Police call 110: don't let me down

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Do not leave me high and dry
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 77 minutes
classification Episode 96 ( List )
First broadcast May 19, 1985 on GDR 1
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Director Thomas Jacob
script Thomas Jacob
production Uwe Herpich
music Arnold Fritzsch
camera Wolfram Beyer
cut Edith Kaluza
occupation

Don't let me down is a German crime film by Thomas Jacob from 1985. The television film was released as the 96th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

The young Micha moves into his first apartment. He came to the home twelve years ago - his mother and father were drinkers he hadn't seen since he was admitted to the home. In contrast to other home children, he does not want to contact his parents. After the first few days in his own apartment, after moving house, and starting work, he nevertheless begins to look for his mother. She built a new life for herself and after the divorce from her husband Ernst Romenei found a new man in Hans Mertin. He brought daughter Ilona into the marriage and a good relationship developed between her and the new stepmother. Micha's mother is surprised when Micha is at the door. The joint dinner with Hans and Ilona is in a cool mood, as Hans in particular does not want to see Micha as a stepson. Micha reacts disillusioned and leaves.

He meets a former friend from the home who takes him to his family. Micha tries a second attempt: He goes to see his father. Ernst Romenei, like his ex-wife, got rid of alcohol and works as a driver, but is deeply in debt. With his friend Bernd Tritschler, he robbed an electrical shop and hopes to be able to turn the devices into cash. He advertises that he has a tape recorder for sale, but suspects the first prospect that it is a police officer because the man asks about the receipt for the device. In fact, the police are already on his trail. Finally, the second prospective buyer of the recorder is Micha, who found his father via the sales advertisement.

Ernst is unsure how to behave towards his son. When Micha suggests that he only went to see his parents because they could make amends on him, Ernst bought him valuable things, including a sofa and a motorcycle. In front of his mother, Micha says that his father was really happy to see him again. Meanwhile, Ernst became afraid of the police and had Bernd bring the stolen goods from his house to a remote barn. Here a couple in love finds the goods and reports them to the police. Because Ernst's customer suddenly wants to buy the goods, Bernd is supposed to bring them back to him, but is caught by the police and flees. He tells Ernst about the failed action and the depreciable goods when Micha is visiting. He overhears the conversation and now suspects that his father is involved in criminal activities.

Micha is now spying on Ernst and catches him stealing two radios. At home Ernst reveals to him that he is planning a big campaign with Bernd that will bring a lot of money. He wants to rob the wage money transport, which will be calling at several companies on the planned date. It should be the last crime he wants to commit for Micha and the future together. At Bernd's suggestion, Ernst persuades his son to participate in the attack. He should report Ernst by radio when a certain car appears on a certain street corner. In the evening Micha confides in his girlfriend Simone, whom he met in the disco. Simone advises him to go to the police, as he will be punished as an accomplice himself. Micha refuses because he doesn't want to report his own father. The next morning, however, he refuses to take part in the action in front of Ernst. Ernst puts him under pressure because that night he and Bernd drove Micha's motorcycle into the yard of the company where the attack will take place. Micha is now involved in the case anyway.

The investigators around Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner have long been able to find the frequency of the stolen radio and have found out that wage money transports are on the way on the planned date. They monitor the works that are eligible for the attack. Ernst plans to block the entrance to a factory with his truck, seemingly unnoticed, while the money transporter has to wait directly behind him. Bernd should then rob the car and take the money. On the day of the crime, however, Micha is undecided, finally goes to the given street and finally sees his mother sitting in the described car. He doesn't announce the car, but Ernst sees him that way too. The attack ultimately fails because Micha intervenes and can keep Bernd at bay until the police arrive. He also reports his father as an accomplice in front of the investigators, who is finally arrested. Micha leaves the crime scene alone and is caught up with and approached by Jürgen Huebner a little later.

production

Do not let me down was filmed from July 15 to September 15, 1984 under the title The Entry at Midnight in Berlin , Leißnitz ( Friedland ), Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten and in the Castle Park in Niederschönhausen . The costumes for the film were created by Evelyn Gesper , the film structures were created by Günther Möller . The film premiered on May 19, 1985 in the first program of GDR television. The audience participation was 54.8 percent.

It was the 96th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner investigated his 47th case. The critic wrote that director Thomas Jacob "took a criminal case as an opportunity to point out the parents' responsibility for their children." The final shot of the film shows "in its symbolic imagery" that Micha remains alone.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 146.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=096 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 104.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 146.
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