Police call 110: The specter of freedom
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
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| Original title | Police call 110: The specter of freedom |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
X Films Creative Pool on behalf of BR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 370 ( List ) |
| German-language first broadcast |
August 19, 2018 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jan Bonny |
| script | based on an idea by Günter Schütter |
| production | Michael Polle |
| music |
Antonio Di Luca , Caroline Kox , Lucas Croon |
| camera | Nikolai von Graevenitz |
| cut |
Fridolin Körner , Bernd Euscher |
| occupation | |
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The Ghost of Freedom is a TV film from the ARD crime series Polizeiruf 110 . The film was produced by X Films Creative Pool on behalf of Bayerischer Rundfunk and was broadcast for the first time on Sunday, August 19, 2018 on Das Erste . It is the 14th case of the Munich police call investigator Hanns von Meuffels .
action
Four young people brutally beat and kick a man of Muslim faith to death. All four are members of a neo-Nazi comradeship, and Chief Inspector Hanns von Meuffels does not find it easy to find out what happened. He considers the half-Iranian Farim to be the weakest link in the group and hopes for an early confession. But also the secret service employee Röhl has his plans for the young man. He tried it with lucrative promises as undercover agent to recruit. After Farim does not accept the offer, he is brutally beaten by other inmates, and even when the guards intervene, they beat Farim with their sticks. In this situation, Peter Röhl renews his offer and asks in return for information about his group, which is on the verge of a bloody gang war with a Romanian gang. Farim, who has to fear for his life while in custody, now accepts the offer and is released.
Chief Inspector von Meuffels no longer understands the world when he learns that all four suspects have been released. He relentlessly tries to get in touch with the group to show them that the matter of their dismissal is not over for him. Farim is suspected by his “friends” of being a “cop understanding” and has to win back the lost trust of his friends. Röhl, whom Farim contacts regularly, seems to be suitable, an arms delivery that can be provided relatively easily from state stocks. Von Meuffels also continues to seek contact with Farim in the hope of finding out from him who had taken the ultimately fatal kicks on the victim. In doing so, he discovered that Farim fell into the clutches of the intelligence service, who did not shy away from sacrificing the boy for their goals if necessary. When Meuffels realizes this, he tries to warn Farim and make it clear to him that he cannot deliver endless information to Röhl and that sooner or later he will discover what he would not survive. If he testifies and gives him the name of the murderer, he could be protected by the leniency program and start over. At the same time, von Meuffels was engaged in a "war" with Röhl, from which his efforts for Farim did not go unnoticed.
As feared, Farim is blown up in his group, and when he asks Röhl for help, he too drops him. So he is only left with Meuffels as a last resort, who has since been withdrawn from the case by his superior and can no longer help him. His alleged friends jointly execute him. Von Meuffels orders the arrest of the three suspects and immediately requests an investigation into Röhl as to whether he could have prevented this execution. In doing so, however, he is fighting against windmills, because he cannot win against the protection of the constitution. The three suspects are released because they now unanimously state that Farim killed the man. Prosecutors allegedly have no evidence of their guilt in Farim's death. Von Meuffels draws his own conclusions from this.
background
The film was shot in Munich from March 10, 2017 to April 11, 2017.
reception
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv judged: Hanns von Meuffels “he has to [grapple] with adolescent right-wing extremist proletarians and an unscrupulous constitutional protector. The agency's questionable undercover policy is viewed through the subjective-psychological glasses of this cultivated and headstrong inspector. [...] Even in this crime drama, which is formally based on brittle realism, tension is more a matter of the head than the stomach. Emotionally, it is above all the tension of the protagonist that comes into focus. And as distant as director Bonny tells, he forces the viewer to look into the disgusting grimace of violence. A real (serious) imposition! "
In SWR3 Peter Knetsch wrote: "This crime is all cruel and brutal. [...] Despite the harshness, a thriller that is absolutely worth seeing. One who is sometimes hard to bear because of the pictures, the language and the lack of perspective, but who is also good for you because of his brittle ruthlessness. "
Christian Buß from Spiegel Online said: “They are images from a German abyss that are illuminated on thousands of pages of negotiation files and ultimately remain unexplained. The parallel world staged for this crime thriller of beer and drive, of ideological set pieces and autocratic thunderous hits fills this void. What remains is disgust. Turn on."
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Das Gespenst der Freiheit on August 19, 2018 was seen by 4.34 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 15.9% for Das Erste .
Awards
- Nomination for the German Television Crime Award 2019
Web links
- The Phantom of Liberty in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Das Gespenst der Freiheit on the ARD website
- Police call 110: The specter of freedom on Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Police call 110: The specter of freedom at crew united . Retrieved July 22, 2018.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Matthias Brandt, Joachim Król, Jan Bonny. Template for Hanns von Meuffel's exit on tittelbach.tv, accessed on 23 August 2018.
- ↑ Peter Knetsch: Police call 110: The ghost of freedom. In: crime scene criticism. SWR3, August 17, 2018, accessed on August 19, 2018 : "[...] is really worth it."
- ↑ Christian Buß: Munich "police call" about right-wing violence. Ugly people do ugly things in ugly places. In: In the crosshairs. Spiegel Online, August 17, 2018, accessed on August 17, 2018 : "Rating: 9 out of 10"
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime check: Sunday, August 19, 2018.quotemeter.de , August 19, 2018, accessed on August 21, 2018 .
- ↑ The nominations for the German Television Crime Award 2019. In: fernsehkrimifestival.de. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
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