Police call 110: No paradise for magpies
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
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| Original title | No paradise for magpies |
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| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Television of the GDR |
| length | 65 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| classification | Episode 26 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | September 7, 1974 on GDR 1 |
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| Director | Norbert Büchner |
| script | Jürgen Fricke |
| production | Hans W. Reichel |
| music | Peter Gotthardt |
| camera | Winfried Kleist |
| cut | Gerti Gruner |
| occupation | |
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No Paradise for Magpies is a German crime film by Norbert Büchner from 1974. The television film was released as the 26th episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .
action
In the department store center, night watchman Walter Fritsche finds his colleague Max, anesthetized with ether , in the cosmetics department. There must have been a fight on site. In the jewelry department, on the other hand, all the displays were stolen. As already twice before, the colleague Wendt there had rushed not to lock the jewelry and watches in the safe overnight as prescribed. The damage amounts to 80,000 marks.
First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs, Lieutenant Vera Arndt, Master Lutz Subras and Lieutenant Scheinpflug are entrusted with the investigation. Several people are suspicious: The store's stoker, Klaus Schober, climbed over the locked gate onto the store's premises at night. He'd missed his last train and didn't want to be late for work the next morning. He hoped to go to sleep in the guard house. Horst Lempel, whose friend Gerda Schröter works in the jewelry department, is also suspect. He himself works in the workshop of the department store. A window was open in the workshop through which one could get into the workshop rooms. From there, the department store rooms can be reached via two doors. The doors could easily be opened with a wire, but research showed that they were always unlocked with a key. Although workshop manager Schmöke has an unofficial key to these doors, it was destroyed by the caretaker shortly before the break-in. Only the people in the workshop know about it. Lempel therefore fails as the perpetrator.
The night watchmen themselves are also targeted by the investigators. Walter Fritsche had received a visit from his wife on the night of the crime, which he had concealed from the investigators. He is also a hobby photographer and needs money for it. Max things, in turn, leads a very expensive life for his earnings. Lutz Subras has the suspicion that things could have been the culprit himself. The former employee of the department store, Beate Wittig, is also questioned because things were drugged with a shirt, collar size 46, which she sold five years ago. In her purchase and sale, Peter Fuchs purchases a melon at Vera Arndt's instigation . Both investigators also see that Beate Wittig sells jewelry in her shop. Ultimately, the solution is provided by the warehouse's surveillance cameras. Things wanted to go back to work immediately after his hospital stay. The cameras capture him as he takes the stolen jewelry from a hiding place and stows it in a cardboard box in the customer department. Confesses to having stolen the jewelry. For five years he has been robbing the department store and working together with Beate Wittig, who sells the looted goods in her shop. In the last few years both have earned 75,000 marks. To his wife, things stipulated an additional income of 500 marks a month, which allowed both of them to enjoy their luxury. The case has been resolved and Lutz Subras had the right guess. As a commendation, in the presence of his amused colleagues, he receives the melon bought from Beate Wittig.
production
No paradise for magpies was filmed from April 22 to June 8, 1974 in Berlin, among other places. The film is a 35 mm black and white film with separate magnetic sound. Working titles were In Paradise of Magpies or Thieves . The costumes of the film created Christel Richter , the Filmbauten come from Klaus Poppitz . The film experienced on September 7, 1974 the first program of the television of the GDR its television premiere. The audience participation was 44.2 percent.
It was the 26th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs investigated in his 18th case, Lieutenant Vera Arndt in her 22nd and Master Lutz Subras in his 10th case.
The plot is based on an authentic case: On the night of December 21-22, 1971, gold goods worth 43,000 GDR marks were stolen from a display case in the jewelry department of the Zwickau department store. However, solving the real case turned out to be much more difficult than in the film. Until the shooting in 1974, the perpetrator in Zwickau had not yet been determined.
literature
- Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 34.
Web links
- Police 110: No paradise for magpies in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Police call 110: No paradise for magpies at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b illustration according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=026 (link only available to a limited extent)
- ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 34.
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