Police call 110: The dead pays
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
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| Original title | The dead pays |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Television of the GDR |
| length | 77 minutes |
| classification | Episode 113 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 9, 1987 on GDR 1 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Knötzsch |
| script | Horst Ansorge |
| production | Gabriele Roetger |
| music | Rudi Werion |
| camera | Werner Helbig |
| cut | Edith Kaluza |
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The Dead Pay is a German crime film by Hans Knötzsch from 1987. The television film was released as the 113th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .
action
The craftsmen Manfred Wehlau and Peter Labuse commit fraud crimes under false names. Both have stolen ID cards, so Wehlau appears as Dieter Engelhard and Labuse as Ferdinand Siebel. Both of them regularly go after work under assumed names after work and renovate Professor Kramer's holiday home. They know that the building is seldom used by him, overcharging the cost of the building materials and ultimately using the cellar of the house to store stolen property. They received the building materials from Axel Gau, an employee of the PGH . The young man still lives with his mother, who takes away every opportunity for personal development, controls him and gives him money. The naive Gau is to serve Wehlau and Labuse as the executive force for their frauds.
In order to lure him, Wehlau gets his wife Sigrid to flirt with Gau. In fact, Gau falls in love with the young woman, of whose connection to Wehlau he knows nothing. She was offered a vacation trip to Hungary . Although she knows that she will not be able to make the trip, she accepts the vacation spot at Wehlau's insistence. Meanwhile, at Labuse's instigation, Gau has opened his own account and transferred 2000 Marks received from Labuse. Wehlau instructs Sigrid how to proceed with Gau, and so she invites him to go on vacation to Hungary. She later tells him that she has to leave a week earlier and asks him to come to Hungary alone. Wehlau and Labuse now convince Gau that he has to change clothes for the demanding Sigrid. The money, which he also needs for the expensive trip to Hungary, Gau procures on the instructions of the two men. He overdrawn the account he set up with Labuse's help many times over, cashed checks stolen by Labuse and Wehlau in his name and bought color televisions, expensive clothes and valuable antiques as instructed. The damage soon amounts to around 40,000 marks. The trio commit their crimes in various locations across the republic and stay in expensive hotels. Gau's mother only finds out at her son's job that he has been on vacation for a few days. Captain Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Thomas Grawe are again soon unsure in their investigations whether the hitherto innocent Gau really comes into question as the perpetrator.
Gau slowly realizes that he is playing a bad game, especially since he discovers his photo on a wanted poster. He wants to get out. Sigrid, who is allegedly in Hungary, is still there and convinces him to continue. Soon enough, however, and he wants to go home. Wehlau and Labuse, however, take the struggling man to the airport. There Gau causes such a stir that the two men bring him back to the car. A little later Gau is as if swallowed by the earth. Wehlau and Labuse can be exposed through various testimonies, especially since their false names turn out to be the identities of people who have lost their identity cards. Both men pretend to be innocent and then testify that they last saw Gau at the airport. However, a witness saw all three men later on the highway. There is a freshly heaped gravel pile. When removing the gravel, Gau's corpse emerges. Gau wanted to run away while resting on the autobahn, Wehlau got angry and beat him up. When Gau found out in this connection that Sigrid Wehlau's wife, he resisted, and Wehlau hit even harder until Gau died of a stroke injury.
production
The Dead Pay was filmed from October 27 to December 20, 1986 in Leipzig , Berlin , Potsdam and Stolzenhagen . The costumes for the film were created by Tamara Schramm-Bansen , the film structures were created by Christa Köppen . The film had its premiere on August 9, 1987 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 34.9 percent.
It was the 113th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Captain Peter Fuchs investigated in his 67th case and Lieutenant Thomas Grawe in his 8th case.
A criminal case from the 1970s, which occurred in Dresden, is said to have served as the basis for the film. In this case, however, the victim was deliberately killed and buried in a wooded area at what is now the Dresden-Hellerau motorway junction.
literature
- Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 121.
Web links
- Police 110: The dead man is charged in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Police call 110: The dead pays at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=113 (link only available to a limited extent)
- ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 121.
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