Police call 110: circles

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Circles
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Claussen + Putz film production
on behalf of BR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 351 ( List )
First broadcast June 28, 2015 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Christian Petzold
script Christian Petzold
production Jakob Claussen ,
Uli Putz
camera Hans Fromm
cut Bettina Boehler
occupation

Circles is a television film from the ARD crime series Polizeiruf 110 . The film was produced on behalf of the BR and first broadcast on June 28, 2015 on Erste . It is the ninth case of the Munich police call investigator Hanns von Meuffels .

action

A prostitute gets into a car on a Czech street prostitute. After this has set in motion with the blonde driver, she gets out of the car some time later to make a phone call. The prostitute takes advantage of the unobserved moment and drives away with the vehicle after noticing that the ignition key is in the ignition and that there is a large amount of cash in the car.

Chief Detective Hanns von Meuffels was summoned to a murder case the next morning together with his colleague Constanze Hermann. You have a little trouble finding the crime scene, which is in a remote forest. After discovering the body of a woman under a pile of leaves, Constanze Hermann notices a few strange things. In addition, the perpetrator not only placed his victim in such a way that he would soon have to be found, but also killed his little dog.

The dead woman owned a local furniture factory and was strangled with a thin cable. The investigators learn from production manager Eberl that his boss was in the process of selling the company and that all 72 employees had lost their jobs. He is very angry about this and gives hints of a possible motive for the crime.

Jan Hoffer, the son of the killed, is briefly the focus of the investigation, which has to be discarded due to a valid alibi. Then, however, a witness is found who claims to have observed the crime from a passing train. She testifies to have the well-known red Alfa Romeo standing on the forest path and to have seen exactly how Peter Brauer strangled his ex-wife. In addition, he couldn't have liked the dog, which she knew as a veterinarian.

This made Brauer the main suspect and put him in custody. During the interrogation, Meuffels realizes that the sensitive brewer seems to be more attached to the small furniture company than his ex-wife. He had previously worked there himself and was planning to return to the company, which would no longer have been possible had he been sold. Von Meuffels has the impression that Brauer also hoped to win his wife back. If she refused, both would be strong motives for murder. However, the Alfa Romeo that disappeared at the scene is not found on the suspect.

After Brauer realizes that the suspicion against him persists, he suddenly admits that he followed his wife into the forest on the day of her death to talk to her. They got into an argument and he choked them. Then she got into her car and drove away. Surveillance recordings at the edge of the forest confirm his statement, which relieves Brauer.

Meanwhile, the police in the Czech Republic become aware of the prostitute who wants to sell the stolen Alfa Romeo. When he sees himself convicted, he flees by car and has a fatal accident. For von Meuffels, the case seems to be resolved, but his experienced colleague Constanze Hermann has doubts. She is convinced that Brauer is the culprit and, together with his ex-girlfriend Nadja Bruns, cleverly planned and carried out this act. Bruns could have lured the prostitute to blame him for the deed. But this assumption is dashed when it is certain that Bruns had undergone an operation in the hospital exactly at the time of the murder. The Commissioner has no idea how close her theory was to the truth. It's just that Brewer himself, not Bruns, carried out the plan. Dressed in a wig and sunglasses, he lured the hustler into the car and deliberately provoked the theft. He confesses the act after he is released from custody and von Meuffels visits him again. In the process, the inspector discovers a thin cable that was used in the murder. Brauer seems relieved that the inspector has found out the truth and allows himself to be arrested without resistance.

background

Circles was shot by Claussen + Wöbke + Putz Filmproduktion on behalf of BR from November 11, 2014 to December 11, 2014 in and around Munich.

This "police call" hides reminiscences of the wedding of the jukeboxes . Which in a bar scene for a brief moment moved into the spotlight together with the chosen song. “Nowadays they have disappeared almost everywhere. From time to time they are still available as retro furniture. But then there is a smartphone in there and you pretend, ”the director explains in an interview.

Regarding the film title, Petzold says that he describes: "The stability of the circle, which makes the breakout from the same so clear."

Songs played in the film include I'm Not in Love by 10 CC and A Ship Will Come, as adapted by Lale Andersen .

reception

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv comes to the conclusion: “A 'Polizeiruf 110' from the most renowned German auteur filmmaker, who irreconcilably dissects German reality in his award-winning films and prefers to let the incompatibility of money, happiness and feeling shine through as the basic theme when this one Arthaus filmer makes a television thriller par excellence, then you shouldn't expect a classic TV genre film. [...] And so he foregoes the obligatory extensive crime scene inspection in 'circles', no first assessment by the coroner, just a quick panning over the body. Instead, as a viewer, you first witness an absurd search for the crime scene in the form of a tense drive by the inspectors through the undergrowth. […] 'Circles' is exciting, less in the sense of a mystery thriller plot, but rather because of the way a thriller with an almost perfect murder emerges from a minimalized plot based on various recurring situations. The film is exciting because the reduced dialogue scenes are so captivating that you rarely find it on German television. And it is aesthetically stimulating because it acts with intelligent, enlightened characters and comes up with a staging in which a long shot sneaks in and which perfectly matches the inspector's thoughtful, observing attitude. "

“The great thing about Petzold's 'Polizeiruf' premiere: At a first, cursory glance, the Munich entrepreneurial sociotope, including its oedipal-irradiated son, lover from the milieu and the cast iron fence around the family villa, looks like something out of a ' Derrick ' episode. But then the intermingling of rumors and stories, revelations and references develops into a complex study of rebellion and conformity. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Kreise on June 28, 2015 was seen by 7.89 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.7% for Das Erste.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Police call 110: circles at crew united . Retrieved August 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ So the Munich "police call" on Sunday at focus.de, accessed on November 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ Love in times of loneliness - Christian Petzold stages the Munich police call “Kreise” at blog.fff-bayern.de, accessed on November 15, 2015.
  4. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Brandt, Auer, von Dohnányi, Petzold. The experience of being excluded Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ Christian Buß: "Polizeiruf" by star director Christian Petzold. Middle class death zone. Spiegel Online, June 26, 2015, accessed on August 2, 2018 : "A terrific Munich" police call "about investigators in the chaos of feelings."
  6. ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime Check: Sunday, June 28, 2015.quotemeter.de , June 29, 2015, accessed on August 2, 2018 .
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