Police call 110: Flying Dutch

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Flying Dutchman
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavaria Film
on behalf of WDR
length 85 minutes
classification Episode 234 ( List )
First broadcast December 30, 2001 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Ulrich Stark
script Margot Rothkirch ,
Michael Fengler
production Veith von Fürstenberg
music Birger Heymann
camera Wolf Siegelmann
cut Felicitas Lainer
Arnd Möller
occupation

Fliegende Holländer is a German crime film directed by Ulrich Stark in 2001. The television film was released as the 234th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

A year ago, eight-year-old Nathalie was run over in Volpe. Hartmut Lamprecht's father has been in mourning ever since. Ralf Lohse, owner of the Lohse industrial laundry, is at his side and tries to give him other ideas. Police officer Sigi Möller also mourns a little, as he was left by his long-time friend Gabi Bauer, who is currently with her new boyfriend in the Congo. He tries to comfort himself a little with the bakery clerk Anita. Kalle's attempt to distract him with dog Strolchi fails, and so Kalle now has to look after the dog himself. Through Strolchi, the policemen Sigi and Kalle finally get to know Luzy, who runs an organic farm near Volpe. Kalle is taken with her, but a short time later learns from LKA police advisor Gisbert Diesbach that the organic farm is under observation for violating the Narcotics Act . Frozen chickens filled with ecstasy pills will soon be delivered via a Dutch truck .

The young Udo Hackenberg is found dead in Volpe. He was apparently run over, even though he has a head injury. Hackenberg worked as a driver at Lohse and lived on the organic farm. The fact that he had small amounts of drugs with him only confirms the LKA's assumption that the organic farm is a trading center for drugs. Since Hackenberg's case is now also part of the LKA investigation, Sigi and Kalle come again and again too late with their investigations. Other things happen. Pigeon fancier Plonner, whom the police already know from a previous case , claims to have seen the driver who knocked over Hackenberg. He wants to draw his knowledge.

The organic farm receives the chicken delivery from the Dutch truck Flying Dutchman . Shortly afterwards Diesbach orders access, which leads to numerous sawn-through frozen chickens, but does not reveal any drugs. Diesbach observed the wrong truck. However, Luzy will have to answer because she sold normal chickens as organic goods. Luzy's brother Felix meanwhile has a rendezvous with Petra Seckelmann, the wife of Kalle's former teacher Seckelmann, and is found shortly afterwards by Sigi and Kalle with knife wounds in the back. After a brief investigation, Petra's husband, a notorious drinker, can be arrested as the perpetrator. Hackenberg's death is also cleared up. Lohse claims to have knocked over the young man, but Plonner's drawing clearly shows Hartmut Lamprecht as the driver of the car. Lamprecht admits the fact: He killed Hackenberg and later laid it down at the place where he was found, which was the same place where Nathalie was found dead. Hackenberg ran over his daughter at the time. In fact, according to the duty roster, Hackenberg was assigned a trip that day and Hackenberg's car was also repaired after the accident. However, Plonner explains that Hackenberg had taken a vacation that day to help him with his dovecote. Only now does Lohse admit that he ran over Nathalie. She ran in front of his car. All cases have been resolved and Sigi and Kalle go to Luzy. Anita is here too - who turns out to be Luzy's partner. The policemen walk away disaffected.

production

Flying Dutchman was filmed in Brilon and Munich and the surrounding area in early 2001 . The costumes of the film created Corinna Dreyer-Vizzi that Filmbauten submitted by Petra home . The film had its television premiere on December 30, 2001 on the first .

It was the 234th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Sigi Möller and Kalle Küppers investigated in their 7th case. For the first time, the character Gabi Bauer is missing, who was Sigi's girlfriend in all previous episodes and, in the sixth case, brotherly love from Sigi was expecting a child. Gabi actress Andrea Sawatzki dropped out of the series at the end of the sixth case.

criticism

"The 'police call' shines with excellent humor and a relaxed view of the pitfalls of life," wrote the TV Spielfilm . The Frankfurter Rundschau praised the film, which is “a lovingly made, all-round likeable crime thriller [...] that has more to offer than many a grandly announced 'television event'.” The Berliner Morgenpost wrote that “the plot has a number of surprising twists that provided tension right up to the end ”, convinced.

The Leipziger Volkszeitung found that the film was “neither really funny nor really exciting”: “There are too many psychodramas on the way between Volpe and Bio-Hof for one to simply pull off the tipsy tone. So 'Flying Dutchman' sways like a pipe in the wind, tries to pull through the light tone despite the threatening weight of soul - and ends in low flight. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information according to the opening credits & contemporary reception; The first incorrectly names the episode as Flying Dutchman .
  2. ↑ Volpener policemen with provincial charm . bavaria-film.de, December 19, 2001.
  3. ↑ tgr: On the strolchi hunt . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , December 29, 2001, p. 40.
  4. ^ Police call 110: Fliegende Holländer on tvspielfilm.de
  5. ↑ Harald Keller: A case for dream dancers . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , December 29, 2001, p. 22.
  6. ↑ Hans Hurz: Coherent milieu study . In: Berliner Morgenpost , December 31, 2001, p. 22.
  7. ^ N. Wehrstedt: Low-flying aircraft . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , December 31, 2001, p. 12.
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