Police call 110: The discovery
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
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| Original title | The discovery |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Television of the GDR |
| length | 72 minutes |
| classification | Episode 66 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 5, 1980 on GDR 1 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Manfred Mosblech |
| script | CU Wiesner |
| production | Fritz Delp |
| music | Hartmut Behrsing |
| camera | Winfried Kleist |
| cut | Gerti Gruner |
| occupation | |
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The Discovery is a German crime film by Manfred Mosblech from 1980. The television film was released as the 66th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .
action
Ludwig Teska, caretaker at Wittenstein Castle, discovered shortly after a tour of the castle's weapons museum that two valuable rifles were missing. The police are alerted and after a long walk up the castle hill Lieutenant Vera Arndt appears. At that point in time, their museum director, Hans Reichelt, can already announce that the "case" has been resolved. His little son and the child of another castle guest used the lax safety precautions and took the two rifles to play duels with real but non-firing weapons. Vera Arndt now wants to use the time to take a two-day holiday at the castle, especially since Hans Reichelt is very uncomfortable with the whole thing.
There are various guests at the castle, including filmmaker Uwe Sandau, who has just shown his new film about the fate of the legendary state mirror of Busso von Heimburg at the castle, historian Dr. Jochen Polenz, who is researching the state mirror and suspects a copy of the original in the castle, and Helmut Wolf, a restorer. In a beefy mood, Hans Reichelt leads his guests to a secret passage in which, according to legend, the state mirror is hidden. Jochen, Uwe, Hans and Ludwig cannot find a state mirror in the corridor, but they do find relatively new wall traces in the wall. It also seems to be partially hollow. When they break open the wall, they find the mummified body of a man behind it. Lieutenant Vera Arndt is alerted who wants to bring experts to the castle, but the telephone line is disrupted. She starts the investigation.
It soon becomes clear that the corpse is the former head of Siegfried Ebert Castle. He suddenly disappeared in the summer of 1961, but it was rumored that he had fled to West Germany. Someone passed on greetings from him, his friend, the doctor Dr. Gudrun Hammer, received a letter from him, which she now describes as a forgery. In the summer of 1961, restorers Günter, Jochen, Uwe, but also Ludwig and Gudrun were at Wittenstein Castle. Gudrun had a breakdown after Ebert's disappearance and has been without a husband ever since. Now she reproaches herself for having hated a man for free for years. Vera Arndt also learns a lot from other castle residents and guests, but nothing helps her in her investigations.
When the phone works again, she calls for help. She tells those present that the policemen who will soon arrive will turn the castle upside down. Then she secretly observes the further actions of those present. Ludwig Teska disappears through a secret path in which Ebert's body was found. He brings Ebert's trunk to light, but is knocked down by a stranger. Vera Arndt's quick reaction lets the stranger flee without anything being stolen. In Ebert's suitcase you will find clothes as well as the country mirror you are looking for . Vera Arndt initially holds him back and only presents the suspect with the clothes in the suitcase. She lets Uwe re-enact the crime, with Helmut the victim and Jochen the perpetrator. Then Vera Arndt shows the audience the found country levels . Jochen reacts enthusiastically. Helmut is supposed to get the state mirror out of his packaging, but hesitates. When he picks up a chisel and Vera Arndt begins to tell about the tools of the crime, he drops the chisel in shock and finally confesses to having killed Ebert. Both had found the state mirror, but Ebert wanted the fame for himself. The criminologists requested appear at the castle and Helmut is arrested.
production
The discovery was filmed from November 1, 1979 to January 19, 1980 under the working title A Man - A Word or Witching Hour in Gernrode and Mägdesprung . Wittenstein Castle was found in Falkenstein Castle . The costumes of the film created Ingrid cheat , the Filmbauten submitted by Anna-Sabine thistle . The film premiered on October 5, 1980 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 54.6 percent.
It was the 66th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Lieutenant Vera Arndt investigated her 41st case. The medieval handwriting of Busso von Heimburg mentioned in the film Landesspiegel is an allusion to the Saxon mirror of Eike von Repgow .
literature
- Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 74.
Web links
- Police 110: The discovery in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Police call 110: The discovery at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=066 (link only available to a limited extent)
- ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 74.
- ↑ Jürgen Hering : 924 strips of picture in shining gold. Original and facsimile of the Dresden Sachsenspiegel. In: Barbara Schneider-Kempf , Klaus G. Saur , Peter-Klaus Schuster (eds.): Science and culture in libraries, museums and archives. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann on his 65th birthday. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11729-9 , pp. 185–199, here p. 198.
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