Police call 110: The old woman in the armchair

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title The old woman in the armchair
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 DEFA
on behalf of
DDR television
length 83 minutes
classification Episode 110 ( List )
First broadcast March 29, 1987 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Edgar Kaufmann
script Edgar Kaufmann
production Kurt Lichterfeld
music Werner Pauli
camera Rolf Sohre
cut Lotti Mehnert
occupation

The old woman in the armchair is a German crime film by Edgar Kaufmann from 1987. The television film was released as the 110th episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Sports trainer Eberhard Sebnitz, known as Ebse, is arrested after training with a youth team by Lieutenant Wolfgang Dillinger and Lieutenant Lutz Zimmermann. Ebse was supposed to travel to Hungary with the team for a competition the next day and there is a risk of escape. Ebse is suspected of having committed a total of 17 break-ins three years ago. He always stole small sums of money, once a photo of a woman and another time additional letters from a mother to her child. At the last break-in, however, he knocked down a pensioner who had been sitting in an armchair undetected by him and therefore surprised him when he broke. The old woman died in the apartment from a severe head injury.

Ebse has built a new life. He met Elke two years ago, whom he married after half a year. Now the couple are expecting a child. Ebse placed the stolen photo on his wall unit and always claimed in front of his wife that it was of his mother. He never got to know her because she died when he was a toddler. Ebse grew up in the home. The photo in turn recognized one of his students because it shows a relative of his. So the investigators came to Ebse. The suspicion is confirmed when his fingerprints can be secretly taken and these match the evidence at several crime scenes. Ebse, however, denies the deeds and refuses to accept Lutz Zimmermann's interrogation methods until he, unnerved, passes the interrogation over to the quieter Wolfgang Dillinger.

During the investigation, the police found out that Ebse spent many hours with caretaker Kichler in the home and was very interested in locks and keys. Kichler confirms that Ebse would have become a very good locksmith and his neighbors also explain that Ebse has done repairs for them time and again. No traces were found on the locks during the break-ins, so that the suspicion against Ebse is confirmed. While Ebse is in custody, which lasts for several days due to his silence, Elke is admitted to the clinic in labor. Although Ebse always wants to know more about his wife and her condition, he sticks to his tactic of silence, even if the evidence is overwhelming. Since he above all denies the murder of the pensioner, whose apartment he says he has never been to and which he can therefore never have seen, Dillinger recreates the crime scene. An elderly lady with a wig and make-up is transformed into the old woman in the armchair, so that even the daughter of the victim is amazed at the similarity. The woman takes a seat in the armchair and turns to Ebse when he comes into the prepared room. Ebse spontaneously said that he was told nonsense because the woman was alive. He has given himself away and is now finally convicted of his actions.

production

The old woman in an armchair (working title: Meeting with Otto ) was filmed in Potsdam from May 20 to July 20, 1986 . The costumes of the film created Elke Hersmann that Filmbauten derived from Werner Pieske . The film had its premiere on March 29, 1987 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 39.4 percent.

It was the 110th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Lieutenant Lutz Zimmermann investigated his 12th case. The review wrote that the investigation "became the main character's psychoanalysis". Gert-Hartmut Schreier portrays this as "physically very agile". In addition, Schreier shows "the communication problems of the young man [Eberhard Sebnitz] down to the way he speaks in choppy sentences".

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 146–148.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=110 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 118.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 147.
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