Police call 110: Children's paradise

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Children's paradise
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Eikon Süd
on behalf of the BR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 338 ( List )
First broadcast September 29, 2013 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Leander Haussmann
script Daniel Nocke
production Ernst Ludwig Ganzert
music Apples In Space ,
Richard Pappik ,
Maike Rosa Vogel ,
Sven Regener
camera Philipp Kirsamer
cut Vera van Appeldorn
occupation

Kinderparadies is a television film from the ARD crime series Polizeiruf 110 . The film was produced on behalf of BR under the direction of Leander Haußmann and was broadcast for the first time on September 29, 2013 in Erste as the 338th episode of the crime series. It is the sixth case of the Munich police call investigator von Meuffels .

The murder of a young mother takes the detective to an elite kindergarten that the woman's partner founded and where the motive is suspected.

action

One evening, Ella Werken is deliberately run over by someone in a car. She was the mother of little Lara, who attended a private kindergarten that her father, Joachim Grand, had built up with a lot of money and commitment in order to offer his daughter the best possible development opportunities.

Commissioner von Meuffels looks around this children's paradise and very quickly notices a conflict in parenthood. There are problems with an aggressive two-year-old boy who allegedly regularly inflicts serious bite wounds on other children in the facility. Valeska Steier, the boy's mother, works in the facility as a kindergarten director and was heavily accused by Ella Werken of failing to meet her responsibilities.

The main suspect, however, is Joachim Grand, who idolizes the child, but whose relationship with the mother was in crisis. It is unthinkable for him to possibly not be able to see Lara as often. He is also known to be violent and is suspected of having hit the child, which is why the youth welfare office is turned on and Lara's care takes over.

Von Meuffels finds out that the victim had a love affair with Tobias Steier, the kindergarten director's husband. He speaks to him about it and Steier openly admits that he had an argument with Ella Werken because she wanted to end the relationship because he was not ready to leave his wife for her. But he didn't run over her.

For lack of evidence, Joachim Grand has to be released from custody. Since “his” Lara is celebrating her birthday in the children's paradise , von Meuffels wants to arrest him again there. Because the superintendent found out that Grand had a genetic test done and thus realized that Lara is not his daughter. But not he is the culprit, but Valeska Steier. She had found out about her husband's relationship with Ella Werken and also that her husband is Lara’s father. When she notices that the police are on their way to the kindergarten, she holed up with the children in a room, armed with a knife with which she had just killed her unfaithful husband. Von Meuffels can engage them in a conversation and induce them to give up.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Kinderparadies on September 29, 2013 was seen by a total of 8.0 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.1% for Das Erste .

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv writes about this police call that it is: “A cinematic and psychologically dense crime drama with top guest actors and a sleepwalking soundtrack.” “There is a lot of anger in the game right from the start, an explosive atmosphere is noticeable that runs through numerous flashbacks, space and time leaps and the very suggestive visual language is intensified. "

At FAZ, Uwe Ebbinghaus says: “In the new 'police call' from Munich, super parents are lulling themselves into their life's lies with children's songs. The narrative means are confusing, but director Leander Haußmann penetrates deeply into our time. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm call this crime thriller: "Bitter evil psychodrama."

At spiegel.de , Christian Buß writes somewhat sarcastically: “A 'police call' about the idol child, that's contemporary. Faith offers less and less support in the more and more secularized world, the child becomes a quasi-religious evasive object. Everywhere the purity of young, unspoiled people is celebrated, which must be defended against all harmful influences of the evil, evil world out there: Praise be to my brat, hallowed be its purity! "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Matthias Brandt, Nocke, Haußmann. Overfunded angels, overwhelmed parents at tittelbach.tv, accessed on September 28, 2016.
  2. ↑ Uwe Ebbinghaus: We are transferring Bruno, the pearly whale at faz.net, accessed on November 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ TV thriller. Matthias Brandt sees ghosts. at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on November 8, 2016.
  4. ↑ Gods in Windeln at spiegel.de , accessed on November 8, 2016.
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