Police call 110: witch hunt

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	Witch hunt
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Real Film Berlin on behalf of the rbb
length	90 minutes
classification	Episode 348 ( List )
First broadcast	December 14, 2014 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Angelina Maccarone
script	Kristin Derfler , Angelina Maccarone
production	Heike Streich
music	Jakob Hansonis , Markus Böhm
camera	Florian Foest
cut	Bettina Boehler
occupation
Maria Simon : Olga Lenski, chief detective Horst Krause : Horst Krause, police chief Corinna Kirchhoff : Dr. Strasser Annika Kuhl : Andrea Wieland Kim Schnitzer : Josephine Mayfeld Anselm Bresgott : Ben Wieland Rainer Sellien : Rainer Zerbe Franz Rogowski : Aniel Radke Hildegard Schroedter : Mrs. Krems Hans-Uwe Bauer : Otto Jentsch Fritz Roth : Policeman Neumann Andreas Pietschmann : Felix Markus Gertken : Julia Behre : Marc Bischoff : Helena Sigmund-Schultze : Valentino Fortuzzi : Jo Nathan : Annie Maria Rose Lade : Alma Lenski

Hexenjagd is a German crime film based on an idea by Kristin Derfler, who also wrote the screenplay, realized by Angelina Maccarone in 2014. It is the 348th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 and the seventh case for Chief Inspector Olga Lenski. For police chief Horst Krause it is the 24th and penultimate case.

The television film addresses the pressure to perform in connection with the secondary school leaving certificate (MSA) using a school attestation from different perspectives, namely those of the parents, the teachers and the students.

action

Chief Inspector Olga Lenski and Chief Master Horst Krause have investigated an attack with a pipe bomb at a middle school, which was apparently aimed at the director. Instead, however, a young trainee teacher is seriously injured. She survived the explosion, which means that this police call can do without a corpse.

The tenth grades are about to be completed, so that the students are checked first, especially those whose secondary school leaving certificate is at risk. In the opening scene, the tenth graders bully the trainee teacher, which the headmistress immediately notices during an inspection. That is why the nervous woman sits fatally in the director's room, which the resolute headmistress left briefly because of noises in the secretariat next door when the bomb went off.

But even the teachers with access to the chemicals room make themselves suspicious with false statements. In addition, the mother of an endangered schoolchildren is moving into the sights of the investigators, who, as chairwoman of the parents' council, has successfully called for a boycott of classes on Facebook . Furthermore, the initially inconspicuous janitor , who turns out to be a PhD student of philosophy working in the school and at the same time has a secret relationship with the director, as well as a suspended older teacher who diligently looks after the injured trainee in the hospital, surprisingly lives with him.

Finally, it turns out that actually two students planned, tinkered and deposited the bomb in the school. But after the arrest and interrogation, without parental protection, they break their silence so credibly that they are no longer an option for placing the bomb in the director's room. It was the trainee herself who observed the two students and moved the bomb because she saw six years of study and traineeship as pointlessly unsuccessful. She had underestimated the sensitivity of the timer alone . Because the latter reacted prematurely to a puff of air when the director, following the noise, opened the doors to the neighboring room and then to the hall after opening the window.

production

The police call episode witch hunt was produced by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg and filmed from August to September 2014, among other places, at Scharmützelsee and in Bad Saarow, southeast of Berlin. Further recordings took place in Beelitz and in Gröben .

The music used on the theme of the school attack included the evergreen I Don't Like Mondays by Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats (1979), which is based on the real case of Brenda Ann Spencer . In addition, the classic pop title Under Pressure by Queen (1981) was used.

reception

This episode is formally classified by Katharina Riehl for the Süddeutsche Zeitung as a "conventional criminal case with characters who have all been known for a long time (,) (...) for the Sunday evening purists".

Content recognizes Christian repentance for the mirror "involuntary bitter point of this is prudent imaging, Police '(that) we eventually (see) us on the side of Corinna Kirchhoff engaging jovial played Director and dictator. She seems to be the only one who can put a stop to the educational, organizational and ethical deficiency. "

Web links

• Police 110: Witch Hunt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Police call 110: witch hunt at filmportal.de
• Polizeiruf 110: witch hunt ( memento from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on DasErste .de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eva Heidenfelder: Powder Keg School? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . faz.net, December 14, 2014, accessed April 7, 2015 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Christian Buß: We bomb our way to high school. In: Der Spiegel . December 12, 2014, accessed April 7, 2015 .  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Katharina Riehl: Krause drinks coffee. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 15, 2014, accessed April 7, 2015 .  
4. ^ Police call 110: witch hunt. tatortfans.de, accessed on April 7, 2015 .  
5. ^ Daniel Benedict: Good quota for Horst Krause and Lenski. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . December 14, 2014, accessed April 7, 2015 .  

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