Police call 110: daisies

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title daisy
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 187 ( List )
First broadcast March 16, 1997 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Ulrich Stark
script Dirk Salomon
Thomas Wesskamp
production Veith von Fürstenberg
music Joachim-Franz Bartzsch
Birger Heymann
camera Manfred Ensinger
Jürgen R. Schoenemann
cut Felicitas Lainer
Arnd Möller
occupation

Gänseblümchen is a German crime film directed by Ulrich Stark in 1997. The television film was released as the 187th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

Sigi Möller, a patrol officer in the tranquil town of Volpe, has made a successful marriage proposal to his girlfriend Gabi from the homicide department. However, Sigi puts a stop to the wedding planning by the Sauerlandkiller, a serial killer who always stabs his victims and then cuts out their tongues. After three murders in the area, Mayor Huffer's secretary, ex-alcoholic Evi, is found dead. Shortly before, her husband Horst ran amok, shot around on the Volper market square and was finally shot by the policeman Hugo. The murders are particularly explosive because Huffer is currently campaigning against strong competitor Max Maiwald.

Gabi tries to introduce modern investigation methods in Volpe and to create a perpetrator profile. Meanwhile, Sigi receives a first call from the real Sauerland killer Achim, who complains that the series of murders was very different from how it was portrayed in public. Shortly afterwards, he went to an editor for the Abendpost and murdered him because he had lied about the murders in his paper. The next day, Achim calls Sigi again and denies having committed Evi's murder. However, he takes responsibility for the remaining four murders, he never lies. To prove his identity in front of Sigi, he sent him the editor's tongue by mail. It is eaten up by a police dog before Sigi can show it to Kalle. Since Achim insists on absolute secrecy and only then does not want to commit any further murders, Sigi keeps his knowledge to himself. Achim he promises to find Evi's real murderer.

Sigi secretly films the funeral service for Evi and her husband. A stranger is among the mourners who turns out to be the clergyman Wilbur Schürmann. At Evi and Horst's grave, Sigi finds a shoe print that is identical to one that was found on Evi's body. Wilbur's shoes, however, have a different profile; the clergyman was also found murdered a short time later. Achim makes it clear to Sigi over the phone that this murder was not committed by him either. He gives investigators two days to find the perpetrator; otherwise he would become active himself.

Sigi and Kalle find out that Evi, as Mayor Huffer's secretary, also managed the funds for his current election campaign. Huffer's opponent Max Maiwald has only been living in Volpe for a short time. There are funds on Huffer's account that give the impression that Huffer is being co-financed by the esologists sect. This sect strives for nothing less than world domination. Wilbur, in turn, was actively involved against the esologists and helped sect members quit. Sigi and Kalle find out that, in addition to Maiwald, Evis alcohol therapist Ms. Austen is also a member of the Esologists. Both had the funds transferred to Huffer's account. He is now referred to in the newspaper as a sect member, which mainly uses Maiwald's candidacy for mayor.

When searching for the footprints at the funeral and at the place where Evi's body was found, Sigi and Kalle finally realize that only policeman Hugo could be the perpetrator. He was on shift that day. Grandma Elisabeth Kampnagel appears at the police station. She knows Sigi and Kalle from previous cases; now she brings them both a supposed radio that her new lodger - Achim Jahnke - had in his room. The radio is actually a listening device, because Achim had hidden a bug in the envelope with which he had sent the tongue. So he was always aware of what the policemen were discussing and now also knows that Hugo is considered a murderer. Achim goes to Hugo and stabs him. He ties him up, but Sigi and Kalle prevent him from murdering Hugo. Instead, Achim kills himself in front of her eyes. Elisabeth Kampnagel looks after a grave for Achim, whom she had always seen as a friendly man. Gabi, on the other hand, cancels the wedding with Sigi because she loves him too much.

production

Brilon, the main location of the film

Daisy was filmed mainly in Brilon . The action location Volpe is a fictional small town with phonetic allusions to the district town of Olpe . The costumes of the film created Natascha Curtius Noss that Filmbauten submitted by Götz Weidner . Director Ulrich Stark and the scriptwriters Dirk Salomon and Thomas Wesskamp can be seen in supporting roles in the film. Gänseblümchen had its television premiere on March 16, 1997 on ARD . The audience participation was 20.8 percent.

It was the 187th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Sigi Möller and Kalle Küppers investigated in their third case. The title daisy refers to the flowers that Achim grows in his apartment. Achim suffers from a multiple personality disorder and believes he is himself and his wife, whom he also associates closely with daisies . As a child, he had given a girl he later wanted to marry a bouquet of daisies and shortly afterwards had to watch the girl get run over. At the time, the drivers of the car threatened Achim with cutting out his tongue if he lies and claims that both of them have run over the girl. As a result of the mental disorder, Achim eventually became the murderer of those who did not tell the truth.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach wrote in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung that the police call had weaknesses, according to screenwriter Dirk Salomon himself, that “a lot is packed into it. The sect history sometimes falls by the wayside ”. "Just as the 'serial killer' parody was exhausted with grimaces and a robber pistol of psychology, the rest of the dramaturgy also turned into a large-scale childish bluff, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the pondered and sophisticated psycho pieces of the once renowned GDR- 'Police call' series had to do ”, said the Stuttgarter Zeitung .

"Something more than just a nice crime scene," wrote the TV Spielfilm . For the Leipziger Volkszeitung , Gänseblümchen was a “fine farce about honest men and mediocrity full of glaring scenic set pieces and black humor.” The film is a “successful balancing act between horror and grin”. Gänseblümchen has a script, “whose dialogues and scenes could not have been more black, humorous, more pointed and more precise. Crime as pure pleasure ”, wrote the Sächsische Zeitung , and praised Henry Hübchen, who“ got everything out of his role, from involuntary comedy to heartbreaking tragedy. ”“ The crime story [...] balances between sensitive psycho-study and point-assured boldness between Soul agony and joke ”, stated the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 228.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 196.
  2. ↑ Quoted from: Rainer Tittelbach: The search for the murderer in the Sauerland . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , March 15, 1997.
  3. ↑ DD: Critical look at the screen - Police call 110: Daisies . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , March 18, 1997, p. 24.
  4. ↑ Police call 110: Daisies on tvspielfilm.de
  5. ↑ Bernd Seidel: Biedermänner . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , March 18, 1997, p. 10.
  6. ↑ Jens Hölzig: Zugnensalat . In: Sächsische Zeitung , March 18, 1997, p. 18.
  7. ↑ Hans-Heinrich Obuch: Sensitive and flippant . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 18, 1997, p. 14.
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