Police call 110: explosion

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title explosion
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 79 minutes
classification Episode 112 ( List )
First broadcast June 28, 1987 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Thomas Jacob
script Percy Dreger
production Hans-Jörg glasses
music Arnold Fritzsch
camera Horst Klewe
cut Bert Schultz
occupation

Explosion is a German crime film by Thomas Jacob from 1987. The television film was released as the 112th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

In the panel factory there are differences in the repair brigade headed by Alfred Mattusch. The authoritarian Mattusch is not squeamish about critics of his work ethic. He has just expelled the welder Axel Taurig from the brigade when he complained about a short-term double shift. Instead, a new worker comes to the brigade. Shift manager is Heiner Kiewitz, who tries in vain to talk to Mattusch during working hours. Mattusch only found out at home that Heiner was with his 25-year-old daughter Ruth. It comes to a scandal, but Heiner has a criminal record and the connection is therefore out of the question for Mattusch. Heiner and Ruth leave Mattusch's house.

Heiner is late for work the next morning. A little later, a hall of the panel factory burns, which Heiner's brigade was just reconstructing. There is an explosion in the hall and Mattusch, who suspected the brigade in the hall, suffers from smoke inhalation while searching for his employees. It turns out that the entire brigade had early lunch break. Nevertheless, four people were killed in the explosion and numerous people were injured, including many firefighters. Captain Peter Fuchs, Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner and Lieutenant Thomas Grawe take over the investigation. The investigations show that a welding transformer that was not switched off was the cause of the fire, which ended with the explosion. However, none of the brigades have a welding permit and none seem to have been in the hall. It becomes clear that the brigade wants to cover his colleague Hannes Kerner. The welder is also on vacation, but was briefly in the hall at the time of the crime to weld a cracked car exhaust for Axel Taurig.

Hannes Kerner feels guilty when he learns of the explosion and the cause. The investigators do not know that he is at home and that he is a possible perpetrator, as none of the colleagues mentions him. Kerner is sure that he has switched off the welding transformer, but in view of the events he begins to doubt. Finally he tries to hang himself, but is surprised by his wife. She persuades him to face the police.

In the meantime, the investigators discover the tense relationship between Mattusch and Heiner Kiewitz. Shortly before the reconstructed activation of the transformer, Kiewitz was at Mattusch's office for a meeting and then went to his colleagues in the canteen. When exactly he got there, nobody knows for sure. He could have used the time to weld in the hall. The investigators don't know why he should have done that. Meanwhile, the forensic scientist finds beads of sweat in the hall, which suggest two different welding processes. Kiewitz Mattusch only reveals himself after Kerner's suicide attempt. Before the lunch break, a steam connection on a steam-heated concrete slab was broken off due to the carelessness of Kiewitz and the crane operator of the hall crane. This meant that the construction work could not be continued. Mattusch instructed Kiewitz to repair the steam connection at all costs and, in an emergency, to weld it himself, even if Kiewitz knew nothing about welding. Kiewitz therefore tried to weld the connection in an amateurish way shortly after Kerner had finished his work. Unsuccessful, he threw down the welding gun and left without turning off the transformer. Both men face the police and confess their guilt. Kerner has since been found by the police. He fled from the investigators and was involved in a traffic accident. Now he is injured in the hospital, but learns that he is not to blame for the accident.

production

Explosion (working title: self-deception ) was filmed from October 1 to December 6, 1986 in Guben , among others . The costumes of the film created Ruth peoples who Filmbauten come from Christoph Lindemann . The film had its premiere on June 28, 1987 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 42 percent.

It was the 112th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Captain Peter Fuchs investigated in his 66th case, Oberleutnant Jürgen Huebner in his 53rd case and Lieutenant Thomas Grawe in his 7th case. In retrospect, the critic wrote that the film “in the form of the criminal case [dealt] with a taboo subject for the GDR media. It was about nothing less than the accident in a factory for the production of concrete slabs for residential construction, which was caused to make matters worse by the excessive efforts to adhere to the plan. "

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 154–156.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=112 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 120.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 154.
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