Police call 110: Grawe's last case

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Grawe's last case
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Saxonia Media film production
for MDR
length 85 minutes
classification Episode 176 ( List )
First broadcast October 29, 1995 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Christian Steinke
script Wolfgang Brenner
production Hans-Werner Honert
music Rainer Rohloff
camera Jürgen Heimlich
cut Margrit Schulz
occupation

Grawe's last case is a German crime film by Christian Steinke from 1995. The television film was released as the 176th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Publishing house representative Rainer Asch is on the way to Halle when he notices a naked woman at a rest stop. She asks him to help her because she has been robbed. Rainer takes the woman who introduces herself to him as Iris Karsubke with him and drives her to her apartment in Halle. He wants to get her clothes, but it is not her two small children who open the door for him, but Iris' ex-boyfriend Nierendorf. He brutally brings Iris into her apartment and only lets go of her when Rainer appears. Shortly afterwards, the men Stans and Meppen stood in the doorway, first threatening Iris and turning to Nierendorf after Iris told them about a new car that Nierendorf had bought. The three of them leave the apartment after the men have taken the vehicle documents from Nierendorf.

Chief Detective Thomas Grawe receives a call from Iris saying that she was involved in a death. Iris is the daughter of his brother who died ten years ago. Before Grawe she presented Rainer as her fiancé. The dead person is Nierendorf, whom Iris and Rainer had seen from their apartment fighting Stans and Meppen before they lost sight of him. Although Detective Bass is uncomfortable with Grawes' family relationship with Iris, he leaves the investigation to him. Stans and Meppen can be parked in Nierendorf's car. In the comparison, however, Iris and Rainer testify that neither men are recognized as perpetrators. Grawe is frustrated, he knows that both of them are wanted. Bass runs Stans and Meppen shortly afterwards. They demand money from Rainer and Iris amounting to 4,000 marks for each one so that they can get out of town.

Grawe mistrusts Rainer deeply and lets him explore his surroundings. He finds out that Rainer is financially on the brink, threatens to lose his job and is married. He confronts him with his results; Shortly afterwards, Rainer confides in Iris that he wants to start anew professionally and that he has a wife whom he wants to leave. Iris doesn't care about the blackmail. Shortly afterwards, Meppen was beaten up and found tied upside down to a power pole. In addition, the autopsy result of Nierendorf is certain: He was suffocated; Grinding marks indicate that he was only subsequently brought to the place where the body was found. Since Iris and Rainer are now possible again as perpetrators, Bass Grawe withdraws the case. He continues to research on his own, but is soon thwarted by Bass. A new lead leads into the red light district , so Stans and Meppen tried their hand at pimping . Meppen suggests that the power pole attack had something to do with it. Grawe is allowed to do research in the red light district and seeks out the prostitute Gudrun, who tells him about Stans' and Meppens Masche: They look for women on clear contact ads and extort money from them. Those who do not want to pay will be driven to a parking lot and left undressed there. In a newspaper Grawe discovers an advertisement from his niece Iris, who at least for a while also made money from prostitution.

Stans increases his claim for money from Iris and Rainer to 20,000 marks. He is forced by Gudrun's husband and pimp to face the police, otherwise he would end up in the hospital just like Meppen. During the interrogation by Grawe and Bass, Stans accidentally confesses to blackmailing Iris and Rainer. Meanwhile, they are trying to collect the 20,000 marks. The money is not enough and Iris finally confesses to Rainer that she made money as a prostitute. She wants to get back on track to earn the rest of the money. Desperate, Rainer provokes a car accident in which he is seriously injured. Grawe in turn gives Iris a check for 15,000 marks, whereupon she indirectly admits the extortion. Only Iris' children tell Grawe that Rainer is their guardian angel because he saved Iris from Nierendorf, who wanted to kill her. Iris and Rainer finally describe the course of the crime, how Nierendorf returned after the fight with Stans and Meppen and beat Iris up and Rainer finally struck him down with a heavy ashtray. Rainer wanted to get help, but Nierendorf was already dead when he returned. Rainer is being taken away. Grawe knows that Nierendorf was suffocated, so Iris confesses to him that in Rainer's absence, Nierendorf attacked and choked her again, whereupon she trapped his head in the balcony door until he was dead. Grawe also hands Iris to his colleagues and announces that she will make a confession, but that she acted in self-defense .

production

Grawe's last case was filmed in Halle and the surrounding area and in the studios of MDR Leipzig. The costumes for the film were created by Irmgard Fischer and Ulrike Stelzig , the equipment was created by Christa Köppen . The film had its television premiere on October 29, 1995 on Das Erste . The audience participation was 19.5 percent.

It was the 176th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Chief Detective Thomas Grawe investigated his 32nd and last case. The duo Schmücke / Schneider had already been confirmed as Grawe's successor at the MDR police call at the time Grawe's last case was broadcast . In an interview about his departure from the series, Schmidt-Schaller stated that he “never found himself with his role in the new conception of 'Polizeiruf 110'”. In 2004 Grawe reappeared in a supporting role as a private detective in the episode A Picture of a Murderer .

criticism

"The case is as subtle as Grawe's niece," stated TV Spielfilm . “Even if 'Grawe's last case' certainly does not take place in a milieu that is representative of the new federal states, this 'Polizeiruf 110' episode probably reflected more the mood in the East than some mood reports," wrote the Stuttgarter Zeitung . The episode has “a largely coherent plot and a few believable good and bad characters. What you can't say about every ' crime scene ' lately ! "

The Tagesspiegel wrote that Andreas Schmidt-Schaller should stay on the police call: "[A] ls mangy three-day beard Grawe he brings us the petty bourgeois everyday life in the prefabricated buildings of Halle in such an intrepid way that we don't want to do without him." Grawe's departure, on the other hand, waswelcomedby the Süddeutsche Zeitung , as Grawe's cases were "provincial theatrical fooling around between fitted kitchen, sofa and police station" and "staged in a fuzzy way ...".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 185.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Grubitzsch: Shady niece. On Sunday, Commissioner Grawe solves the last case for "Polizeiruf 110" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 28, 1995, p. 19.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 229.
  4. ↑ Police call 110: Grrawe's last case on tvspielfilm.de
  5. ↑ Viewed critically - Police call 110: Grawe's last case . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , October 31, 1995, p. 0 / FIFU.
  6. ↑ Uta-Maria Heim: Grawe must stay . In: Der Tagesspiegel , No. 15434, October 31, 1995.
  7. ↑ Sybille Simon-Zülch: Tranfunzelig - Polizeiruf 110 (ARD / MDR) . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 31, 1995, p. 18.
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