Police call 110: The void the devil leaves

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title The void the devil leaves
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavaria television production
on behalf of the BR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 310 ( List )
First broadcast April 11, 2010 on Das Erste
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Director Lars Monday
script Dirk Kämper ,
Lars Monday
production André Zoch
music Stephan Massimo
camera Harald Cremer
cut Vera van Appeldorn
occupation

The gap the devil leaves is a TV film from the crime series Polizeiruf 110 . The report, produced on behalf of Bayerischer Rundfunk and directed by Lars Montag , was first broadcast on April 11, 2010 on ARD's first program. It's after police call 110: Click made the second case with Ulrike Steiger as an investigator.

action

Ulrike Steiger leaves the German Armed Forces and joins the Munich criminal police. But on the first day, her colleague Friedl Papen was killed in a bomb explosion. The circumstances are just as brutal as they are puzzling: the pizza delivery boy Meike Ribkow was attacked by strangers and equipped with an explosive device around her neck. So she appears at a branch of the “Huba Bank” and demands two million euros, otherwise she would be killed. When she leaves the bank building, the SEK is waiting , but cannot intervene without endangering the woman. Meike Ribkow is at the end of her nerve and the arriving Ulrike Steiger tries to calm her down. She only succeeds to a limited extent and even the informed husband cannot do anything for his wife. The bomb explodes prematurely and not only kills Meike Ribkow, but also Steiger's colleague Friedl Papen. In the hope of finding the guilty party, Steiger wants to follow the instructions of the perpetrators, which Meike Ribkow had with him in the form of slips of paper, in place of the dead. In the end, this trail leads to Alexeij Ribkow, the husband of the dead, who thinks the whole thing is incomprehensible and is visibly devastated. Although he is taken into custody, Steiger realizes that the perpetrators have tricked them, because the suitcase with the money has disappeared and was apparently exchanged shortly after the explosion. It is therefore clear that the bomb did not detonate too early by mistake, but that everything was planned that way. Several tracks lead to a new building area, in which the Ribkows also live, which Alexeij Ribkow still seems suspicious.

Ulrike Steiger is given leave of absence due to her going it alone after the detonation and the failed action for which she was responsible. Without further ado, she continues to investigate secretly despite the suspension and is determined to find the murderer of her colleague Papen. Because of the references to the Lochnersiedlung on the outskirts of Munich, she rents an empty house there. She was the first to find out that the majority of the new buildings were financed by the "Huba Bank" that had just been robbed and that it recently sold it to a second bank ("Amaro") with bad loans . This demands from the homeowners, who mainly consist of young families, the loan amount including the land charge back in one sum, which means that people lose their houses in the end because they cannot raise the amount. This would give each of those affected a motive to attack the "Huba Bank". As soon as he arrived at the settlement, Steiger noticed that the parcel delivery man Orhan Demirel and the former hardware store clerk Johannes Finkelhage could have something to do with the bank robbery. She cannot yet find out whether there are other accomplices.

For the police, however, a Georg pillory is suspect. He is Steiger's landlord and inherited the house from his late sister. He was sentenced to three years in prison for suspicious illegal actions in his past. But Pranger, with its anarchic nature and "occasional terrorism", continues to tend towards extreme solutions. So he notices that Steiger is a police officer and steals her ID card to gain access and respect at the “Amaro” bank. There he puts the branch manager under pressure and explains that the police would take action against him and his inhuman machinations. When this action comes out, Steiger gets into an argument with the pillory, whereupon he wants to terminate her lease. But in the end he even supports Steiger in her investigation, but hides from her that he accidentally found the suitcase with the money in an empty house. After distributing the money indiscriminately among the residents of the settlement, Steiger confronts him. At first she is angry, but then convinced that the perpetrator will now convince himself whether it is actually "his money" that was distributed here. Immediately she goes to the house indicated by Pranger and meets Silke Bucholz there. She admits that she knew about the settlement residents' plans to blackmail the “Huba Bank” and that she developed the “counter plan” together with Alexeij Ribkow. She wanted the money for herself, and since she had an affair with Alexeij Ribkow, she accepted Meike Ribkow's death with approval.

background

The film was shot in Munich from November 3, 2009 to December 3, 2009 and was planned as the second police call for actor Jörg Hube , who died shortly before filming began. The filmmakers worked his death into the episode and dropped Inspector Papen to a car bomb right at the beginning of the film. Jörg Hube and Stefanie Stappenbeck were scheduled to succeed the Munich investigative team Tauber and Obermaier ( Edgar Selge and Michaela May ). However, since Hube could only shoot one episode, Stappenbeck investigates this episode alone.

reception

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv writes appreciatively: “It's a thriller that breaks out of everyday routine. [...] So there are not the usual W questions, but rather participatory 'investigation' that grows into a socially critical drama. The thriller results from an act of desperation. This Munich 'police call' takes up the good tradition of the Edgar Selge cases, in which there was often much melancholy. "

“The crime thriller plot may be neglected in this economic tragedy, but here the ruins of former dreams of prosperity are atmospherically illuminated. So this 'police call' has become a requiem in a double sense: on the Bavarian commissioner actor Jörg Hube - and on the German middle class. "

- The daily newspaper

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of The Gap That the Devil Leaves on April 11, 2010 was seen by 7.11 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 19.4 percent for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The void that the devil leaves with crew united
  2. ↑ Thilo Wydra: The gap remains with tagesspiegel.de
  3. ↑ Rainer Tittelbach : Stappenbeck's “Polizeiruf” single entry with Franz Xaver Kroetz as an anarcho-Grantler film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on August 21, 2015.
  4. ↑ The ruins of former prosperity dreams. In: Society / Media. The daily newspaper, April 9, 2010, accessed on November 12, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Andreas Markhauser: Primetime Check: Sunday, April 11, 2010.quotemeter.de , April 12, 2010, accessed on July 8, 2015 .
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