Police call 110: Three bottles of Tokajer

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Three bottles of Tokaj
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 82 minutes
classification Episode 131 ( List )
First broadcast August 27, 1989 on GDR 1
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Director Udo Witte
script Margot Beichler
production Lutz Clasen
music Arnold Fritzsch
camera Rolf Laskowski
cut Silvia Lever
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Three Bottles of Tokajer is a German crime film by Udo Witte from 1989. The television film based on the novel of the same name by Klaus Möckel was released as the 131st episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Shortly before Christmas: The youngster Jörg Paulsen and his friends go to the Goldbroiler pub with his friends, as he regularly does on weekends , where they drink alcohol. In addition to Jörg's friend Anne, the clique also includes the leader Karo, the young Nina and Klette, who is viewed by everyone as a weakling and not taken seriously. Karo tries to force burdock to drink, but he spits out the high percentage mixture. Nina shows Anne a chain of fake coins that Anne admires. At some point the gang is drunk, so the landlord throws them out. The group wants to meet one of the friends. There is little alcohol left, so Jörg offers a test of courage: He wants to steal three bottles of Tokajer from the cellar of old Zierau . Jörg manages to get into Zierau's apartment. The side window, which is otherwise ajar for the cat, is closed, but Jörg knows the location of a spare key. He goes to the cellar and takes the three bottles, but uncorks the first on site and drinks it empty. At some point he wakes up half sober and goes to Zierau's living room. He discovers the body of the house owner and flees the house in a panic. He leaves the bottles behind.

He sleeps off in his apartment and is visited by Klette at noon. He tells him that Zierau is dead and that he doesn't know how it happened. He can't remember anything between the time in the basement and finding the dead man. Burdock suggests that some people have already killed others while being intoxicated, but cannot remember them. Jörg goes to his friends and asks them to be silent. Anne covers him up from the investigators First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner and First Lieutenant Lutz Zimmermann by claiming that Jörg was with her all night. However, the investigators have enough evidence of Jörg's perpetration: the bottles at the crime scene bear his fingerprints, his footprint was saved in the garden, his empty cigarette pack was found in the apartment and he was seen by a neighbor Zieraus on the run from the house. Jörg knew his way around the house, after all he lived in sublet Zierau for a long time until he moved out during an argument.

Jörg is arrested after a long escape. His memory has not yet returned, but the investigators suspect that the culprit is not clear: The instrument was not found, nor can Lutz Zimmermann and Jürgen Hübner explain why Zierau was said to have been killed at 2 a.m., but Jörg only in the morning left his house. Jörg's memory comes back piece by piece. He now knows that he left the basement and stared at Zierau's body. He is convinced that he did the crime and makes a confession. However, he cannot describe the exact course of events. Only later does he realize that someone else must have been in the house. A door that he had ajar suddenly stood open. He now also remembers that he discovered the body under a fallen curtain. A wind chime that he had come across when entering the apartment also rang without him being nearby. Jörg is released from custody, as he also remembers having left the packet of cigarettes found at the crime scene in the gold broiler . He can also tell the investigators about Zierau's machinations, for example he was a coin collector who, among other things, robbed an old woman of her valuable coins. He had paid her only a fraction of their real value for the pieces, which were kept in an ornate box.

Jörg is picked up by Anne at the remand prison. Like the investigators, Jörg is now wondering who could have committed the crime. Karo thinks waiter Leo Braun is suspicious. He needed money and would have had such a motive. He could have picked up the packet of cigarettes while clearing her table. Jörg shadows Leo, but can only convict him of robbery in a beverage combine. Leo is arrested. In the end, Klette is suspected by clique members. He had behaved strangely in the evening and was out on his motorcycle. Later he was noticeably interested in the police's questions and asked friends whether the investigators had also asked about him. Anne, who hears of the suspicion, notifies the investigators. They go to Klette's house. Jörg has already arrived there and confronts Klette. In his room he not only sees a small shrine with numerous photos of Anne. He also finds the jewelry box in which Zierau's coins were. Klette made a necklace for Anne from the coins, after all, she admired Nina's necklace so much. Klette admires Anne because she was one of the few in the clique to be good to him. There is a fight between Klette and Jörg, which ends with Klette's confession. He wanted to steal Zierau's coins for the necklace and killed him with the jewelry box. He lost the pack of cigarettes at the scene; he had taken it for himself because Anne had painted a small picture on it that evening. Jörg leads Klette out of the house and pushes him across the fields to the next street. Here the investigators are already waiting for both and arrest burdock.

production

Three bottles of Tokajer was filmed in Wismar from December 10, 1988 to March 5, 1989 . The costumes for the film were created by Joachim Voeltzke , the construction of the film was created by Christa Köppen . The film had its premiere on August 27, 1989 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 33.6 percent.

It was the 131st episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Jürgen Hübner investigated in his 57th case and First Lieutenant Lutz Zimmermann in his 20th case.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 139.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=131 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 139.
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