Police call 110: He should be dead
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
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| Original title | He should be dead |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
TV60Filmproduktion , Burkert Bareiss Development on behalf of BR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 277 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 6, 2006 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dominik Graf |
| script | Rolf Basedow |
| production |
Gloria Burkert , Andreas Bareiß , Bernd Burgemeister |
| music |
Sven Rossenbach , Florian van Volxem |
| camera | Alexander Fischerkoesen |
| cut | Ulla Möllinger |
| occupation | |
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He should be dead is a TV movie from the crime series Polizeiruf 110 . The film, produced for Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) under the direction of Dominik Graf , was first broadcast on August 6, 2006. It is the 277th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 and the fourteenth case for chief detective Jürgen Tauber . For his colleague Chief Inspector Jo Obermaier , it is the eleventh case.
action
Chief Detective Jürgen Tauber meets with his former boss Kruppke in Erding for a game of billiards. During their game, Kruppke received the news that Johannes Waller's body had been found in Erding. Kruppke immediately drives to the crime scene with Tauber. The lonely old man was slain in his house. The suspicion quickly falls on the prostitute Maria Lorenz. Through diligent research, Tauber and Obermaier find out that Lorenz had regularly contacted lonely men through acquaintance reports in order to then deprive them of their savings with alleged financial difficulties. Johannes Waller had also relieved her of large sums of money. Usually, her male clients never had a problem when she offered them help around the house or with care. They showed themselves to be grateful, but old Johannes Waller was suspicious and refused.
Maria Lorenz is now being interrogated for days and that in the end reveals the whole story of a murder out of greed and fear of the future, which resulted from the constantly growing pressure of her pimp. So far she has had to give most of the money to her pimps. If she didn't, she was beaten or tortured. After changing pimps, after Kalle Witte, she ended up with Bernie Reichel. This urged her to finally show a success with Johannes Waller and take all his money from him. To do this, she should look for someone to kill the pensioner. So she got in touch with a Klaus Matthes who wanted to kill 25,000 catfish and then did it.
Matthes is arrested and interrogated on the basis of Lorenz's testimony. Fiber traces at the crime scene match samples from Matthes, which is why he is being arrested. He denies the act itself. Bernie Reichel is also arrested, but he too denies.
During the interrogation, Maria tries to commit suicide in her cell, which shows Tauber that he has to be even more careful with her. It is also clear to Tauber why Maria stayed with Reichel and continued to “acquire” for him, even though he had treated her badly. Basically, her sensitivity prevents her from deciding something for herself. In addition, she always hoped to be able to buy her way out with the pensioners' money.
On the evening of the murder, she drove with Klaus Matthes to see Johannes Waller. While she went into the house, Matthes stayed outside and waited until she opened a window. So he broke into the pensioner's room and killed him. Maria couldn't see it and ran away.
At the end of the interrogation, Maria says: "I can't even imagine that it was me ..." to which Tauber replied: "But you were!"
Maria Lorenz was sentenced to ten years in prison. Matthes and Reichel each to life imprisonment. Only in court did they both admit their guilt.
background
The film was made after a true case that had occurred in Schleswig-Holstein and was transferred to Munich on the police call . He becomes a portrait of a young woman who is trapped in her world and who has never learned anything like self-responsibility and morals. Screenwriter Rolf Basedow based his work on the original minutes, in which sentences like he had to be dead ... or he should be dead ... appeared again and again . Such incomplete sentences indicate fear and despair.
criticism
“With the kind help of his author Rolf Basedow, Dominik Graf presents a cosmos in which a lot of money is given for a few good words, far from any self-determination. Edgar Selge is - yes, again - simply brilliant in his subtle confusion, 19-year-old Rosalie Thomass is an amazingly intense partner to him. "
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv appreciates: “The film, which also manages to arouse interest in this strange 'fruit' [Maria Lorenz] from the interrogation interspersed with flashbacks, and at the same time to build up a lot of tension, was made after a true one Case. […] [It] creates an image of a woman who is trapped in her world. A woman whose life path led her from the home directly to the brothel, who seems to have no sense of injustice, who has never learned anything like self-responsibility and morals. It is always a higher authority that commands. […] The actors shine with precise, concise dialogues and a subtle irony that matches the characters flashes again and again in this intimate play, which Graf refines with an unbelievable feeling for the various types of assembly . Just as the alleged murderess lets herself be dragged into the swamp of a nasty reality with almost no resistance, the viewer in this unconventional thriller has no choice but to surrender to the suggestive pull of the film. "
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and wrote: “Sensitive, exciting crime highlight”.
Awards
- 2006: TV Film Festival Baden-Baden - nominated for Best German TV Film
- 2006: TV Film Festival Baden-Baden - special award for the script to Rolf Basedow
- 2006: German TV Award - nomination for Rolf Basedow in the category Best Book TV Film
- 2006: German Television Award - Rosalie Thomass Award
- 2007: Adolf Grimme Prize in the fiction category for Rolf Basedow (book), Dominik Graf (direction), Edgar Selge (representation) and Rosalie Thomass (representation)
- 2007: Bavarian Television Award - Young Talent Award from LfA Förderbank Bayern for Thomass Rosalie
- 2007: Bavarian Television Award - Michaela May nominated in the Actress Series and Series
Web links
- Police 110: He was dead in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of He should be dead on the ARD website
- He should be dead at crew-united
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 43rd Adolf Grimme Prize 2007. Competition fiction. (No longer available online.) Grimme Institute GmbH, archived from the original on May 3, 2015 ; accessed on April 3, 2015 (statement of the jury).
- ^ Police call 110: He should be dead. (No longer available online.) Grimme Institute GmbH, archived from the original on July 29, 2013 ; Retrieved on July 3, 2013 : "'He should be dead ...' - a quote from the original interrogation protocols, the plot is based on a true criminal case."
- ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach: Edgar Selge, Rosalie Thomass, Dominik Graf. An interrogation that is a psychological report is a film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 24, 2016.
- ↑ Short review at TV Spielfilm , accessed on February 24, 2016.
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