Police call 110: The miracle of Wustermark

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title The miracle of Wustermark
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Andrea Hoffmann film production
on behalf of the ORB
length 85 minutes
classification Episode 196 ( List )
First broadcast January 4, 1998 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Bernd Böhlich
script Michael Illner ,
Jürgen Pomorin
production Andrea Hoffmann
music Tomas Kahane
camera Peter Ziesche
cut Esther Bartz
occupation

The Miracle of Wustermark is a German crime film by Bernd Böhlich from 1998. The television film was released as the 196th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . It ties in with the episode Totes Gleis and is the second part of the Wustermark trilogy .

action

Herbert Krolikowski sells large airport shares in Wustermark for the construction of the Berlin-Wustermark International Airport, which is about to begin. Richard Lansky wants to invest 30,000 Deutschmarks in shares, but luckily he comes a little too late. Chief Detective Tanja Voigt arrests Krolikowski for fraud. A year later he was sentenced to six years in prison because an airport was never planned. Melker Werner Sommer, who had advertised the purchase of shares in the village, receives a suspended prison sentence for involuntary aiding and abetting. The residents of Wustermark have lost large sums of money to Krolikowski, including police chief Horst Krause and Maria, who has since become Lansky's wife. Since the money never emerged, residents suspect that it was hidden. Lansky writes a letter to Krolikowski on behalf of the residents of Wustermark, which Horst Krause personally delivers in prison. He also transports Werner Sommer as a stowaway. Sommer succeeds in freeing Krolikowski from prison, after all, Sommer wants to rehabilitate himself in the village by getting the money back. Both drive to Krolikowski's former office, which has since been rented to others, so that the money in the office seems unreachable.

Both return to Wustermark. Jobst Dettmann is just opening his new video library here , where he has invited Dolly Buster as a star guest . Krolikowski uses the crowd on site to kidnap Maria from her bar. He demands that Lansky raise the money in exchange for Maria's life. Tanja Voigt, who is investigating the case of the escaped Krolikowski, is turned off by Lansky, Dettmann and Sommer with sleeping pills after they have told her about Maria's kidnapping. They then rent the office above Krolikowski's former office, rope down to the floor below and break into Krolikowski's former office. The security guards of the building are meanwhile distracted by Dolly Buster, who, instructed by Sommer, gives a Marilyn Monroe imitation and flying dress. Lansky and Dettmann find the money in a door frame. Dettmann's rabbit Pronto triggers the building's alarm system in a planned manner, so that the two men can escape in the ensuing chaos.

Meanwhile, Tanja Voigt, with Horst Krause's help, followed the trail of a delivery truck in which Maria was possibly kidnapped. Voigt observes how Krolikowski and the owner of the van, Hecht, put the tied Maria in the van to take her to the meeting point where the money will be handed over. Tanja Voigt is able to free Maria and instead drive herself to hand over the money. Here she surprises Krolikowski, who wants to check on his "charge", and arrests him.

A little later, Lansky and Dettmann begin repaying the share money to the residents of Wustermark. Tanja Voigt appears because she has since found out about the burglary in the office building. No fingerprints were found, but Rabbit Pronto was found. Tanja Voigt knows that Pronto belongs to Dettmann, so the men are now sure to be arrested. Tanja Voigt, however, reproduces Dettmann Pronto and notes that “something like that” could cost her her job.

production

The Wustermark wonder was filmed from July to August 1997 in Berlin and Bredow and the surrounding area. The costumes of the film created Christine Zartmann that Filmbauten submitted by Eduard Krajewski . Dolly Buster plays himself in the film, but has been dubbed. The film had its television premiere on January 4, 1998 in the first . The audience participation was 16.2 percent.

It was the 196th episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 and the continuation of the episode Totes Gleis from 1994, which had been awarded the Grimme Prize in 1995 . Ben Becker, his mother Monika Hansen and his stepfather Otto Sander took over their roles in the first part again. As in Totes Gleis , Katrin Sass can be seen here as Chief Detective Tanja Voigt . Voigt investigated in her 10th and last case. Katrin Sass had been an alcoholic for many years at the time of filming . When she appeared drunk at the 200th Police Call ( Little Angel ) celebrations , the ORB released her without notice.

criticism

For TV Spielfilm , Das Wunder von Wustermark was a "crime thriller with dry humor". The Frankfurter Rundschau found that the film was out of the ordinary: "There is no death, no murder and manslaughter, instead the story of a million-dollar fraud is opened up as a mixture of bitter fairy tale and satirical thriller." The film is "an enjoyable study". "This crime thriller is fairy tales and parodies and clothes and Köpenickiade , a whole village plays with it and a landscape and its history", summarized the Süddeutsche Zeitung , and called the film "more comedy than crime thriller".

The Leipziger Volkszeitung wrote that the originality of the film fell by the wayside: "Otto Sander and Ben Becker hardly get a chance to really play with each other, instead they have to fool around like at a masked ball"; the plot “offers far fewer surprises than the first part, the fairytale-like ending is foreseeable from the start.” The Sächsische Zeitung also found that the film “is nowhere near as brilliant as the first film [was] told. But again with wonderful directing and casting ideas ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 205.
  2. ↑ Bernhard Borgeest, Heiner Bayer: "If you are not on the brink, wings will not grow" . In: focus.de, July 21, 2003.
  3. ^ Police call 110: The Wustermark Wonder on tvspielfilm.de
  4. ↑ KW: Dolly as Dolly. Old faces in the new "Police Call 110" . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , January 3, 1998, p. 23.
  5. ↑ Birgit Weidinger: And Dolly Buster is also there . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 3, 1998, p. 20.
  6. ↑ Klaus Katzenmeyer: Wunderlich . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , January 6, 1998, p. 10.
  7. ↑ Jens Hölzig: TV short review - menu . In: Sächsische Zeitung , January 6, 1998, p. 19.
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