Police call 110: faces in the twilight

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Faces in the twilight
Polizeiruf110 logo 1972.svg
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 76 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 14 ( list )
First broadcast April 1, 1973 on GDR 1
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Director Manfred Mosblech
script Fred Unger
Manfred Mosblech
production Marianne Birkholz
music Hartmut Behrsing
camera Winfried Kleist
cut Silvia Lever
occupation

Faces in Twilight is a German crime film by Manfred Mosblech from 1973. The television film was released as the 14th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

Sailing trainer Bodo Jansen reports to the police that he strangled his wife Astrid. First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs, Lieutenant Vera Arndt and Lieutenant Lutz Subras begin the investigation. Astrid had taken first place in class 2 in a sailing competition the day before. Bodo disliked her sailing style, which was just as selfish as Astrid herself. When a friend offered to speak to him, Bodo refused.

Bodo had married Astrid for the second time. She was significantly younger and much more extroverted than him. She had her moods that she took out on him. Bodo, on the other hand, is described by all witnesses as a good-hearted man and his first wife can only find good words for him. She already knew him from school and there was never any trouble in marriage. This made it very uniform. When Bodo met Astrid, his first wife left him because she felt that he needed a change. Bodo felt guilty about it. Bodo has his son Detlef from his first marriage, who is 17 years old. With Astrid he had a second child, the girl Mareike, who has barely reached school age.

Peter Fuchs and Vera Arndt do not believe that Bodo is the perpetrator, even if he insists on his perpetration. Nobody can imagine Bodo as a murderer. Bodo himself seems shaken during the interrogation and he feels sick when Vera reads the evidence on his wife's body from the protocol. During the interrogations, three new points came to light: Detlef had wanted to become a doctor for several years, but Astrid made him decide on a career as a pianist. He passed the entrance exam in Berlin, but Bodo reacted angrily to the son's change of mind, which he attributed to Astrid's bad influence, but not to real will. Astrid had had a relationship with the fisherman Knud Hinrichs for half a year, about whom she reported cold-heartedly to her husband. Bodo, in turn, did everything to make the marriage look harmonious outwardly, but let his wife cheat, especially since he has increasingly alienated her since then. The third point was the night of the crime itself. Mareike was already feverish during the sailing race. Bodo wanted to cancel his participation in the sailing ball that evening, but went with his wife when Detlef offered to take care of Mareike. He called the ballroom around midnight because Mareike's fever had gotten worse. Bodo came home immediately and took Mareike to the hospital. There it was found that Mareike probably has diphtheria . Astrid, on the other hand, stayed on the ball and enjoyed herself.

Knud Hinrichs reports to the investigators, who claims to have picked Astrid from the ball. Both would then have spent a night of love in the hut, in which the dead Astrid was later found. He had the feeling that someone was sneaking around the hut, but saw no one. He left around 2:30 a.m. Both drank vodka that evening . The used glass, however, was found washed in the cupboard, although Knud had left it on the table. The questioned Bodo claims to have had a glass of vodka after the body was found. He put the washed glass in the cupboard and took the bottle with him. It becomes clear that he wants to cover someone. Vera Arndt visits Detlef again and has the shoes and jacket examined that Detlef was wearing on the evening of the crime. There are remains of earth that match the earth in front of the fisherman's hut. Fine wood splinters in the jacket also come from the hut.

Detlef finally admits to having killed Astrid. He had seen how helpless Bodo was when dealing with his daughter and was angry that Astrid had not come home with him. When he wanted to pick her up from the ball, eyewitness reports said she had already left with a stranger. He found both of them making love in the wooden house, waited until Knud had left and then wanted to confront Astrid. However, she mocked him as a tensioner and referred to Bodo as a pensioner and failure and so Detlef strangled her. Then he waited at home for Bodo and confessed to him. He was shocked that Bodo knew that his wife was cheating on him and accused him of never saying anything. Bodo sent him away and took on the deed. Even when Peter Fuchs tells him that Detlef is the perpetrator, he tries to deny it. Only when Detlef himself reports to him that he has confessed to the crime does Bodo collapse. Detlef is being led away.

production

The Hotel Warnow, a location for the film

Faces in Twilight was filmed from November 15, 1972 to January 15, 1973 under the working title The Dancing Shoes on the Baltic Sea Coast. In the film, Peter Fuchs and Vera Arndt are housed in the Hotel Warnow in Rostock, which was demolished in 2003. Other locations were Altwarp , Bad Doberan , the Oderhaff , Stralsund and the surrounding area and Ueckermünde .

The costumes of the film created Ruth Karge , the Filmbauten submitted by Günter Broberg . Hartmut Behrsing's film music uses motifs from Ludwig van Beethoven's Für Elise , which Detlef also plays on the piano in the film. An excerpt from Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata can also be heard, the band My Bonnie and Fuchs play at the Seglerball, and Arndt is listening to a record on the record player that is playing Michel Polnareff's Please Love Me .

The film had its television premiere on April 1, 1973 in the first program of GDR television. It was the 14th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Vera Arndt investigated their twelfth case, while Detective Lutz Subras was in his fifth case. Faces in Twilight was the first Police Call 110 film in color.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 22.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=014 (link only available to a limited extent)
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