Police call 110: brotherly love

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Brotherly love
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavaria Film
on behalf of WDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 219 ( List )
First broadcast September 17, 2000 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Ulrich Stark
script Dirk Salomon ,
Thomas Wesskamp
production Veith von Fürstenberg
music Birger Heymann
camera Wolf Siegelmann
cut Felicitas Lainer
occupation

Bruderliebe is a German crime film directed by Ulrich Stark in 2000. The television film was released as the 219th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series . Sigi Möller and Kalle Küppers investigated in their 6th case.

action

Gabi Bauer and her friend Sigi Möller, patrol officer in Volpe, are expecting a child. The old Alfons Kohler, on the other hand, sees his son Ralle - a plasterer - who has returned to Kohlmarkt am Moos after many years . Kohlmarkt am Moos, a place with numerous disused gravel pits, is in turn incorporated into Volpe as part of a regional reform, is now called Volpe III and makes the small town a district town. Volpe's Mayor Huffer is delighted and hopes that construction work will start in Volpe III. The local council, which knew about the impending incorporation, did not legally buy shares in Colon Invest, which wanted to build a mud bath in Volpe III. Colon Invest belongs to Ingo Ambeck, who has meanwhile become a major player in the red light district. Ingo is the son of Alfons Kohler and brother of Ralle. He also owns old gravel pit buildings in Volpe III, in which he lets Alfons work as a "caretaker", and to which the Top City nightclub belongs. The young Tanja works as a waitress in Top City . A few weeks ago she started a relationship with Ralle, which Alfons wants to end. It becomes clear that the father hates his son Ingo and wants to protect Ralle and bring him away from Volpe.

When some councilors come to Volpe III to survey the area, they are shot at by Alfons. City council Mühlbach reports against Alfons. Ingo and his security advisor Robert Weller describe Alfons' shots as a pure misunderstanding and promise to sort things out. Weller, as a former BKA officer, is familiar with police work and shortly afterwards he also gets Ralle out of custody: he beat up Tanja in front of Sigi and Kalle because she had confessed to him that she was actually a prostitute. Tanja filed a complaint against Ralle, but fled from Ingo shortly afterwards. She does not appear for questioning at the station. Ingo, in turn, gives Alfons the order to find Tanja and kill her. Mayor Huffer and the local councils have learned that Colon Invest no longer wants to build in Volpe. The politicians are shareholders in a company that runs a brothel in Volpe - Ingo blackmails the men that he will make everything public if they want to sell their shares.

Sigi and Kalle suspect that something is wrong. Mühlbach suddenly withdraws his complaint against Alfons and Tanja has disappeared. Only after researching the police computer does the two police officers discover that Ingo is Alfons' son. However, the family history seems confusing: Gisela Kohler is the late mother of Ingo and Ralle, but father Alfons is described in the files as single and childless. Ingo and Ralle's father is not officially known. The machinations of Colon Invest also make Sigi and Kalle suspicious. Ingo, the mayor and councilor, seem to be involved in Colon Invest, which generates high profits, for no reason. Obviously the politicians are paid so that the area of ​​Volpe III is not built on. Both police officers go to Top City , which they are not allowed to enter because of a closed society. Weller suddenly appears because they don't let up and the guests get restless inside. He pretends to be an undercover BKA investigator who has been following Ingo for years. There is currently an auction of women from Eastern Europe taking place in Top City , Weller has had the entire area converted and wants to storm Top City shortly . He sends the officers to Alfons, who killed Tanja. Only when Sigi and Kalle are with Alfons do they realize that Weller lied. Tanja is with Alfons, who promises to cooperate if Ralle is kept out of everything in the end.

Ralle, who is to become Ingo's right-hand man and future owner of the Top City , learns the family secret from his brother: Gisela and Alfons were siblings; Alfons raped Gisela and she took her own life after Ralle's birth. Shortly after the revelation, Sigi, Kalle, Tanja and Alfons appear at Top City . Ralle wants to kill his father, but in the end shoots Weller, who has joined them. The group finally takes cover in a hall not far from Top City , where they are shot at. Ralle enables Tanja to escape and returns to Top City . Gabi has meanwhile been looking for Sigi and appears with the councilors and mayor Huffer in Volpe III. They pretend that they are overwhelming and can ultimately free all women from the hands of the traffickers. In the end, only Ralle and Ingo are in Top City . Alfons goes to them and corrects the family history: He and Gisela had made love, Gisela killed himself because the entire village was against the relationship and Ingo was massively marginalized. Ralle was given to foster parents because he shouldn't suffer Ingo's fate. Alfons lets Ralle go and finally blows himself and Ingo up. Ralle and Tanja will start a family - Tanja is expecting a child from Ralle, which is why Alfons let her live.

production

Bruderliebe was filmed from November 15 to December 16, 1999 in and around Munich and in Brilon . The costumes of the film created Rosemarie Hettmann that Filmbauten come from Petra home . The film had its television premiere on September 17, 2000 on Das Erste . The audience participation was 18.8 percent (6.25 million viewers).

criticism

For TV Spielfilm it was a “weird police western from the province”. Rainer Tittelbach found in the world that the police raid contained a lot, but not too much. In addition, one takes from a police call like Bruderliebe , "which releases its patterns for subtle ironization, [...] more crazy situations than more realistic thrillers". “Director Ulrich Stark gives this sixth Cologne 'police call' tension, depth and poetry. The surprising crime melodrama falls out of the ordinary, ”said Heiko R. Blum in the Nürnberger Nachrichten .

The Stuttgarter Zeitung assessed the film ambiguously: “… the humor surrounding the actually overwhelmed police duo, who survived the case only thanks to the energetic remorse of the local council, is a little neglected this time. Instead, the plot sometimes has lively capers, and many details of the story remain incomprehensible. ”The Süddeutsche Zeitung described the film as a“ grotesque crime story ” . “Hollywood's B-picture methods are quoted here in television format. What remains is pure parody. The big feelings, however, no longer arise. "For the Passauer Neue Presse , the thriller had an" unusual finale, but otherwise many lengths and a confused story - even the usually funny police duo couldn't save anything. That Sunday night thriller was too confusing. Unfortunately. ”The Berliner Zeitung wrote that director Ulrich Stark in brotherly love “ [gave] the monkey too much sugar. Because the more than crude story [...] apparently only interested him marginally. [...] Jokes about shooting clubs and esoteric birth preparation courses do not make a good thriller ”.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 228.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Polizeiruf 110: Bruderliebe on bavaria-film.de
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 228.
  3. ↑ Rating hits from September 17, 2000 . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , September 19, 2000, p. 10.
  4. ^ Polizeiruf 110: Bruderliebe on tvspielfilm.de
  5. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Wild West in the Cologne neighborhood . In: Die Welt , September 16, 2000, p. TV 4.
  6. ↑ Heiko R. Blum: A call with consequences . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten , September 18, 2000.
  7. ↑ Thomas Gehringer: Catastrophe inevitable . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , September 16, 2000, p. 23.
  8. ↑ Wilfried Geldner: In the middle of the moss . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 16, 2000, p. 22.
  9. ↑ Carla Kremer: Confused Crime . In: Passauer Neue Presse , September 18, 2000.
  10. ↑ Reinhard Lüke: Pig stuff in the country . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 19, 2000, p. 21.
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