Police call 110: In memory of ...

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title "In memory of …"
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MDR
length 75 minutes
classification Episode 156 ( List )
First broadcast October 3, 1993 on ARD
Rod
Director Hans-Werner Honert
script Michaela Bach
Jörg Schade
production Milena Maitz
music Jürgen Wilbrandt
camera Jürgen Heimlich
cut Margrit Schulz
occupation

"In memory of ..." is a German crime film by Hans-Werner Honert from 1993. The television film was released as the 156th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Young Beate finds a woman in shock while jogging not far from a park. This is the second rape victim in 14 days. Chief Detective Joachim Raabe and Detective Superintendent Fred Waschinsky begin the investigation. You can secure tire tracks, but the knife marks on the victim's neck do not show any special features that would make a search possible. The first victim is still in a coma, while the second will testify later that he cannot remember what happened. Beate learns from her mother that her childhood “friend”, Andi Garz, has returned to her small town from Leipzig . She reacts restlessly, searches old photo albums for a picture of Andi and reads the diary she kept when she was a child. At that time she described how scary Andi seemed to her and how he ended up abusing and raping her. At that time she was nine years old, now she can classify what happened and also see why she suffered from eating disorders and could never develop a relationship with a boy. In addition to oppressive memories of the moments when she fled from Andi into the bathroom and he waited threateningly in front of the door, she now also realizes that her parents knew about the attacks, but did nothing. Once her father stepped into the room when Andi was about to rape her and just closed the door without comment.

Beate confronts her parents with her knowledge and has her father give her the address of Andis. Over the next few days, she observed his every step, especially since she learned from Raabe that the perpetrator probably drives a black car and that Andi's car is also black. Again and again she runs into Raabe who is looking for the rapist in the small town. After a few days, Beate moves in with her friend Sandra Jensen. She becomes the rapist's next victim. She too is silent about the act. Beate gets into Andi's apartment, where she finds numerous porn films. She turns to Raabe and claims that Andi is the wanted rapist. He searches the apartment and questions Andi at the station, but he has an alibi for the last night of the crime. The tire tracks also do not match those found at the crime scenes. Raabe makes it clear to Beate that only Sandra's statement can prevent another rape. Beate goes to Sandra in the hospital. She tells her how she was raped at the time. Sandra now points out that the rapist's car is often parked in the city's supermarket parking lot; A Garfield cuddly toy is hanging in a disk . When Beate leaves, Sandra informs the police. Beate finds the car and wants to make a phone call in the supermarket. From the reaction of the supermarket manager, with whom she asks about the owner of the car, she realizes that he must be the culprit. The supermarket manager follows her into the supermarket warehouse, where she has fled. Here he threatens her with a knife that she can snatch from him. She follows him to the loading dock and stabs him. The police have meanwhile arrived. The suspicious supermarket manager is arrested and taken to the hospital while Beate takes a seat in Raabe's police car.

production

Bad Lauchstädt, a location for the film

In memory of ... it was shot in the Merseburg district, especially in Bad Lauchstädt . Beates jogging tour takes you past the town hall of Bad Lauchstädt, among other places; she finds the rape victim in the colonnades of the city's historic spa facilities. The costumes for the film were created by Rita Gawrikow , the film structures were created by Lothar-Hermann Schneider . The film had its television premiere on October 3, 1993 on ARD . The audience participation was 17 percent.

It was the 156th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Chief Criminal Inspector Joachim Raabe investigated his second case; it was also the only one of the three Raabe cases in which he did not work in a team with Jürgen Huebner.

For the first time, a new opening credits with the music of Peter Gotthardt was used, which (with the exception of the next film Polizeiruf 110: Blue Dream - Death in the Rain ) could be seen until 1998.

criticism

For the TV movie was to daughter ... a "sensitive implementation of a sensitive issue". The Stuttgarter Zeitung stated that the police call “did not offer the usual cliché of the hunt for the perpetrator who is finally caught”, but instead focused on the “traumatically damaged psyche of the girl Beate”. Dramaturgically unfavorable is that the real culprit hardly appears in the film before his discovery. Nevertheless, "the constant change between the level of the present and faded-in memory particles [...] did not allow boredom to arise".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 165.
  2. ^ Police call 110: In memory of ... on tvspielfilm.de
  3. ^ Viewed critically - Police call 110: In memory of ... In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , October 5, 1993, p. 0 / FIFU.
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