Police call 110: The wrong Sonja
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The wrong Sonja |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion on behalf of the MDR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 190 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | July 13, 1997 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Thomas Jacob |
| script | Knut Boeser |
| production | Rüdiger Lange |
| music | Andreas Fritsch |
| camera | Wolfram Beyer |
| cut | Brigitte Hujer |
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The false Sonja is a German crime film by Thomas Jacob from 1997. It is the 190th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 and the fourth case for the Halle investigator duo Schmücke and Schneider, played by Jaecki Schwarz and Wolfgang Winkler . Kathrin Waligura , Peter Weiß and Marita Böhme are cast in key guest roles .
action
The restorer Jens Dallmann involuntarily witnesses a brutal gas station robbery in which two people are killed. He can briefly see the perpetrator as he takes off his mask. The man then wants to shoot this witness too, but is disturbed by an arriving gas station customer and runs away.
The chief detective Schmücke and Schneider are called and start the investigation. With Dallmann's help, they want to make a phantom image, but this does not really work. Since it is getting late and Dallmann's friend Katrin Kreuzer works in the café of Schmücke's friend Edith Reger, he takes him there with him right away.
Dallmann wants to build a future together with Katrin, which the couple has not been able to do for financial reasons. In addition to the sparse restoration jobs, Dallmann quite often makes reproductions of old paintings. One of his clients is the art lover and building contractor Hans Schlüter, for whom he cleaned a valuable oil painting entitled "Sonja" and made a copy according to the order. After he has finished his work, he gets scruples because he suspects that Schlueter is trying to bring the counterfeit onto the market with fraudulent intent. Although he urgently needs the money, because he wants to enable Katrin to buy a café, he wants to cancel the order. The young people get into an argument about this and Katrin takes the copy so that Jens cannot destroy it.
When Jens only delivers the painting to Schlüter, but not the copy he has asked for, he is angry. He talks about it with his son Oswaldt, who hypothesizes that the restorer may have just returned the copy and kept the original for himself.
Shortly afterwards, Dallmann is found lifeless in the courtyard of his house. A neighbor knows about the quarrel between the young people and saw Katrin at the window after Jens had just rushed down. Commissioner Schmücke speaks to you about this observation. Katrin rejects the direct question of whether she has anything to do with his death, but indignant. In turn, she accuses the police of failing to protect her boyfriend, as it was known that the gas station robber would be looking for Jens, who witnessed his crime. In fact, Schneider finds two bullets in the wall, which, as it later turns out, come from the same weapon as the gunshots in the gas station robbery.
Schmücke and Scheider want to inquire with Hans Schlueter, since he was probably the last one to see Dallmann alive. Schlüter is not there, however, but is on the way to Berlin with his son to sell the painting. When he returns, the investigators speak to him and express the suspicion that Dallmann may have only returned a copy to him. For them it is certain that the murder of the restorer is related to the picture. After the inspectors initially ruled out Schlüter as a perpetrator because he was on his way to Berlin, they then find out that he did not take the train, but the car and is therefore a possible perpetrator. But it turns out that it was not he, but his son Oswaldt who went to Jens Dallmann to request the copy. Jens recognized the gas station robber in Oswaldt and was therefore unceremoniously eliminated as a witness.
Production, publication
The fake Sonja was produced by “ Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion ” on behalf of the MDR and was broadcast for the first time on July 13, 1997 during prime time on Erste .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv thinks, The wrong Sonja is “not a thriller that is too suspenseful - but a film in which you can feel at home. The TV hall is small; perpetrators, victims and investigators constantly meet. This is why this jewel comes closest to Felix Huby's Swabian Bienzle in terms of mentality and milieu density of all currently active TV investigators. The parallels range from the preference for the trench coat to the aversion to firearms to the warm-hearted partner in life. And Jaecki Schwarz is keen to play it realistically. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm give the thumbs up and say: "Whether art or fake: The Halle crime story is pulled by the hair." Conclusion: "Modest crime puzzle to guess."
Web links
- Police 110: The wrong Sonja in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Polizeiruf 110: The wrong Sonja summary of the plot of the film on the ARD website
Individual evidence
- ^ The wrong Sonja from Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on August 21, 2015.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Jaecki Schwarz, Winkler, Waligura, Stockmann. Comfortably following Bienzel's footsteps Film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on August 16, 2015.
- ^ TV thriller from Halle. Accident, murder or suicide: the death of a forger raises questions. Short review by TV Spielfilm at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on August 16, 2015.
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