Police call 110: The loner

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title The loner
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 DEFA
for television in the GDR
length 48 minutes
classification Episode 64 ( List )
First broadcast May 18, 1980 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Helmut Nitzschke
script Helmut Nitzschke
production Gerrit List
music Hermann Anders
camera Claus Neumann
cut Thea Richter
occupation

The loner is a German crime film by Helmut Nitzschke from 1980. The television film was released as the 64th episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

19-year-old Frank Gobel is a loner. He lives with his mother, who shares the apartment with her boyfriend Hugo, broke off his apprenticeship and turned down several jobs after a short time. He doesn't know what he wants and is not interested in anything. He spends his time with his girlfriend Marion, with friends, but also with judo training. When he is unable to provide the trainer with proof of work despite repeated requests, he is excluded from the training. At the bus stop he pushes himself in front of the instructor Leonhard Schmidt, who is currently studying the timetable. Schmidt's expression of displeasure is enough to make Frank become violent. He knocks Schmidt down and then flees. The couple Marianne and Klaus follow the fugitive a short distance by car, but let him walk. Klaus is unsure how to behave and in the end insists on not being sure whether the fugitive was really the perpetrator. Other witnesses, including the Kunze couple, also leave the scene. The two remaining witnesses alert the police.

Captain Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Woltersdorf take over the investigation. Leonhard Schmidt suffered a fracture of the base of the skull when he was hit, which could be a karate fighter, for example. Both witnesses describe the perpetrator as very tall and very strong, with the age range varying between 22 and 29 years. On this basis, the investigators search in vain for the perpetrator. It wasn't until late that Marianne was able to convince her partner Klaus to go to the police. Marianne describes the perpetrator as around 20, rather slim and medium-sized. She can also provide more detailed information on hair color, hairstyle and clothing. At the scene of the crime, the investigators also found a button that may have come from the offender's jacket. Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Woltersdorf disagree as to which description of the perpetrator they should investigate.

Frank was left by his girlfriend because of his attitude to life. Because of his sudden mood swings, his circle of friends is increasingly critical of him. He has given up his current position in civil engineering because the work does not suit him. At his mother's birthday party, he is confronted with criticism from his two older brothers, but is defended by his mother. At the same time it shows that Frank's relationship with his mother's partner, Hugo, is strained. After a while, Frank leaves the party frustrated. On the street he meets a group that has just come back drunk from a carnival party. When he bumps into one of the men and he reacts surprised, Frank knocks him down. Frank can describe the victim at the station, and Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Woltersdorf draw a parallel to their case. The description matches the one that Marianne gave them of the perpetrator. With a new phantom image and a new description of the perpetrator, the two investigators go back to the sports and youth clubs, and in fact the judo trainer recognizes Frank, whom the Gobel family asked him to take part in the training again. Frank is currently on site and is being taken to the questioning. He admits the deeds and shows remorse. He wanted to apologize to the victims in writing. Peter Fuchs replies that that will not be enough. Frank is taken away. Lieutenant Woltersdorf is dissatisfied with the outcome and wants to talk to Frank again. The case doesn't leave him alone, he says, and Peter Fuchs replies that that shouldn't happen either.

production

The loner was filmed in Potsdam and in the DEFA studio for feature films from the end of 1978 . The costumes of the film created Isolde Warscycek that Filmbauten derived from Werner Pieske . The film premiered on May 18, 1980 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 58.4 percent.

It was the 64th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Captain Peter Fuchs investigated in his 40th case and Lieutenant Woltersdorf in his 8th and last case. DEFA director Helmut Nitzschke directed The Loner for the first time in a police call. The unusual length of the film of 48 minutes suggests that "apparently only a fragment of the originally planned film" was broadcast. This was explained, among other things, by the fact that with the film Nitzschke "got involved in the change in management of the Dramatic Art main department and in the process of changing the conception of the police call series."

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 115–117.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p.
  2. ^ A b Peter Hoff: Polizeiruf 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 115.
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