Police call 110: your biggest case

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	Your biggest case
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	NDR
length	89 minutes
classification	Episode 216 ( List )
First broadcast	February 27, 2000 on Das Erste
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Director	Hans-Erich Viet
script	Edmund Grote Hans-Erich Viet
production	Doris J. Heinze
music	Kambiz Giahi
camera	Udo Franz
cut	Angelika Strelczyk
occupation
Kurt Böwe : Kurt Groth Uwe Steimle : Jens Hinrichs Birte Berg : Helga Bergen Julia Richter : Nina Marek Włodarczyk : Cristof's brother Mark Zak : Cristof Maslowski HH Müller : Chief Detective Dr. Stuber Gabriele Völsch : Juliane Joana Adu-Gyamfi : Sonja Janusz Cichocki : Polish investigator Ulrich Faulhaber : Moped driver Marek Gierszal : civil investigator Natascha Graf : Frank Jordan : Policeman Harald Maack : Policeman Gerhard Olschewski : Head of the police station Sven Pippig : Car slider Zacharias Preen : doctor Jurij Schrader : Dealer in the gym Stefan Schreck : Man in the gym Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger : Jochen Horst : border policeman

Her biggest case is a German crime film by Hans-Erich Viet from the year 2000. The television film was released as the 216th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . It was Kurt Böwe's last appearance as Detective Inspector Kurt Groth.

action

Chief Detective Jens Hinrichs marries his great love Nina, who is heavily pregnant , on the Baltic Sea . Before Nina can say yes, however, labor begins and she is taken to the hospital, where she gives birth to a daughter shortly afterwards. Hinrichs, on the other hand, does not come to rest, his superior Dr. Stuber stole the car during the marriage. During a visit to the local police station, Hinrichs encounters chronically understaffed investigators who also have no knowledge of modern investigative methods. Hinrichs gives first help, but has to go to the hospital again and again to see his wife and child. He was forced to send Groth to the office, but the case seemed to be of little interest to him. At the office, Groth meets the Danish Helga Bergen from INTERPOL , who is on site at a conference on international car stealing. It shows him the whereabouts of a resident who runs a car dealership in which he repeatedly exports stolen cars. Hinrichs follows the trail, but initially acts clumsily. He finally has two of the dealer's cars checked and finds out that the cars were officially registered, but never ended up with their stated owner. They let the cars admit against payment of the car dealers. The gang, in turn, steals similar cars and prepares them like the one who has a license as a prototype. This means that stolen cars can be moved around the world without any problems.

When an anonymous caller reports that Dr. Stubers car on the promenade can just bring Hinrichs Groth to safety: Groth had opened the car, but it was equipped with an explosive charge and exploded shortly afterwards. Groth is taken to hospital injured. Hinrichs suspects that the international police congress taking place on site was the target of the attack. He does not know that he himself should be put out of the way by the car sash mafia.

In Poland, investigators are targeting Cristof Maslowski, the head of the car smuggling gang. Maslowski manages to escape and goes to his brother, who is resident on the Baltic Sea. When crossing to Germany he is seen by border police who pass on a description of the off-road vehicle with which Maslowski escapes. Hinrichs had previously had the car checked by the resident. He will be seen again. A witness reports how he almost was pushed off the street by him. Hinrichs follows the direction of the car and finds the main store of the car slides in an old LPG . He informs Dr. Stuber, who sent the LKA . INTERPOL is also involved in the move and arrest of the gang. In the end, Groth, who has been released from the hospital, also joins the team. Dr. Stuber, on the other hand, succeeds by chance in providing the fugitive Maslowski, known as "the godfather of Wrocław ".

The case has been solved and Hinrichs now has time to get married to Nina. Groth, in turn, is invited by Helga Bergen to Denmark, which he has never visited before.

production

Her largest case was filmed on the Baltic coast, in Bad Doberan and in Stettin . The costumes for the film were created by Katrin Aschendorf , the film structures were created by Marion Strohschein . The film had its television premiere on February 27, 2000 on Das Erste . The audience participation was 20.4 percent (7.14 million viewers).

It was the 216th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series . The inspectors Hinrichs and Groth investigated in their 14th and last joint case. Groth actor Kurt Böwe died on June 14, 2000; Groth's death is the theme of the episode, Seascape with Girls .

criticism

“The crime thriller is too silly and clichéd to be good, and yet not silly and clichéd enough to be funny,” wrote Die Welt , calling the actors Böwe, Steimle and Berg the only bright spots in the film. "The story was so full of stereotypes that practically every turn could be predicted," said the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung ; Her biggest case is a "police call cobbled together from well-known set pieces". For the Sächsische Zeitung , “the whimsical story [...] about the two protagonists [Hinrichs and Groth] had what it takes to be a good crime fiction parody”, whereby technical inconsistencies were bothersome.

“Sad farewell to cult cop Böwe”, whose last police call was not his best, summed up the TV Spielfilm . "After the end of the film [...] one wondered why the creation of a Polish gang of car thugs should have been the biggest case in the career of Hinrichs and Groth," asked the Leipziger Volkszeitung with regard to the episode title. Kurt Böwe is relegated to a “noble statist” in the film, who flirts with Helga Bergen without motivation. The Südkurier judged similarly that Groth was "degraded to a honey cake horse grinning in love" in the film. Her biggest case is "piecemeal with interesting approaches".

Web links

• Police 110: Your biggest event in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Police call 110: your biggest case at filmportal.de
• Police call 110: Your biggest case on Das Erste.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 225.
2. ↑ Odds hits . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , February 29, 2000, p. 10.
3. ↑ Sandra Garbers: Lazy police officers and thieving Poles . In: Die Welt , February 26, 2000, p. TV4.
4. ↑ Gerd Dehnel: Set pieces . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , February 29, 2000.
5. ↑ Elke Zöller: Anti-crime . In: Sächsische Zeitung , February 29, 2000, p. 15.
6. ^ Police call 110: Your biggest case on tvspielfilm.de
7. ↑ KK: Not very exciting . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , February 29, 2000, p. 10.
8. ↑ Stefan Borkert: piecemeal . In: Südkurier , February 29, 2000.

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