Police call 110: The inspector's son

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	The commissioner's son
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Marabu Media on behalf of the ORB
length	87 minutes
classification	Episode 193 ( list )
First broadcast	September 21, 1997 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Jan Ruzicka
script	Stefan Kolditz
production	Dirk Funke
music	Hans-Jürgen Gerber
camera	Peter Ziesche
cut	Susanne Carpentier
occupation
Katrin Saß : Tanja Voigt Ulrich Matthes : Tanja's partner Daniel Brühl : Robert Voigt Christian Näthe : Naum Christine Schorn : Tanja's mother Benno Fürmann : Frank Geerdem Oliver Stern : Didi Geerdem Michael Kind : Martin Herbert Feuerstein : Alexander Bianca Rosetz : Karoline Becker Jenny Deimling : Nora Alfred Müller : Tanja's boss Claudius Freyer : Harald Reichel Lutz Teschner : Naums father Heidrun Welskop : Naum's mother Bernd-Uwe Reppenhagen : Teachers with money Peter Wohlfeil : Racetrack accomplice Torsten Michaelis : Receptionist Mey Lan Chao : Doctor Kai-Peter Gläser : Policeman

The Commissioner's Son is a German crime film by Jan Ruzicka from 1997. The television film was released as the 193rd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Robert Voigt, the 17-year-old son of Chief Inspector Tanja Voigt, and his 19-year-old friend Naum play in the school band. A teacher gives you 5,000 Deutschmarks for a new amplifier. In the evening Naum and Robert and the two young women Karoline and Nora go to the cinema. Then both end up in a hotel suite, where Robert sleeps with Karoline and Naum with Nora. Naum had put the money on the table in the suite, from where the envelope fell unnoticed into the wastebasket. The next morning both women are gone and the boys notice that the money has also disappeared. They secretly steal from the hotel. Robert notices that Karoline has written her phone number on his back. He has Tanja Voigt find out the address. Naum and he follow Karoline to the horse race, where Karoline's friends Nora, Martin and the brothers Frank and the simple Didi are waiting for them. You want to carry out a long-planned betting fraud and have put together several tens of thousands of marks. A relative of Martin, who works at the betting counter, is supposed to accept the money and fill out the betting slip after the race. The money should give Karoline. She is intercepted at the counter by Naum and Robert. They both take the envelope with the money from her, which they assume is her 5,000 Deutschmarks.

Naum and Robert later realize that there are more than 40,000 D-Marks in the envelope. Robert wants to call on the police, he believes that the money comes from further scams against women. Hardly again wants to divide the 5,000 D-Mark and keep the rest. On Nora's advice, Karoline packs her things to go into hiding for a while, if she shouldn't expose herself to Frank's anger. Robert plans to confront Karoline, but Naum goes to her. When he returns, he has 5,000 euros with him and claims to have given the rest to Karoline. Robert goes to Karoline with the money, but she doesn't respond to his knock. He breaks into her apartment with a knife and finds it covered in blood. Shortly afterwards, the police and ambulance appear. Karoline is taken to the hospital seriously injured, while Tanja Voigt sees her son as a murder suspect shortly afterwards.

Robert remains silent during the interrogation; In turn, Tanja Voigt's boss, as a mother, withdraws the case that her partner is working on. Since Tanja Voigt cannot go on vacation to Greece with her boyfriend due to the events , he separates from her in anger. Meanwhile, she receives support from her mother, who was supposed to take care of Robert while on vacation. Now she decides to help her daughter find the culprit. Since Robert is silent and Naum says covered by his parents that he was at home at the time of the crime, Robert is considered an urgent suspect and comes into custody . Tanja Voigt experiences the humiliating house search procedure that her partner leads. Mother and grandmother visit Robert in detention and Robert now reports what happened that evening and the next morning. At the hotel the receptionist confirms that the four young people have spent the night in the suite. Tanja Voigt finds a contact lens in the room that Naum had lost that evening. She visits Naum in his school and confronts him with her knowledge. The planned conversation in front of the school is canceled because Naum escapes followed by a junk delivery truck.

Nora, Frank, Didi and Martin catch Naum and take him to the Geerdem scrapyard where they work. He does not say where the money is, but reports that 5,000 D-Marks were stolen from them by Nora and Karoline. Meanwhile, Naum's parents find the money in Naum's room and go to see Tanja Voigt. She found a photo of her and Nora in Karoline's apartment, which she shows in front of a pile of junk. Robert can remember seeing a Gerdeem scrap truck. With the consent of her partner, Tanja goes with Robert to the scrap yard, where Naum has meanwhile been passed out by Frank and placed in a car intended for pressing. The press is already running when Tanja Voigt arrives. She stops the press and confronts Frank stating that he is responsible for Caroline's condition. Frank denies having been with Karoline, but Didi contradicts him, saying that he had been with Karoline that evening. Frank now admits that he almost killed her as he suspected that she kept the money. Tanja Voigt can prevent Didi from strangling Frank and preventing Naum from being killed in the press. Frank is arrested. Karoline will survive her injury. Tanja Voigt's partner, in turn, is committed to ensuring that she is not suspended for her behavior, as this was the only way to save Naum's life. Tanja Voigt's mother, on the other hand, rebooks the holiday so that Tanja Voigt and her boyfriend can travel to Greece. The envelope with the money had fallen out of the garbage disposal. a beggar found him a little later and reacted euphorically.

production

Goethe School in Potsdam-Babelsberg, a location for the film

The inspector's son was filmed in Potsdam and at Berlin-Tempelhof Airport . One location was the Goethe School in Potsdam-Babelsberg, where Tanja Voigt wants to interview Naum. The costumes for the film were created by Anne-Gret Oehme , the film structures were created by Esther Ritterbusch . The film had its television premiere on September 21, 1997 on the first . The audience participation was 20.9 percent (= 6.87 million viewers).

It was the 193rd episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series . Chief Inspector Tanja Voigt investigated in her 9th case.

criticism

"A thoroughly successful, Police '', praised the TV movie , and found that the performer Sass and Brühl" [convince] prudently Story ". "Based on the script by Stefan Kolditz [...] the accomplished crime film director Jan Ruzicka [...] filmed a 'police call' in a stylish manner, which the ensemble in front of the camera [...] can also convince", wrote the Frankfurter Rundschau . The Mitteldeutsche Zeitung called The Inspector's Son an “exciting TV work. Katrin Saß gave a convincing performance as usual ”.

"Once again a son of a commissioner was under suspicion, once again the suspended investigator single-handedly solved the case," criticized the Leipziger Volkszeitung . The screenwriter Kolditz had "quite cleverly linked two threads of action by means of a series of ludicrous coincidences" and director Růžička "[loosened] some stereotypes with speed and gags", but the case ran on predictable tracks when Tanja Voigt recognized her son as a suspect. The Sächsische Zeitung judged similarly : screenwriter Kolditz's phantasy developed “so many errors and confusions that the story lost credibility and speed”. In addition, the plot is predictable and clichéd: "Tanja boxing Sohnemann on her own, with the dramaturgical exploitation of all partisan clichés out again and convicts the right one."

Web links

• Police 110: The son of the Commissioner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Police call 110: The inspector's son on Das Erste.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 202.
2. ↑ Quota hits from September 21, 1997 . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , September 23, 1997, p. 10.
3. ^ Police call 110: The son of the inspector on tvspielfilm.de
4. ↑ KW: Briefly announced - "The Commissioner's Son" . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , September 20, 1997, p. 23.
5. ↑ Gerd Dehnel: TV review: convincing . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , September 23, 1997.
6. ↑ Klaus Katzenmeyer: flashback - police call 110: the son of the inspector . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , September 23, 1997, p. 10.
7. ↑ Jens Hölzig: Spun - Polizeiruf 110. The son of the inspector . In: Sächsische Zeitung , September 23, 1997, p. 20.

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