Police call 110: The house on the train

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title The house on the train
Polizeiruf110 logo 1972.svg
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 67 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 5 ( list )
First broadcast March 26, 1972 on DFF 1
Rod
Director Gerhard Respondek
script Fred Unger
production Rainer Crahé
Uta Rabenalt
music Wolfgang Pietsch
camera Otto Hanisch
cut Silvia Lever
occupation

Das Haus an der Bahn is a German crime film by Gerhard Respondek from 1972. The television film was released as the 5th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

After a party in the clubhouse, the drunken role urges young Lu to let him drive her home on the moped. Reluctantly, she agrees, especially since she cannot accompany her friend Doris, who is now riding her bike home alone. However, Rolle takes a different route with Lu and stops not far from a junction of the train. He presses her in an empty house on the tracks and reacts angrily when she bites him. He goes. A little later, Lu hears footsteps on a floor below her. As a train passes the house, you can hear her scream.

Lu's body is found the next morning and First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Vera Arndt begin the investigation. It rained and snowed overnight and there are hardly any traces to be found. Only the tire imprint of Rolles Moped can be saved. However, Rolle denies the act and says he waited for her away from the house after the argument with Lu. When she did not come out of the house, he drove away. Everything indicates that Lu was hit by a train and died of the injuries. Lu's death is reported to her father, the station master Steger, who reacts without emotion. He suspects Bernhard Schramm, who works as a gatekeeper at the junction. He was once employed at the signal box under Steger, but fell out of favor with him. Not only was there gossip in the village about a possible relationship between the married Schramm and Lu. Schramm was also a thorn in Steger's side because of his suggestions for innovators , which could contribute to the rationalization of the operating processes and which Steger dismissed as spinning mills. The penalty transfer to the barrier, which Steger justified with unreliability and alcoholism after a birthday party, were in reality of a personal nature. Regular thefts of express goods are further problems in Steger's sphere of activity. Another case of spirits was stolen around the time of Lu's death.

Schramm is initially a possible perpetrator on the basis of a statement by the barrier guard Paul Umbreit. Umbreit was mostly indisposed and only partially able to work in the last few days because of his bile. On the night of the crime, old Sasse saw him pass the junction shortly before Doris, while Schramm first spoke to Doris at the barrier further away, who in turn had not seen Umbreit. Schramm can be relieved by reconstructing the travel times of the trains passing the route. At the time of the crime, he was busy giving signals for the trains. When the investigators want to visit Schramm again, a train is approaching and Schramm wants to lower the barrier. However, the cable is jammed so that the barrier cannot be closed. Schramm energetically stops the investigator's car and the approaching train to prevent a disaster. When Vera Arndt lets down the barrier, however, it closes without any problems. The informed station master Steger sees his negative opinion about Schramm confirmed and dismisses him without notice. Schramm packs his things, but in his pocket he still finds the key to the lamp chamber of the switchman's house, which he had recently visited with Paul Umbreit and whose key Umbreit wanted to keep. Schramm goes to the lamp chamber and finds the stolen box of spirits there. When suddenly Peter Fuchs stands behind him, he admits to having killed Lu. He tells the investigators that Lu had already told him three weeks ago that the switchman's house is used as a transshipment point for the stolen express goods. However, he did not believe her, especially since the supposed hiding place of a box turned out to be empty.

The travel times of Doris and Umbreit on their bicycles make it clear that Umbreit disappeared for over 15 minutes during the night between the junction and the barrier. During that time, Doris driving behind him was able to overtake him and speak to Schramm at the barrier, who had to give signals to a passing train. The detectives go to Umbreit's house and catch him trying to bury boxes of stolen express goods in the garden. He finally admits to murdering Lu. She had come across him in the empty station building, where Rolle had been harassing her, when he was about to take away stolen goods. She cursed him and Umbreit pushed her in front of the train that was just passing by. When he had to fear that Schramm would find his hiding place in the lamp chamber, he manipulated the barrier to provoke Schramm's release. Umbreit is arrested and Schramm is rehabilitated. Steger also has to put his bad opinion of Schramm into perspective, whose persistence only led to the arrest of Lu's murderer.

production

The house on the railway was filmed from December 7, 1971 to February 1, 1972 in Berlin and in the Wuhlheide forest area. The costumes for the film were created by Elisabeth Lützkenberg , and the film structures were created by Christoph Lindemann . The house on the railway had its television premiere on March 26, 1972 on DFF 1 .

It was the 5th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Vera Arndt investigated their 5th case. In contrast to previous cases, dialogue dominates in Das Haus an der Bahn , while director Respondek concentrates on close-ups and close-ups. The criticism of the film highlighted the fact that "the collective is not glorified in terms of class."

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 42.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=005 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ A b Peter Hoff: Polizeiruf 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 42.
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