Police call 110: The Gazelle

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	The gazelle
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	NDR , ORB
length	88 minutes
classification	Episode 184 ( List )
First broadcast	November 17, 1996
Rod
Director	Bodo Fürneisen
script	Jürgen Pomorin Michael Illner
production	Klaus Michael Kühn Klaus-Dieter Zeisberg
music	Rainer Oleak Peter Gotthardt ( Freddy Gigele )
camera	Sebastian Richter
cut	Sybille Windt
occupation
Kurt Böwe : Kurt Groth Katrin Saß : Tanja Voigt Uwe Steimle : Jens Hinrichs Aglaia Szyszkowitz : Dinje (the "Gazelle") Gedeon Burkhard : Louis Walter Kreye : Koos Kruger Dirk Martens : Becker Dieter Montag : Seminar leader Schnorr Guido Sherr : Porter Klaus-Dieter Klebsch : Detective of the Kripo Giso Weißbach : singer of the band

The Gazelle is a German crime film by Bodo Fürneisen from 1996. The television film was released as the 184th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . The film is a joint production by NDR and ORB . Therefore, the NDR commissioners Groth and Hinrichs meet their colleague Voigt from the ORB.

action

The commissioners Tanja Voigt, Kurt Groth and Jens Hinrichs travel to Warnemünde to take part in a police seminar at the Hotel Neptun . Due to a booking error, Groth and Hinrichs have to share a room. While Hinrichs is attentively following the seminar, Tanja Voigt and Groth prefer to pass the time sinking into ships .

Dinje, a lovely solo traveler, has also rented the Hotel Neptun. She seduces men in order to get their credit cards and then to plunder their accounts. In doing so, she runs into Louis Krüger, with whom she falls in love. While both are spending a romantic evening in the hotel pool, Dinje's accomplice Becker breaks into Louis' room, but is caught and killed by Koos Krüger. Dinje, whom Groth had noticed after his arrival and whom he describes as a “gazelle”, learns from the porter the next morning that a car has been found on the cliff. When she searches the car, she discovers Becker's clothes and a diamond.

While playing volleyball with colleagues, Hinrichs first sprains his ankle and then finds a corpse that is being washed up on the hotel beach. The dead, whom Dinje recognizes as her accomplice Becker, was a passionate kite sailor. The Rostock Kripo therefore assumes that the man was drunk and had a sports accident. She then stops the investigation. Tanja Voigt and Groth doubt that, because Becker did not want to drink a drop of alcohol the night before. Both begin to work on the case unofficially, as the Rostock colleagues do not respond to their objection.

During a conversation with Louis and Koos Krüger, Dinje discovers that Koos is doing business in Africa and suspects that he has something to do with the diamonds. When she searches Louis' room, her suspicions are confirmed, as she witnesses a diamond shop there. She then decides to blackmail Koos Krüger. She explains to him that she knows that he is responsible for Becker's death and demands the diamonds from him. Since she learned from Hinrichs, from whom she had found out about the course of the investigation since Becker's death, that there was police video equipment in the seminar room, she secretly recorded the conversation. Koss then calls on his son to kill Dinje; this conversation is also recorded on video.

When Hinrichs mentioned to Tanja Voigt that he had been questioned by a young woman for two days, she became suspicious and Dinje was targeted by the trio of investigators. When trying to interrogate her, however, she managed to escape because Hinrichs sprained her ankle again in the pursuit. The trio can, however, secure their computer, which was used to copy the credit cards, and numerous forged passports. Hinrichs quickly determined the correct name of the "Gazelle" and discovered a connection to the murdered Becker.

While handing over the diamonds in the harbor, Koos Krüger kills his son Louis, who didn't have the heart to murder Dinje. While Koos is arrested by the police, Dinje disappears and is able to leave Warnemünde unrecognized on a ship. Since she also videotaped the conversation in which Koos confessed to Becker's murder and instructed his son to kill Dinje and made sure that the porter passed the tape to the police, Koos was arrested for murder.

production

The gazelle was produced jointly by NDR and ORB . Tanja Voigt and the Groth - Hinrichs team investigate in their seventh case.

When it was first broadcast, the film achieved an audience rating of 18.4 percent.

In more recent broadcasts, the original opening credits with the music of Peter Gotthardt have been replaced by a newer version with the music of Freddy Gigele. This opening credits were originally only seen from episode 204 (Disco Killer) .

The Gazelle is the first NDR and ORB police call to be produced in 16: 9 format.

criticism

The Berliner Kurier sees the attraction of the film "less in the very transparent crime story, but rather in the lovingly exaggerated, witty drawn hotel atmosphere."

TV Spielfilm praises the “weird murderous hunt with a mild holiday flair”.

Kurt Böwe and Uwe Steimle were, however, not very enthusiastic about the script: Böwe “did not find what the NDR police calls”, namely that the commissioners there are usually “part of the North German landscape and its inhabitants”. Steimle suspected that the authors would probably never have seen one of their cases. Katrin Saß, on the other hand, enjoyed being able to play with Kurt Böwe.

literature

• Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 193.

Web links

• Police 110: The Gazelle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Police call 110: The Gazelle at filmportal.de
• Police call 110: Die Gazelle dasErste.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 193.
2. ↑ Broadcast on September 5, 2007 rbb and March 29, 2008 NDR, Polizeiruf 110: Die Gazelle on fernsehserien.de
3. ↑ ^{a b} Torsten Wahl: Kriminal-Tango am Ostseestrand In: Berliner Kurier, November 16, 1996.
4. ^ Police call 110: Die Gazelle on tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved September 5, 2014.

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