Police call 110: The ring with the blue sapphire

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title The ring with the blue sapphire
Polizeiruf110 logo 1972.svg
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 69 minutes
classification Episode 18 ( List )
First broadcast August 26, 1973 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Norbert Büchner
script Norbert Büchner
Dorothea Kleine
production Hans-Jörg glasses
music Reinhard Lakomy
camera Tilmann Dähn
cut Silvia Lever
occupation

The ring with the blue sapphire is a German crime film by Norbert Büchner from 1973. The television film was released as the 18th episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

After three years in prison, the electrician Walter König returns to his family, his wife Marlies and their daughter Susanne. The former housewife Marlies has built up a career in the last three years and has started an affair with her colleague Rudolf Hagedorn. Walter is now trying everything to end this affair.

A jewelry store is broken into. The perpetrator steals silver jewelry and pieces of jewelry from a safe. But he leaves the more valuable gold jewelry in a showcase worth 30,000 marks. Usually the original jewelry is exchanged for imitations at closing time. This means that imitations are usually left in the showcase overnight and the original jewelry in the safe. On this evening, however, this does not happen, so that only the imitations are stored in the safe. Nevertheless, the total damage amounts to 12,000 marks. First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Vera Arndt are entrusted with the investigation. The perpetrator entered the jeweler through the store above, sawing a hole in the ceiling. In addition, he not only wore gloves, but also rags around his shoes to cover up traces.

Matschulla once broke into stores in the same style, but has been in prison ever since. His fellow inmates in recent years have included Hans-Peter Zackel and Walter König. Both are interviewed. Marlies reports to the investigators that her husband slept that night. Hans-Peter Zackel is interviewed incognito by Vera Arndt in a night club. Here Zackel's lover Catharina Sylvius appears as a singer. In the cloakroom she found a ring with a blue sapphire in Zackel's pocket , but it is only a fake. Zackel wants to take the ring away from her, whereby it is lost. Zackel is looking for the ring when Vera Arndt walks into the cloakroom. Catharina shows her a wrong ring as the one that was supposedly lost and Vera Arndt leaves. Catharina Zackel now hands over the ring with the blue sapphire and asks him to put things right again.

The police also became aware of Rudolf Hagedorn, whose Trabant was not parked near the jeweler on the night of the crime. Rudolf initially pretends to have fetched cigarettes. Only when the investigators tell him that the machine there has been defective for several months does Rudolf tell the truth. He brought Marlies home that night. Later he saw Walter König drive away on a bicycle and secretly followed him. At some point he parked his car and wanted to follow Walter on foot, but lost sight of him in the area around the jeweler. When Vera Arndt wants to question Walter again, she realizes that he must be color-blind because he cannot distinguish the red investigator Wartburg from a blue one. The break-in also points to a color-blind person as the perpetrator, who could not distinguish the silver jewelry from the more valuable gold jewelry. Walter König is interrogated and after a short time admits to the break-in. He will be arrested. The investigators found the stolen jewelry in the family's rabbit hutch. However, the false ring with the blue sapphire is missing.

Investigators are called to find a body. It is Marlies König, who wears the ring she is looking for on her finger. She was first strangled and then thrown into a river, where she drowned. The investigation shows that she had eaten something shortly before she died. A landlord in the area remembers that Marlies had dinner with Rudolf in his restaurant that evening. Rudolf showed her the ring and reported that her husband is the burglar. Shortly before, Rudolf had broken into the king's cellar in search of evidence. He found the jewels in the rabbit hutch. Marlies reacted differently to the opening of the inn than expected: Although she wanted to separate from Walter, she did not want to get together with Rudolf, but rather live with her daughter. During the interrogation, Rudolf reports that he has left, but is taken into custody. During the reconstruction of the crime, the investigators also take fingerprints from the railing of the bridge from which Marlies was thrown into the river. The fingerprints do not match those of Rudolf. The renewed questioning of Walter leads to the goal. He admits to having killed Marlies. He heard her parting with Rudolf at the bridge and now hoped for a future together. However, she also behaved negatively towards him. She showed him the ring and he knew she would go to the police and killed her.

production

The ring with the blue sapphire was filmed from February 25 to April 19, 1973 in Pirna , Heidenau and Freital , among others . The costumes of the film created Ruth Karge , the Filmbauten come from Hans peoples . The film had its television premiere on August 26, 1973 in the first program of GDR television.

It was the 18th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Vera Arndt investigated their 14th case. In the film, Dagmar Frederic sings the songs Because I may never see you again and all of Paris dreams of love . She is accompanied by Reinhard Lakomy and the band.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 26.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=018 (link only available to a limited extent)
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