Police call 110: disco killer
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Disco killer |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Tellux film on behalf of the MDR |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 204 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 4, 1998 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marco Serafini |
| script |
Scarlett Kleint Michael Illner |
| production | Georg Stingl |
| music | Guest Waltzing |
| camera | Sebastian Richter |
| cut | Alfons Schröter |
| occupation | |
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Discokiller is a German crime film by Marco Serafini from 1998. It is the 204th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 and the 8th case for the Halle commissioners Schmücke and Schneider .
This time Commissioner Schmücke has to investigate an old school friend after a young girl is shot in front of a discotheque.
action
In front of a discotheque, seventeen-year-old Kim Kober is shot and seriously injured by a stranger. After she is taken to the hospital, she later succumbs to her injuries. Schmuck and tailors investigate and find a large amount of ecstasy in the victim's handbag . The next day, disco operator Schuwitt signed a contract with the security guard "Löwe", which works particularly against drug dealers.
Herbert Schmücke forks up the homeless Bastian, who is a possible witness to the crime. Since he lives in an unheated gazebo, he takes him in his apartment. Bastian notices a lot of Schmücke's investigations and can support him. As far as Bastian knew, Kim had a fight with the drug dealer Hofer. While looking for him, Schmücke comes across an old school friend. Ulrike Blix returned to Halle from the old federal states some time ago to expand her chain of discotheques in her hometown. With her help he can track down Hofer, who admits to having given Kim the opinion that he would not tolerate any competition in his territory. But he wouldn't have shot her right away.
In the meantime, Commissioner Schneider is investigating the Löwe security service, which is known to use drastic means to obtain orders and to include all of the surrounding discos among its customers. During a house search, various rifles are seized in the safe. Leo denies having anything to do with the attack and can show an alibi. After the examination, none of his rifles are considered to be a murder weapon. After a fatal heart attack, Leo is no longer available for further questioning.
Since Bastian is the only witness against Hofer, the two killers attack him. The boy can escape them with luck and Hofer is then taken into custody. A short time later, Bastian was shot at in Schmücke's apartment; the projectiles match those from the attack on Kim. In doing so, Schmücke finds out that it is not Kim who is the dealer, but Bastian. Kim was just his first customer. With his accusation against Hofer he wanted to force him out of the market. Since Hofer is still in custody, he retires as an assassin and Schmücke asks himself who benefited from the attack in front of the discotheque. In his opinion, this should be the other disco operators who benefit from the bad reputation of this venue. Schneider also draws Schmücke's attention to his old friend Blix, who has just bought another discotheque in the past few days.
Ulrike Blix had always sought contact with Schmücke and presented himself to him as a good business woman. Schmücke confronts her with the results of his investigation and that he considers her to be the person who commissioned the two attacks. After her business partner is found dead after a car accident and the murder weapon is in his car, the commissioners examine the Blix SUV for traces, as they suspect that she had rammed the car to get rid of her confidante and to distract her. After Schmücke visits her alone on her country estate by the lake and massively accuses her, she loses her nerve and knocks him down with a spade. While she is sinking her old schoolmate in the lake, Schneider arrives and shoots Ulrike Blix.
background
Discokiller was produced by "Tellux-Film GmbH Dresden" on behalf of MDR and shot in Halle and Potsdam. On October 4, 1998, the German first broadcast took place in the first at prime time .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv thinks that Marco Serafini staged the police call in a very “unspectacular to honest way. At first, there is little to feel of the local color, which MDR TV film director Karl-Heinz Staamann seems to attach so much importance to [...] The first hour it is a thriller based on the classic Whodunit model. There are lots of wrong leads, and the authors do not always succeed in drawing the characters with a coherent psychology. The description of the environment is more convincing. [...] There are also shown those who have made it or who are on the best way 'to the top', and those who are still at the beginning, the little fish. What they all have in common: Success justifies their means. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and found: "Thriller suspense with dry Ostwitz".
Web links
- Police 110: Disco Killer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of the film on the ARD website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filming locations from the Internet Movie Database , accessed on February 22, 2016.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Jaecki Schwarz & Wolfgang Winkler. The Halle duo investigates film criticism in the drug milieu at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 22, 2016.
- ^ Police call 110: Discokiller at tvspielfilm.de
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