Police call 110: The professor's death
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
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| Original title | The death of the professor |
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| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Television of the GDR |
| length | 72 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 28 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | November 23, 1974 on GDR 1 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Hans Joachim Hildebrandt Thomas Jacob |
| script | Hans Joachim Hildebrandt Gerhard Jäckel |
| production | Hans W. Reichel |
| music | Peter Gotthardt |
| camera | Walter Laass |
| cut | Brigitte Bergmann |
| occupation | |
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The Death of the Professor is a German b / w crime film by Hans Joachim Hildebrandt and Thomas Jacob from 1974. The television film was released as the 28th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .
action
The doctor Dr. Günter Harms drives home drunk from a meeting at night. He overlooks Mr. Kiefholz, who suddenly appears on the street, and hits him. The car comes to a stop at a construction site. Günter takes care of Mr. Kiefholz, who recognizes him as a doctor: Günter once operated on Kiefholz's daughter. Günter makes sure that Mr. Kiefholz is fine, but takes him to the hospital when he has an attack of dizziness. Both agree to pass the accident off as an unfortunate fall from a water tower.
Günter confesses the accident to his father Wolf. He is the head professor at the clinic where Günter also works. Wolf reproaches Günter and insists that he face the police. It is all a question of morality, insists Wolf, but Günter reacts ironically: especially in the professor's house, morality is a bad argument, as Wolf suspects from the affair of his wife Carolin, who is 24 years his junior, with the actor Hendrik Grabeleit. Wolf, who suffers from diabetes mellitus and angina pectoris and wants to retire in the next few days, is now planning to finally bring order to his life. He invites friends and acquaintances to a big farewell party, including Hendrik. He wants to talk to him and find a solution for himself and his wife.
The injury to Mr. Kiefholz turns out to be more severe than expected: Due to an injury to the spleen, Wolf has to perform a splenectomy , which is also the last operation in his long medical career. Again he urges Günter to face the police. Mr. Kiefholz's colleagues are also becoming suspicious. The dilapidated staircase on the water tower, from which he pretends to have fallen, has not existed for a long time. One of the colleagues alerted Lieutenant Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Vera Arndt. Both have already been informed about the traces of the accident at the construction site that Günter had left with his car.
In the Harms house - Wolf and Günter live with their wives in the same building - tensions arise. Günter's wife Irene wants to prevent her husband from surrendering to the police. Wolf states that in an emergency he will report his son himself. The next day, the morning after his farewell party, Wolf is dead. Peter Fuchs and Vera Arndt interview those present, find out about Carolin's relationship with Hendrik and also that Hendrik and Wolf disappeared together in the summer house shortly before they died. Afterwards, Wolf was no longer seen. Wolf's friend Dr. Ewald Mersburg found Wolf's body shortly after midnight. Irene says that shortly after the conversation between Wolf and Hendrik she wanted to check on her father-in-law, but that the door to the summer house was locked. Ewald, in turn, was able to open the door without any problems. The key can be found in an unfamiliar place on a coat hook in the house.
The autopsy reveals that Wolf died of a heart attack, which could also have been caused by excitement or shock. Hendrik admits that he had a violent argument with Wolf. He told him that his wife would leave him and that he was an old, sick man. Wolf almost collapsed and sent him away. The key was in the door. Hendrik also reports that he told Carolin about her husband's poor condition. She is finally found by the investigators and admits to having gone into the garden shed shortly afterwards. She wanted to give Wolf an insulin syringe that he had already prepared. However, he told her that he wanted to divorce her. She insulted him and destroyed the insulin syringe. When his attack started, she left and locked the garden shed angrily. When she returned to him after a short time, Wolf was already dead. She is arrested for causing her husband's death. Günter, on the other hand, was motivated to act by the death of his father: he reports himself about the accident with Mr. Kiefholz.
production
The death of the professor was filmed from May 7th to June 26th 1973 under the working title Death in the garden house in Stralsund and the surrounding area. For a longer sequence, the Stralsund shipyard served as the location, in which an attentive work collective offers Lieutenant Fuchs the opportunity to start investigations - even though a crime is not yet in evidence. The costumes of the film created Christel Richter , the Filmbauten come from Manfred Hunchback . The film experienced on 23 November 1974 the first program of the television of the GDR its television premiere. The audience participation was 60.5 percent.
It was the 28th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs investigated in his 19th case and Lieutenant Vera Arndt in her 23rd case. For the first and only time DEFA star Erwin Geschonneck appeared in an episode of the crime series, which together with the location of the plot in the medical environment led to the "attractiveness of the case" and thus to a high visual participation of 60.5 percent. The critics called the film "realized in a little effort", whereby the end with the confession of the wife "is formally structurally reminiscent of traditional crime games".
literature
- Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 58–60.
Web links
- Police 110: The death of the professor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Police call 110: The death of the professor at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Representation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=028 (Link only available to a limited extent, for example via an archived, older version ( Memento from September 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
- ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 36.
- ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 58.
- ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 59.
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