Police call 110: The greenhouse

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title The greenhouse
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 DEFA
on behalf of
DFF
length 78 minutes
classification Episode 149 ( List )
First broadcast July 17, 1991 on ARD
Rod
Director Thomas Jacob
script Gabriele Kotte
Wolfgang Müller
production Uwe Kraft
music Arnold Fritzsch
camera Peter Krause
cut Brigitte Krex
occupation

Das Treibhaus is a German crime film by Thomas Jacob from 1991. The television film was released as the 149th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

As has been the case for several years, the bar owner Elke Mutosch is going on vacation to Oberwiesenthal on her own again . Her husband Hans Mutosch is an architect and is about to complete the greenhouse on the family's property, where the future biology student Heike Mutosch can learn and research. Heike comes from Elke's previous relationship; Hans is divorced and has two sons who live with his ex-wife.

On the evening of Elke's departure, Hans is expecting a load of quick-setting concrete for the floor of the greenhouse, which is why he lets Elke drive to the train station alone in his car. The next day he wants to pick up the car at the train station when it is being removed: it was not parked. Elke does not come back from vacation after a week and also disappears days later. At first, father and daughter are not worried, as this behavior is not atypical for Elke. Nevertheless, after a few days they start investigating. Elke had ordered a double room in the hotel in Oberwiesenthal, but never got there. This is all the more surprising as a ticket seller recognizes Elke in a photo. Elke bought tickets from her on the day of departure, but never left. This can be confirmed by swimming instructor Hartmann, who had an affair with Elke. Both secretly wanted to go on vacation together and meet at the train station. However, Elke did not appear, even if Hartmann saw her car in front of the train station in the no parking. He got drunk in a bar and the waiters there can confirm his alibi.

Soon Hans and Heike are targeted by investigator chief inspector Günter Beck. One of Elke's employees, barmaid Karin, indicates that the relationship between father and stepdaughter is very close and, in her view, exceeds the boundaries of the father-daughter relationship. Günter Beck also learns that Hans had the quick-setting concrete delivered a few days before Elke's departure for that evening and then worked through the night. Corpse detection dogs do not strike either in the vicinity of the house or in the greenhouse, but they cannot smell through concrete either. Günter Beck gets his boss through that the floor of the greenhouse is broken up. Despite an intensive search, no corpse is found there. Günter Beck remains persistent. He knows from Karin that the relationship between Heike and her mother was strained. Heike tells him in the disco that she had an argument with her mother in the hothouse shortly before leaving. The ticket seller later reports that the woman she thought was Elke took the train again - it was just a person similar to Elke.

When Günter Beck reappears with the family, Hans stands there with his suitcases packed and willingly follows him to the guard. He can no longer withstand the pressure and shows the investigators the way to Elke's body. There was an argument that evening between Elke and Heike. Elke had slapped Heike and Heike pushed her on the concrete vibrator. Elke remained motionless. Hans took the corpse into the forest and buried it, also to protect Heike. Only now does he find out that Elke was just unconscious at this point. Particles of earth in her windpipe make it clear that she was buried alive and suffocated. Hans reacts hysterically and then collapses, stunned. Meanwhile, Heike begins to smash the greenhouse.

production

The greenhouse was filmed from October 30 to December 6, 1990 in Potsdam and the surrounding area, Teltow and Oberwiesenthal , among others . The interior shots were made in the DEFA studio for feature films. The costumes of the film created Günther Pohl , the Filmbauten submitted by Heinz Röske . The film had its television premiere on July 17, 1991 on ARD as part of the Krimi-Sommertheater series . The audience participation was 19 percent.

It was the 149th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Chief Inspector Günter Beck investigated in his fifth case. The review wrote in retrospect that father and daughter in the film combine a "hidden and not acted out incest relationship". Father and daughter would repeatedly reassure each other over the film that the mother would come back, although both are aware that the woman is dead. "In the end, Mutosch goes crazy and suffers a 'crazy' hysterical fit of laughter - the viewer also had reason to doubt his mind in view of this story without any logic."

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 196–197.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=149 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 157.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 197.
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Films from the DFF

The Crossword Case (1988) | Committed to the Truth (1989) | False Jasmine (1990) | The Duel (1990) | The Greenhouse (1991) | With the Call Comes Death (1991)

Films of the MDR

and you're dead (1993) | Death in the Power Plant (1993) | Smoldering Fire (1995) | Brother Lustig (1995) | The Swap (1997)