Police call 110: Curse of the good deed

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title No good deed goes unpunished
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavaria Film
on behalf of BR
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 232 ( List )
First broadcast July 1, 2001 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Hans-Günther Bücking
script Peter Probst
production Veith von Fürstenberg
music Günther Illi
camera Hans-Günther Bücking
cut Babette Fürbringer
occupation

Curse of the good deed is a German crime film by Hans-Günther Bücking from 2001. The television film was released as the 232nd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Chief Detective Jürgen Tauber has taken a liking to the rich Marlene Oppenrieder, head of the Integra project . Integra arranges a training position for young people from problem areas. The association is based in the Neuperlach district of Munich . While Tauber is at a charity party in Marlene's noble villa, where apprenticeships are being arranged for Integra youth, in Neuperlach the youths Vladi Ossadnek and Biljana Ducic lie in wait for the Roma Arpad Nagy. Vladi blames Arpad for ruining his life. He and Biljana put a butterfly knife at his throat, into which Arpad finally throws himself. Vladi and Biljana are shocked. Vladi goes into hiding while Biljana goes to Marlene and says that Vladi fled to Slovakia . She wants to get out of the Integra project, but is persuaded by Marlene to continue. At the party, Biljana meets Marlene's nephew Rainer, who falls in love with her.

Arpad's body is found. While Tauber initially wants to entrust his colleague Jo Obermaier with the case alone, he begins to help investigate when Marlene see him and asks to keep the press out of the case. Arpad was one of Integra's successes and was placed in a job shortly before his death. The project itself, in turn, will shortly be presented as part of a television broadcast, which could result in high donations. So Marlene doesn't need bad press. Her friendly facade falls later, however, when details get into the press anyway, and her flirt with Tauber gives way to cold rejection.

Tauber and Obermaier find out that Arpad should be placed in an event agency. He replaced Vladi, who was initially intended for the position. Vladi had been in prison for attempted rape for some time, so he was no longer a model youth of the project. Marlene herself turned away from him; However, Vladi suspected that Arpad had betrayed his past to the youth of the project. Although Vladi is hiding, he becomes more and more jealous because he overhears from his hiding place how Rainer is flirting with Biljana. He eventually beats her up jealously. Two patrolmen overheard the following argument and arrest Vladi, severely mistreating him. At the place where Arpad was killed, Obermaier finds piercing tools belonging to Biljana. In Vladi's hiding place, on the other hand, is still the knife with which Arpad stabbed himself. Vladi confesses to the investigators that he just wanted to scare Arpad. He is arrested. Although Biljana is covered by Rainer, her involvement in Arpad's death also comes to light. While the recording for the TV show is running and Biljana is reporting in front of the camera how Integra has helped her to build a new future, she is arrested by Tauber and Obermaier.

production

Curse of the good deed was filmed in Munich and the surrounding area in the summer of 2000 under the working title Charity . The costumes of the film created Annette Reinecke-Popp , the Filmbauten submitted by Reinhard Twardy . The movie's theme song is Stranded by The Brandalls . Writer Axel Hacke made a cameo as a writer reading from his book at the charity event.

The film had its television premiere on July 1, 2001 on the first . The audience participation was 18.7 percent (= 5.31 million viewers). It was the 232nd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Jürgen Tauber investigated in his 5th case and Jo Obermaier in their 2nd case.

criticism

Der Spiegel found that “the effort to create large pictures [...] often [blurs] the contrasts between the fine world of helpers and the outlaw desolation. The staging gives plenty of space for the feelings of young people withnochance. ”For the Stuttgarter Zeitung , Curse of the Good Deed was “ more social drama than crime film ”and for the Leipziger Volkszeitung it was “ more of a milieu study than a crimestory”. “No crime thriller from the dozen goods department, which, however, required a strong willingness to donate”, wrote the Sächsische Zeitung .

The Frankfurter Rundschau noted that in the film “the political correctness [annoys] that the characters have to carry in front of them in a penetrating manner.” The cameraman Hans-Günther Bücking praised his pictures for “not just every color, but also every warmth drove out ”, as well as the acting performances of the young actors, which are impressive. The curse of the good deed is "almost objective, completely sober, dealing with the problem ...", which is also the "strength of this human thriller", said Die Welt . The Süddeutsche Zeitung criticized the "well-advised glossy pictures" that the director and cameraman Bücking put together in the film and that, for example, show "finely draped ... hanging around ... in the gray Neuperlach prefabricated building". The film would have needed more “everyday accuracy”, as “it is only said in a visually appealing way that one is an advocate of declassified youngsters who have come up short”.

"The message was clear, the plot was confused and the people were untrustworthy: that's how it is when television producers are gripped by holy anger on their own medium," summarized the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . The Berliner Zeitung stated that the film contained “a lot of drawing board-like”, while the Ostthüringer Zeitung remained perplexed: “How they [the investigators] get on the track at the end of the truth remains the film's secret, as does the answer to the question, what was the good deed and what was its curse and what actually happened. ”“ [T] he dramaturgy and the arc of suspense: Nothing. The viewer knows from the start who the perpetrator is. This lead in information does not result in greater interest in the motif, as was probably intended, but in boredom, ”said the Stuttgarter Zeitung after the film was broadcast.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 240.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Police call 110: Curse of the good deed on crew-united.com
  2. ↑ Quota hits from July 1, 2001 . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , July 3, 2001, p. 10.
  3. ↑ Preview: Police call 110: Curse of the good deed Sunday, 8.15 p.m., ARD . In: Der Spiegel , No. 26, June 25, 2001, p. 115.
  4. ↑ oh: curse of the good deed . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , June 30, 2001, p. 41.
  5. ↑ Klaus Katzenmeyer: Not exciting . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , July 3, 2001, p. 10.
  6. ↑ Manfred Anders: A difficult case . In: Sächsische Zeitung , July 3, 2001, p. 15.
  7. ↑ tpg: Run into the knife . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , June 30, 2001, p. 22.
  8. ↑ Thilo Wydra: People on the Abyss . In: Die Welt , June 30, 2001, p. TV4.
  9. ↑ Wilfried Geldner: Draped hangers . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 30, 2001, p. 19.
  10. ^ Marianne Kolarik: Well meant . In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger , July 2, 2001.
  11. ↑ Klaudia Brunst: Corrupted Souls . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 2, 2001, p. 15.
  12. ↑ Angelika Bohn: Blurry . In: Ostthüringer Zeitung , July 3, 2001.
  13. ↑ Astrid Braun: Viewed critically - Boring blood fountain . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , July 3, 2001, p. 27.
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