Police call 110: In the spider's web

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title In the spider's web
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Infafilm
on behalf of the BR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 194 ( List )
First broadcast October 26, 1997 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Erwin Keusch
script Klaus-Peter Wolf
production Manfred Korytowski ,
Monika Peetz
music Andreas Koebner
camera Harry Bruntz
cut Michaela Koch
occupation

In the Spider's Web is a German crime film by Erwin Keusch from 1997. The television film was released as the 194th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

The wife of the wood manufacturer Peter Büscher, Rosa, is found dead in her Nuremberg apartment. Neighbors report a loud argument that initially suspects the husband. However, he stands drunk in front of the apartment of the psychologist Dr. Silvia Jansen, with whom Rosa was treated a long time ago. At that time she suffered from bulimia , but Silvia was able to treat her. Meanwhile, investigator Ulf Maiwald finds out that the dead woman was last with Prof. Dr. Rudolf Fischer from the Vitapark beauty clinic called . Pathologist Dr. Lilo Schüller, on the other hand, guesses a natural cause of death in the first examinations, as everything points to heart failure. Only the autopsy reveals that Rosa must have been poisoned, but Lilo is unable to identify the deadly poison. However, death from spider venom - Rosa and Peter keep numerous tarantulas in terrariums - can be ruled out.

When the will is opened, Peter Büscher and Silvia, who has been invited to the opening, learn that Rosa has bequeathed all of her assets to the Vitapark Clinic . Peter is beside himself because he has had his property transferred to his wife so as not to lose everything in the event of bankruptcy. He announces that he will challenge the will. Rudolf Fischer, on the other hand, offers Silvia a job, as he could use a good psychologist in his clinic. In reality, he fears that Rosa leaked things about him during her treatment with Silvia and now wants to control her. Silvia accepts his offer because the Nuremberg police, and above all detective superintendent Ulf Maiwald, want to smuggle her into the clinic as an undercover agent.

During her time in the clinic, Silvia realizes that the patients are having amazing weight loss successes. However, since Rudolf Fischer's therapy is primarily based on the stimulation of mental powers and the guests are allowed to eat everything except meat in addition to little sport, the successes of the patients seem puzzling. Silvia learns that a former Fischer patient died suddenly shortly after the treatment. She secretly obtained the list of all "repeaters", ie patients who were repeatedly treated by Fischer. In addition, she has the background of Fischer's right hand Gabriele Zimmermann checked. In fact, it turns out that several “repeaters” died after treatment which appeared to have caused natural causes. The real Gabriele Zimmermann, on the other hand, died several years ago in a car accident.

During her time in the clinic, Silvia's new book was published. The blurb refers to her good cooperation with the Nuremberg police - her incognito threatens to become known. Maiwald therefore appears in the clinic and is mistaken for a new patient. He goes through Gabrieles registration procedure with blood drawing and medication. Gabriele secretly searches his pockets and finds out that he is really a police officer. She gives him an ominous pill. Via the surveillance cameras, she sees Maiwald contacting Silvia shortly afterwards - Silvia learns that her connection to the police has been made public and begins to pack her things. Gabriele, in turn, begins with the destruction of medicines. When Rudolf Fischer surprised her, she made it clear to him that she had carried out long-term studies on 480 patients without his knowledge, testing her own drug. It was his own fault that the series of experiments was now interrupted because his close relationship with Rosa had brought the investigators on the trail of the clinic. Rudolf Fischer is beside himself and a battle of words ensues, which Silvia overhears. In the end, Gabriele shoots Rudolf Fischer and announces that she will also kill Maiwald and Silvia. Maiwald, who is getting worse and worse after taking Gabriele's pill, learns from Lilo that the poison that was found in Rosa's body is a substance that a few years ago a Dr. Petra Thaler was first described. The substance ensures that the body no longer absorbs fat. After experiments on patients with this pill, Thaler had his license to practice medicine revoked. Shortly afterwards, Gabriele stands in front of Maiwald and threatens him with a weapon - she is Petra Thaler. Shortly thereafter, Silvia succeeds in disarming Gabriele. Maiwald's life can be saved by a blood wash.

production

Bookstore Jakob on Hefnersplatz, a location for the film

In the Spider's Web , the BR returned to the Polizeiruf 110 series . The broadcaster dropped out of the series in 1994 after the criticized first film Ghosts in order to focus more on the Doctors series and the Tatort series . The cases around Silvia Jansen, in turn, were initially planned as a separate series under the name A woman for all cases and were only rededicated to police calls at short notice.

The film was only partially shot in Nuremberg, including at the St. Lorenz Church , the Heilig-Geist-Spital , the Nuremberg Castle and in front of the Jakob bookstore and the Peter-Henlein-Brunnen on Hefnersplatz. Large parts of the film were made in Upper Bavaria and in a health clinic on Lake Starnberg . The costumes for the film were created by Carola Niemeier-Wagner , the construction of the film was done by Gert B. Venzky . The film had its television premiere on October 26, 1997 on the first . The audience participation was 18 percent.

It was the 194th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series . Dr. Silvia Jansen investigated in her 1st case.

criticism

"Nothing is right here: ridiculous dialogues, charring mimes and a very questionable motive for the crime", judged the TV Spielfilm and summarized: "Caught in the net of involuntary comedy". The Nürnberger Nachrichten also criticized the film: “It is to be feared that the crime story was planned as serious, exciting entertainment. The implementation, however, must appear like a satire on the Noris for those who have little knowledge of the area . ”“ It is a well-mixed Franconian pandemonium that is hard on the satirical, which author Klaus-Peter Wolf has done, ”wrote the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

Gabi Dohms Silvia Jansen had to "grapple with a lot of stereotypical situations, with wooden dialogues and obtrusive colleagues", said the Stuttgarter Zeitung . Rainer Tittelbach stated that in Silvia Jansen's debut, “the introduction of the figure was neglected”.

Even if the resolution of the case was “perhaps a little violent”, the crime thriller was “unadulterated viewing pleasure ...: exciting, full of subtle irony and at a very pleasant pace,” said the Leipziger Volkszeitung . The Tagesspiegel praised the play by Max Volkert Martens and Armin Rohde, but attested the characters Ulf Maiwald and Silvia Jansen a lack of charisma, so that "the investigator's side fell too badly against the perpetrator." convincingly staged, but unfortunately too lackluster to make a few flat spots shimmer. "

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 229.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilfried Geldner: "We don't give any money for this Eastern box". TV director Wolf Feller decides that the BR gets out of the "Police Call 110" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 9, 1994, p. 20.
  2. ^ A b Klaus Wienert: It all starts with murder . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , October 25, 1997, p. 40.
  3. ^ Claudia Beyer: The search for clues led to Nuremberg . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten , March 7, 2007.
  4. ↑ a b Ursula Persak: Franconian monsters . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten , October 20, 1997.
  5. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 203.
  6. ^ Police call 110: In the spider's web on tvspielfilm.de
  7. ↑ Winfried Geldner: Franconian eroticism . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 25, 1997, p. 22.
  8. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Strange dying in the beauty farm . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , October 25, 1997.
  9. ↑ Thomas Huebner: Ravishing . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , October 28, 1997, p. 12.
  10. ↑ Uta-Maria Heim: Raw egg . In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 28, 1997, p. 31.
previous episode
September 21, 1997: The Commissioner's son 		Police Call 110 Follow next episode
November 30, 1997: Fire!