Police call 110: Strangers in the mirror

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Strangers in the mirror
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 DOKfilm television production
on behalf of the rbb
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 315 ( List )
First broadcast November 7, 2010 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Ed Duke
script Annette Hess
production Jost-Arend Bösenberg ,
Frank Schmuck
music Ulrich Reuter
camera Michael Schreitel
cut Alexander Beyer
occupation

Fremde im Spiegel is a German crime film by Ed Herzog commissioned by rbb in 2010. It is the 315th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 , the sixteenth case for master master Horst Krause and the twelfth and last case for his partner Johanna Herz .

action

Chief Detective Johanna Herz receives an anonymous call about the murder of a police student. Herz and Krause go to the police school and Christine Teichow did not appear on duty there. Her classmate Nicole Brennicke states that her colleague hardly had any friends and that she had not been very accessible since the fatal accident of a classmate.

After the investigators find out that the wanted person had booked a hotel room last night, there are traces of blood and a possible murder weapon, but not a corpse. Inspector Herz is looking at the canal, because the anonymous caller said that the body was thrown into it. Apart from a jacket with Christine Teichow's car keys, nothing is found.

Commissioner Herz is certain that the headmaster Martin Becker had a relationship with Christine Teichow. The analysis of your emails allows this to be concluded. Herz speaks to him about it and he admits this relationship. Even though he had finished, she would have continued harassing and pressuring him, ending up with an alleged pregnancy. She had ordered him to the hotel and threatened to harm himself if he didn't stay with her. He would not have taken this seriously, whereupon she would have gone into the bathroom with a bottle and injured herself with it. Then he wanted to drive her to the hospital in the car, but at the first traffic light she jumped out of the car and disappeared.

The commissioner thinks it is possible that Christine Teichow staged her own murder in order to get revenge on Becker. All the evidence speaks too clearly for him as the perpetrator. She asks Becker to send Christine an email and arrange to meet her. Shortly afterwards, Christine Teichow appears safely at Becker's wife and explains to her that she is expecting a child and that Becker will marry her. She also contacts Nicole Brennicke to tell her that everything would be fine and that Becker would marry her now. Nicole tells her classmate Mike Kern about it, who reacts very angrily and says that she would then betray everyone and his police career would be over.

While Inspector Herz and Martin Becker are waiting for Christine at the agreed meeting point, they hear the news of a fire in Christine's parents' house. The fire department finds a charred female corpse and it can be assumed that it is Christine. Because of Mike Kern's reaction, Nicole fears that he may have killed Christine now. However, after the autopsy of the fire corpse clearly confirmed that Christine cannot be the dead person, Herz and Krause harbor bad suspicions. You drive to Becker's apartment and see through the window how Christine in Marion Becker's clothes threatens her headmaster with a gun. The police psychologist consulted says that it can be assumed that Christine is a borderliner and has currently withdrawn into her own world, from which she would be difficult to get out of. Herz tries to respond to the "game" and talks to Christine as if she were Marion Becker. However, in doing so, she moves even further into this role. It was only when Krause suddenly appeared with her police dog "Haduk" that the threatening situation was over and she broke away from her delusions.

Christine is arrested and looked after in a psychological facility. When the commissioner visits, she explains that Marion Becker went to see her and threatened her with a pistol. After she resisted, Marion Becker suddenly lay dead in front of her. When she says goodbye to the commissioner, she steals her service pistol and shoots herself.

Johanna Herz had had doubts about her job for a long time and after this, for her unforgivable mistake, she packs her things and is determined to go to her daughter in Spain.

Krause stays behind and keeps Christine's dog as a replacement for his old "Vera", who has earned her retirement.

background

Strangers in the mirror was in the November 7, 2010 First for prime time broadcast for the first time. Krause's dog "Vera" is retiring in this episode and he takes over "Haduk", the police dog of a police student.

The audio description created by the RBB and spoken by Uta Maria Torp was nominated for the German audio film award in 2011 .

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv rates this police call positively and writes: “Johanna Herz is investigating Potsdam in an unspectacular manner and Horst Krause is once again all Horst Krause. In the psychological final offensive, there is an acting climax - and Ed Herzog's picture director, who stylishly switches between 'New Look' and Potsdam's 'Old School', is impressive. Conclusion: a typical cog walkout. Honest, authentic, good! "

At Frankfurter Allgemeine , Lena Bopp sums it up very appreciatively and says: “There is [...] a wonderful melancholy about this film [...], which Ulrich Reuter has underlined with fabulous music. It all turned out so well that one would also like to forgive one or the other weakness in the script [...]. […] The end […] comes up with surprising twists and turns, which Johanna Herz only confirms in what she felt the whole time: It is time to leave. And that couldn't be better than in this film. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave it a medium rating (thumbs to the side) and found strangers in the mirror to be “ambitious, but applied too thickly”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Polizeiruf 110: Strangers in the mirror in the audio film database of Hörfilm e. V.
  2. ↑ 9th German Audio Film Award 2011
  3. ↑ Rainer Tittelbach: Imogen Kogge's walkout as a police call inspector: honest, authentic, good! Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ Lena Bopp: The withheld tears of Johanna Herz at FAZ.net , accessed on February 27, 2016.
  5. ^ Police call 110: Strangers in the mirror at tvspielfilm.de
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