Police call 110: The cucumber queen

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title The cucumber queen
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Eikon Media
on behalf of the rbb
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 327 ( list )
First broadcast April 15, 2012 on Das Erste
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Director Ed Duke
script Wolfgang Stauch
production Mario cancer
music Tamás Kahane
camera Torsten Breuer
cut Vera Theden
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The Cucumber Queen is a TV film from the crime series Polizeiruf 110 . The film, produced on behalf of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb), was first broadcast on April 15, 2012. Chief Detective Tamara Rusch, played by Sophie Rois , is investigating in this case together with Chief Police Officer Krause, played by Horst Krause . Olga Lenski, alias Maria Simon , is on maternity leave, which is why she is represented by Tamara Rusch. It is the 327th episode in the Police Call 110 series.

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Luise König is still in her office in the gherkin factory in Lübbenau when she hears a noise. When she looks in the hall, she suddenly sees a person masked as a vampire . Luise's daughter Anne notifies the police that a door has been broken into and a window has been smashed and she does not know whether it is a break-in. But she knows that her mother is still in the building. Police chief Krause finds Luise König tied to a chair and gagged. She is threatened by someone disguised as a vampire who is about to pour gasoline on the floor around Luise's chair. When Krause speaks to him, he holds up a lighter, which amounts to an indirect threat. When Krause throws himself on the floor, he loses his service weapon. The perpetrator grabs it and runs away. Luise König, untied from Krause, only says “everything is fine” and leaves in no time at all.

When Luise König was later questioned by Chief Detective Tamara Rusch, Olga Lenski’s pregnancy representative, she said casually that she had no idea who it was. Tamara Rusch asks Krause if he thinks Luise König wants to protect someone. When the commissioner later conducts further investigations in the royal house and questions Anne König, she also meets Luise's husband Günther and Luise's other daughter Steffi and her friend Maurice. Tamara Rusch determines that Luise König had phoned a number in Stuttgart immediately before and shortly after the attack. It was - as it turned out later - the telephone connection of the largest canning manufacturer in Germany and it was about a fax with important content, which has disappeared because Anne took it without her mother's knowledge. In addition, Rusch and Krause notice huge hanging dolls hanging upside down in the barn.

At night Luise König hears a noise and leaves her bed when a shot is fired, she crawls under the bed with presence of mind. Her startled family lets her know that nothing has happened and that they can go back to sleep. Tamara Rusch, who also stayed at the property with Krause to protect Luise König, asks Luise if she really wanted to die. During her further investigations, the inspector learns that Steffi König's current boyfriend used to be with her sister Anne, who was expecting a child from him at the time, but who had an abortion. Her mother Luise was strictly against this connection.

Luise König's 50th birthday is coming up. The “cucumber queen” looks pretty over-the-top and hectic that day. Krause told the inspector that the cut helmet was the vampire and that he saw his eyes. Cut helmet is Luise König's lover and appeared at the party even though he wasn't invited. Maurice Schmitt, Steffi's friend, is Schnitthelm's son. The young man spits in front of his father and makes it clear that he doesn't think much of him, he doesn't have any money or friends, all he would have would be an old studio. But he doesn't know where. Schnitthelm tells Luise's husband Günther that Luise is planning to sell the factory and that he last slept with his wife three weeks ago. When King finds his wife packing his suitcase, he says it looks like she is about to run away.

In the meantime, Krause has located the forest property on which Schnitthelm's studio is located in the Spreewald. Large dolls are also hanging upside down on the trees. Krause also comes across the vampire mask there. Meanwhile, Steffi surprises her sister Anne, who is about to sleep with her boyfriend Maurice. When Steffi asks her if she suddenly no longer has any scruples about her mother, Anne says that there is no longer a factory either, that the mother has sold everything. Tamara Rusch lets Anne know that she thinks she and Maurice have the same father. Luise has left in the meantime. She left a DVD for her cousin Emma saying goodbye to her family and explaining why she sold the factory. She also states that she shared the proceeds of the sale fairly among all family members.

A little later a shot is fired. Anne shot her mother. To Tamara, she says in dismay that she already had the barrel in her mouth when her mother suddenly appeared between the trees that she was aiming at her. When Tamara asks where the corpse is, Anne screams fearfully: “I don't know.” The inspector notices that Luise König was killed with a shot from Krause's service weapon. Günther König shot his wife. When he asks if it is his fault, Tamara replies laconically that it is always the fault of the one who pulls the trigger.

background

Der Polizeiruf 110 Die Gurkenkönigin is a production by Eikon Media GmbH on behalf of rbb for Das Erste . Lübbenau in the Spreewald , a growing area known for pickled cucumbers, Erkner and the surrounding area and the city of Berlin were used as locations . The film was shot from September 13th to October 15th, 2011.

This episode of Police Call 110 was shown as the opening film at the 2012 television crime festival in Wiesbaden .

After Susanne Lothar's death, Volker Herres , program director of the First German Television , said “that she was an exceptional actress” “in front of the camera as well as on stage. Her presence and her ability would have made every film something special, including this Polizeiruf 110. ”This Polizeiruf-110 episode was one of her last works for television.

criticism

TV Spielfilm wrote: "Weird and nasty family grotesque". Irene Bazinger from the FAZ says: “Snotty, clever, sexy: Sophie Rois gives a first-class guest performance as a commissioner at“ Police Call 110 ”from Brandenburg. In “Die Gurkenkönigin” she chases a vampire. ”[…]“ Susanne Lothar shines as an opaque entrepreneur who hides a hot, almost sympathetic heart under her ice-cold business armor. Skillfully unsentimental, Bernhard Schütz shows the desperately down-to-earth factory owner who is called a king, but is really a beggar ”. T-Online comes to the result: “No old rum gherkin: The Brandenburg" police call "about a Spreewald cucumber factory and the broken relationships of the owner family was delicious crime entertainment. The absolute highlight of the episode: Chief Detective Tamara Rusch (Sophie Rois) as pregnancy replacement for Olga Lenski (Maria Simon). "[...]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Police call 110: The cucumber queen at Episodenguide
  2. ^ Police call 110: Die Gurkenkönigin at rbb-online.de
  3. ^ Police call 110: The cucumber queen on ARD.de.
  4. ↑ Police call 110: Die Gurkenkönigin at tvspielfilm.de
  5. ^ Polizeiruf 110: Die Gurkenkönigin complete criticism by Irene Bazinger in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
  6. ^ Police call 110: The cucumber queen at t-online.de
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