Police call 110: In the network

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	In the web
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Manfred Durniok production for SFB
length	89 minutes
classification	Episode 173 ( List )
First broadcast	July 23, 1995 on Das Erste
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Director	Rodica Doehnert
script	Uwe Petzold
music	Uwe Buschkötter
camera	Martin Schlesinger
cut	Dorothea Brühl
occupation
Katrin Saß : Chief Inspector Tanja Voigt Dirk Schoedon : Commissioner Jens Hoffmann Annett Kruschke : Lisa Borowski Götz Schubert : Felix Borowski Reiner Heise : Karsten Kappel Volker Herold : Glatzke Jürgen Watzke : Siegfried Stein Kaspar Eichel : Pit Scarlett Dolkeit: Juliane Borowski Karin Düwel : Inspector Dankenberg Christof Düro : Frantz Frank-Burkhard Habel Petra Kleinert : Ursula Peter Mohrdieck : Representative Piotr Papierz : Biesalski Axel Wandtke Jens-Uwe Bogadtke : Zoschke

A German crime film by Rodica Doehnert from 1995 is online. The television film produced by the SFB was released as the 173rd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Customs controller Felix Borowski has had enough: He once caught his former school friend Karsten Kappel doing a little smuggling across the German-Polish border and let him drive. Since then he has been part of the gang around Karsten, who now smuggle cigarettes across the border on a large scale by truck, but wants to get out. Other gang members with the same plans were dead a short time later, so the police unsuccessfully investigated the murders Bisalski and Dieter Fischbach, known as Weißling. Karsten protects Borowski from the members of the gang, who want to give him a lesson. They ambush his wife Lisa after finishing their work and almost run over her. Only Borowski can call her attention to the car by shouting a warning. Lisa is amazed that her husband happened to be there, keeps asking and finally learns the truth. Borowski explains to her that he is being blackmailed, that he is part of a smuggling gang and that he wants to take part in a coup again before he will seal his exit from the gang.

In the last coup - Borowski is supposed to wave two trucks with smuggled goods across the border - everything goes wrong. He gets a colleague to his side who carries out a detailed examination of the second truck. The driver is arrested shortly afterwards. Gang member Siegfried Stein, who was supposed to be observing Borowski from a distance, sees everything and also notices that Borowski is fleeing while the driver is being arrested. He follows him. The next day, the investigators - Chief Inspector Tanja Voigt and Inspector Jens Hoffmann - found Borowski's burned-out vehicle and a corpse. Lisa Borowski is informed of the death of her husband. In photos she identifies Siegfried Stein as the man who wanted to drive around her. But Stein is not at home.

During an evening stroll, Borowski suddenly stands in front of his wife. The dead person is Siegfried Stein, who followed him and whom he killed in battle, put in his car and burned. Now Borowski wants to raise money in order to then flee with Lisa and daughter Juliane.

Borowski seeks out Karsten, whom he knocks out and takes to a former barracks. He forces him to make a phone call with the gang: Karsten pretends to be a good deal and demands that they bring him a large sum of cash the next day. Since he emphasizes that the messenger should come alone, where this is a matter of course, the members Pit and Glatzke become suspicious. You decide to drive both to the meeting point. The investigators have since found out that the body is not Borowski. Lisa admits to know that her husband is still alive, but has given her no information about plans or whereabouts.

When the money is handed over, Karsten appears invisible in front of Pit, so he is wearing explosives on his body that Borowski can detonate at any time from a distance. When Pit has left, Borowski appears, but is overwhelmed by the sudden appearance of Glatzke. When the two fight, the remote ignition is activated and Karsten dies. Borowski escapes with the money. He picks up Juliane from school and works out a meeting place with his wife at a rest stop. The investigators follow Lisa's heels and finally receive messages via a transport helicopter and marshals as to where her and later Borowski's car is. Glatzke is after Borowski too. Lisa, in turn, is increasingly frightened, races despite being exhausted and finally refuses to take breaks. He only stops in a forest, where a forest hut is to serve as a night camp. Glatzke suddenly appears and takes Juliane hostage. He disarms Borowski and wants to shoot him when Jens Hoffmann again shoots Glatzke. Borowski is arrested by Tanja Voigt and Jens Hoffmann, while Lisa takes Juliane in her arms.

production

The costumes of the film created aenne plaumann that Filmbauten submitted by Bernd Kuka . The film had its television premiere on July 23, 1995 on ARD . The audience participation was 20.2 percent.

It was the 173rd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Tanja Voigt investigated in her 5th case; Jens Hofmann in his 4th and last case. With Song for Lisa (text: Freya Fall) the episode had its own title track, which ran over the opening and closing credits.

criticism

The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that the internet was “a prime example of the qualities that made the successful crime series from the GDR into a successful joint venture and competitor with the Tatort : Here, attention was always paid to the milieu and psychological background that characterize contemporaries and can turn them into perpetrators and culprits. ”The TV Spielfilm found that the film was a“ solid crime drama with a lot of local color ”, even if Tanja Voigt“ unfortunately [gets lost in milieu studies] ”.

The Frankfurter Rundschau torn down the film, which combines paper dialogues with a "unimaginative and laboriously narrated plot"; the music was "poorly used, the scenic structure without a dramaturgical feel." "The logic of the plot does somersaults," said Peter Hoff.

Web links

• Police 110: On the web at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Police call 110: On the net at filmportal.de
• Police call 110: On the net at Das Erste.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 182.
2. ↑ Birgit Weidinger: The tax collector as a sinner. On Sunday: a “police call” from the German-Polish border . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 22, 1995, p. 23.
3. ^ Polizeiruf 110: On the net at tvspielfilm.de
4. ↑ Manfred Riepe: Cell phone demo . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , July 25, 1995, p. 10.
5. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 235.

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