Police call 110: The forgotten laboratory
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
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| Original title | The forgotten laboratory |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Television of the GDR |
| length | 75 minutes |
| classification | Episode 89 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | May 27, 1984 on GDR 1 |
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| Director | Hans Werner |
| script | Ulrich Waldner |
| production | Fritz Delp |
| music | Conrad Aust |
| camera | Wolfram Beyer |
| cut | Renate Foldesi |
| occupation | |
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The Forgotten Laboratory is a German crime film by Hans Werner from 1984. The television film was released as the 89th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .
action
Marlies and Axel, owners of a scrap dealer, and Siegfried and Regina, who run a junk shop, regularly go on a thief tour together. At night they break into temporarily unoccupied houses with the truck from the scrap dealer and, as alleged movers, steal parts of the home furnishings. This is also how they proceed with Selma Sikorski and her sister-in-law Ida, only they shift their raid to broad daylight. The neighbors are just surprised that the Sikorskis seem to want to move out. Both women return prematurely from their vacation a short time later and alert the police. Not only furniture and knickknacks were stolen, but also two large boxes full of chemicals. Ida's husband worked in the Spandau Citadel in the gas protection laboratory during the National Socialist era and had stored numerous toxins at home after the war. He had a special ampoule sealed in a metal capsule. It is the concentrated neurotoxin soman , which if inhaled in very small quantities leads to death within a short time. A small town could be wiped out with one ampoule. The investigators are only reassured that Soman only evaporates from 20 ° C and the effect would only be local in the cool autumn.
The police warned the population about the poison by loudspeaker announcement and asked for help. Axel meanwhile drove both boxes to a garbage dump because they were in Marlies' way in the cellar. He doesn't know that Olaf's son secretly looked into the boxes and stole the capsule with the Soman ampoule. He thinks he's got a capsule of nitroglycerin in front of him. The animal-loving boy hides the capsule in his dovecote, where he often stays. He has a split relationship with his parents, because he finds their evenings with Siegfried and Regina repulsive.
Marlies and Axel have decided that the raid on the Sikorskis was their last, but Siegfried and Regina do not want to let them get out. Axel calls the police anonymously and wants to negotiate impunity in the event that he reveals the location of the two chemical crates to the investigators. He hangs up before investigators can negotiate. Even later he does not report to the police again. The two boxes are found by chance in the garbage dump. Tire prints are being saved when Axel is about to drive to the dump. He now knows that he no longer has a trump card and is desperate.
The neighbors had contradictingly described one of the perpetrators as a man or a woman. In fact, Regina has masculine features, so that Captain Reichenbach also notices her when he checks the junk shop. An interrogation of Regina and Siegfried brings no suspicions and so both are released, but shadowed. Both look to Axel and Marlies and confront them because Axel wanted to get involved in a deal with the police. A short time later, all four are arrested, as Axel and Marlies had previously found a truck that was identical to the crime wagon. Olaf stays behind with Captain Wolfgang Reichenbach, who soon finds the empty capsule in the dovecote. Olaf himself had hidden the ampoule in the food bowl of his favorite pigeon and claims to Wolfgang Reichenbach that he found the capsule in the forest. He hopes to be able to mate his parents and a little later holed up in the dovecote. He threatens to harm himself. Peter Fuchs brings Olaf's parents to the house, and Olaf comes to them from his hiding place. While walking, Olaf's favorite pigeon knocked the soman ampoule to the ground and broke it. The pigeon dies and falls from the loft. Olaf wants to see her, but Peter Fuchs pulls him back. All those present get to safety while a special force for chemical removal approaches.
production
The forgotten laboratory was filmed from October 28 to December 21, 1983 in Berlin , Königs Wusterhausen and Dahlewitz . The costumes for the film were created by Helga Dürwald , the film structures were created by Udo Genschmer . The film had its premiere on May 27, 1984 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 53 percent.
It was the 89th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Captain Peter Fuchs investigated in his 54th case, Captain Wolfgang Reichenbach in his 2nd case and Lieutenant Lutz Zimmermann in his 4th case. The review wrote that the story was told in a straight line. "The psychological exploration of the characters is limited here to the child, while the adults are more or less types."
literature
- Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 141–142.
Web links
- Police 110: The forgotten laboratory in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Police call 110: The forgotten laboratory at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=089 (link only available to a limited extent)
- ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 97.
- ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 142.
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