Police call 110: chase
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
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| Original title | Chase |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SDR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 197 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | January 25, 1998 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ute Wieland |
| script |
Ulrich Bendele Klaus-Peter Wolf |
| music | Ina Siefert |
| camera | Hagen Bogdanski |
| cut | Jürgen Lenz |
| occupation | |
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Hetzjagd is a German crime film by Ute Wieland from 1998. The television film was released as the 197th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 and was produced by SDR .
action
Wolfgang Straub is sentenced to prison for raping his 12-year-old daughter Jasmin. In his cell he is mistreated by fellow prisoners who deny any act, so that Wolfgang is soon admitted to psychiatry. He claims to be innocent, even if he first admitted the act in court. Meanwhile, Commissioner Vera Bilewski has other concerns. A horse killer is up to mischief in Ichtenheim and has already brutally killed five animals. Vera has no concrete lead, so the farmers in the area are slowly becoming restless and angry. Jasmin's mother Martina also runs a horse farm, but it is unprofitable. Her dominant father August urges her to sell her own horses and instead only keep boarding horses on the farm. Jasmin in particular is shocked by these plans, as she has a close bond with her two horses. She writes her father Wolfgang a letter in which she complains about her suffering and announces that she will kill herself if he does not return.
In the psychiatry, Wolfgang meets the mentally ill Dietmar Achthaler, who works in the post office and has Jasmin's letter with him. He negotiates something in return with Wolfgang so that he can receive the letter. Wolfgang offers him his friendship and Dietmar accepts, even if he only reads the letter to him. Wolfgang is beside himself when he hears about Jasmin's suicide threat. Meanwhile, his daughter fulfills her request and wants to hang herself in the stable, but is shot by her grandfather and goes to the hospital.
Dietmar had killed horses before his admission, so that Vera also comes to the psychiatry in search of the horse killer, in the presence of the institutional psychologist Dr. Ask Susanne Reuter Dietmar. He insists that Wolfgang is present. On a whim, Dietmar takes Susanne hostage; Vera is also tied up, with Wolfgang repeatedly intervening to de-escalate. He lets Vera talk to his wife Martina on the phone and learns that Jasmin is in the hospital. With Vera's tips, Wolfgang and Dietmar manage to flee the surrounded hospital with Vera in a pizza truck. Since Dietmar becomes palpable, they part ways and Wolfgang and Vera spend the night on a high seat. Here they both discuss the trial and Vera tries to understand why Wolfgang, who was found guilty, could be innocent. Coincidentally, they can catch the horse killer in the act on the raised hide. With a trick they get to the Ichtenheim hospital, where Wolfgang talks to the otherwise mute Jasmin who trusts him. He goes to his farm with Vera and wants to hear the allegations directly from his wife, who incriminated him in court. Dietmar also arrives at the yard, which is soon occupied by snipers. He is shot while shooting around with a toy gun. Wolfgang, in turn, is arrested.
Vera doubts Wolfgang's guilt. When she wants to go on a balloon ride with Jasmin, she notices how Jasmin defends herself against being close to the balloonist. She says he smelled bad. Further research by Vera reveals that witnesses to the trial were not at all credible. She goes back to Martina's court. While her assistant distracts the dominant-aggressive August Viehbahn, she searches the house. In addition to numerous child pornography videos and pictures, she will also find a scarf by August that is heavily perfumed - with the same perfume that the balloonist used. Vera is interrupted in her search by August. She confronts him with her strong suspicions that he raped Jasmin. August, in turn, threatens her with a shotgun before shooting himself. Martina collapses when she learns the truth. A little later, Wolfgang is allowed to leave the prison. He is expected by Vera and his daughter.
production
Hunting takes place in the fictional town of Ichtenheim near Heilbronn . The costumes of the film created Nadine Wittig that Filmbauten submitted by Klaus Peter plates and Regine Witzig . The film had its television premiere on January 25, 1998 on the first . The audience participation was 14.1 percent. It had previously been presented at the Baden-Württemberg Film Show.
It was the 197th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series . Commissioner Vera Bilewski investigated in her third and last case. In the course of the merger of SWF and SDR to form Südwest-Rundfunk, the police calls produced by SDR were also discontinued.
criticism
After its television premiere, the police call was controversial. The Frankfurter Rundschau praised the fact that the film tries “to leave the established crime thriller path and avoid the sufficient clichés”, but criticized the “brutal, drastic images and the theatrical accents of the director” and asked the question, “ whether the macabre humor goes with the cruel events. "
The film turns things upside down, as it "portrays the state institution so much more inhumanly than the supposed monster it is supposed to improve," wrote the Stuttgarter Zeitung . The director and screenwriter "are trying something very difficult: to show the ridiculousness of a state claim to order without letting the failure appear funny". Despite minor weaknesses, Hetzjagd has a "mean bite". "The daring dramaturgical mixture up to a parody of the crime genre is a success because the child's horrible family story is told with the necessary seriousness at the same time," stated the Süddeutsche Zeitung .
"Peppered with black humor, the most grotesque and bizarre scenes line up here", wrote TV Spielfilm and called the episode a "drastic, almost comic-like crime thriller". The director and cameraman had “uninhibitedly conjured up an imaginative, crazy play of light” with Hetzjagd, said the daily newspaper . Even if the “makers in their will to originality sometimes [shot] over the target”, the courage to take risks is commendable.
Web links
- Police 110: hunt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Police call 110: Hunting at filmportal.de
- Police call 110: Hunting on Das Erste.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 206.
- ↑ a b Thomas Klingenmaier: Escape from the institution . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , January 24, 1998, p. 40.
- ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 222.
- ↑ kw [= Klaus Wienert]: Off the beaten track. Opinions will be divided about "Police Call 110" . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , January 24, 1998, p. 23.
- ↑ Sybille Neth: Loud rivets . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 24, 1998, p. 30.
- ^ Police call 110: Hetzjagd on tvspielfilm.de
- ↑ Reinhard Lüke: Fly on sausage bread . In: Die Tageszeitung , January 27, 1998, p. 16.
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