Police call 110: The find

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title The discovery
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 DEFA
on behalf of
DDR television
length 84 minutes
classification Episode 127 ( List )
First broadcast April 2, 1989 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Hans Knötzsch
script Gerhard Stübe
production Siegfried Kabitzke
music Rudi Werion
camera Günter Heimann
cut Bärbel Bauersfeld
occupation

The find is a German crime film by Hans Knötzsch from 1989. The television film was released as the 127th episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

A man is stabbed to death on the coast after an argument and falls down a slope with his suitcase. The perpetrator steals the money the man is carrying and buries the body on the beach. However, the suitcase remains lost. Nine years later, Lieutenant Lutz Zimmermann and Lieutenant Thomas Grawe investigate the case of a bungalow burglar in the area. The thief has already struck several times and stolen numerous, more or less valuable objects. The last break-in happened in the house of Professor Conradi, who works in Berlin and rarely comes to the coast. His son Holger, however, regularly uses the house for his women acquaintances. Pensionner Gau also takes care of the house and farm on a regular basis. The investigators find an old coin under a table.

Only later does Holger report to the police that he accidentally found an old suitcase on a chalk slope with 23 old coins in it. He took the suitcase and coins. Drunk he wanted to pay with one of these coins in a disco. The coin caught collector Harry Stresow's attention. The suitcase with the coins was stolen when Professor Conradi's house was broken into. Only the one coin remained on the floor, as it had fallen out of Holger's pocket after visiting the disco.

Watchmaker Anita Schilling receives an anonymous call. The caller wants to speak to her husband Konrad Schilling, he says, he is a collector's friend and has learned about the coins. Anita explains to the caller that her husband has been abroad for a long time. In fact, she has been waiting for him to return for almost ten years. According to his best friend Richard Lorenz, he once rushed to Sweden because he feared prosecution in the GDR. He sent Anita a postcard from Sweden and indicated that he would return after the statute of limitations for his sentence.

Lutz Zimmermann meets the young archaeologist Roswitha Rütt on the coast. He shows her the coin and she remembers finding a similar coin during one of her excavations some time ago. It was not far from a human skeleton without a head, the time of which the experts found it difficult to determine the length of stay. At the instigation of Lieutenant Zimmermann, the skeleton is re-examined and it can be determined that the 40-year-old man was seriously injured from a fall on the chalk coast. A large-scale search and excavation operation also found the man's skull. The skeleton can be identified as the corpse of Konrad Schilling, among other things by analyzing the teeth. The case with the coins must also have belonged to him.

Anita tells her friends Erika and Richard Lorenz about the call and the question about the coins. Richard immediately goes to the coast. A little later, the old Rapsch is found run over and taken to hospital seriously injured. The stolen property from the bungalow break-ins can be found with him, so this case can be solved. Rapsch also had some of the coins and cash with him. It turns out that Rapsch and the old Gau are close friends. After a questioning, Gau admits to having faked the break-in at Professor Conradi's. He broke the window and took the suitcase with the coins. He found the coin himself on his property around ten years ago, but did not report the find to the authorities. Instead, he illegally sold the coins to Konrad Schilling. Since they reappeared, he feared prosecution for his misconduct at the time. He also tried to reach Konrad Schilling by phone. He passed the coins on to Rapsch, who knew about the first coin discovery at that time. Richard Lorenz had also followed the coin trail to Rapsch and now wanted to buy the coins from him - Konrad Schilling had come before him nine years ago. Investigators can finally question Rapsch at the hospital, who claims Richard knocked him down. This wanted to get the confidante out of the way. Ultimately, it can be proven that Konrad Schilling never left the GDR. Richard forged the postcard from Sweden that he gave to a Swedish tourist at the time. He killed Konrad Schilling because he thought he had always been cheated in their illegal business and wanted to have a larger share in this last coin business. Lieutenant Zimmermann now has the unpleasant task of informing Anita that she has waited for her husband for almost ten years in vain and that his killer was none other than her supposed best friend.

production

The find was filmed from September 19 to December 20, 1988 in Berlin and on the island of Rügen . The costumes of the film created Ewald Forchner that Filmbauten derived from Heike Bauernfeld . The film had its premiere on April 2, 1989 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 42.3 percent.

It was the 127th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Lutz Zimmermann and First Lieutenant Thomas Grawe investigated their 18th case.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 135.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=127 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 135.
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