Police call 110: Fire!

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Fire!
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Infafilm
on behalf of the BR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 195 ( List )
First broadcast November 30, 1997 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Maria Knilli
script Klaus-Peter Wolf
production Manfred Korytowski ,
Monika Peetz
music Roman Bunka
camera Harry Bruntz
cut Edith Eisensteck
occupation

Fire! is a German crime film directed by Maria Knilli in 1997. The television film was released as the 195th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

A bomb goes off in the bookseller Anders's second-hand shop; Anders' son Jens sees his father die in the shop and has been with Dr. Silvia Jansen in psychiatric treatment. It has been eleven months since the incident; There has been a fire in Nuremberg four more times since then, including in the employment office and in the Federal Insurance Tower. The police are always late. There seems to be a pattern behind the crimes, with the time between attacks halving. Since another attack is to be feared in a few days, Commissioner Maiwald asks Silvia for help, as the perpetrator may be mentally ill. However, Silvia refuses to work together because she is "only" a psychiatrist.

Jens' mother Barbara lets the astrologer Werner Krämer, who calls himself "Nicodemus", move into her house. Jens rejects Nicodemus and Silvia is also against moving in because Jens has not yet got over his father's death. Again and again he thinks he's seeing fire. When he confesses to Silvia that he secretly lit the Christmas tree as a child and felt joy in the process, as well as feeling shortly before the father's death that something was going to happen to him, Silvia suspects that he too could be the culprit. She now offers the police a cooperation, only to find out that Maiwald has already caught the real perpetrator. An anonymous caller had asked for a ransom and Maiwald had asked the man to hand over the money. Silvia now reports to Maiwald about her - unfounded - suspicion against Jens. Only then does Maiwald learn that the arrested man was only a free rider . Maiwald now wants to arrest Jens, but Silvia requires two therapy hours to get Jens to talk. Your attempt is unsuccessful. In the police database, Nicodemus is again listed as an insurance fraudster and arsonist. Maiwald arrests him. Because Barbara Jens makes it clear that she loves Nicodemus, he goes to the police and incriminates himself as a perpetrator, but cannot give correct information about the course of events during interrogation. It wasn't until later, when he was laying out the Scrabble letters, that he noticed that the crime scenes began with the letters BARBA, i.e. only R and A were missing to make up his mother's name. He shares his knowledge with Maiwald and incriminates Nicodemus; Maiwald pays little attention to it, however.

At Nicodemus' instigation, Barbara arranges for Jens to be admitted to psychiatry. Jens can escape; that same night it burns in the town hall and Maiwald realizes that Jens is right with his assumption. Jens remains missing, but Silvia finds him in one of the family's caravans and places him with her. Nicodemus reveals Jens' stay in the caravan to the police, who find components of the bombs that were used in the attacks in the now empty car. Meanwhile, Silvia realizes that the places where the attack was made result in the pattern of the zodiac sign Scorpio and that the last missing point - A - exactly shows the house of the Anders family. She rushes to the house with Jens, where Nicodemus has meanwhile placed a bomb and tied Barbara. Jens and Silvia are overwhelmed by it. Maiwald has meanwhile learned that Jens' father Peter Anders and Nicodemus were once school friends who were both in love with Barbara; after a solid argument, Nicodemus was expelled from school and Peter later married Barbara. The police go to the house of the Anders family, where Nicodemus meanwhile admits the deeds. He had planned everything for years, killed Peter and made Jens a psychological wreck in order to get Barbara in the end. The police appear. Maiwald knocks down Nicodemus; the bomb goes off and the house is on fire. Maiwald saves Silvia, while Jens saves his mother and can thus lose guilt because he could not help his father. A second explosion in the house prevents the fire brigade from getting Nicodemus out of the flames, he dies.

production

Fire! is based on the youth book Feuerball by Klaus-Peter Wolf, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. The film was shot in Nuremberg , including at the town hall and in the police headquarters. The costumes for the film were created by Monika Grube , the film structures were created by Su Pröbster . The film had its television premiere on November 30, 1997 on the first . The audience participation was 15.3 percent.

It was the 195th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Silvia Jansen investigated in her 2nd case.

criticism

"A confused dramaturgy and unimaginative dialogues spoil the tension," wrote the TV Spielfilm . "The story was supposed to be spectacular, but it didn't fit in Franconia, it seemed like copied from second-rate psychopath movies from Hollywood," said the Leipziger Volkszeitung , adding that the film was "a scrabble game inflated with all sorts of astrological and psychological frills, devoid of tension." stayed.

The Saxon newspaper called fire! "Like Lindenstrasse with pistols". The Süddeutsche Zeitung particularly criticized the drawing of the main character: "The heroic epic about a brave psychologist who only gives advice but never has to seek advice from others, who searches for clues in almost autistic loneliness and solves the case, is exhausted [... ] in Posen and in Pathos ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fire on klauspeterwolf.de.
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 204.
  3. ↑ Police call 110: Fire! on tvspielfilm.de
  4. ^ Klaus Katzenmeyer: Laien-Scrabble . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , December 2, 1997, p. 10.
  5. ↑ Jens Hölzig: Tensionless . In: Sächsische Zeitung , December 2, 1997, p. 19.
  6. ↑ Hans-Heinrich Obuch: Only poses and pathos . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 2, 1997, p. 16.
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