Police call 110: An uncomfortable witness

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title An uncomfortable witness
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 76 minutes
classification Episode 50 ( list )
First broadcast December 4, 1977 on GDR 1
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Director Helmut Krätzig
script Helmut Krätzig
production Ralf Siebenhörl
music Christian Steyer
camera Wolfgang Voigt
cut Susanne Carpentier
occupation

An uncomfortable witness is a German crime film by Helmut Krätzig from 1977. The television film was released as the 50th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Bergemann grew up with his grandmother, with whom he still lives as an adult. He was a dear child, as Grandma Bergemann emphasizes, but as an adult he got on the wrong track. He was in jail and is now getting by with scams that he tries to hide from his grandma. His great love is his horse, which he looks after. He doesn't think much of work. He earns money by stealing expensive electrical appliances. He follows the truck from the Centrum Warenhaus , observes which customers the devices are being delivered to, and visits these customers a little later. He always claims that the devices were defective, that he had to take them with him, but would send a replacement device the next day. Together with his accomplice Johannes Tenger, he stole two chest freezers, which he temporarily stored on his property. During the thieves tour, the toddler Marina Langstengel hid while playing hide and seek in the Barkas von Bergemann. Marina does not manage to get out of the barca in time. It is locked in when Bergemann parks the car in his garage at noon.

Ms. Langstengel noticed in the early afternoon that her child had disappeared. First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Vera Arndt are entrusted with the investigation and quickly find out that Marina disappeared at the same time that a supposedly defective freezer was picked up on the same street. However, it is not clear whether the two acts are related. In the evening Bergemann and his girlfriend Rita Morgenstern find the completely chilled Marina in the Barkas. Both want to make a freezer ready for resale, but not only the child disturbs this plan, but also Johannes Tenger, who suddenly appears. He fears that Bergemann will take advantage of him. He always made sure that Tenger didn't know who he was and where he lived. Now he reacts uncontrollably and cancels the sale of the freezer without further ado. Meanwhile, Rita takes care of Marina, washes her and puts her to sleep. As soon as her things are dry, she should be returned to the family, especially since Marina can give her name and address.

A little later, Frau Langstengel received an anonymous letter that her daughter was fine and that she would soon have her back. Bergemann, in turn, refuses to deliver Marina directly to her parents and instead wants to drop her off at a bus stop. Reluctantly, Rita agrees, but she has to get out of the car before they reach the bus stop. Bergemann rejects his plan when he meets a couple in the bus stop. He drives around the small town with the child.

Some time later, Tenger, who is now increasingly jostling, appears at Bergemann. He read a missing person ad in the newspaper looking for the child he had seen at Bergemann im Barkas' home. Bergemann weighs down. Ms. Langstengel receives another letter in which a handover location for Marina is named. Although Peter Fuchs and Vera Arndt are on site with other police officers to catch the perpetrators, no one appears. Meanwhile, Rita distances herself from Bergemann, refuses to let him into her apartment and refuses to interact with him in any other way.

Tenger tries to dispel suspicions that both have something to do with the child's disappearance by simply undertaking another theft. Bergemann lets himself be convinced and tries to get new televisions using the same scam as with the freezers. The first potential victim, however, becomes suspicious, alerts the police and notes the barca’s license plate. The investigators find out about Bergemann. There are traces of a small child in his barkas, and various fingerprints in the apartment also indicate that a child was in the house. Marina, however, has disappeared and Bergemann does not speak. A freshly dug field in the Bergemann's garden is being dug, but only the two stolen freezers can be found in it.

Grandma Bergemann finally puts the investigators on the right track by giving Vera Arndt the addresses of all her grandson's love affairs. In Rita's apartment, the investigators see that a child also lives here, and Rita and Marina actually arrive a little later. Rita is arrested and Marina is brought back to her mother. During the interrogation, Rita says she followed Bergemann the night he wanted to abandon the child. She finally found Marina in a hallway and took her to her apartment. Later, however, she did not bring the child back to her parents, but rather looked after Marina like a mother. She suppressed the fact that the parents were looking for their child, because in the end the whole situation became too much for her.

production

An uncomfortable witness was filmed from June 1 to July 17, 1977 in Berlin and Leipzig and the surrounding area. The costumes of the film created Barbara Pitra , the Filmbauten derived from Werner Jagodzinski . The film had its television premiere on December 4, 1977 on DDR 1 . The audience participation was 56.9 percent.

It was the 50th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs investigated in his 31st case and Lieutenant Vera Arndt in her 34th case.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 58.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=050 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 58.
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