Police call 110: Stolen happiness

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Stolen happiness
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 68 minutes
classification Episode 128 ( List )
First broadcast May 21, 1989 on GDR 1
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Director Thomas Jacob
script Ulrich Waldner
production Erich Biedermann
music Arnold Fritzsch
camera Wolfram Huth
cut Marion Fiedler
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Stolen happiness is a German crime film by Thomas Jacob from 1989. The television film was released as the 128th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Ten-year-old Norbert grows up as an only child. Both parents are employed and the father is always at home and works in front of the computer. Norbert is often alone, bored with his modern toys and spends almost every day with his aunt Reni, who has three children. Norbert especially took his cousin Claudia, who is still a baby, to his heart. When he wants his parents to have a sibling, they both defend themselves. They are happy that Norbert is "out of the woods". At the same time, they forbid him to go to Aunt Reni's without her permission, as she had enough to do with her three children.

The next day Norbert is supposed to go shopping. The parents informed him with a note that they would be coming later. Norbert is bored and sees several prams standing in the department store. The mothers are shopping. A baby screams loudly and Norbert drives it around a little. He brings the car back, but the mother cannot be seen: Mrs. Gröning has to queue for half an hour in the Christmas stress to pay for her groceries. When she comes out of the store, the stroller is gone. Mrs. Gröning suffers a breakdown. The police immediately start investigating. Norbert hears the loudspeaker announcements in a park and panics. He hides the stroller in a garden settlement. His friend's parents have a house there, to which Norbert gains access. He tries to diaper the baby and places a warming device next to the stroller. When he realizes that the child is hungry, he buys a bottle with a teat, baby food and milk. Shortly after feeding, however, the baby vomited the milk and Norbert is at a loss. He doesn't have any diapers either and puts the baby back in the car without them.

He goes to aunt Reni. The loudspeaker announcements, which are still running late in the evening, inform the population that the baby suffers from a cow's milk allergy. Norbert asks Reni what can be done about it, whether missing diapers are bad for a child and whether vomiting is dangerous for the child. He secretly steals three jars of baby food from Reni's refrigerator and goes back to the garden. The child screams and Norbert gets angry. He manages to warm one of the glasses and feed the baby a few spoons full. He puts the child to sleep, turns on the stove and the fan heater and now leaves the garden. He wants to come back the next morning.

Meanwhile, Norbert's parents have been worried because their son is not home after 8 p.m. Father Jürgen goes to the police after Norbert is neither with his school friend nor with Reni. Norbert goes to his apartment, but turns back when he sees the police at the front door. The investigators, Oberleutnant Huebner and Oberleutnant Grawe, have now questioned all previous convictions in similar offenses, but have not come to any suspicion. The description of Norbert makes Thomas Grawe suspicious, because such a boy was also seen by witnesses at the food market. The investigators learn from Reni that Norbert was there briefly and that he was noticeably interested in the baby. In addition, she is missing the three baby glasses. With Norbert's parents, it quickly becomes clear that Norbert did not grow up child-friendly, was alone a lot and wanted a sibling. So there are motives for kidnapping the baby. The parents of Norbert's school friend finally report on their gazebo, and the investigators visit them. In the meantime, Norbert had returned to the arbor and had to realize that both fuses had blown due to the high power consumption of the hotplate and heater. He puts the baby in a bag and drops it off at the bus stop. He hopes the bag will be found, but nobody uses the bus at night. The investigators find the gazebo abandoned. A little later, Norbert appears with the baby at his parents' home. He bursts into tears and is relieved to be hugged by his mother.

After her desperate collapse, Ms. Gröning attempted suicide and was admitted to a clinic. Here she keeps asking desperately about her child - even when her husband brings it to her and puts it in her arms.

production

Stolen happiness (working title: Die Entführung ) was filmed from March 15 to April 30, 1988 in Berlin . The costumes for the film were created by Guido Bednarz , the film structures were created by Maria Rodewald . The film had its premiere on May 21, 1989 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 30.6 percent.

It was the 128th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Jürgen Hübner investigated in his 56th case and First Lieutenant Thomas Grawe in his 19th case.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 136.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=128 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 136.
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