Police call 110: midnight case

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Midnight fall
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 75 minutes
classification Episode 125 ( List )
First broadcast January 8, 1989 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Gunter Friedrich
script Günter Radtke
production Anita Schwager
music Peter Gotthardt
camera Martin Schlesinger
cut Karola Mittelstädt
occupation

Midnight Case is a German crime film by Gunter Friedrich from 1989. The television film was released as the 125th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Pig owner Wilhelm Sippach is known in the village as a drinker, always has a bottle of high-proof liquor with him and is always kept in mind by the villagers. On this day this is more the case than usual, so no alcohol is sold to him and he is only served alcohol-free in the inn. The village boys also manage to pour the last of Wilhelm's self-made fruit punch into the pigsty. Wilhelm's boar Albert, who is already having a hard enough time in times of artificial insemination, drinks the alcohol and staggers drunk through the stable. Wilhelm's attempt to secretly lock Albert to the LPG sows for the purpose of natural reproduction fails because the boar is tired.

Wilhelm takes the bus to the next small town in search of alcohol. He meets the horse lover Fredy Kühn, who accompanies him to the next bar. Here both drink until curfew and then stagger towards the tram. In the city park, lovers suddenly hear a loud scream. Shortly afterwards they find Wilhelm, unconscious and bleeding from a head wound. Next to him is a heavy club. Wilhelm is the third victim of a series of robberies in the city forest for the investigators Captain Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Thomas Grawe. They question the landlords Gerber, with whom Wilhelm had last drank. Mrs. Gerber reports that Wilhelm had a lot of money with him and she immediately suspected that it would not turn out well with the two men.

A previous victim of the robber, Mrs. Sohr, had made a phantom picture. In the picture, the landlords recognize Wilhelm's companion. The picture is distributed on profiles and there is actually a taxi driver who can give Fredy Kühn's address. He drove him home that night. Well, in the morning, Fredy is still drunk and finds it difficult to respond to questions from Peter Fuchs and Thomas Grawe. Much of what they ask him is a mystery. However, he has Wilhelm's wallet and a shoe of the victim. In addition, the investigators discover numerous other wallets in his room and a box of money in the fireplace, which the landlords initially claim for themselves. Fredy is being arrested. When confronted with Mrs. Sohr, she bursts into tears. She explains to investigators that she lied to her because she did not want the perpetrator to be identified. Her husband believed she was almost raped in the city park. In reality, her money was stolen - which she previously received for a secretly sold watch by her husband. The buyer was the landlady Gerber. There are now more and more traces of Mr. Gerber. A button found at the crime scene is from his jacket; in addition, one secured his footprints at the crime scene. In the end, Gerber admits that he followed the two men, but that he only found Wilhelm passed out and bleeding. Ms. Sohr's new phantom image exposes Gerber as a thief and so at least the case of the robbery of the city forest is solved for the investigators. Gerber vehemently denies an attack on Wilhelm.

Fredy also turns out to be innocent. A tram driver says that he threw the drunk man off the train that night after threatening passers-by with Wilhelm's shoe and demanding that he be taken to the police immediately because something had happened to his friend Wilhelm. The taxi driver also adds to his statement that Fredy actually wanted to go to the police. However, given his condition, he preferred to drive the drunk man home. When the crime scene is inspected again, the investigators suddenly hear a melody. Thomas Grawe climbs up the tree at the crime scene and finds a pocket watch upstairs. The club that was found at the crime scene is a branch that has also broken off at this height. The fingerprints on the watch do not belong to any of the suspects. When Thomas Grawe wants to question Wilhelm in the hospital, he learns that he ran away half an hour ago. He finds him on his farm, where the village farmers are trying to capture and slaughter Albert. For the first lieutenant, who, unlike the villagers and innkeepers on duty, only drinks non-alcoholic drinks, it turns out that the criminal case wasn't one: Wilhelm is moonstruck and then tends to climb things. Last night there was a full moon and so, drunk, he felt the desire to climb the tree in the city forest. He fell down from above and suffered the injuries that were found. He lost the pocket watch in the tree. Thomas Grawe cancels the investigation. Fredy Kühn, who in the face of the allegations now believed in his guilt and wrote down an awkward confession, is relieved that he is innocent.

production

Midnight Fall (working title: Vollmondstory ) was filmed from May 24 to July 23, 1988 in Berlin , Vietmannsdorf , Kremmen and Schönerlinde . The costumes of the film created Tamara Schramm Bansen that Filmbauten derived from Britta Bastian . The film premiered on January 8, 1989 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 53.1 percent.

It was the 125th episode in the Polizeiruf 110 film series . Captain Peter Fuchs investigated in his 75th case and Oberleutnant Thomas Grawe in his 16th case.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 133.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=125 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 133.
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