Police call 110: At the age of ...
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| Original title | Police call 110: At the age of ... |
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| Country of production | DDR , Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 71 minutes |
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| Director |
Heinz H. Seibert (1974) Hans Werner (2011) |
| script |
Dorothea Kleine Heinz H. Seibert |
| production |
Anita Schulz Heinz Beier for GDR television ; Telepool, Leipzig for MDR |
| music | Rainer Oleak |
| camera | Tilmann Dähn |
| cut |
Gerti Gruner (1975) Stefan Urlaß (2011) |
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At the age of ... is a German crime film by Heinz H. Seibert about a pedophile sex offender. The film was shot in 1974 as part of the Polizeiruf 110 series and was banned by the GDR authorities before it was finished . The first broadcast was originally scheduled for February 23, 1975. The television film was considered destroyed for a long time, but it was possible to reconstruct it using a camera negative that had been preserved until 2011 . In 2011 it had its television premiere in new synchronization.
action
With a broken V-belt , Jenny Gerlach's Trabant comes to a halt on the motorway. The woman who is on the road with her son Ben, called Bennie, tries in vain to repair the car. Bennie speaks to an older man who is stopping for a rest not far: it is Lieutenant Peter Fuchs. The surprise is great when it turns out that Peter Fuchs and Jenny Gerlach know each other from before. Peter Fuchs was a good friend of her late husband Werner, but lost sight of the family after he was transferred to Berlin. The three of them spend the next few days together and Peter Fuchs and Bennie become friends, especially since the boy never consciously met his father. He died in an accident when Bennie was three years old. One day Peter Fuchs and Jenny go out to eat while Bennie and his best friend Till want to go swimming at Tonsee. When Till comes to the lake, he finds Bennie's bike and clothes, but Bennie has disappeared. After a long search, Till turns to Peter Fuchs and Jenny. A large-scale search begins immediately. Bennie's body is found shortly afterwards.
Peter Fuchs is withdrawn from the case due to his personal acquaintance with Jenny and Bennie. Instead, Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner and Lieutenant Vera Arndt take over the investigation. A search in the area reveals numerous discarded items, including a coke bottle and a handkerchief with the initials "PT". Horst Reisenweber's fingerprints can be found on the bottle found just outside the search radius around the crime scene. Although he had to work on the day of the incident, he stopped at noon and, according to his own admission, drove around the area for the following hours. He was acquainted with Bennie because he taught him to play tennis. A man saw him on the day in the woods. A second man is also under suspicion: Karl Fischer had known the two boys for a long time and has a small workshop not far from the Tonsee where he carries out repairs for the children in the area. In his workshop, Jürgen Hübner discovers a hidden photo of a child taken naked from behind, but Karl Fischer is considered unsuspecting: He is married and has four young daughters.
It becomes clear that the perpetrator may have had sexual motives. Several children report that they were molested by a man. However, the phantom image does not exactly match any of the known men. The investigators learn that there is a special mix of earth colors in the area where they were found: lawn iron ore is typical of the area. Jürgen Hübner secretly removes tracks from the earth on the tires of Karl Fischer's motorcycle. During a questioning of Fischer's wife he learns that Fischer is not the father of the four girls, but that they come from their first marriage. Frau Fischer was married to a certain Peter Teurich - the initials she was looking for on the handkerchief. When the investigators want to arrest Karl Fischer, he has already committed suicide. In his suicide note, he admits the murder of Bennie Gerlach in detail. Jürgen Hübner expresses the hope that it was an isolated case.
production
At the age of ... the film was shot under the working title Am hellerlichten Tag from September 10 to November 13, 1974 in Berlin and the surrounding area. The costumes were created by Helga Dürwald , the film structures were created by Helmut Korn , Michael König and Jürgen Malitz .
The original scenario by author Dorothea Kleine was based on the case of the sex offender Erwin Hagedorn , who was sentenced to death and executed in the GDR after the murder of three boys. Director Heinz H. Seibert was commissioned with a new version of the script, which should not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the Erwin Hagedorn case. Although Seibert's script was initially positively received, the film suddenly met with rejection shortly before the end of the shooting, as the case had been processed by writer Friedhelm Werremeier in the FRG for the book The Heckenrose case . The publication of the book caused outrage in the Federal Republic of Germany, so that the government of the GDR feared that the film "could attract too much attention in the West German press". The Hagedorn case was subsequently to be covered up.
In November 1974 the immediate termination of the shooting was ordered after the Interior Ministry of the GDR had previously massively obstructed the shooting. Among other things, extras were recalled from the shoot and important technology withdrawn from the shooting. The rough cut of the film was finished when it had to be delivered with the script in early 1975. Until September 1975, internal screenings with a different film plot took place. Since then, the film and the screenplay have been considered destroyed, even if a copy of the film was reported as early as 1990.
In 2009 the camera negative was accidentally discovered in the German Broadcasting Archive, which had escaped destruction in incorrectly labeled film cans. While researching his radio feature It's Raining Ink… the journalist and radio author Thomas Gaevert contacted the author Dorothea Kleine. In May 2009 she made a copy of the film script, believed to be lost, available to him. For the feature broadcast by Südwestrundfunk on November 3, 2010, the most important scenes from the script could be implemented in a radio play version for the first time and thus presented to the public.
At the end of 2010, the MDR decided to reconstruct the recovered film material. The occasion was the upcoming 40th anniversary of the police call series in June 2011 . Since the soundtrack was still missing, it was decided to do a complete synchronization based on the script made available by Gaevert to the Potsdam-Babelsberg radio archive. The roles were recorded by police investigators who were active at the time and former investigators (Jürgen Zartmann, Andreas Schmidt-Schaller), as some of the actors, including Peter Borgelt and Jürgen Frohriep , had already died in the 1990s.
The film had its television premiere on June 23, 2011 outside the regular police call slot on MDR . This was followed by the documentary 40 Years of Police Call 110 , which among other things provided the background to the ban on the film. At the age of ... in addition to autumn time , yellow is not only the color of the sun , the dear bitches , classmates , outsiders and cold angels are part of the planned police call episodes, which are taken from the episode plan before the premiere mostly for political-ideological reasons and later were sent as a single film.
At the age of ... is one of two known Polizeiruf-110 films that were banned after their production. The second case is the episode Rosis Mann, which was filmed mainly in Berlin and the surrounding area from March 13 to April 30, 1984 (working title: The Second Employment ).
synchronization
Irene Timm directed the synchro .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
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| First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs | Peter Borgelt | Oliver Stritzel |
| First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner | Jürgen Frohriep | Andreas Schmidt-Schaller |
| Lieutenant Vera Arndt | Sigrid Göhler | Anneke Kim Sarnau |
| Major Wegener | Stanislaw Zaczyk | Jaecki Schwarz |
| Jenny Gerlach | Wieslawa Niemyska | Isabell Gerschke |
| Ben "Bennie" Gerlach | Klaus Richter | David Weyl |
| Till Hochstetter | Fred Austria | Gideon Finimento |
| Karl Fischer | Walter Lendrich | Wolfgang Winkler |
| Mrs. Fischer | Teresa Lipowska | Marie Gruber |
| Horst Reisenweber | Heinz Behrens | Jürgen Zartmann |
| Mr. Zander | Werner Kamenik | Horst Krause |
| landlady | Anneliese Müller | Maria Simon |
criticism
“The film seems leisurely today, but it was too explosive in 1974 and was relegated to the archive. Newly edited and dubbed (an original soundtrack does not exist), it is today at least useful as a witness of the times, ”wrote TV Spielfilm .
teleschau - the media service called the film a “product of meticulous hard work” and went on: “Of course, one cannot expect the world to come from a 38-year-old TV piece of which only the soundless raw material was found. The story unfolds in a somewhat sedate manner, deliberately loosely based on an authentic Eberswalde triple murder. The actual crime thriller is not to be found on the screen, but in the story of its origin ”.
TV documentary
- Matthias Ehlert, Thomas Gaevert, Lutz Pehnert: 40 Years of Police Call - A Success Story TV documentary, first broadcast: June 23, 2011 on MDR
Radio
- Thomas Gaevert: It's more like raining ink ... The Hagedorn case and a film ban . Radio feature, production Südwestrundfunk, first broadcast: November 3rd, 2010 on SWR2.
Web links
- Police 110: At the age of ... in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Police call 110: At the age of ... at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c illustration according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=E01 (link only available to a limited extent)
- ↑ a b Polizeiruf 110: At the age of ... ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Stimme.de, June 10, 2012.
- ↑ a b MDR shows the thriller that the GDR shouldn't see . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 22, 2011.
- ↑ A corpse in the basement . mdr.de, June 23, 2011.
- ↑ Thomas Gaevert: It is more likely to rain ink ... The Hagedorn case and a film ban. SWR 2, November 3, 2010.
- ↑ Interview with Thomas Gaevert at MDR Figaro , June 22, 2011 and MDR Info , June 23, 2011.
- ↑ Interview with Thomas Gaevert and Stefan Urlass at "MDR artour", June 16, 2011.
- ↑ Interview with Thomas Gaevert at NDR Kulturjournal, June 20, 2011.
- ↑ See thomas-gaevert.de
- ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 94-95.
- ↑ cf. tvspielfilm.de
- ↑ cit. to: Polizeiruf 110: At the age of ... ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Stimme.de, June 10, 2012.
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broadcast as a single film (no direct affiliation to the film series) |
Yellow is not just the color of the sun (1979) | Autumn time (1979) | The dear bitches (1983) | Classmates (1984) | Outsider (film) (1985) | Cold Angel (1986) |
| reconstructed and sent later |
Police call 110: At the age of ... (1974/2011) |
| lost and never sent |