Police call 110: harmless beginning
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Harmless beginning |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Television of the GDR |
| length | 69 minutes |
| classification | Episode 73 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 2, 1981 on GDR 1 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Helmut Nitzschke |
| script | Helmut Nitzschke |
| production | Gabriele Roetger |
| music | Hermann Anders |
| camera | Werner Helbig |
| cut | Renate Mueller |
| occupation | |
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A harmless beginning is a German crime film by Helmut Nitzschke from 1981. The television film was released as the 73rd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .
action
On a departmental excursion to Dresden , the head of the company polyclinic, Dr. Günter Siebold, his friend, department head Hermann Gaffrei, that he wants to break up with his girlfriend Barbara Kuhnt. His new girlfriend is an old acquaintance whom he invited to the excursion group's evening dance. He wants to greet her as if by chance and spend the evening with her. Hermann is supposed to cover him and take care of Barbara, Hermann's clerk. Hermann refuses and explains to Günter that he doesn't understand why he doesn't want to keep a beautiful and smart woman like Barbara. Both men do not know that Barbara overheard their conversation. When Günter accidentally approaches his friend in the disco that evening, Barbara breaks up with him and leaves. Hermann hurries after her and she confesses that she likes him because, unlike other men, he never wanted anything from her. She gives him a friendship kiss. At night Hermann goes to her hotel room and confesses that he has only suppressed his feelings for her. Both spend the night together, and Hermann plans to leave his family for her - he and his wife Elise have a daughter who is almost of legal age. The next morning he has a letter handed to her at reception in which he wrote “I love you” dozens of times. They keep silent about their relationship from their colleagues. They don't want to make it public until Hermann has filed for divorce.
On the way home, Günter wants to reconcile with Barbara with Hermann's help, but Hermann weighs it down. Even later in the company he does not want to help Günter in his attempts to win Barbara back. He justifies it with the fact that he is Barbara's superior after all. However, Hermann soon notices that he is firmly anchored in his family. Even if life with his wife is not very exciting, there is familiarity. Barbara visits Hermann in the office and he confesses to her that he has not yet told his wife about the divorce. She insists that he tell her that evening, even though it is her birthday that day. Barbara calls Hermann at the birthday party. Both live in houses opposite, and Hermann goes to her for a moment. A little later his daughter sees a man at Barbara's window, shortly afterwards Günter rushes out of Barbara's house. Hermann, who is pale, but blames it on the stress, comes in unnoticed. Because he is not feeling well, he goes to bed early.
The next day, Günter finds Barbara's body, naked and covered with a bathrobe, in her apartment. Captain Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner begin the investigation. They quickly find out that Günter was in Barbara's house that night, but his alibi proves to be valid. He was seen by an elderly resident of the house and they both spoke briefly when Günter found Barbara's door locked. Hermann's daughter Ines initially testifies that she saw a man she knew at Barbara's window. However, she doesn't know who he was. The next day, she locks herself in her room and refuses to testify: She suspects that her father was standing at the window. Hermann is plagued by his feelings of guilt and suffers a nervous breakdown. He accuses himself of the crime at night and confesses to his wife that he slept with Barbara. The summoned Günter gives Hermann a sedative injection. In front of the police, Günter said that Hermann's self-accusation was not credible. However, the investigators have long since found Hermann's letter to Barbara. It was in a suitcase that Barbara had sent to her sister shortly before her death because she wanted to move in with Hermann. When the investigators go to Hermann the next day, he is already expecting them. He has packed a suitcase for the prison and confesses to the investigators during interrogation that he was with Barbara from the birthday party. He told her that he would not part with his wife. She then undressed and wanted to appear in front of his wife and the guests. She wanted to make it public that he had lied not only to her but also to his wife. When she did not want to come to her senses, Hermann killed her.
production
Harmless Beginning was filmed from November 4 to December 5, 1980 under the working title Das Mädchen in Golßen and Dresden . One of the locations was the Hygiene Museum with the Transparent Woman . The costumes of the film created Karin Pas , the Filmbauten submitted by Karin Schmidt . The film premiered on August 2, 1981 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 48.3 percent.
It was the 73rd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Captain Peter Fuchs investigated in his 46th case and Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner in his 33rd case. The critics wrote that director Helmut Nitzschke in the film "abstained from the socially critical attitude and [concentrated] entirely on the act of passion, manslaughter in emotion. Nitzschke [...] shows himself to be a style and form-conscious director ”, this is how the three sections of the film - love affair, investigation, sequence of events - are shown in different lighting and thus temperature.
literature
- Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 125–126.
Web links
- Police 110: Harmless beginning in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Police call 110: Harmless beginning at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=073 (link only available to a limited extent)
- ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 81.
- ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 126.
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