Police call 110: A murderous idea

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title A murderous idea
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Saxonia Media
on behalf of the MDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 347 ( List )
First broadcast November 9, 2014 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Stephan Rick
script Stephan Brüggenthies ,
Olaf Kaiser ,
Stephan Rick
production Britta Hansen
music Stefan Schulzki
camera Anton Klima
cut Vessela Martschewski
occupation

A murderous idea is a television film from the crime series Polizeiruf 110 . The film, produced on behalf of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) and directed by Stephan Rick , was first broadcast on November 9, 2014. It is the third case for Chief Inspector Doreen Brasch and Chief Inspector Jochen Drexler and the 347th Police Call 110 sequence.

action

After an explosive device detonated late in the evening in a supermarket, a confessor came forward and called for GM maize production, which the supermarket chain allegedly promoted, to cease . While a large part of the police apparatus is busy preventing further attacks that have been announced, strangers penetrate the storage area of ​​the container port in Magdeburg. Although the security guard reports an alarm, he remains on his own and is found dead the next day.

While Chief Inspector Jochen Drexler is trying to find out something about the anonymous caller and the group behind him, Chief Inspector Doreen Brasch is investigating at the container port and comes across an empty container containing cell phones worth three million euros. It turns out that someone has hacked into the internal server who must have had access to the server room. Three students who had completed an internship there last year are initially eligible.

Jochen Drexler also finds a reference to manipulated computer data in the supermarket's monitoring system. Mautz then hires computer expert Kim Nguyen, who quickly finds out the server from where the surveillance tapes were transferred. The path leads directly to Magdeburg University. This closes the circle to the incident in the container port. The person responsible for computer issues at the university is Professor Reilmann. He considers it impossible that someone could have acted through "his" server. However, some of the students also help him at times. He reluctantly has to allow Kim to deal with the server and after a long search the expert finds a Trojan so that the computer can be controlled and used from outside at any time. One of his students working with him is Christian Engel, Tobias Schmitz was also one of the interns in the container port and Vanessa Meyerhoff is also one of the suspects. When the investigators want to question her, she is very quickly shielded from her influential father.

A few days later, Vanessa falls from the roof of the university, Brasch and Drexler rule out suicide and initially suspect Tobias Schmitz of deliberately pushing Vanessa into the depths. In order to dissuade the commissioners from the path, the perpetrator writes a farewell email to Vanessa's father, whom Vanessa's father believes. But Drexler and Brasch are sure that cracking an e-mail account is no problem for the perpetrator, because he has apparently now also smuggled the Trojan into the police computer and is thus informed of all steps in the investigation. This means that he can even observe what his accomplices are saying via the surveillance system in the interrogation room. All traces now lead to Christian Engel, and when the noose threatens to tighten around him, he electronically blocks the university's server room and simulates a fire alarm. This removes all oxygen from the hermetically sealed room, which should suffocate the flames in an emergency. Drexler and the professor are currently located there. He demands a ransom and safe conduct if the men are to be saved. While Brasch apparently agrees, Kim Nguyen manages to get into the server program and switch off the alarm, and Engel can be arrested.

reception

Audience rating

A murderous idea was first broadcast on November 9, 2014 in Germany by 8.92 million viewers and achieved a market share of 24.6 percent for Das Erste .

criticism

Volker Bergmeister from tittelbach.tv judges this police call: “A high-tech thriller full of tension and twisting about a sophisticated robbery”, which “Stephan Rick staged very appealingly with a well-measured pace, suitable cuts and varied perspectives and images”. “Everything can be manipulated, from anywhere - that is the message of this crime thriller, which uses theft of cell phones as an opportunity to immerse the audience in the world of surveillance and manipulators via computer. Visually, it cannot be staged as attractively as car chases. So there is a lot of hammering on keyboards and scrolling on the screen. But the mixture between action and everyday hacking is right in 'Police call 110 - a murderous idea' ”.

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and drew the conclusion “Exciting, complex and always straightforward”.

Only the Süddeutsche Zeitung was of the opinion: “Claudia Michelsen and Sylvester Groth as inspectors and Oliver Korittke as a corrupt freight forwarder - basically these would be the best prerequisites for a good crime thriller. Alone, the MDR completely wasted the chance. Michelsen and Groth each play their characters wonderfully, but they just don't work together. Your last case was "nothing more than average Sunday goods" - the Magdeburg investigators remain at this level for the time being. What a shame."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Volker Bergmeister: Michelsen, Groth, Stephan Rick. Hacker competition instead of chases Film criticism and quota at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 23, 2015.
  2. ↑ Polizeiruf 110: A murderous idea short review at TV Spielfilm.de , accessed on February 23, 2015.
  3. ↑ Bring nüscht film review at Süddeutsche.de , accessed on February 23, 2015.
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