Police call 110: For Janina

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title For Janina
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Filmpool Fiction
on behalf of NDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 372 ( List )
German-language
first broadcast		 November 11, 2018 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Eoin Moore
script Eoin Moore,
Anika Wangard
production Iris Kiefer ,
Ilka Förster
music Wolfgang Glum ,
Warner Poland ,
Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt
camera Florian Foest
cut Antje Zynga
occupation

For Janina is a 2018 television film by Eoin Moore . It is the 372nd episode in the crime series Polizeiruf 110 . The Rostock investigator duo Kriminalhauptkommissar Alexander Bukow ( Charly Hübner ) and the LKA officer Katrin König ( Anneke Kim Sarnau ) are investigating his 18th case. The report produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk was broadcast for the first time on November 11, 2018 in the ARD Das Erste program as part of the ARD theme week on the subject of justice . The main guest stars of this episode are Peter Trabner , Dagmar Leesch , Hildegard Schmahl and Ben Münchow .

action

An old murder case, in which the alleged perpetrator was acquitted at the time, is being reopened by the detective chief inspectors Bukow and König: On the return journey from the Bruce Springsteen concert in East Berlin in 1988 , the young Janina Stöcker was murdered shortly after her arrival in Rostock . The investigations by the People's Police remained inconclusive at the time. The re-evaluation of all traces of that time by Bukow and König soon leads to the family man Guido Wachs, who was arrested in 1991 by the head of the murder commission, Röder, but was acquitted in 1992 and cannot be charged twice in the same matter . A DNA analysis confirms his perpetration. In a questioning by König, Wachs gives the motive that Janina had rejected his advances and thus him; however, he does not admit to murdering her. Wax's life is turned upside down by the new investigation, and his family leaves him. König finds out that Wachs could also have been the perpetrator in a similar case, the murder of a Nigerian prostitute in Hamburg in 1991 - but the trace is not confirmed. In order to bring about justice in the Janina case, König goes so far as to manipulate evidence in the Hamburg case in order to bring wax to a murder punishment after all. Bukow finds out the manipulation, but covers König. Röder arrests wax for the murder of the Nigerian woman, "for Janina", as Röder's mother says.

Horizontal plot

Bukow and König are sentenced to fines at the beginning of the episode after König massively attacked their near-rapist at the end of the episode fear sanctifies the means and Bukow had covered them. The sentence and his upcoming divorce put Bukow in financial trouble. His collegial relationship with König is therefore very tense, only the joint investigations relax the situation a little.

background

The film was shot on 22 days from September 5, 2017 to September 26, 2017 in Rostock and Hamburg. The film premiered on May 4, 2018 at the MV Filmkunstfest .

The storyline about Guido Wachs was taken up again in 2020 in the episode The day will come .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Polizeiruf 110: For Janina on November 11, 2018 was seen by a total of 7.74 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.4 percent for Das Erste .

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv judged: The crime thriller is "unpretentiously realistic and always staged with a congenial view of the story and its characters, renouncing thriller suspense & action thrill, genre strategies that have a certain 'police call' from Rostock Have status. Instead, the main investigator's psychology does not run alongside the crime story as usual, but is at the center of the story and goes beyond the stress that both of them have with each other - and also affects perpetrators and victims. "

At SZ , Holger Gertz wrote : “Justice - a demanding topic. The exceptional types Hübner and Sarnau are sometimes a little overheated emotionally, but ultimately they contribute with their snottiness and physicality and personality to the fact that the piece is not an essay, but remains a thriller. "

Christian Buß from Spiegel Online assessed: “Normally there is a kind of dreamlike security in the Rostock TV area, with which the investigators venture into the most difficult social issues. This is the first time they have lost it. [...] Schnacksel jokes in a crime thriller about sexual violence? Rabid sensuality against the background of a fatally unleashed misogyny? With Bukow's pants a few other things also slipped in this 'police call'. "

The Berliner Morgenpost stated: “The film goes into areas where the rule of law is shaky.” It shows “great actors in an extremely exciting crime thriller about a socio-political and legal-political issue. Definitely worth seeing. "

Matthias Dell wrote in Die Zeit : “But Janina gets lost in private justice, which makes Ms. König and Bukoff deviate far from protecting the law. Bukoff still agrees to the crooked business of his father (the great Klaus Manchen) in order to be able to raise the fine from the beginning. At this point, the director doesn't seem to care about his characters, especially 'Für Janina' hardly reflects on the dilemmas that arise from these actions. Bukoff is still trying to get Ms. König's falsified evidence out of the laboratory and giving her a lecture, but the boundaries of the rule of law are being crossed relatively unscrupulously. And in the end that leads to a devastation that you don't even want to imagine, precisely because Rostock is the darling among ARD Sunday evening thrillers ... "

post processing

A week after the first broadcast, the station announced that stickers criticized by the AfD and the Junge Union had been reworked so that they could no longer be seen in future broadcasts. The media lawyer Christian Schertz emphasized that there was no legal basis for processing, rather that processing was a massive encroachment on the freedom of art and the press. Nevertheless, he advises the director against taking legal action against the client. Director Eoin Moore defended the decision to remove the sticker because a legal dispute would have offered the AfD a large platform.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Police call 110: For Janina at crew united
  2. ↑ 28th Film Festival MV. (PDF) In: Festival catalog 2018. Filmland MV gGmbH, accessed on October 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Sunday, November 11th, 2018.quotemeter.de , November 12th, 2018, accessed on November 12th, 2018 .
  4. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Sarnau, Hübner, Preuss, Eoin Moore, Anika Wangand. The pitfalls of a paragraph on tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 11, 2018.
  5. ↑ Holger Gertz: "Police Call" from Rostock. How crazy everyone looked back then! In: Media. Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 9, 2018, accessed on November 9, 2018 : "The crime thriller asks the question to what extent the law has to be broken in order to be effective."
  6. ↑ Christian Buß: rapist "police call" from Rostock. The grimace of misogyny. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , November 8, 2018, accessed on November 8, 2018 : "Rating: 5 out of 10 points"
  7. ↑ Polizeiruf 110 offers the best Sunday thriller in a long time at morgenpost.de , accessed on November 11, 2018.
  8. ↑ Matthias Dell: "Polizeiruf 110" Rostock Bad breath does not make a murderer see page zeit.de
  9. ↑ Alleged propaganda ARD retouched anti-AfD stickers from “Polizeiruf 110” see page spiegel.de
  10. ↑ censorship or neutrality? Police call shows messages against the AFD - and then deletes them see page star. de
  11. ^ Christian Schertz: Debate about police call post-processing Massive encroachment on artistic freedom see page deutschlandfunkkultur.de
  12. ^ "The AfD sticker was not an artistic decision" , Deutschlandfunk Kultur , accessed on November 23, 2018.
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