Police call 110: a family matter

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Family thing
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Filmpool Fiction
on behalf of NDR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 346 ( List )
First broadcast November 2, 2014 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Eoin Moore
script Eoin Moore
production Iris Kiefer ,
Ilka Förster (producer)
music Warner Poland
Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt
Wolfgang Glum
camera Jonas Schmager
cut Antje Zynga
occupation

Familiensache is a German crime film by Eoin Moore from 2014. It is the 346th episode in the series Polizeiruf 110 and is set in Rostock . The main guest roles in this episode include Andreas Schmidt , Laura Tonke , Friederike Wagner , Steffen Münster , Albrecht Felsmann as well as Gitta Schweighöfer , Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger and Bella Bading .

Chief Inspector Alexander Bukow ( Charly Hübner ) and the LKA officer Katrin König ( Anneke Kim Sarnau ) get caught up in a family tragedy in their tenth joint case . In addition, Bukow still has to deal with a double personal betrayal.

action

Arne Kreuz shows his sister a house that he allegedly bought for his family. Some things you just have to afford, it's your last chance, it's about your family, he urges his sister. Shortly afterwards, his loan application was rejected. That same evening he shows up at his wife Jeanette, who is separated from him, and talks to her about the alleged purchase of a house. However, it means unmistakably to him that it is over between them, that nothing can be changed. You fell in love again. When she catches him lying again and tries to expel him from the apartment, he swears that he needs her and that this is her last chance to make the right decision. When she tries to compliment him anyway, he stabs her.

The next morning Jeanette Kreuz and her little son Bruno are laid out and decorated with flowers by Miriam Kreuz, Arne's sister, found dead in the apartment. The LKA officer Katrin König and chief detective Alexander Bukow from the Rostock homicide commission take over the case. König said to Bukow that it was a planned and deliberate act, not an emotionally impulsive one. The perpetrator had stabbed the heart and lungs in a targeted manner because he did not want to let the woman suffer for long, and the child was also almost "lovingly" suffocated with a pillow. The manhunt for Arne Kreuz is initiated; there are fears for the lives of his two other children, Nicole and Jonas.

While Jonas is out with Franz Neumann, his mother's new friend, little Nicole is with her grandparents, who are in their weekend house in their allotment garden. When Arne Kreuz appears there, his father-in-law Heinrich Schäfer confronts him with some unpleasant truths. Jeanette was increasingly afraid of him and a Schufa inquiry revealed that he had piled up a high mountain of debt. Kreuz, in turn, accuses his parents-in-law of conspiring against him because he did everything for his family. Then he physically attacks Heinrich Schäfer, who, while still falling, implores his wife to run away. Her attempt to escape with the car parked in front of the property, in which little Nicole is also on the instructions of her father, fails, however, because she is far too upset.

Employee investigations reveal that Kreuz not only had his expensive apartment terminated because of considerable rental debts, but also that his employment relationship was terminated and that he had lived far beyond his means. König explains to Bukow that Arne Kreuz used his wife and children as trophies for his self-esteem, so-called vested rights. He believed that his wife couldn't stand life without him. However, the fact is that his life is crumbling.

A massive police presence goes to the allotment garden. There you can find little Nicole laid out on the sofa and adorned with flowers. The Schäfer couple were also killed. There is still no trace of Jonas. Arne Kreuz now gains access to Franz Neumann's house and demolishes part of the facility there. Then he grabs his motorcycle keys and motorcycle clothing and speeds off. At the same time, König speaks to Arne's sister, Miriam. She still sees her brother glorified and says that in every family there is someone who does everything right. That was in her family Arne. He did everything right and had something to show. He also married the most beautiful woman and the most beautiful children. While King Miriam tells that Kreuz had already prepared an extended suicide three weeks ago, she receives a call from her brother who wants to make her promise that she will see that he is buried next to Jeanette and his children.

They learn from Miriam Kreuz that the entire family has been to the beach in Warnemünde over the weekend . When the investigations reveal that Arne Kreuz is going there on a motorcycle, the officers follow them. Bukow wants to know from König what goes on in a man who kills his entire family just because his wife makes out with someone else. She replies that his behavior is not inappropriate, only the feelings that triggered his behavior are inappropriate. Apparently he feels his need is so great that he would see no alternative. Life bankruptcy meets personality disorder or vice versa. Apparently he would also lack balancing levels in the environment.

On the beach, where Franz Neumann is with Jonas, Neumann confronts Arne Kreuz with the fact that Jeanette has long been studying and that everything else is going well. His attempt to stab Neumann is stopped by beach walkers with dogs. He then lets go of the injured man and runs away. Jonas, who watched his father's attack from a distance, snatched the knife from him and hurled it away in a high arc. König believes that Kreuz wants to get a new weapon and is therefore on his way to his former workplace, which is located directly at the harbor. Kreuz tells his fearful son, who wants to see his mother, that they will soon all be together. When he becomes aware of the king, he calls out to her that he will never abandon his family. In the meantime, Bukow and his colleagues have also arrived. Cornered, Kreuz lets go of his son and storms off. When he holds a box knife to his neck, Bukow shoots three times in quick succession. He also meets his colleague Volker Thiesler. Kreuz and Thiesler are taken away in the ambulance. The colleague Anton Pöschel says that Thiesler ran directly into Bukow's line of fire and was himself to blame.

Production and Background

The film was shot from October 30th to November 28th 2013 in Rostock and Hamburg .

In this episode, the 30th anniversary of the service of the head of the commissariat, Henning Röder, is celebrated. Röder begins his address by stating that he has read in the newspaper that the first thing a person finds in life and the last thing he holds out his hand is the most precious thing a person has in life is the family . During the celebration, at which Bukow's wife Vivian is also present, there is an exchange of tenderness between her and Bukow's colleague Volker Thiesler, as indicated in the previous episodes. Both disappear into the toilet, which König overhears by chance. It saves the duo from being discovered by Bukow. In the course of the investigation, Bukow's suspicion that his wife is having a relationship is initially confirmed, a little later he learns that it is precisely his colleague Thiesler with whom his wife is cheating on him. Bukow seeks a conversation with his wife and asks her to give both of them one more chance, he loves her and will fight for her, and she also has a responsibility to their sons Samuel and Frederik.

After the shooting, King von Bukow wants to know whether he has now saved his honor and whether the shot at his colleague was intentional. "Was that lucky?", Bukow replies and König says that a little more clarity on his part would be helpful. When the inspector comes home that evening, his packed bag is in front of the door. Sadly, he goes with it to his recently bought caravan for a family vacation in front of his house.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Familiensache on November 2, 2014 was seen by 8.3 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.1 percent for Das Erste .

criticism

"The fact that the viewer believes this monstrously twisted form of love is mainly due to the actor Andreas Schmidt, an abyssal illuminator who has repeatedly played violent characters that one would like to hug, for example in 'Plus-minus zero' (1998) and 'Pigs Will Fly' (2002), two terrific, delicately played dramas of domestic violence. [...] An oppressively good crime thriller. "

- Christian Buß , Spiegel Online :

For Lars Schmidt from T-Online this Polizeiruf-110 episode is a “top class” film, a “tragic, emotional and brilliant crime thriller” that “despite the severity of its topic has room for a few easy scenes” and with a “ surprising twist for an open ending ”. The “great performance” by Andreas Schmidt is expressly praised.

The Münchner Abendzeitung asks whether it is worth switching on this Sunday thriller and answers with a resounding “yes”. The film does not go “any spectacular new ways and no action or direct depictions of violence to be seen either”, but the filmmakers tell “the dramatic story of a family man's rampage”.

For Carolin Gasteiger from the Süddeutsche Zeitung , this police call is “tough stuff - especially for Commissioner Bukow, who, in addition to this drama, is experiencing a very personal one”. Gasteiger praises how "skillfully" Andreas Schmidt, who plays the father who ran amok, "changes his facial expressions" and comes to the conclusion that "the acting agony was worth it". "It's hard to get your confused look out of your head."

Also Rainer Tittelbach of tittelbach.tv these praises Police-110 episode, "all movement" was in. On the one hand there is "the actionism of the police", on the other hand "the inner driving forces of the main character in the episode, whom Andreas Schmidt plays in an inimitable way as a man whose face is desperate about bankruptcy". Tittelbach's conclusion: “'Familiensache' develops a tension that results primarily from the private history of the inspectors and the possibilities of horizontal narration. Modern, physical, sensitive. "

Stern.de speaks of a "race against time and oppressive scenes" and of "high tension - with an outstanding Andreas Schmidt as a family man running amok."

For the program magazine Hörzu , Sven Sakowitz sums up his assessment as follows: “The unusual case is told with speed and with great tension. Andreas Schmidt plays the father who runs amok outstandingly. Unfortunately, the hectic activity of the Rostock police is too intrusive. Another drawback: some unbelievable scenes. […] Great actors pull you into an emotional undertow. ”One point is given for humor, action and ambition, and the maximum number of three possible points for tension.

The television magazine Gong gives the highest rating of six points, which corresponds to the judgment “top performance” and speaks of a startlingly authentic case.

Awards

The producers of this Polizeiruf-110 episode Iris Kiefer and Ilka Förster from Filmpool Fiction were awarded the TV Producer Award 2014, endowed with 25,000 euros , for family matters . They were able to prevail against eleven competition entries.

The film Familiensache received the main award and the audience award at the 2015 German TV Crime Festival .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Timo Nöthling: Primetime-Check: Sunday, November 2, 2014 , in: quotenmeter.de of November 3, 2014, accessed on July 23, 2020
  2. ↑ Christian Buß : Family massacre in the “police call”: father, mother, murder Spiegel Online, October 31, 2014. Accessed on November 2, 2014.
  3. ↑ Lars Schmidt: Extended suicide and the open end of an affair t-online.de, November 2, 2014. Retrieved on November 2, 2014.
  4. ^ "Family matter" This is how the Rostock "Polizeiruf 110" will be on Sunday, Abendzeitung-muenchen.de, October 31, 2014. Accessed on November 2, 2014.
  5. ↑ Carolin Gasteiger: Mord, Fläschen, Mord sueddeutsche.de, November 2, 2014. Accessed November 2, 2014.
  6. ↑ Series "Polizeiruf 110 - Familiensache" Sarnau, Hübner, Schmidt, Eoin Moore. Motion, emotion & a deadly dynamic at tittelbach.tv. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
  7. ↑ Carsten Heidböhmer: A family man sees red - Police call 110: Family thing at stern.de. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
  8. ↑ Sven Sakowitz: Race against time In: Hörzu No. 44 of October 24, 2014, pp. 38, 54
  9. ↑ Polizeiruf 110: Familiensache In: Gong No. 44 of October 24, 2014, p. 45
  10. ↑ Police call 110: family matter at tatort-fans.de
  11. ↑ Archive. In: fernsehkrimifestival.de. Cultural Office of the State Capital Wiesbaden, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
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