Police call 110: Bonny's Blues

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Bonny's blues
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 79 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
classification Episode 52 ( List )
First broadcast March 26, 1978 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Peter Vogel
script Eberhard Görner
C. U. Wiesner
production Eva-Marie Martens
music Hermann Anders
camera Bernd Sperberg
cut Renate Foldesi
occupation

Bonnys Blues is a German crime film directed by Peter Vogel from 1978. The television film was released as the 52nd episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

In a hotel room the maid discovers the dead Dietmar Bohnstengel, known as "Bonny". Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner and Lieutenant Woltersdorf start the investigation and let the dissolved hotel manager, Ms. Bärwald, show them Bonny's room.

In retrospect, Bonny's path to death is shown. The window cleaner Bonny has been living with her friend Annemarie Gerlach and their son Uwe with Annemarie's father Wilhelm for three years. Wilhelm once wanted to be a musician, but now works as a piano tuner. It is all the more important that Uwe practices the piano, even though the boy is more interested in Indian films. Annemarie, on the other hand, sent him to music school, but also gives the boy freedom. She suffers from the fact that Bonny spends more time with his jazz band and rehearses several times a week. Bonny is the singer of the band but often has to rework to sing flawlessly. The additional rehearsal workload is based on the time Bonny actually spends with girlfriend and child. At some point Annemarie has enough and she confronts Bonny with the choice of family or music: Bonny decides on music and leaves.

He met the teacher Christa while playing the organ in a church. Christa lives in a tolerant relationship with composer Rainer Aurich, who admits his girlfriend to an affair. But when she wants to separate from him in order to live with Bonny, Rainer protests, especially since Christa asks him to help Bonny with his musical career. Shortly before a band competition, Bonny shows up at the hotel where Annemarie works at the reception. He asks her for a room, to which he retires shortly before the performance with the band. A little later he is found dead by the chambermaid.

The investigators question Christa and the band, who waited in vain for Bonny before the performance and later perform their piece instrumentally. They also interrogate Rainer Aurich, who was in his hotel room shortly before Bonny's death. He had wanted to fight for Christa, but Bonny made him drink a large amount of schnapps and then threw him out. Bonny had taken 2.1 per thousand alcohol in his blood and numerous tablets when he died. The cause of death was a hemorrhage that he could have suffered in a fall. He could have lived with the fall wound for a while, the body was found on the bed. It turns out that Annemarie brought Bonny pills after Rainer's disappearance. Shortly after Annemarie, Wilhelm Gerlach was with him again. He tried to talk him out of Christa. He wanted Bonny to quit his job as a window cleaner and instead take the opportunity to become manager of the hotel's underground car park. Wilhelm also tried to convince him to come back to Annemarie and Uwe. When Bonny mocked him and denigrated Annemarie, Wilhelm pushed him on the heater and Bonny fell unhappy. Shortly after Wilhelm left the room, Bonny died. The investigators take Wilhelm with them to make a report.

production

Bonny's Blues was filmed from September to October 1977 under the working title Requiem in Berlin and Erfurt and the surrounding area. Bonny and Christa secretly spend the night at Molsdorf Castle while the music competition was filmed in the Gleichen Castle ruins . The costumes for the film were created by Tamara Schramm-Bansen , the film structures were made by KPM Wulff . The film had its television premiere on March 26, 1978 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 60.5 percent.

It was the 52nd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner investigated in his 22nd case and Lieutenant Woltersdorf in his 2nd case. The criticism found that Bonny's blues "[recorded] moments of the life-style film." He was also not a real thriller, since the murder was actually not one. “The film also asks about the cause of death and who is to blame for Bonny's death; however, the main focus was on the question of how a person should live: according to the pleasure or the obligation principle. ”Bonny's song is sung by Uschi Brüning in the credits and accompanied by the Hermann Anders band.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 98-101.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=052 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 60.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, pp. 98–99.
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