Police call 110: The Prince of Homburg

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title The Prince of Homburg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 260 ( List )
First broadcast September 26, 2004 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Titus Selge
script Titus Selge
production Jörg Himstedt
music KAB Fischer
camera Frank Blue
cut Elke Herbener
occupation

The Prince of Homburg is a crime film by HR by Titus Selge from 2004 and was released as the 260th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series . It is the first case for investigator Thomas Keller ( Jan-Gregor Kremp ) that he has to solve.

After the death of his father, Keller investigates in Bad Homburg on his own to clarify the circumstances of his death.

action

Thomas Keller actually works as a commissioner in Berlin , but when he receives news of his father's death, he travels to his hometown Bad Homburg. Wilhelm Meister, his boss at the time, with whom he began his career as a police officer, greets him at the train station.

Keller first catches up with all of his memories. He grew up in Bad Homburg and many things are still familiar to him. His father was a watchmaker and had André Bijou's valuables in safekeeping, which he would now like to have back, but the safe is empty. As a passionate police officer, Keller wants to know the exact circumstances of his death and requests an autopsy. The result is that his father was strangled. There are also shreds of skin under the fingernails.

A few days later, Keller was attacked in his father's house and everything was ransacked. But instead of looking for a perpetrator, Inspector Meister quickly arrests Keller on suspicion of murder. The DNA analysis showed a 50% match with that of the victim, which only allows Meister to conclude that his son is the murderer. Only the cross check proves that the DNA is not from Thomas Keller.

During his investigation, Keller made friends with Sophie Stein, who owns a small eatery in town. She gives him the idea that he might have a brother. So he remembers that while looking through his father's belongings he came across a letter from an old friend. This Nathalie Schmücker had visited Keller and found out that she had met his father many years ago. She had also spoken of a son she once had. In the end, this son turns out to be André Bijou, who admits that he had been looking for closeness to his father for years and finally found him. As he had gambling debts, he got caught up in the clutches of diamond dealers, for whom he had smuggled stolen stones in watches into Antwerp, with his father helping him. After a while Heinrich Keller no longer wanted that and they would have argued about it, but he would not have killed him. Now Bijou is indebted to these crooks who want their stones from the last delivery back, but he no longer has them. So, with the help of Bijou, Keller sets a trap for the dealers and arrests them. Unfortunately, his brother is stabbed to death by one of the crooks.

Keller actually intends to go back to Berlin, but by chance he discovers that Wilhelm Meister is hiding some things from him. He confronts his old boss, who admits that he has always been in love with Keller's mother. That evening Heinrich had called him and asked the diamond dealers to be caught so that his son could get out of the story safely, but it escalated and Master Keller's father strangled him in the fight.

Shortly after this confession, master shoots himself and Keller then decides to stay in Bad Homburg, since a position with the criminal police became vacant and he also likes to be around Sophie Stein.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm praised this police call with the thumbs up and said, Inspector Keller: "Walk off the beaten track" and it was: "The successful first of four appearances of the duo."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TV thriller with Inga Busch and Jan-Gregor Kremp. at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on September 22, 2016.
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