled her cleaning water in such a way that important traces were lost, especially since she wiped the water thoroughly. Greta has only been cleaning the pharmacy for a few weeks. She used to work as a laboratory assistant on a test farm. The list of morphine patients in the city shows that Greta's former boss Dr. Senkpiel was treated with morphine for a while. He is amazed that the capable laboratory assistant is now working voluntarily as a cleaning lady. Greta quit him because she believed in a relationship after a vacation together, but he dropped her.

On the broken glass of the apothecary's window there is pollen from an exotic plant. In addition to Dr. Senkpiel, who owns exotic plants, the investigators also turn their attention to Julius Schwarz's coal business. On the eve of the deed, the locksmith Ernst Lindau, Julius Schwarz's cousin, registered in a hotel in the small town. His son Peter works in his coal shop. He originally studied medicine, but had to leave university after three semesters. While Julius believes it was due to a lack of political knowledge, Ernst knows that his son was simply too lazy to study. Ernst has not worked as a fitter for a long time, but is a member of the district council and head of the energy commission. He has come to town to take his son home to his sick mother. The exaggerated Peter, however, sees himself as the manager of the coal business, Julius Schwarz is a latent alcoholic and temporarily unable to work.

The investigators speak to Dr. Senkpiel and the workers in the coal shop. They secretly take pollen samples from the plants. Suddenly the drunk seaman Kuddel appears in the pharmacy and collapses, slurping. He has a puncture wound on his arm - he was given a small dose of strychnine. He's going to the hospital. Meanwhile, König receives a blackmail call. He is supposed to pay 10,000 marks. Otherwise numerous people will be poisoned by strychnine. The police learn that the pollen was assigned to a plant - which also blooms in the coal shop. You are now monitoring all the suspects. The main focus is on Greta and Peter, who also seem to know each other. Greta seeks out Peter, who once visited her in the pharmacy when the key to the poison cabinet was lying around. She suspects him to have copied the key. Peter, in turn, fell in love with Greta. He promises to lay the world at her feet, but she rejects him. Soon Greta will be enough of Peter's overstrained behavior and she will leave.

Peter's father Ernst appears as she is leaving. He also suspects his son to have something to do with the break-in at the pharmacy. In fact, he finds the stolen morphine and strychnine preparations. Peter pretends to have thought of suicide given his situation. He now wants to change and go home with his father. He gives him the ampoules and asks him to take them to the pharmacy. While Ernst is waiting in line at the pharmacy, he hears that Kuddel has been poisoned with strychnine. He hands Jürgen Huebner the medication. However, there is still a lack of ether and ethanol - Peter Fuchs realizes that the robbery from the poison cupboard should only be a diversionary maneuver. However, Peter was still shadowed and was last seen at a savings bank branch. In fact, he wants to rob the bank and stun the employee with ether. However, it is not an employee who opens the door to him, but Lieutenant Lutz Subras, who arrests him, supported by Peter Fuchs.

production

Pollen was filmed from June 19 to July 30, 1972 in Bad Freienwalde . The costumes for the film were created by Ursula Scheel , the film structures were created by Christoph Lindemann . The film had its television premiere on October 22, 1972 in the first program of East German television.

It was the 10th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs investigated in his ninth case, First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner in his second and criminal sergeant Lutz Subras in his second. It was the first time that Fuchs and Hübner investigated together, with Hübner being introduced as a vacation replacement for Vera Arndt, who otherwise investigates with Fuchs.

The critics found that the film set the first standards "for the ... method of critical view of the GDR reality and the people who were decisively morally influenced by this reality". Director Respondek found “convincing figure postures for the representation of everyday life in a small GDR town with its permanent sleepiness and its drunkards”.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 53-55.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=010 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 53.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 55.
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