Police call 110: Friends of the murder
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
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| Original title | Murder friends |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Saxonia Media on behalf of the MDR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 211 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | July 11, 1999 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Rainer Bear |
| script | Rainer Bear |
| production | Emmo Lempert |
| music | Axel Donner |
| camera | Franz Ritschel |
| cut | Marion Fiedler |
| occupation | |
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Mordsfreunde is a German crime film by Rainer Bär from 1999. It is the 211th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 and the 10th case for Schmücke and Schneider in which they had a fatal accident and two related, current murders have to clarify.
action
In 1988, five-year-old Jan Boldt was hit by a car and died in the process. The three occupants of the vehicle stop briefly, but continue driving when they see that the boy is no longer to be helped. His older brother Robert had seen everything unnoticed by the men, and now after ten years he would like to remind those responsible of their deed. He knows that the three are opera tenor Werner Austen, taxi entrepreneur Georg Quast and current mayoral candidate Alfred Löbel. When he happened to meet Werner Austen at a theater rehearsal in which Robert was an extra, he made the decision to warn the three of them. He sends them a photo of Jan's tombstone by post. Frightened by this photo, Quast turns to Löbel, who cannot imagine that there could have been a witness at the time, and so they suspect Austen that he is now making them evil Plays prank. In itself, the act is legally statute-barred over the years, but the moral guilt remains, which could damage Löbel in his candidacy as mayor. He wants to confront Austen, but since he still has an old account with Löbel, he even threatens that he will not allow him to become mayor.
Herbert Schmücke is looking forward to his evening at the opera. He and his colleague Schneider attend the premiere of Tosca and experience how the main actor is fatally hit by a real bullet from the gun of one of the extras. Immediately they start the investigation and try to find out who could have replaced the cartridges in the rifles. Since the extras do not use personal weapons, it is not possible to determine who fired the fatal shot. Forensics found a letter with a photo of a tombstone on the victim, which initially does not tell the commissioners anything. The research leads to Gertrud Boldt, the mother of the boy whose tombstone was photographed. Inspector Schneider learns that the hit-and-run accident was never resolved and the whole family was thrown off course. Jan's father hanged himself from grief and Gertrud Boldt had to give her second son Robert to a home because she could no longer get along with him. Robert never really got over it either. Schneider also learns that the boy was one of the shooters in the theater. He wants to confront him, but Robert runs away when he notices that he is wanted.
Meanwhile, Schmücke found out that Alfred Löbel had recently visited Austen in his cloakroom. He therefore questions him, but receives no further information. However, he notices a boy handing him a letter and Löbel then leaves the room. Robert contacted him through this messenger and is now coming out as the brother of the boy, whose death he is complicit in. He wants to meet him in Löbel's hunting lodge. Löbel then consults with Quast, who is now angry that there is still a witness. He got into an argument with Löbel because he had been instructed by him to exchange the ammunition, and he had said that Austen should only get "one shot across the bow " so as not to threaten her further. The letters did not come from Austen at all.
Robert makes his way to the hunting lodge and sends the police a message that Schmücke should go to Löbel's hunting lodge. When he arrives there with Schneider, Löbel has already shot his then driver Quast. Robert, who actually wanted to confront Löbel, then flees again because he fears that the police will take him for the perpetrator here too.
Meanwhile, Schmücke puts all the pieces of the puzzle together and finds out that only Löbel can be the murderer and has put his two former friends out of the way so that they don't spoil his candidacy with the old hit-and-run case. To convict him, Schmücke resorted to a ruse. Since he has now been able to confront Robert, he arranges a meeting for the two of them and overhears Löbel's involuntary confession. After he threatens Robert with a gun, Schmücke and Schneider arrest him.
criticism
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and found: "Coherent, staged with attention to detail".
Web links
- Police 110: Murder friends in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of the film on the ARD website
Individual evidence
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