Police call 110: A case without witnesses

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title A case with no witnesses
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 66 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
classification Episode 32 ( List )
First broadcast June 29, 1975 on GDR 1
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Director Roland Oehme
script Edwin Marian
Hans-Jürgen Kruse
Roland Oehme
production Peter year old
music Karl-Ernst Sasse
camera Hans-Jürgen Kruse
cut Gerti Gruner
occupation

A Case Without Witnesses is a German crime film by Roland Oehme from 1975. The television film was released as the 32nd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

35-year-old Maria Sander is taken to hospital in labor. It is her first child. The father of the child is the married Wolfgang Pressler. He wants to leave his wife Gisela to start a family with Maria and the child. Gisela always accepted her husband's infidelities generously, but suspects that this time he is serious because of the child. She begins to fight for her husband.

Hannelore Jentsch, who gave birth to her fourth son in the clinic, is also in the room with Maria. Her husband Harald is disappointed when he hears the news that he has another son because he wanted a girl. Ten days after the birth, Hannelore goes shopping with a pram, parks the car with the child Uwe just in front of a wallpaper shop and, after spending a few minutes shopping, realizes that the pram has disappeared. At first the other customers believe they are joking, but it soon becomes clear that the child has been kidnapped. The criminal police are alerted and Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner and Detective Master Lutz Subras begin the investigation. Lieutenant Vera Arndt is also called in for the investigation, although she was actually about to go on vacation with her husband and children. She promises her family that she will meet in a few days.

The investigators cannot find any witnesses to the kidnapping. The blue stroller is a model that is often used, the family has no enemies and no assets that could be the cause of blackmail. Lutz Subras suspects a patient who has escaped from psychiatry and who lives not far from the Jentsch family home of kidnapping the child. The woman remains missing, however. Vera Arndt believes that the child will soon have to show up because it is still being breastfed and will therefore soon be hungry and screaming to draw attention to itself. The population is made aware of the case, VP helpers from the population keep their eyes open and mothers with prams have to identify themselves more intensely. Maria Sander is also stopped like this when she picks up Wolfgang Pressler from the train station. She identifies herself with her pregnancy pass.

Maria Sander receives a visit from Gisela Pressler, who wants to discuss the better future for Wolfgang with her. Maria throws them out. Gisela later discussed the possibility of having her own child with Wolfgang, so she knew of a newborn that she could adopt. Wolfgang knows about the kidnapping case and becomes suspicious. A little later, playing children find Hannelore's orphaned stroller. The investigators can find a brown wig hair in the things. In fact, the woman who escaped from psychiatry has such a wig. Little Uwe's baby hat is found in a canal a little later, which leads to an intensified but unsuccessful search.

Vera Arndt is now starting to search all clinics in the city for cases of stillbirths or infants who died shortly after birth. Jürgen Huebner, in turn, receives a call from a witness. Gravedigger Harri Knopp remembers a woman who recently had to bury her newborn child. Her behavior was completely out of the ordinary. A few days ago, however, he saw her again with a stroller and a different hair color. Jürgen Hübner can find the woman's name from the death books. Vera Arndt has also found what she is looking for, and so both investigators arrive at the same house. It is the apartment of Maria Sander, who lost her child three days after it was born. She kidnapped the child of her roommate Hannelore in order to bind her boyfriend to her. Maria, who also had a brown wig and threw it away shortly after the kidnapping, is arrested. Vera Arndt, in turn, can go on vacation to her family.

production

A case without witnesses was filmed in Berlin from December 16, 1974 to February 1975 under the working title A Strange Love . The filming locations were among others in the districts of Friedrichshain (Warschauer Straße, including the entrance to the S-Bahn station & Ostbahnhof), Weißensee (park on the Weißen See with a view of the bathing establishment) and Mitte (lock on Mühlendamm & high-rise Fischerinsel 1) - in that order . The costumes for the film were created by Helga Dürwald , the film structures were created by Rose-Marie Kaufmann . The film had its television premiere on June 29, 1975 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 58 percent.

It was the 32nd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner investigated in his 14th case, Lieutenant Vera Arndt in her 25th case and Detective Lutz Subras in his 15th case. In the emotional scene in which the Jentsch couple unexpectedly appear at the Mühlendammschleuse during the search and are sent to a police car by Jürgen Hübner, Lieutenant Lutz Subras speaks as "Alfred"; the mistake in the film - Alfred Rücker was the actor of Lutz Subras - was left in the film. A little later, children who help find the stroller speak to Detective Subras with Alfred. Vera Arndt's family is shown as she and her husband are packing the suitcase for the vacation trip. She has two children, one, Olaf, speaks to her with Mutti.

A Witnessless Case was one of the few serious television works by director Roland Oehme . It was the only time that Edwin Marian wrote the script for a police call. Marian had intended for herself the role of Wolfgang Pressler. The criticism stated that the film "[follows] the police investigative work in detail and [...] gives a lot of space to thoughtful reflection on the crime and the alleged perpetrators." The film addresses the fact that people "also in socialist society not only to lead a social or political life, but also to have a life of the soul ”- an aspect that first appeared in the episodes of police calls in the mid-1970s.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 77-79.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Representation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=032 (link only available to a limited extent), shooters according to the film portal, according to polizeiruf110-lexikon, however, May 8, 1975.
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 40.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 79.
  4. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 80.
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