Police call 110: The cracked mirror

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title The cracked mirror
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 84 minutes
classification Episode 101 ( List )
First broadcast December 8, 1985 on GDR 1
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Director Hans-Werner Honert
script Gabriele Gabriel
production Uwe Herpich
music Jürgen Wilbrandt
camera Wolfgang Voigt
cut Margrit Schulz
occupation

The Broken Mirror is a German crime film by Hans-Werner Honert from 1985. The television film was released as the 101st episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Paul and Anne Karuschke celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary in their local pub, which is lavishly decorated. There is expensive food and champagne and Paul is irritated when the landlord tells him that he ordered everything the day before. In fact, a supposed Paul was there and had rescheduled the initially simple little party into a big celebration. Paul's doppelganger was none other than his twin brother Otto with his pet chimpanzee. Both brothers have a tense relationship, Otto used to be in a relationship with Anne before she decided on Paul. Now Otto is staying with the couple. Even though it was his party, Paul dutifully goes to work that evening. He is a night watchman in the hygiene institute.

At night, Lieutenant Lutz Zimmermann suddenly stands in front of the Karuschke's door and tells Anne that Paul has been found seriously injured. He apparently surprised a thief who wanted to steal carpeting that had been delivered and was knocked down by him. Otto puts the news in his own blackest hours. His wife once fell and died at the circus because of a faulty material on the rope. The manufacturing company was never held accountable. Now Otto swears to find the culprit and gets in the way of the investigators time and again.

Captain Peter Fuchs and Lutz Zimmermann initially suspect Gottlieb Stingel, who has had several criminal records and who made music at the Karuschke celebration. He has a role of carpeting in his apartment. A sniffer dog led the investigators from the institute to Stingel's apartment and a witness also confirmed that Stingel walked away from the crime scene with a roll of carpet that night. Stingel admits that he found a roll of carpet on the way home and took it with him. At the time of the crime, however, according to witnesses, he still drank the leftover alcohol from the celebration. He will be released. At the scene of the crime, the investigators found a jacket button that belongs to a certain type of parka. At the institute, among others, Dr. Fransen and Harald Bieler have such jackets. There is no button missing on either of the two jackets, but they are sent for examination, as the buttons can now be bought anywhere. Dr. Fransen left his house at night, but his wheelchair-dependent wife believes he has been having an affair for a long time. Since Fransen, who knows his rights and duties very well, refuses to give a statement about his absence on the evening of the crime, he is taken into custody.

Otto has long suspected Bieler. In fact, he found Bieler's car keys not far from the crime scene and put Bieler under pressure. He should voluntarily present himself to the police, or Otto will hand over the keys to the investigators. Bieler, who committed the crime, wants to buy the car key from Otto for 5,000 marks, but Otto does not give in. When Bieler wants to pounce on him, Otto beats him up. Investigators have meanwhile found out that all buttons on Bieler's jacket had recently been replaced, with the exception of one replacement button. The thread on this button, in turn, is identical to the thread on the button that was found and differs from the thread on the other two jackets, so that proof is provided that the button comes from Bieler's jacket. The investigators arrest Bieler.

production

The cracked mirror was filmed from November 15, 1984 to March 12, 1985 in Berlin . The costumes of the film created Barbara Voigt , the Filmbauten derived from Lothar-Hermann Schneider . The film premiered on December 8, 1985 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 53.2 percent.

It was the 101st episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Captain Peter Fuchs investigated in his 59th case and Lieutenant Lutz Zimmermann in his 6th case.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 109.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=101 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 109.
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