Police call 110: gray area

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	Gray area
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	MR
length	90 minutes
classification	Episode 236 ( List )
First broadcast	February 3, 2002 on Das Erste
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Director	Marc Hertel
script	Rudolf Bergmann , Rolf Silber
production	Oliver Große-Kreul , Werner Hauer , Rüdiger Spieth
music	Stefan Ziethen
camera	Armin Alker , Dominik Schunk
cut	Stefan Blue
occupation
Dieter Montag : Inspector Rene Schlosser Dennenesch Zoudé : Commissioner Carol Reeding Barbara Rudnik : Simone Dreyer Oliver Stokowski : Commissioner Robert Grosche Calvin Burke : John Reeding Daniela Hoffmann : Violetta Harald Koch : Esch Peter Davor : Mertens Thomas Wüpper : Rainer Claus Wilcke : Crawley Klaus Guth : Melbinger Martin Langenbeck : Kalz Bernardus Manders : bodyguards Michael Quast : Wernecke Nicki von Tempelhoff : Dr. Nerbach

Grauzone is a crime film by HR by Marc Hertel from 2002 and was released as the 236th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series . It is the fifth case for the investigators Schlosser ( Dieter Montag ) and Reeding ( Dennenesch Zoudé ) and the first for Simone Dreyer ( Barbara Rudnik ) that she is investigating.

Inspector Robert Grosche ( Oliver Stokowski ) fell victim to an attack and the trio of investigators was completed by a new inspector.

action

Just as the relationship between Robert Grosche and his colleague Carol Reeding is finally running smoothly, Grosche is shot by a stranger. Simone Dreyer, a colleague from Cologne, appears to investigate the case. Schlosser and Reeding are suspicious because they would prefer to solve the case on their own, but according to police regulations, an independent investigator must be called in. Dreyer comes in very handy because her brother is in a psychiatric clinic in Offenbach and she can visit him regularly.

Carol Reeding gets a call out of the blue from her father, who left the family 20 years ago and went to America. He is in Offenbach and would like to see his daughter to explain something to her. They meet the very next day and she learns that her father was stationed on a US air base and got caught in smuggling business there. Now he is being blackmailed for this and is supposed to activate the so-called "ant trail" and in this way discreetly bring something from Germany to America. John Reeding thinks it is possible that Grosche's murder might have something to do with his story. Because they wanted to put even more pressure on him.

Meanwhile, Dreyer researches Grosche and finds out that he intended, for the sake of Carol and her child, to end the police service and to work in the security company of his ex-colleague Mertens. Mertens, on the other hand, does not necessarily work loyally to his customers, what Grosche had learned and wanted to make public. He stole a file from Mertens that could prove his dirty dealings and that ultimately killed him because he was unwilling to return it. In order to lure Mertens out of the reserve, Dreyer sends a decoy who offers him the file for "purchase". This is how Rainer, Merten's henchman and killer, arrests and convicts him himself.

background

Since inspector Robert Grosche ( Oliver Stokowski ) fell victim to an attack in the gray area , the investigative trio was completed again by Simone Dreyer ( Barbara Rudnik ).

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm only gave this police call a medium rating ("thumbs straight") and said it was: "A tricky case, the clarification of which, however, was rather bumpy."

Web links

• Police 110: gray area in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the plot gray area on the ARD website
• Gray area at Fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TV thriller. Changing of the guard at Offenbach's criminal investigation department. at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on September 21, 2016.

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