Police call 110: fever

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title fever
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 The Film GmbH
on behalf of the BR
length 85 minutes
classification Episode 331 ( List )
First broadcast November 4th, 2012 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Hendrik Handloegten
script Alex Buresch ,
Matthias Lease
production Uli Aselmann ,
Sophia Aldenhoven (producer)
music Bertram Denzel
camera Philipp Haberlandt
cut Vera van Appeldorn
occupation

Fever is a TV film from the ARD crime series Polizeiruf 110 . The film was produced on behalf of BR under the direction of Hendrik Handloegten and premiered on September 30, 2012 at the Hamburg Film Festival. The television broadcast took place on November 4, 2012 for the first time in the first as the 331st episode of the crime series. It is the fourth case of the Munich police call investigator von Meuffels .

Von Meuffels is shot during an operation and, depending on the situation, investigates in a hospital when several patients and a doctor die there.

action

A hostage taker broke into a kindergarten and threatened to kill a child. Although the SEK was ready, von Meuffel's assistant, Anna Burnhauser, stormed into the building to divert the hostage-taker's attention from the child. Von Meuffels follows her and the commissioner is hit in an initial exchange of fire. He is taken to a hospital for emergency surgery. In the recovery phase, he is given strong pain medication and has a hard time distinguishing reality from his delusions. Often he even runs into the man who shot him during the operation and who is actually in a coma.

Despite his feverish dreams, von Meuffels is certain that he met his former boarding school comrade Detlef Ellermann as a patient, and although Ellermann was due to be released the next day, he died that night. His bed neighbor even reports on human experiments in the clinic's basement, which is why patients would suddenly disappear from time to time. Von Meuffels tries to investigate this. He overhears conversations between the doctors that seem mysterious to him. He succeeds in stealing Ellermann's medical file, which shows that a kidney problem was the cause of death. In the hospital, however, he had undergone a completely different operation. To clarify this, he asks Burnhauser, who comes to visit him regularly, to speak to Ellermann's wife so that she can apply for an autopsy. But the widow refuses.

Von Meuffels begins to ask the doctors unpleasant questions, but he can trust Dr. Win Oblenkow, who is ready to talk to him. Before that happens, however, she allegedly commits suicide. Your superior Dr. Klenk states that she was heavily dependent on pills and that an impending dismissal would have been very stressful for her.

In the end, von Meuffel's suspicions against the clinic put his life in extreme danger. He is about to expose the MRSA cover-up attempt . The affected patients were infected with the hospital germ, which was not noted on the death certificate. Since the inspector was lying in the same room with such a patient, he infected himself and can only be saved with great effort by the doctors.

For the death of Dr. Oblenkow can be held responsible for Sister Angela, who on the one hand was jealous of the young doctor and on the other hand feared that she would betray the clinic. A billing scandal is also exposed. Since head physician operations are of higher quality, these were often billed to the health insurance company, even though a completely different doctor had operated on.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Fieber on November 4, 2012 was seen by a total of 7.29 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 19.6 percent for Das Erste .

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv writes: “Hendrik Handloegtens 'Fieber' is a 'Polizeiruf 110', which breaks with the conventions of TV crime novels like no other and is at the same time extremely exciting. The viewer penetrates the hero's subconscious, becomes an eyewitness to the absurd hallucination scenes carried by the furious Georg Friedrich. "

Christian Buß writes at spiegel.de : “Nothing against a proper morphine rush, we don't want to appear narrow-minded. But do you really want a heavily sedated cop as an informant when discussing the criminal machinations of medical professionals? "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm think: "Hendrik Handloegten ('Window to Summer') stages the hallucinative trip with a ghostly atmosphere." The film is "disturbing, weird and imaginative."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Broadcast length at br.de, accessed on November 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Matthias Brandt - a detective between reality and delusions at tittelbach.tv, accessed on September 28, 2016.
  3. ↑ Inspector Kaputt is chasing Dr. Pfusch bei spiegel.de , accessed on November 8, 2016.
  4. ↑ TV thriller. Matthias Brandt sees ghosts. at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on November 8, 2016.
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