Police call 110: No love, no life

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title No love, no life
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MDR
length 86 minutes
classification Episode 165 ( List )
First broadcast November 6, 1994 on ARD
Rod
Director Jan Růžička
script André Hennicke
production Manfred Durniok
music Hans-Jürgen Gerber
camera Matthias Tschiedel
cut Silvia Lever
occupation

No Love, No Life is a German crime film by Jan Růžička from 1994. The television film was released as the 165th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

In May 1984 the attractive Marlene was stabbed to death in Leipzig . At a party she played with the feelings of her college friends Max Pelitz and Hans Dörner, who were both her lovers. The drunk Max was arrested and convicted as a perpetrator. After ten years he is now released early. In Leipzig he is looking for Hans; his former professor Falk, who now earns his living as a café violinist, tells him that Hans is now working at the Freylach Institute. Hans is pleased about Max's appearance. Both meet in the evening and Hans brings Max together with the noble prostitute Dominique, who awaits him in Marlene disguise. In the meantime, Hans is visited and blackmailed by his former fellow student Thomas Fahrensteiner, who now works as a freelance photographer. He demands more money from Hans, which Hans refuses. Shortly afterwards, in a restaurant, Hans Max confesses that he actually killed Marlene at the time. Max knocks him down; Since he was released on parole, the case is transferred to Oberkommissar Raabe, who learns from Max that Hans has described himself as a murderer. Hans, in turn, denies this and has doubts about Max's sanity. He also dispenses with an advertisement, so that Max remains at large.

Thomas calls Max anonymously and tells him that he can provide him with evidence for 30,000 marks that will expose the real murderer of Marlene. Hans has tapped into Max's phone and knows about the call. Max turns to Raabe and asks him for money. In consultation with Superintendent Jürgen Hübner and Kriminalrat Meier, Raabe receives the money and monitors the place where the money is handed over. However, Thomas never appears. He is checked at his house by Hans, who takes away the evidence - negatives of photographs of the crime - and then runs over him. Raabe and Hübner can quickly establish a connection between Max, Hans and Thomas and suspect that Thomas wanted to provide the evidence, as he has obviously been paid for his silence over the past few years. There is also a note in his office on which Marlene asked him not to bother her anymore. Raabe learns from Thomas' ex-wife that Thomas received hush money, even if she doesn't know from whom and why. Raabe is researching the crime scene at the time, where Thomas could have taken undetected photos of the murder. He recreates the crime with a disguised mannequin and has his assistant Schulz photograph him.

Hans unexpectedly summons Max to reveal everything to him. He staged the meeting by summoning his secretary to see Max when she left the house. He lays a pistol on an armchair, which Max has to pick up to sit down. Finally, he reveals details of the murder to Max, but Max does not react emotionally and leaves the apartment without shooting him. In front of the house Max hears the shot and finds Hans lifeless in a pool of blood - he shot himself, but is not dead, as Max believes. Max escapes and Hans is injured and hospitalized. Although all the evidence points to Max as the perpetrator, Raabe doubts his guilt. On the phone he tells Max that Hans is not dead. The investigators learn that Max wants to get a gun through an undercover agent. The purchase does not take place. Instead, Max hijacks a police car and, disguised as a policeman, goes to Hans, whom he brings to the crime scene at the time with gun violence. The investigators and other police officers arrive shortly afterwards at the site of Marlene's murder. Max announces a public execution of Hans because the investigators are obviously unable to find out the truth. Raabe, however, reconstructs the case and Hans' guilt, for which he has evidence. Thomas not only possessed the evidence that he had handed over to Hans and that he destroyed, but he also secured himself through his ex-wife, to whom he had also given a photo of the murder of Marlene. He shows the photo to Max and shortly afterwards overwhelms him. Hans, in turn, hastily begins to eat the evidence, but Raabe makes it clear to him that he has reproduced the picture. Hans is led away. Kriminalrat Meier, on the other hand, reprimands Raabe for withholding the clear piece of evidence for so long. Raabe shows him the photo: It is a recording of the alleged murder of Marlene, on which he can be seen with the mannequin.

production

University of Leipzig with relief, a location for the film

No love, no life was filmed in Leipzig and the surrounding area until the summer of 1993. The shooting locations included the main train station and the main building of the University of Leipzig on the west side of Augustusplatz, at the time still with the relief Aufbruch on the facade. The costumes for the film were created by Anne-Gret Oehme . No love, no life experienced its television premiere on November 6, 1994 on ARD . The audience participation was 15.3 percent.

It was the 165th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Oberkommissar Raabe investigated in his third and last case. Jürgen Frohriep was last seen as Superintendent Jürgen Hübner. He had impersonated the role in 66 police calls since 1972 and died shortly after filming was finished in July 1993; the film was first broadcast posthumously.

criticism

"Despite a good story, only one police call 08/15," said TV Spielfilm . For Peter Hoff, "the observations of the milieu [...] were consistent, but the plot remains stuck in the cliché". The plot itself is "only superficially motivated" and Jürgen Frohriep's unplanned farewell is lackluster.

In view of the planned exit of Bayerischer Rundfunk from the production of the police call series in November 1994, with arguments including a future focus on the crime scene , the Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote : “Anyone who saw the MDR police call last Sunday, with one Quietly level-headed Inspector Huebner [...], he will have realized that this crime series is not just about new or different dramaturgies and different actions. There was another rhythm to be seen, perhaps a bygone slowness. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 174.
  2. ^ Police call 110: No love, no life on tvspielfilm.de .
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 229.
  4. ↑ Wilfried Geldner: "We don't give any money for this Eastern box". Television director Wolf Feller decides that the BR gets out of the "Police Call 110" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 9, 1994, p. 20.
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