Police call 110: Brother Funny

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	Brother funny
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	MDR
length	89 minutes
classification	Episode 172 ( List )
First broadcast	July 2nd 1995
Rod
Director	Thomas Jacob
script	Friedemann Schreiter
music	Arnold Fritzsch
camera	Helmut Bahr
cut	Silvia Lever
occupation
Günter Naumann : Chief Inspector Beck Jaecki Schwarz : Customs officer Weißer Peter Weiß : Uwe Lustig Werner Tietze : Lothar Lustig Angelika Perdelwitz : Monika Lustig Joachim Zschocke : Sikowski Aldona Struzik : Elzbieta Zyron Maciej Lysakowski : Jacek Zyron Victor Deiß : Steigler tax advisor Danny Awege : Daniel Lustig Joachim Lätsch : Guido Graupner Dieter Vienna : Dr. Müller Barmstedt Harry Merkel : Customs officer Werner Senftleben : Neighbor

Brother Lustig is a German crime film by Thomas Jacob from 1995. The television film was released as the 172nd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

The business of the Görlitz- based haulage company, the Lustig brothers , is bad. While Lothar wants to win new customers, Uwe drives tours through Germany and Poland . He loves his brother's wife, Monika, who works as a secretary in the company. She plans to leave her husband for Uwe, but knows that he also has a relationship with the Polish laboratory assistant Elzbieta, who works in a nearby company. Uwe has been dissatisfied for some time. In consultation with Lothar, he had started to bring small amounts of old paint across the border to Poland, but these illegal transports have now become independent. Uwe now regularly manages several tons across the border, the contents of which he does not know. He receives the tons from sawmill owner Sikowski, who always combines the transport with a sawdust delivery to Poland. Sikowski in turn receives the bins from Dr. Müller-Barmstedt, the manager of the Chenolan chemical plant. When Uwe realizes that he is transporting highly dangerous waste materials, he demands more reasonable payment from Sikowski for his performance and even wants to get out of the business altogether. Dr. Müller-Barmstedt, on the other hand, is no longer sure whether Uwe is the right, discreet man for the transports, especially since, according to an anonymous report, the customs investigation in the form of the customs officer Weißer appears at Lustigs, Sikowski and Chenolan and questions about the barrels represents.

Unrecognized by his family, Uwe began smuggling drugs from Poland to Germany for dealers. Monika notices that he suddenly has a lot of cash, but he claims that he won it by gambling. There are also changes in his private life: Elzbieta's husband Jacek discovers that Uwe is sleeping with his wife and confronts him. Uwe then separates from Elzbieta. A short time later, Uwe's body is found in the Neisse. He was shot. Chief Inspector Beck from Dresden is taken from vacation and lead investigator in the murder case Lustig. However, after initial hesitation, he worked with the customs officer Weißer, as the barrel transport could be related to the murder of Lustig. Weisser receives from Sikowski the admission that he had received barrels from Chenolan and had them transported to Poland by Uwe. The barrels were delivered separately; for Chenolan, this meant inexpensive disposal of toxic waste . The jealous Jacek can be found and arrested through a witness. Although he has a firearm, it has not been used for a long time, so Jacek is out of the question as a perpetrator.

Weißer finds a package with three kilograms of drugs in Uwe's truck, so that the investigators have a new lead. A friend of Uwes says that he has had a few sachets of drugs with him for some time. The investigators realize that Uwe must have come into conflict with the drug dealers because he used the material that he was supposed to be transporting. However, it is completely unclear who the backers are. Lothar is finally ready to serve as a decoy for the investigators . He begins to take over Uwe's route, transports barrels under sawdust and is finally approached by the drug dealers after a few tours. The handover of the material should take place at a rest stop. Everything is going well, and the investigators can finally arrest the two drug dealers, one of whom claims that Uwe had to die because he cheated on her and used the drugs.

production

Brother Lustig was filmed in Görlitz and on the Polish border, among other places. The film was based on "factual research, with which, among other things, the Federal Border Guard and Customs Office helped". The costumes for the film were created by Anne-Gret Oehme , the structures for the film were created by Christa Köppen . The film premiered on July 2, 1995 on ARD . The audience participation was 22.5 percent.

It was the 172nd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Chief Inspector Beck investigated his 10th and penultimate case. The later police call investigator Jaecki Schwarz ("Hauptkommissar Herbert Schmücke") can be seen as an investigator of the customs investigation.

criticism

For the TV Spielfilm , the police call Bruder Lustig was “realistic, but with some lengths”. "The plot of this crime thriller [...] drags on ponderously," wrote the Stuttgarter Zeitung , and called the film a "viscous game of smuggling, love, murder and gangs between the former GDR and neighboring countries". "He [director Jacob] tried with all his might to win some tension from the simple story of the fall of a freight forwarder who was much in love with a dead smuggler", stated the Süddeutsche Zeitung , and found that Arnold Fritzsch's film music in particular promised a lot, which they "lovelessly staged Pictures and the dull figures [...] simply could not [could] redeem ”.

On the occasion of the broadcast of Brother Lustig, the Tagesspiegel described the police call as outdated. Brother Lustig's basic plot resembles that of the police calls from the GDR era, as he only changes subject matter. In the post-reunification police call, however, the subversive element is omitted and criticism may be openly named. This also meant that “this all too bloodless form of staging became obsolete. If its tickling no longer consists in the fact that behind the criminalistic Biedermeier there is a hidden rebelliousness, then bravery no longer has any pleasurable function. "

Web links

• Police 110: Brother Lustig in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Police call 110: Brother Lustig on Das Erste.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sunday 8:15 pm ARD - Brother Lustig . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , July 1, 1995, p. 0 / FIFU.
2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 181.
3. ↑ See Polizeiruf 110: Bruder Lustig on tvspielfilm.de
4. ↑ Viewed critically - Police call 110: Brother Funny . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, July 4, 1995, p. 0 / FIFU.
5. ↑ Marcus Hertneck: Heldenfrei. Police call 110: Brother Funny . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 4, 1995, p. 15.
6. ↑ Uta-Maria Heim: Obsolete . In: Der Tagesspiegel , No. 15316, July 4, 1995.

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