Police call 110: ghosts

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Ghosts
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 BR
classification Episode 162 ( List )
First broadcast September 11, 1994 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Klaus Emmerich
script Klaus Emmerich
production Andreas Bareiß
Peter Herrmann
Monika Peetz
music Rudolf Gregor Knabl
camera Klaus Merkel
cut Ulla Möllinger
occupation

Ghosts is a German crime film by Klaus Emmerich from 1994. The television film was released as the 162nd episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

The trained psychologist Dr. Antonia Reiser is hired as a new police psychologist in Nuremberg . She has trouble identifying with her work in the police force, refuses to fire a gun, and lets 14-year-old heroin addict Jola, who buys on the baby stick, live with her, which could cost her new job. As a psychologist, she is primarily intended to motivate the police in Nuremberg to do their work, as brutal cases such as human burnings are increasing and the perpetrators even filmed them.

Antonia Reiser is involved with the case of Dr. Trusted brother-in-law. He feels threatened, but the investigators have so far not been able to find any traces that would indicate perpetrators. Dr. Brother-in-law is a former judge from the GDR who is now retiring in the countryside not far from Nuremberg. He reports of "exploding" panes and voices that seem to come out of the walls, asking him to commit suicide by hanging. Reiser does not take him seriously, especially since he is unsympathetic to her because of his " master-man " nature. He leaves her office angry and announces that she will lose her job.

Although Reiser's superior, the police chief, can be denied in front of his brother-in-law, he appeals to the highest circles in the Ministry of Justice. Back at his house Schwager finds his dog dead, the windows are open and the power is down. Suddenly the house begins to shake, cracks form and numerous things break. Brother-in-law escapes from the house and has an accident with his car shortly afterwards. In the hospital his condition is classified as life-threatening shock, even if he is hardly injured externally. Reiser is confronted by her supervisor and wants to resign, but she has to help clarify the case.

Reiser is sent to Schwager's house, where she meets the employee of the intelligence agency fear flight. He tells her that Schwager was active in the exchange business in the GDR: first he sentenced political prisoners to long prison terms and changed the sentence to enable them to be ransomed to the FRG. Again and again, however, there were also suicides by hanging when prisoners did not want to wait until they were released. Angstflug has the theory that one of the victims at the time wanted to take revenge on brother-in-law. He suspects that the destruction in Schwager's house was caused by a further development of the death trombone from Marseille , in which sound waves and certain frequencies can cause damage and drive people crazy. With Reiser, he searches for traces at the possible position of the machine, finds them, but shortly afterwards they are destroyed in a rain shower.

Reiser continues to research, but is thwarted by her own mother. She is active as a government director and belongs to a group of high-ranking officials who have no interest in breaking a long-term deal with the judge. All of them had become guilty of trading with the GDR; in order for the judge to remain silent, he was promised a quiet retirement near Nuremberg.

Although the Dr. Brother-in-law was suspended, an article about the case appears shortly afterwards, in which the hospital where Dr. Brother-in-law is treated, is called. Reiser and Angstflug suspect that the death trombone from Marseille will soon be directed at the hospital and go there. The area has already been secured by heavy police vehicles. Entry is also denied to Reiser and Angstflug, but Reiser still gets into the security zone through her contacts. Here Dr. Brother-in-law just taken away via the emergency exit, while Reiser's mother is also there. This is to prevent Dr. Brother-in-law is talking. Reiser can't do anything. Not far from the site, there is an explosion shortly afterwards and a flight of fear concludes from the rubble that it was the now destroyed death trombone of Marseille .

Reiser returns home. After an anonymous tip, a raid is taking place here, because Jola, who lives with Reiser, is taking drugs. The substance is not found. To Reiser's delight, Jola wants to get clean and asks for her support along the way.

production

Ghosts was filmed in March and April 1994 under the working title Lange Schatten in Nuremberg (including the Nuremberg slaughterhouse on Wolgemutstrasse), Fürth and Graefenberg . The costumes for the film were created by Maria Dimler , the film structures were created by Christian Kettler . The film had its television premiere on September 11, 1994 in the first . The audience participation was 15.9 percent.

It was the 162nd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Antonia Reiser investigated in her only case. Ghosts was the first police call that the BR, and thus for the first time an institution that was not the successor to the German television , produced. Although the then TV director of the BR, Wolf Feller, had already promised funds for two further BR police calls in 1995 in June 1994, he announced the BR's withdrawal from the series in November 1994, as the focus was more on the Crime scene and the series doctors should be laid. One reason for the exit is said to have been the public reaction to ghosts : At the meeting of the ARD television game bosses at the end of September 1994, the television game boss of the MDR complained about the nature of BR and SDR police calls and to “numerous negative messages from viewers about improbabilities and Police shout-unusual depictions of violence ”. Officially, the BR justified the exit from the series, among other things, with the fact that "the MDR [in contrast to the BR] is located in the east and is therefore particularly suitable for the continuation of this series." Only in 1997 did the BR return with a new team of investigators and the episode In the spider's web back to the police call.

criticism

The Nürnberger Nachrichten praised the fact that the BR “spared neither expense nor effort to put together a big, one and a half hour long television game”. The figure of Antonia Reiser is above all bitchy, the crime thriller is not "revving up" and, with the death trombone of Marseille , presents an invention that never existed. Central processes, such as the reason for the threat to the judge, are learned by the viewer "on far-reaching detours", while Reiser's mother's motivation remains completely in the dark. Ghosts are full of “militaria indulgence” and have a Wagnerian touch.

The Süddeutsche Zeitung called the plot of the film "Tangle, Chaos", so it mixes dealing with the past, crime, comedy elements and can also be seen as a "mother-daughter melodrama with psychological accents". Thanks to Leslie Malton, who played Antonia Reiser, who can be characterized in many ways, with aplomb, "the result was a film that was captivating, witty and fast." Peter Hoff also praised Leslie Maltons' committed play, but criticized the clichéd view of the former GDR and the fact that the plot "was not brought to a very satisfactory conclusion".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Boris Erdtmann: Police call from Nuremberg . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten , February 3, 1994.
  2. ↑ Ursula Persak: Night on the Line . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten , March 29, 1994.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 171.
  4. ↑ Wilfried Geldner: "We don't give any money for this Eastern box". TV director Wolf Feller decides that the BR gets out of the "Police Call 110" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 9, 1994, p. 20.
  5. ↑ BR denies Feller quote . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 10, 1994, p. 18.
  6. ↑ Ursula Persak: Manhattan in Muggenhof . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten , August 31, 1994.
  7. ↑ Hans-Heinrich Obuch: Strengths played out . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 13, 1994, p. 16.
  8. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 218.
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