Police call 110: The end of a moonlight trip
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
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| Original title | The end of a moonlight ride |
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| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Television of the GDR |
| length | 64 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 11 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | December 29, 1972 on GDR 1 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hubert Hoelzke |
| script | Ulrich Waldner |
| production | Hans W. Reichel |
| music | Wolfgang Pietsch |
| camera | Adam Pöpperl |
| cut | Susanne Carpentier |
| occupation | |
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The End of a Moonlight Journey is a German crime film by Hubert Hoelzke from 1972. The television film was released as the 11th episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .
action
Captain Wolfgang Hasse notifies the police because he found the dead Marlies Geißler in his weekend house. First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner, Lieutenant Vera Arndt and Sergeant Lutz Subras begin the investigation. In the house they provide the machinist Eberhard Mäusler, who entered the house through the window. It turns out that Eberhard was once with Marlies, but she left him because she had fallen in love with the married Wolfgang. Only recently had she made it clear in a discussion that she no longer wanted to be with Eberhard. She is also connected to Wolfgang in a special way.
On the evening of Marlies' death, Wolfgang, Eberhard and Marlies were initially traveling together on an excursion steamer, as their brigade had made the traditional moonlight trip. Wolfgang is the ship's captain, Eberhard is a machinist and Marlies worked as a waitress in the evening. During the journey, Wolfgang and Marlies had initially been in a cabin for a conversation, later it had become loud. Wolfgang's wife Helga, who was also on board, confronted her husband and announced that she was separating from him. When Eberhard came and asked Wolfgang to finally keep his hands off Marlies, that was the reason for Helga to finally draw a line.
It turns out that Marlies' injuries are not necessarily caused by third parties. Even if her death did not occur until 1.5 hours after the end of the moonlight trip, Wolfgang had an alibi for the time between the discovery of the body: his car broke down and he had to change a tire. Wolfgang is released and Eberhard is also allowed to go because he slept off his attested intoxication in the forest that night. However, both men are being followed after investigators have discovered that a letter was written on the typewriter at the crime scene. There is a corner of the paper in the machine but its buttons have been wiped off. The investigators suspect a suicide note, but the perpetrator removed it.
Lutz Subras inconspicuously follows Eberhard, who returns to the excursion steamer. He breaks into the captain's cabin and rummages through Wolfgang's papers. He finds a letter from Marlies, which he takes. Wolfgang appears, and a scuffle ensues, which Lutz Subras interrupts. Wolfgang stole the letter from Eberhard and threw the sheet overboard, but Lutz managed to get the letter back by jumping into the water. In the letter, Marlies Wolfgang confesses that she is expecting a child from him. Wolfgang pretends that she might have invented pregnancy, but the autopsy also reveals a pregnancy in the third month. Wolfgang already has two children out of wedlock. His wife, who works as a kindergarten teacher, cannot have one herself. However, Helga is driven to the police by a bad conscience. She was in the weekend house on the evening of the crime, but only found Marlies, who was already dead. She took the suicide note in the typewriter to cover her husband. She hands the note to the investigators.
Jürgen Hübner uses the letter as a trick, since only the author can know something about the existence of the letter and have an interest in it not being known. He left a note in Wolfgang's cabin with the text “If you're looking for the farewell letter - I've got it”. Wolfgang immediately goes to Eberhard and pounces on him. The police arrest Wolfgang. He admits that Marlies told him about her pregnancy during the moonlight trip. He was afraid that his wife would leave him and asked Marlies to go to the weekend house that evening. Here he wanted to persuade her to have an abortion, but Marlies insisted on having the child. He couldn't afford a third child. When she wanted to leave, he blocked her way. She slipped on the floor runner, fell into the window pane and bled to death from the cuts she suffered. Wolfgang wrote the bogus suicide note to turn the accident into suicide. He feels innocent, but the intermediaries explain to him that failure to provide assistance is also punishable. Wolfgang is arrested and taken away.
production
The End of a Moonlight Voyage was filmed from September 18 to November 1972 in Berlin, among other places. The excursion steamer Sonnenschein used in the film belonged to the Stern und Kreisschiffahrt in Berlin as MS Sachsen (then MS Heinrich Mann) and anchored at the Berlin-Treptow landing stage . The recordings in the church where Eberhard and Marlies meet were made in the village church of Miersdorf . They show the interior before the renovation, during which from 1981 to 1984, among other things, the chancel shown in the film was decisively changed. The costumes of the film created Ruth Karge , the Filmbauten derived from Britta Pelzner . The film had its television premiere on December 29, 1972 in the first program of GDR television.
It was the 11th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Jürgen Hübner and Sergeant Lutz Subras investigated in their third case, and Lieutenant Vera Arndt in their ninth case. It was the first time that Jürgen Hübner and Vera Arndt worked together and the first time that Vera Arndt worked without her colleague Peter Fuchs.
literature
- Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 19.
Web links
- Police 110: The end of a moonlight cruise in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Police call 110: The end of a moonlight ride at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=011 (link only available to a limited extent)
- ↑ MS Sachsen ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on sternundkreis.de
- ↑ Information and pictures about the Miersdorf Church
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