Police call 110: dangerous kisses

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	Dangerous kisses
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Polyphon Film- und Fernseh GmbH for NDR
length	89 minutes
classification	Episode 181 ( List )
First broadcast	April 21, 1996 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Manfred Stelzer
script	Gert Möbius Manfred Stelzer
production	Doris J. Heinze Klaus-Dieter Zeisberg
music	Rio Reiser
camera	Michael Wiesweg
cut	Heidi Endruwelt
occupation
Kurt Böwe : Kurt Groth Uwe Steimle : Jens Hinrichs Gerd Baltus : Jan Kuhlmann Karin Düwel : Silke Kuhlmann Julia Jäger : Anita Bogdan Benjuk : Killer Jakob Smiri Horst A. Fechner Marie Anne Fliegel : Eva Storm Karl Kranzkowski : Karl Saibel Hans-Helmut Müller : Detective Director Dr. Stuber Alexy Nesterov Ludger Pistor : Kellermann Hans-Martin Stier : Willy wood Gabriele Völsch : Juliane Groth

Dangerous Kisses is a German crime film by Manfred Stelzer from 1996. The television film was released as the 181st episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

In the exclusion zone in Chernobyl , Jakob Smiri receives an order that takes him to Schwerin . Here he is shadowing Silke Kuhlmann, the wife of lawyer Jan Kuhlmann. He follows her to her lover, the nude cleaner Karl Saibel. Silke wants to sleep with Saibel, but he rejects her because of an appointment. Silke leaves him and is shortly afterwards killed by Smiri in the elevator. Smiri escapes unseen and travels back to Ukraine .

Chief Detective Jens Hinrichs is looking for a wife, but is called directly to the scene of the crime by meeting an Internet acquaintance in a café. Since Kellermann is sick from the homicide squad, Hinrichs is allowed to work on his first murder case together with detective inspector Groth. Groth is there before him and has done all the tasks that Hinrichs actually wants to tackle with full vigor. Hinrichs is upset, he believes that Groth is working against him.

The only possible perpetrator is Karl Saibel, who left the house shortly after Silke's disappearance to go to his appointment. He states that the elevator was occupied, so he took the stairs. The traces at the crime scene confirm this. In addition to Silke's fingerprints, there are also those of an unknown person. Sunflower seed pods that Groth found in the stairwell show clear traces of radioactivity . Hinrichs thinks contract killing is possible, which Groth in Schwerin seems completely absurd.

Groth asked his former friends in the Soviet army and was given the name Romanoff, who supposedly could organize everything. In search of the clients for a possible murder, Hinrichs and Groth stop by widower Jan Kuhlmann and are amazed that a new woman from Poland is already living with him as a lover. Hinrichs suspects that organized crime is not only responsible for the murder of the wife, but also organizes a new wife on request. With the consent of his superior Dr. Stuber begins to investigate Hinrichs undercover.

Hinrichs turns to Romanoff through intermediaries, who promises him a meeting in three days. During this time, Dr. Stuber found his own apartment for Hinrichs and found him a "wife", criminologist Anita. It should serve as a decoy and become the target of the murder. Hinrichs pays 15,000 marks for the murder, but actually falls a little in love with Anita during the several days of living together, who looks good and is good at cooking. He meticulously plans everything to ensure your safety. She works for the killer as a museum attendant. Hinrichs has the museum equipped with cameras, microphones and security systems.

Jakob Smiri is commissioned by Romanoff to kill Anita. He follows her to the museum, where Anita passes various officers who are responsible for her safety on the way to work. In the morning Groth's granddaughter Juliane had met Hinrichs by chance, but he avoided her. She tells her grandfather, who is privy to the secret operation, but doesn't know where Hinrichs is. He goes to Hinrichs' wrong apartment, where one of the guards sends him to the museum. In front of the museum, Groth sees sunflower seed shells and knows that the killer must already be in the museum. A large group of tourists has just arrived here. Hinrichs sees Groth on the surveillance cameras and brings him to his surveillance room. Groth reports that the killer is in the house and they both see the tourists leave the museum. However, Anita has disappeared and Groth concludes that she is in the toilet - the only place that Hinrichs did not have prepared. Both rush to the toilet, where they can save Anita at the last second. Jakob Smiri is arrested.

The next day the newspapers officially reported that the museum attendant Anita was murdered. Hinrichs can now be presented with potential wife successors through a contact man. Jan Kuhlmann is ordered by the investigators to an alleged meeting with Romanoff and appears, whereby he reveals himself to be the commissioner of the murder of his wife. The investigators can arrest numerous members of the gang around Romanoff as well as Jan. Anita, on the other hand, leaves the city because her work is done in Schwerin. Hinrichs says goodbye to her with a heavy heart and Groth asks him why he is actually not getting married.

production

State Museum Schwerin, a location for the film

Dangerous Kisses was filmed from September to October 1995 in the Ukraine, Schwerin and Berlin and the surrounding area. One location was the Schwerin State Museum . The costumes of the film created Heidi Plätz that Filmbauten come from Peter Bausch . The film had its television premiere on April 21, 1996 on Das Erste, ten years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster , which occurred on April 26, 1986. The audience participation was 22.2 percent.

It was the 181st episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . The inspectors Hinrichs and Groth investigated in their 6th case. On the occasion of Kurt Böwe's death, the MDR changed its program in June 2000 and broadcast dangerous kisses during prime time .

criticism

Even if the killer and the client were determined early on, the scriptwriters knew how to “reload the tension again and again,” said the Frankfurter Neue Presse . The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that even the police call had to be subordinate to the “new television play dramaturgy”, which demanded that “the sex-hungry female victim should be cut really sharp in the throat. Plenty of blood must flow so that we can do the rest of the story to ourselves with even sharper expectations ”. Director Manfred Stelzer, however, succeeds in "[saving] all this in a clever way - he is exceptionally good at describing the small failures and crimes and the provincial atmosphere."

"Conclusion of the evening: solid crime thriller, but nothing more," said the Stuttgarter Zeitung . For the TV feature film , Dangerous Kisses there was a “melancholy to cheerful provincial thriller”.

Web links

• Police 110: Dangerous Kisses in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Police call 110: Dangerous kisses at filmportal.de
• Police call 110: Dangerous kisses on Das Erste.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 190.
2. ↑ Memory of Kurt Böwe / MDR changes program . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , June 17, 2000.
3. ↑ Sd: Always new tension . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse , April 22, 1996, p. 1.
4. ↑ Thomas Thieringer: blood and feelings . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 23, 1996, p. 16.
5. ↑ BZ: Viewed critically - Police call 110: Dangerous kisses . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , April 24, 1996, p. 0 / FIFU.
6. ^ Police call 110: Dangerous kisses on tvspielfilm.de

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