Police call 110: The dead man in the river

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title The dead in the river
Polizeiruf110 logo 1972.svg
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 64 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 6 ( list )
First broadcast June 4th 1972 on DFF 1
Rod
Director Helmut Krätzig
script Fred Unger
Helmut Krätzig
production Gerd Klisch
Hans W. Reichel
music Wolfgang Pietsch
camera Manfred Marderwald
cut Silvia Lever
occupation

The Dead in the Fliess is a German crime film by Helmut Krätzig from 1972. The television film was released as the 6th episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

During the preparatory work for an open-cast mine extension in the village of Zernsdorf, Senftenberg district , a skeleton is found in the mud of the former Fliess lake. First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Vera Arndt take over the investigation. Using a pocket watch and a ring found not far from the skeleton, the identity of the deceased is soon established: It is Bruno Krüger, an extremely unpopular innkeeper in the village who disappeared without a trace around ten years ago. When a letter from the west with his papers arrived in the village a little later, it was clear that he must have fled. The investigators don't know how he got back to Zernsdorf. Skull fractures show that he was killed.

Peter Fuchs and Vera Arndt interview people on site. Construction manager Kowalski, who notified the investigators, looks nervous. He got on badly with Kruger after rescuing his stepdaughter Sandra from the assaults of the drunken Kruger. Sandra worked like Biggi, the daughter of the worker Bigalke, as a waitress in the pub. Since the incident with Kruger, Kowalski had been banned from the inn, which Kruger enforced at all costs. Kowalski is now married to Sandra and she testifies too. The parents' marriage was bad. In a later testimony, she admits to having exchanged money for her stepfather in West Berlin . Vera Arndt asks the frail widow of Bruno Krüger, Lisa, who is now being looked after in a nursing home. However, she is silent on critical questions.

Worker Bigalke is also a suspect. He once, blackmailed by Krüger for drinking debts, secretly stole materials from the construction site that Krüger had sold black. Kruger had made himself unpopular in the village because of his greed and inhumanity and was now trying to compensate for the lack of customers by shoving. You found out. The police first appeared at Bigalke, ran a house search, and then arrested Bigalke. He was sentenced to three years in prison. Since Bigalke only named his employer Kruger after hours of interrogation, the investigators came too late: Kruger had gone into hiding and, as his letter revealed, had fled to the West. Bigalke's daughter Biggi has little to say about Krüger and breaks down in tears during the questioning. Peter Fuchs interrupts the questioning, especially since investigations lead him to Krüger's now dilapidated inn. Fine traces of blood show around the counter area.

All those present on the evening of the arrest are interviewed again. Kowalski learned of the events only two days after Bigalke was arrested. Bigalke himself is ruled out as a perpetrator because he was already arrested at the time of the crime. Sandra, like her mother, who is on a wheelchair, had been sent to bed early by Kruger herself. Lisa, however, now says that she went back to the stairs leading to the guest room. Kruger got money from every drawer and stowed it in a suitcase. Apparently he had been told of Bigalke's arrest and was about to leave. He spoke to a person in the guest room who was supposed to get away from the window. Lisa can't say who it was. It is also unclear how the body of the massive Kruger was transported from the inn to the lake, if not by a man.

Peter Fuchs finally has the solution: Biggi was the only one who had found out that Bigalke had been arrested that evening. So she must have been the person in the inn. Biggi confirms it and reports the sequence of events: She came out of the inn late because she still had to settle accounts. She notified Kruger of the arrest and urged him to face the police and take the blame as a client. When Kruger refused, she wanted to call the police, but Kruger began to severely choke her. With the last of her strength, she smashed a beer mug on his head. Kruger died instantly. Before Biggi could panic, Lisa stood in front of her and sent her away. Lisa herself transported her husband's body to the lake in her wheelchair. Later she sent Biggi to West Berlin with Krüger's papers in order to have them sent to her from there. Biggi is now being arrested. The demolition of the inn for the open-cast mine expansion begins.

production

The dead in the flow was 15 February to 31 March 1972 in Sorno formerly, county Senftenberg , Cottbus district , a village that the open pit Sedlitz soft had turned. The working title of the film was The Last Guest . The costumes of the film created Ruth Karge , the Filmbauten submitted by Klaus Poppitz . The Dead in the Fliess had its television premiere on June 4, 1972 on DFF 1 .

It was the 6th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Vera Arndt investigated their 6th joint case. It was the first film in the series in which the crime scene is specifically localized ( Lusatian lignite mining district ) and the social milieu was used as the motive for the crime. The criticism called "the reversal of the traditional crime fiction scheme [noteworthy] in which the in every respect negative figure, which is constantly re-burdened by some episodes remembered by the witnesses, is the victim".

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 43–45.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=006 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 43.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 45.
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