Police call 110: Promised Land

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Promised Land
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Infafilm
on behalf of the BR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 224 ( List )
First broadcast January 14, 2001 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Peter Patzak
script Christian Jeltsch
production Tita Korytowski
music Peter Patzak
camera Andreas Köfer
cut Jacqueline von Brueck
occupation

Gelobtes Land is a German crime film by Peter Patzak from 2001. The television film was released as the 224th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

In the Völkerkundemuseum Munich , the museum director, the young seer Enuma and the African engineer and asylum seeker Jonah Dibango are waiting for news: Jonah's daughters Thula and Lineo are supposed to be illegally smuggled across the border into Germany. Holger Wennisch, who receives the two girls at the border and is supposed to bring them to Jonah, gives a short phone call that the handover worked. Then the contact breaks off. Holger does not appear at home and the children have also disappeared. Enuma, on the other hand, “saw” that Holger had an accident with the car and crashed into the jammed Isar. Holger appears at home a little later, where his pregnant wife Sarah is in despair because he keeps staying away for long periods of time and doesn't tell her what he's doing during this time. She suspects an affair. Holger is hardly concerned and returns to the scene of the accident shortly afterwards. A little later his clothes are found on the banks of the Isar. Witness statements about his whereabouts are contradicting and confusing, so two homeless people state that Holger simply became invisible.

Chief Detective Jürgen Tauber knows that he will have a new partner named Jo Obermaier, but he believes in a man. He is all the more irritated when “Jo” turns out to be an abbreviation for “Josephine” and introduces himself to him as a partner, a plant-loving, multiple family mother. The new chief detective is married to the auto mechanic Tarik Yilmaz, with whom she has a young son; an older daughter comes from a previous relationship. Tauber and Obermaier have their problems with each other, so that at the beginning of the detective, Oskar assigns them the "easy case" of the missing Holger.

Unnoticed by the investigators, a seriously injured, dark-skinned girl is found on the Isar and is admitted to hospital. Tauber and Obermaier concentrate on Holger and his environment. They find out that he had been unemployed for several months while his wife still believed he was working at the slaughterhouse. She doesn't understand where the money then came from, which continued to be regularly deposited into his account. Employees at the slaughterhouse remember that Holger's odometer now and then showed significant mileage. They blamed this on a defect in the counter. Since Holger's van has also disappeared, Tauber and Obermaier finally assume that Holger worked as a people smuggler . In the meantime, Sarah has also found out about this from Jonah, who wants to help him find his daughters. Both go to the Isar, where the accident presumably happened. Once there, Lineo's body is being recovered. Jonah sneaks into the hearse and sees his daughter lying in the transport coffin. In Munich he escapes from the car. In the period that followed, he repeatedly managed to flee from the investigators, but also from the officials of the immigration authorities. Tauber and Obermaier finally learn that Jonah's daughter Thula is probably in the hospital. When Jonah goes to see her, the police arrest him. His asylum application process calls into question the reports of torture he has suffered in Africa. Because he made himself a criminal offense by hiring a smuggler for his daughters, Jonah is ordered to be deported.

Jonah's lawyer can obtain a postponement of the deportation. Tauber and Obermaier can prevent Jonah's departure by getting the passengers on his plane to get up shortly before the plane takes off, thereby delaying the departure until the lawyer appears with the postponement papers. Thula is feeling better some time later and she wakes up from the coma. Apparently, the presence of Enuma also helped her recovery, as Enuma has powers that are considered magic in her homeland. She is also said to have caused Holger's disappearance through spiritual influence. As if by magic, Holger appears shortly after Thula's recovery in the chicken coop of the slaughterhouse where he had worked for a long time. After initial quarrels, Tauber and Obermaier make peace and Tauber accepts an invitation to eat lamb with Obermaier's family.

production

Promised Land was filmed in and around Munich from May 4th, 2000. The costumes of the film created Monika Brühne that Filmbauten derived from German Pizzinini . The film had its television premiere on January 14, 2001 on the first . The audience participation was 17.9 percent (= 6.57 million viewers) and was thus the most watched program of the day after the Tagesschau . The film had previously been shown on October 26, 2000 at the Hof International Film Festival.

It was the 224th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series . Jürgen Tauber investigated in his 4th case and Jo Obermaier in their 1st case. She replaced the police psychologist Silvia Jansen, who was played by Gaby Dohm .

criticism

For Der Spiegel , the Promised Land was “a thriller that stands out”. The Berliner Zeitung found that the director and screenwriter "succeeded in creating a brilliant piece of television in which social criticism and crime fiction came together." "Everything is just right here: the disturbing plot, the interesting characters and the dense production," wrote TV Spielfilm , and described the film as "the birth of a strong crime duo". "Christian Jeltsch wrote a dense script with concise, multi-layered dialogues that cast a spell over the audience", stated Rainer Tittelbach .

With the Promised Land, Patzak staged a "very slow, very intense and sad case" which, thanks to the "self-assured, calm rhythm", does not become a "fairy tale concern crime", wrote the Süddeutsche Zeitung . “Much of this thriller got bogged down in mysticism, but for a showdown, the film […] becomes a passionate plea against the deportation practice that has been practiced in Germany since the asylum law was changed. Their inhuman features, so tough and passionately pointed, have not yet been seen on television, ”stated the Ostthüringer Zeitung .

"[T] he accumulation of all the clichés on the topic, through the love-servant attitude, the play is lying," said the Nürnberger Zeitung . Promised Land also contains a “thick pack of banalities, exaggerations and sentimentality”. The film is “primarily a pamphlet that calls for solidarity with asylum seekers and castigates xenophobia. You can feel commitment, aspiration and the will to art, but everything seems very artificial. Pointed slogans simplify the complex topic and squeeze it into a black and white scheme, ”said the Leipziger Volkszeitung . "Even if the final passage was effectively staged and its symbolism was recognizable, all of this was applied too thickly," said the Saxon newspaper .

Awards

Gelobtes Land was nominated in 2001 for the Adolf Grimme Prize . On May 26, 2001, the film received the 1st Marl Television Prize for Human Rights from Amnesty International .

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, pp. 239–240.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New investigator duo has the first case . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , May 5, 2000, p. 12.
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 233.
  3. ↑ Quota hits from January 14, 2001 . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , January 16, 2001, p. 8.
  4. ↑ Katja Nicodemus: German Rockys. At the Hof Film Festival there was sex, competition and secluded sports, but little German reality . In: Die Tageszeitung , October 31, 2000, p. 14.
  5. ↑ Preview - Police call 110: Promised Land Sunday, 8.15 p.m., ARD . In: Der Spiegel , No. 2, January 8, 2001, p. 83.
  6. ↑ Reinhard Lüke: Voodoo magic on the Isar . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 16, 2001, p. 15.
  7. ^ Polizeiruf 110: Promised Land on tvspielfilm.de
  8. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Nepper, tug, spectator catcher . In: Die Welt , January 13, 2001, p. TV4.
  9. ↑ Angelika Bohn: Promised Germany . In: Ostthüringer Zeitung , January 16, 2001.
  10. ↑ Walter Gallasch: Like fire and water . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten , January 15, 2001.
  11. ↑ Roland Blüthner: Crime Pamphlet . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , January 16, 2001, p. 8.
  12. ↑ Fred Lips: Amateurs . In: Sächsische Zeitung , January 16, 2001, p. 17.
  13. ↑ Peter Patzak nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize . In: APA W&B, February 2, 2001.
  14. ↑ Award by Amnesty International for Police Call 110 of the BR: “Promised Land” received “1. Marler Television Prize for Human Rights ” . presseportal.de, May 28, 2001.
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