Police call 110: Greed

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title greed
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 DEFA
on behalf of
DDR television
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 106 ( List )
First broadcast August 3, 1986 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Hans Knötzsch
script Hans Knötzsch
production Kurt Lichterfeld
music Karl-Ernst Sasse
camera Siegfried Mogel
cut Barbara Simon
occupation

Greed is a German crime film by Hans Knötzsch from 1986. The television film, which was released as the 106th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 , is based on the novel of the same name by Hasso Mager .

action

The Dosse brothers have taken different paths in life: Carlheinz has a criminal record, works as a transporter and married the wealthy widow Annemarie, who keeps her money together. Marriage is viewed critically by relatives, but also by residents. Bernd Dosse is living in divorce, is the owner of the Birkenschenke and has a relationship with an employee. Winfried Dosse is a buyer and leads a luxury life that he finances primarily through risky purchases and sales.

One day Winfried speculates. He wants to sell his boat and is already planning the proceeds. However, the buyer will change his mind at short notice. With a forged power of attorney, Winfried also sells Mr Großmann's Wartburg and wants to make a large profit for it. However, the buyer caused an accident with the car the day before the actual purchase, so that this purchase did not take place either. At the same time, Winfried works as a fence for others and should shortly buy stolen goods, which he in turn wants to sell on. Winfried needs money. By chance he runs into Gerda Oeser, who is crossing the street when it is red. He introduces himself to her as Mr. Landgrave, flirts and meets with her several times. He pretends to have to pay the last installment to buy a home and Gerda lends him 20,000 marks. She thinks that Winfried will live there with her one day, but her brother Benno Laue sees through Winfried's deception. He didn't buy the house, he just brokered the sale. Winfried is supposed to repay the loaned 20,000 marks within the next 24 hours.

Winfried wants to borrow 25,000 marks from Bernd, but he has no money due to the ongoing divorce. He gives Winfried the tip to ask Annemarie for money. It is the first time that he has visited his sister-in-law. She would have the money, but on principle she doesn’t give anything. A little later a neighbor finds Annemarie dead in her apartment. Captain Peter Fuchs, Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner and Lieutenant Thomas Grawe take over the investigation. Carlheinz appeared in the apartment before the investigators because he had taken half a day off. He has an alibi for the time of the crime and can immediately report to the investigators that the apartment is missing around 25,000 marks. Annemarie collected 100 Mark notes, fresh off the press, which she kept in a box. However, the box is empty. At Carlheinz you can find Annemarie's savings account, all of which now belongs to him. Dr. Kreutzer explains that he also gave him clues about a possible divorce, Carlheinz explains to the investigators. They found out from optician Purck, the brother of Annemarie's first husband, that Annemarie also owned various valuable pieces of jewelry that were not found in the apartment. Carlheinz has hidden the jewelry in the sugar bowl and offers it to Dr. Kreutzer for resale. He's withdrawing from the business because he doesn't want to have anything to do with murder. The investigators take Dr. Kreutzer, who is known as a cheater. Carlheinz had poured out his heart to him for several weeks and told him about his wife's collecting money.

A search for the banknotes is initiated and freshly printed notes actually turn up. The wife of a bank employee received such a certificate from her boss - Benno Laue, to whom Winfried repaid part of the 20,000 marks. The investigators arrest Winfried, who admits to have killed Annemarie. When he asked her for money, after the rejection she came to him with the bills and tried to get him to beg on his knees in front of her. He then hit her so hard that she died of the injuries.

production

Gier was filmed from October 21 to December 7, 1985 in Potsdam and Berlin . The costumes of the film created Barbara Braumann that Filmbauten derived from Werner Pieske . The film had its premiere on August 3, 1986 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 32.3 percent.

It was the 106th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Captain Peter Fuchs investigated in his 63rd case, Oberleutnant Jürgen Hübner in his 51st case and Lieutenant Thomas Grawe in his third case. The review wrote that "almost all of the characters in the film are [driven by greed]". "It is the old 'values ​​of capitalist society' that torment the real socialists here, the old vices to which they succumb, and the 'police call' calls for reflection ..."

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 150–151.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=106 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 114.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 151.
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