Police call 110: My last will

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title My last will
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavaria Film
on behalf of WDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 257 ( List )
First broadcast May 31, 2004 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Ulrich Stark
script Dirk Salomon ,
Thomas Wesskamp
production Veith von Fürstenberg
music Birger Heymann
camera Stefan Spreer
cut Manuela Kempf
occupation

My last will is a German crime film by Ulrich Stark from 2004. The TV film was released as the 257th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . It was the last case of the Möller and Küppers duo, the last police call that WDR produced, as well as the last appearance in a film by Inge Meysel , who died shortly after the broadcast.

action

92-year-old Elisabeth Kampnagel has had enough. She wants to put an end to her life, so she prepares herself and gets into her classic car . She breaks through a construction site and finally steers her car towards a bridge under construction. Before she can throw herself driving into the abyss, however, she runs over a man. Both end up in hospital, with the man suffering from retrograde amnesia in the accident . He doesn't know who he is or what he was doing before the accident. He is so desperate that he wants to kill himself. Elisabeth Kampnagel stops him and promises to help him. She relies on the police officers Sigi Möller and Kalle Küppers as well as the Cologne detective Gabi Bauer.

Kalle Küppers is still a policeman in Volpe, got married and became the father of twins. Sigi Möller has now landed with the manhunt in Wuppertal , while Gabi Bauer, after various stations, including America, has now landed with the LKA in Düsseldorf for two years and is about to be promoted to the witness protection program of the BKA . Sigi and Gabi were once a couple before Gabi left Sigi. She is now with the BKA officer Dissner. Ex-pigeon fancier Plonner, who in the meantime launched the Italian delicatessen company MÜPLO with the Mühlbach council, brings Gabi to Volpe, where Sigi and Kalle have now also arrived. Together they watch a video message from Elisabeth Kampnagel. She asks her to confirm the identity of the unknown and now "Mr. Nobody ”to find out. She also prepared three letters which, if not helped, could get all three of them in trouble. In a previous case , all three had misbehaved, let the murderess Elisabeth Kampnagel go, destroyed evidence, etc. Sigi, Kalle and Gabi of necessity agree to help the pensioner.

Mr. Nobody, who speaks broken German but very good Italian, will be accommodated in Elisabeth Kampnagel's house. Gabi takes Mr. Nobody's fingerprints and sends them to the BKA via Dissner. Meanwhile, Mr. Nobody gets to know Elisabeth Kampnagel's neighbor Amelie Neumann, who is also Italian. He falls in love with her. One day, killers suddenly appear at the house and seem to shoot Gabi. Mr. Nobody reacts like a professional, shows that he can handle the weapon and even overpowers the deputy chief of the BKA, who is also on site with Dissner. Another case seems to be connected with the case of Mr. Nobody. Mafioso Michele Potazzi was arrested because someone finally found the courage to testify against him as a key witness . The killer Il Lupino was put on the key witness. The BKA and Dissner make it clear to Sigi and Kalle that Mr. Nobody is the key witness. However, both are puzzled when the two killers reappear on motorcycles and target Amelie. Gabi researches Dissner's computer and realizes that it is working with the mafia and has sold key witness Amelie alias Silvia Giotti to the mafia. He's also examined Mr. Nobody's fingerprints, which match those of Il Lupino.

Sigi, Kalle and Gabi follow Mr. Nobody, who wanted to take Amelie for a walk, and put him in Elisabeth Kampnagel's room when he is kissing Amelie. They don't want to reveal to the old lady that Mr. Nobody is really a dangerous killer. He suspects the truth. Meanwhile, Amelie is moved to another building by Dissner as a witness. Gabi can find out the new whereabouts. When Dissner wants to have Amelie murdered by the two killers, Sigi, Kalle, Gabi and Mr. Nobody save her. Dissner is arrested. Before the deputy head of the BKA, those involved claim that there is no Il Lupino who was just a legend of the mafia. Gabi gives Mr. Nobody a new past, with the name of the landlord in Volpe Gabriele Vincente and set pieces from holidays in Italy with Sigi. He will spend the future with Amelie in the witness protection program. Elisabeth Kampnagel makes it clear to the trio in a second video message that the three ransom letters were only made up and that she hopes that Mr. Nobody will have his identity back. Although she indicates to have died, shortly afterwards she stands in front of the trio. She has now decided to continue the delicatessen business together with Plonner. Sigi and Gabi, in turn, come back together at the end.

production

Brilon, a location for the film

My last will was shot from April 25th to May 25th, 2003 in Brilon and Munich and the surrounding area. The costumes for the film were created by Barbara Ehret , the film structures were created by Josef Sanktjohanser and Hans Zillmann . The film had its television premiere on Whit Monday, May 31, 2004, on the first . The audience participation was 16.5 percent (5.22 million). The film was previously shown on April 29, 2004 as part of Criminale 2004 in the Goli-Theater in Goch in the presence of the director, the screenwriters and the main actors Oliver Stritzel and Martin Lindow.

The film was planned from the beginning as the last episode and "representative standout" of the duo Möller and Küppers, who are investigating here in their eighth case. It was also WDR's last contribution to the Polizeiruf 110 series , as the broadcaster wanted to concentrate on the Tatort series in the future and saw its “contribution to ARD [as] fulfilled”. One reason for the end was that Andrea Sawatzki had also been seen on television as a crime scene investigator since 2001 and the crime scene and the police call should "remain separate"; in addition, the ratings had declined over the years.

The film contains scenes in black and white from her first case 1A Landeier , which was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize , in which Inge Meysel as Elisabeth Kampnagel had confessed to the murder at the end, but was not taken seriously and therefore allowed to go. Meysel's character now uses this as an opportunity to get the investigators to cooperate. The film shows other characters who appear again and again in the series: Local council Mühlbach, ex-pigeon fancier and now delicatessen supplier Plonner (in La Paloma with first name “Franz”, here with first name “August”) and Sigi's ex-girlfriend Gabi Bauer , portrayed by Andrea Sawatzki. After the sixth case, she had brotherly love written from the script, but returned for the last episode. Volpe's Mayor Huffer is named, but does not appear in the film itself.

My last will is the only Möller-Küppers police call in which the credits don't put the two policemen first, but Inge Meysel as Elisabeth Kampnagel. Meysel had already taken on the role in the first three episodes of the series. The shooting of My Last Will began when Meysel showed the first symptoms of senile dementia . In the film she “had a real chance to present herself again as a great actress, and she used it,” according to Die Welt . The Rheinische Post called the film "a (farewell) gift [Inge Meysels] to the TV community." "Welcome and farewell, that makes this film a worthy memorial, erected during Inge Meysel's lifetime, albeit on her way into a world of its own. The bizarre humor of the story enables us to remember her as a full-blooded granddame with wit, ”said the Thüringer Allgemeine . Meysel can be seen in the film not only at the beginning, but also in the last shot: The photo on the wall shows her as a young actress. The film was broadcast the day after her 94th birthday, which she celebrated on May 30, 2004. She passed away on July 10, 2004.

criticism

"Quirky characters, fine irony and a lot of amore," summarized the TV Spielfilm . "The film shines [...] with black humor, brisk sayings and its bizarre individuals. However, the solution to the richly entangled criminal case sometimes requires the cinematic crowbar, ”said the Darmstadt Echo .

My last will is "an homage [to Inge Meysel] and not a benefit game without substance and certainly not an embarrassing demonstration," stated Die Welt . Nevertheless, in the long run, the film “wrestles too much about wanting to be bizarre, allusive and funny. So the film is constantly charging between sensual and clunky ”. For the Stuttgarter Zeitung , the crime thriller was “actually a straightforward story ... that is loosened up by many amusing details. Above all, however, 'My Last Will' lives from the noticeable intention of all those involved to set a cinematic monument to the trio from the Bergisches Land. Sometimes the thriller borders on a parody. "

The Tagesspiegel found that My Last Will “is not a particularly good crime thriller. He wants to be humorous and whimsical, but it's just enough to joke. The characters are comic-like, but drawn too half-heartedly, without the coolness that Detlef Buck would likely have. Lots of clichés. ”The film couldn't decide whether it wanted to be“ a crime comedy, cop clothes or just fun for Inge Meysel, ”summarized the Leipziger Volkszeitung . "[E] a shaken amount of bizarre humor helped [...] the outrageous Mafia story on the jumps," wrote the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Police call 110: My last will on bavaria-film.de
  2. ↑ Police call 110 in Goch . In: Rheinische Post , April 24, 2004.
  3. ↑ a b c Andre Mielke: "That was probably your last film" . In: Die Welt , May 29, 2004, p. 30.
  4. ↑ dpa: "My last will": The ARD honors Inge Meysel on her 94th birthday . schwaebische.de, May 30, 2004.
  5. ↑ WDR sends country bulls into retirement . In: Express , May 28, 2003.
  6. ↑ Reinhard Meyer: Inge Meysel's farewell . In: Rheinische Post , May 29, 2004.
  7. ↑ a b Lilo Plaschke: Welcome and farewell - deep bow for Inge Meysel with her bizarre police call 100: My last will . In: Thüringer Allgemeine , May 29, 2004.
  8. ^ Police call 110: My last will on tvspielfilm.de
  9. ↑ Alig Kraemer: Is the nice Italian a killer? In: Darmstädter Echo , May 29, 2004.
  10. ↑ Tilmann Gangloff: The three of them against the Mafia in the Bergisches Land . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , May 29, 2004, p. 39.
  11. ↑ Harald Martenstein: Rock n Roll farewell . In: Der Tagesspiegel , May 30, 2004, p. 30.
  12. ↑ Norbert Wehrstedt: Flashback - Just kidding? In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , June 2, 2004, p. 11.
  13. ↑ Andreas Hillger: TV review - And bye! In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , June 3, 2004.
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