Police call 110: double game

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Double game
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 DEFA
for television in the GDR
length 84 minutes
classification Episode 54 ( List )
First broadcast July 2, 1978 on GDR 1
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Director Ingrid Sander
script Horst Angermüller
production Dieter Dormeier
music Henry Krtschil
camera Peter Krause
cut Karin Kusche
occupation

Double Game is a German crime film by Ingrid Sander from 1978. The television film, which is based on the crime novel The gentle girl by Tom Wittgen , was released as the 54th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Anja Bindseil's body is found in a construction pit. It soon becomes clear that her death was not an accident, but Anja was already dead when she fell into the pit. Two people identify the body: Arthur Hopfer, chief accountant of a department store and Anja’s manager, and Susi Brehm, who shared an apartment with Anja. Susi Brehm immediately suspects Heinz Caster as a possible perpetrator. Anja had a relationship with him, but soon found out that he was married. Although Susi advised against it, Anja went to Caster's wife to make things clear. Since then she had disappeared.

First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Woltersdorf take over the investigation. In a conversation with the Caster couple, they find out that Heinz, who works scientifically in the research department of a chemical plant, regularly has new love affairs, which his wife tolerates. She knows that he would never leave her and the two children. She said this to Anja when she went to see her. Heinz would never have given up the common house that they built in more than ten years of marriage.

In addition to the Caster family, Peter Fuchs is following another lead and arranging a covert revision in the department store . This outraged chief accountant Hopfer, who dutifully pretended to be. He is privy to the investigative work of the police, so the first revision resulted in invoices issued twice. In the course of further investigations, more and more miscalculations come to light that Hopfer need not have known about. However, complicity cannot be ruled out. Due to the nature of the invoices, the investigators suspect an accomplice in the supplying wholesaler textile and it soon becomes apparent that Rautenberg's employee has more money than an inheritance and his income result. The investigators also learn that Hopfer was at a carnival party on the day of the tattoo, but was able to disappear over the roof at any time from the room he rented there. Hopfer is known locally as being very generous. Anja Bindseil also seems to have had large amounts of money, as she had bought a piece of garden property shortly before her death and made a cash deposit of 3,000 marks.

After a questioning in which Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Woltersdorf accuse Rautenberg of joint fraud, they let him go, but shadow him. He goes to Berghainichen, where Hopfer owns a piece of land that he inherited from his mother. The investigators arrest Rautenberg in Hopfer's house, but Hopfer, who had already arrived before Rautenberg, escapes. He drives to his company and waits for the investigators at his desk. Only now does he admit that he was blackmailed by Anja, who discovered the fraud with the double bills. She demanded ever higher shares of the fraud amount and finally wanted to have half of Hopper's share. He refused and she announced that she would destroy his career. He killed her and then took her body to the excavation pit. Hopfer is arrested.

production

Double Game was filmed from November 7th to December 30th, 1977 under the working title The gentle girl in the Cottbus district. The costumes for the film were created by Katrin Johnsen , and the film structures were created by Günther Möller . The film had its premiere on July 2, 1978 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 44.5 percent.

It was the 54th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First lieutenant Peter Fuchs investigated in his 33rd case and Lieutenant Woltersdorf in his third case.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 62.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=054 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 62.
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