Police call 110: Mama will be back soon
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
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| Original title | Mama will be back soon |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Saxonia Media on behalf of the MDR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 251 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | September 7, 2003 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jürgen Bretzinger |
| script | Lutz Schön |
| production | Susanne Wolfram |
| music | Markus Lonardoni |
| camera | Hartmut E. Lange |
| cut | Claudia Fröhlich |
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Mama will be back soon is a German crime film by Jürgen Bretzinger from 2003. It is the 251st episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 and the 23rd case for the Halle inspectors Schmücke and Schneider .
action
During a routine operation, the inspectors Schmücke and Schneider witnessed an incipient apartment fire. On one of the upper floors of the old building, a child can be seen at the window and so the inspectors try to save the boy. When they arrive at the burning apartment, they even find two children. However, one of the two was already dead before, the second boy can be saved. According to their nutritional status, the children must have been left to themselves for a long time.
Schmücke learns from a tenant that the mother has not been seen for two weeks. So they are looking for Susanne Mehlhorn, and the father Sven Mehlhorn, who left the family a year ago, cannot be found either. Only the grandparents, Carola and Bernd Rosemeyer, can be notified. Since they have just returned from their two-week vacation, she is shocked by the news of her grandson's death. They cannot explain the disappearance of their daughter either. She is a caring mother and, in her opinion, would never have left the children alone.
Schmücke and Schneider find a clue through a discotheque where Susanne met the father of her children. Sven Mehlhorn is currently on a construction site in the city. The investigators want to question him there, but Mehlhorn fled when the officers arrived. When Bernd Rosemeyer learns that his daughter has met her husband, he accuses him of having done something to his daughter. Mehlhorn can be found in a gazebo and denies having anything to do with his wife's disappearance. He only fled because he feared that his creditors would have found him. In order to have evidence against Mehlhorn, the commissioners are trying desperately to find the children's mother. To do this, a forest is even searched, which initially does not bring any success. But then you find Susanne Mehlhorn dead in an old quarry. The investigation reveals that she has been dead for two weeks and died in a traffic accident. Nevertheless, Sven Mehlhorn remains the main suspect, who now admits to having met his wife in the disco. They quarreled and she ran away. However, since he does not own a car, only a motorcycle, suspicions against him must be dropped. Susanne Mehlhorn was hit on a forest path and hit a pile of wood with her head. The forest paths can only be used by authorized users. This also includes the forester Marco Schade, who belongs to the circle of friends of the police chief and is currently running as a local politician. Some evidence suggests that he caused the accident. After the evidence condenses and he sees himself convicted, he shoots himself in his hunting lodge. He realized that the boy would not have had to die in such agony if he had admitted his guilt and had not hidden the body.
background
Mama will be back soon was produced by Saxonia Media Filmproduktion on behalf of MDR .
reception
Audience ratings
At the premiere on September 7, 2003 First film of 7.66 million viewers was seen, corresponding to a market share of 23.4 percent. In the advertising-relevant target group of viewers between 14 and 49 years of age, this police call reached 2.50 million viewers, or 17.3 percent.
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff from Kino.de praises the police reputation and his carefully written script. He writes: “More skillfully than in various 'Tatort' films, author Lutz Schön combines the professional level with the private life of the inspectors: Schneider has been thrown out of the door by his wife; The advice from the slick jewelry, who wants to persuade the colleague to make a new appearance with a new outfit, is not helpful. But something is developing between Schneider and Forensic Technician Weigand (Marie Gruber). In any case, it is only her detailed work that brings the case forward again and again, just as the entire film, which Jürgen Bretzinger routinely and without antics staged, is a memorial to everyday police work. And Bretzinger conveys the subliminal message of the film, an indictment of looking away, almost casually. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm show their thumbs up and say: "The resolution of the down-to-earth crime novel is simple and precisely for that reason so terrifyingly realistic." Conclusion: "A case that makes headlines too often [in real life]."
Web links
- Police 110: Mama come back soon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of the film on the ARD website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience rating at bremedia-produktion.de, accessed on August 19, 2015.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Film review at kino.de, accessed on August 19, 2015.
- ^ TV thriller from Halle. The commissioners get caught up in a family drama. Short review by TV Spielfilm , accessed on August 19, 2015.
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