Police call 110: The mother of Monte Carlo

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title The mother of Monte Carlo
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 273 ( List )
First broadcast February 23, 2006 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Titus Selge
script Titus Selge
production Jörg Himstedt
music KAB Fischer
camera Frank Blue
cut Elke Herbener
occupation

The mother of Monte Carlo is a 2006 crime film by HR directed by Titus Selge and was released as the 273rd episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series . It is the second case for investigator Thomas Keller ( Jan-Gregor Kremp ) that he has to solve.

action

Cantor Paul Bertram is on his way back from the casino one night and accidentally runs over a woman on a wet road. Out of fear, he does not report the accident, but bribes the undertaker Teske to dispose of the corpse, which he does not want to look at himself again. By chance, Inspector Keller, who has settled in well in Bad Homburg, comes across the missing person. Ironically, the mother of an old school friend who died in a tragic accident at 17, suddenly disappeared. Since she had just hit the casino jackpot, a crime is likely. Therefore, Edgar Dobler is first suspected. He's an ex-police officer, but now works in the casino and accompanied the old lady home.

But Keller has to find concrete evidence, so he's looking for clues in the missing person's room. He finds regular transfers to his old school friend Paul Bertram in the bank statements. He claims to have received the money because she always looked at him like a son. He also asks him that he has just had his car scrapped and so he confesses to the accident that night. Bertram is certain that the woman was already dead when his car hit her.

Strangely enough, the body of the wanted old lady is found sitting in a wheelchair in a body of water. However, she was strangled and not run over. Keller doesn't know what to think of it. Then who was the woman Bertram had run over?

Keller continues to look for evidence against Edgar Dobler and inquires about his police past in Frankfurt. He meets with chief detective Friedrich Dellwo , who tells him about the operation in which his partner was killed at the time. That partner was Frank N. Stein, the father of his girlfriend Sophie. There is a video recording from a surveillance camera which shows that he did not try to help his partner at all. When Sophie finds out, she wants to confront Dobler and in this situation he confesses to having strangled the old lady because of all the money.

Regarding the identity of the woman run over by Bertram, it turns out that this was his own daughter from his first marriage. After her mother committed suicide and her father took a new wife, she left the family and hated her father for it. Based on her diary entry, it is clear that she deliberately threw Bertram in front of the car to punish him. She found out that she is the daughter of Peter Karlow, who died at the time, and whose accident Bertram was not entirely innocent of.

background

Jörg Schüttauf has a guest appearance in his role as Detective Inspector Fritz Dellwo in Frankfurt .

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave this police call only a mediocre rating: "The story is too overloaded, the gags too intentional, the panopticon of weird characters too penetrating - less would have been more." Sense."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TV Krimi.Zweiter case for Jan Gregor Kremp. at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on September 22, 2016.
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