Police call 110: Liquid weapon

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Liquid weapon
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 84 minutes
classification Episode 124 ( List )
First broadcast December 18, 1988 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Helmut Krätzig
script Helmut Krätzig
production Ingeborg Trenkler
music Karl-Ernst Sasse
camera Wolfram Beyer
cut Renate Müller
Bärbel Wehran
occupation

Liquid weapon is a German crime film by Helmut Krätzig from 1988. The television film was released as the 124th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Mr. Kegel is released from prison and welcomed by his girlfriend Marlies Bühler and her child from his first marriage, Tina. At Marlies, however, her divorced husband is already waiting, who reveals to his ex-wife that he wants her back. Kegel as a criminal is not an alternative. Marlies lets him stand. Kegel, on the other hand, wants to confess to her that he is currently on rehab, i.e. a dry alcoholic, but Marlies already knows that from her former sister-in-law Dorothee Bühler, who also strictly rejects Kegel.

Kegel goes to rehab for several weeks and is looking forward to his new life after prison and rehab. He was arrested at the time because the trained locksmith was alcoholic and was filing keys for thieves. He also works as a locksmith in the rehab clinic. For Wiesmeier, unknown to him, who claims to be a patient in the affiliated psychiatry, he files a bunch of keys for his mother-in-law. When he receives 800 marks from Wiesmeier for the work and Wiesmeier suggests that the keys may not have been intended for his mother-in-law after all, Kegel turns to the police. Wiesmeier now appears more and more often at Kegel and also lies in wait for him at the gate of his new company. Kegel succeeds in having the man secretly photographed. The evaluation of the pictures by Captain Reger and Lieutenant Becker shows that Wiesmeier is a wanted rapist who escaped the investigators some time ago under the name Pückler.

Kegel goes to a fire ball with his girlfriend. Here he meets his former girlfriend, Xenia, who is also alcoholic, and sends her back to the clinic, where she was treated like him. He orders his own coffee, but a little later sees Wiesmeier, who waves him outside. Once there, Kegel is held by two men. Wiesmeier forcibly instills him with schnapps and then abducts Kegel. Wiesmeier breaks into Marlies Bühler's apartment and steals valuable furnishings, which he then deposits in Kegel's apartment. Kegel is still put under alcohol, abducted to a lake property and held there.

Her ex-husband brings Marlies home and they both discover the break-in. For him and his sister it is clear that Kegel was the culprit and that Marlies never loved. Marlies turns to the police when Kegel disappears, and the investigators inspect Kegel's apartment. They do not believe that Kegel is the culprit and are looking for the officially missing man. On the evening of the crime, a witness saw how Kegel was overwhelmed and forced to drink. Meanwhile, Wiesmeier regularly supplies Kegel with alcohol in a boat shed, which alleviates his greatest withdrawal symptoms. Kegel lets himself be humiliated and degraded for alcohol, so he has to kneel down in front of Wiesmeier and beg for a glass of schnapps. When he found out from Wiesmeier in a state of intoxication that he needed him for a "bigger cause", he beat Wiesmeier up. He takes his wallet and flees. The investigators later discover him on a bench, seriously drunk, and take him to the clinic. On the way, Kegel asks Captain Reger to buy him alcohol and hands him a note. This turns out to be part of a city map of Berlin including the corresponding floor plan. The drawing shows the interior of the Trinity Church. The investigators now have a clue as to which doors the keys reproduced by Kegel belong to.

Kegel had filed the keys from memory for the investigators. In fact, the keys fit the church doors. In the Trinity Church, an exhibition is currently being prepared on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the diocese. The exhibits shown include valuable individual items. During the night, the investigators can catch Xenia during a break-in. Captain Reger lets them run in pretense and shadows them with his men. Xenia leads the investigators to Wiesmeier, where the client of the action later arrives: Dorothee Bühler. During the interrogation, she admits that she wanted to make Kegel appear as a perpetrator and thus get rid of the way. Kegel, on the other hand, is ashamed after the end of the delirium tremens and fears the outside world. He wants to separate from Marlies and is only slowly accepting that his relapse happened under duress. At the request of Captain Reger, he at least gives Marlies hope that he can get well, even if he doubts it himself.

production

The St. Antonius Church in Berlin-Oberschöneweide, a location for the film

Liquid weapon was filmed from January 5th to April 8th, 1988 in Berlin , Pfaffendorf and Strausberg . The Trinity Church in the film is actually the St. Antonius Church in Berlin-Oberschöneweide . The costumes for the film were created by Steffen Förster , the film structures were created by Hans-Joachim Hölzel . The film premiered on December 18, 1988 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 37.7 percent.

It was the 124th episode in the series Polizeiruf 110 . Captain Reger was investigating his second and last case. In addition to Ulrich Mühe's impressive game and the good interaction with Henry Hübchen, the criticism also highlighted the visual implementation of the film: “The images [...] are mostly kept in cold tones, and in the scenes in which [Kegel] is in When suffering falls behind, the basic color is a heavy, 'leaden' gray. Only a few places of action are assigned warm colors, according to the church. "

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 159-162.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=124 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 132.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 161.
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