Police call 110: hot coins

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Hot coins
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 77 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
classification Episode 31 ( List )
First broadcast May 19, 1975 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Hans Joachim Hildebrandt
script Hans Joachim Hildebrandt
Dieter Frenzel
production Heinz Wennemann
music Ciril Cibulka
camera Walter Laass
cut Bert Schultz
occupation

Hot Coins is a German crime film by Hans Joachim Hildebrandt from 1975. The television film was released as the 31st episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Two days before the opening of a coin exhibition, a castle museum was broken into at night. The most valuable coins are stolen and the damage amounts to over 200,000 marks. Inadequate security measures made it easy for the thieves.

Restorer Romer, who is on a tour as a night watch, did not notice the break-in. Only the museum director Illinger, who is hostile to him, who suddenly arrives, notices the break-in and immediately notifies the police. Lieutenant Peter Fuchs and Detective Lutz Subras take over the investigation. For the criminalists, this case becomes a race against time, because the stolen coins have to be in the museum by the time the exhibition opens. Illinger had scheduled an inspection of the exhibition for the next morning. Romer put the coins in the showcases the evening before, even though they were supposed to remain in the safe. Mistrust among colleagues and jealousy among employees make it difficult to explain. The suspicion is that an employee of the museum is involved in the case.

All employees except Romer's daughter Sabine Fechner appear at the handover. She spent the night with art ceramist Hans-Joachim Geschke in the Hotel Zernitz and unsuspectingly arrives late for work in the morning. Romer claims that he did not tell her about the acceptance and confirmed that Sabine did not know anything about it.

For the investigators, Romer and Illinger are initially suspects. Romer had put the coins in the showcases and allegedly did not notice the break-in, although he made several rounds at night. Illinger, on the other hand, is an enthusiastic numismatist himself and has no alibi for the night. He pretended to have come back to the museum one night straight from a business trip, but was actually home beforehand. He finally got out of bed at night because a vague restlessness had seized him. Therefore, he went back to the museum.

The investigators also question Sabine Fechner and Hans-Joachim Geschke. Both say they spent the night together. The bartender Hänschen confirms that both of them left the bar around 10 p.m. and went to their rooms. Further points do not help the investigators: Hans-Joachim Geschke has a loose relationship with his colleague Grit Heßler, does business with antiquarian furniture with Romer, who in turn does not like Geschke's relationship with his daughter.

While Peter Fuchs is investigating possible ways out of the hotel room at the Hotel Zernitz without the receptionists knowing, Lutz Subras is shading Romer's house. Here Illinger arrives and Subras receives an order from Fuchs to just observe. Nevertheless, after a long wait, Subras enters Romer's workshop. He finds old coins in a box and is knocked down by a stranger a short time later. Romer finds Subras and notifies the police. He has never seen the coins in the box there before. Only now does Sabine admit that her father told her about the upcoming acceptance test. She may have reported about it at the bar in the hotel because she was very drunk. Peter Fuchs now knows who the culprit is: Hans-Joachim Geschke. The bartender had seen gifts that evening in the basement of the hotel through which one can get outside. Sabine slept off her intoxication and did not notice the absence of Geschke. Peter Fuchs goes to Geschke, who had hidden the stolen coins in a ceramic vessel. His colleague Grit Heßler also discovered Geschke's machinations and smashed the vessel shortly before the investigators arrived. Geschke is collecting the coins when he is arrested by the police.

production

Branitz Castle, a location for the film

Hot coins were turned from November 18, 1974 to January 15, 1975 in Berlin , Eichwalde and Bergen on Rügen . The Rügenhotel Sassnitz served as the Zernitz hotel , while the castle in the film was Branitz Castle near Cottbus. The film structures come from Jürgen Malitz . The film experienced on 19 May 1975 as the first program of the television of the GDR its television premiere. The audience participation was 51.8 percent.

It was the 31st episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Lieutenant Peter Fuchs investigated in his 20th case and Detective Lutz Subras in his 14th case.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 39.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=031 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 39.
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