Police call 110: The lifeguard

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	The lifeguard
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Production company	Television of the GDR
length	68 minutes
classification	Episode 79 ( List )
First broadcast	May 23, 1982 on GDR 1
Rod
Director	Lothar Hans
script	Percy Dreger
production	Helga Lüdde
music	Hartmut Behrsing
camera	Hans-Jürgen Reinecke
cut	Karola Mittelstädt
occupation
Jürgen Frohriep : First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner Reiner-Horst Scheibe : Second Lieutenant Daimler Jörg Hengstler : Heinrich Lingler Günter Wolf : Hans Thierbach Heike Schroetter : Heike Merten Regine Heintze : Lilo Rudolf Christoph : Father Merten Annemarie Ripperger : Mother Merten Klaus Gehrke : Lifeguard Jürgen Kaczmarek : Jochen, boat operator Dorothea Richter : Ms. Blitz Günther Lotze : Porter Rudolf Donath : Father Lingler Hannes Walsinger : Dr. Karow, coroner Roland Kuchenbuch : Doctor in the hospital Angelika Dintinger : colleague of Lilo Wolfgang Brumm : On duty Katharina Gulden : lifeguard Bianka Sattler : Young woman Manfred Schiller : Chief Sergeant Scholz Heinz Waschke : ABV Karl Karl-Heinz Wehr : ambulance doctor

The Lifeguard is a German crime film by Lothar Hans from 1982. The television film was released as the 79th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

A young woman gets into trouble off the coast of the Baltic Sea and threatens to drown. The lifeguard Heinrich reacts after a while and brings the woman ashore, but the help comes too late. The woman dies a little later in the hospital. The investigation of the case will be assigned to Lieutenant Daimler. During the summer he had received support from Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner, who actually wanted to leave on the day of the accident. Jürgen Hübner now realizes that something is wrong with the alleged accident and postpones his departure.

The dead person is Heike Merten. For her fiancé Hans it is certain that lifeguard Heinrich killed her. The investigators learn that Heinrich had an affair with Heike and wanted to destroy the connection with Hans. Heike's best friend Lilo says that Heike broke up with Hans the day before. She wanted to move to Berlin and study fabric design there. She had only signed the registration papers the day before her death. Heike had not made the decision to study easy for herself. She stood between two men - the older Hans, who kept her in a golden cage and with whom she felt increasingly constricted, and with Heinrich, who was her age but wanted to leave his old life behind in a rush to live with her to live together.

Hans goes to Heinrich and accuses him of Heike's murder. The forensic examination reveals slight strangulation marks below the neck; Heike was also pregnant by Heinrich. The investigators find Heike's lipstick in Heinrich's lifeguard tower. In the accident, she was traveling with an air mattress that the investigators can recover. It wasn't Heike's own air mattress. The middle and foot sections were damaged and had no more air at the time of Heike's distress at sea. The investigators suspect that the mattress belongs to Heinrich's lifeguard equipment, but Heinrich presents them both with his air mattress. When examined, it turns out to be artificially made for old new goods. Only now does Heinrich admit that he had an argument with Heike on the day of the accident. He wanted to sleep with her spontaneously, but she struggled and broke up with him. She told him that he should grow up first. Parts of the air mattress broke in the scramble. A little later Heike got the mattress to swim out and Heinrich inflated it again. When Heike slipped away from the now evacuated mattress and screamed in panic for help, Heinrich deliberately waited some time to prove his manhood and strength to her, without which she would be lost. When he finally decided to go to the rescue, it was too late.

production

The lifeguard was filmed from June 20 to August 20, 1981 on Rügen , in Rathen and Hohnstein as well as in Stralsund and the surrounding area. The costumes for the film were created by Margot Berndt , the film structures were created by Hans-Joachim Hölzel and Jürgen Malitz . The film premiered on May 23, 1982 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 55.1 percent.

It was the 79th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner investigated his 37th case.

literature

• Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 87.

Web links

• Police 110: The lifeguards at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Police call 110: The lifeguard at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=079 (link only available to a limited extent)
2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 87.

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