Police call 110: Mother's Day

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	Mother's Day
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Real Film Berlin on behalf of the RBB
classification	Episode 364 ( List )
First broadcast	May 14, 2017 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Eoin Moore
script	Eoin Moore, Anika Wangard
music	Warner Poland
camera	Florian Foest
cut	Dagmar Lichius
occupation
Maria Simon : Olga Lenski Lucas Gregorowicz : Adam Raczek Robert Gonera : Inspector Karol Pawlak Klaudiusz Kaufmann : Wiktor Krol Fritz Roth : Wolfgang Neumann Katharina Bellena : Edyta Wisniewski Ulrike Krumbiegel : Heidi Schoppe Anton Spieker : Enrico Schoppe Kathleen Gallego Zapata : Liane Uhl Anjorka Strechel : Melanie Opitz Jörg Westphal : High Commissioner Kopp

Mother's Day is a TV film from the crime series Polizeiruf 110 . The 364th episode of the film series was first broadcast on May 14, 2017, according to the film title on Mother's Day .

action

The body of the Polish entrepreneur and family father Janusz Kubiak was found at night in the Crooked Forest near Stettin - witnesses saw a car with a German license plate from the Uckermark district at the crime scene. Chief Inspector Olga Lenski and Chief Inspector Adam Raczek are called to the German-Polish police station in Świecko . Together they investigate the crime scene and find out that the murdered man had an extramarital relationship with the German Sabrina Uhl. She was also with Kubiak on the evening of the crime and has since disappeared. Her slip is found at the scene of the crime, her car in a parking lot in Gryfino not far from the German-Polish border .

Lenski and Raczek visit the house of the missing in a small village in the Uckermark and examine the village environment more closely. They quickly become aware of the unemployed Enrico Schoppe. He was friends with Sabrina and used to work in Kubiak's workshop until he was fired by him. Enrico and the victim subsequently had a dispute, including over stolen tools.

Enrico's mother Heidi takes him firmly in defense, but shortly afterwards finds Sabrina's body in Enrico's shed . As a mother, she wants to protect her son and helps him move the body to a safer place. She claims to the police and the village community that her son would never be credited if he were linked to the body. Enrico tells Heidi that Kubiak raped and murdered Sabrina. He wanted to save her and in the process accidentally killed Kubiak because he fell back on a stone.

However, the traces in the forest show that the dead man was killed and then repeatedly beaten. Lenski and Raczek find out that Enrico was interested in Sabrina and Kubiak from jealousy has slain in the forest, when he both during intercourse has found in Crooked Forest. Because Sabrina, appalled by Enrico fact, according screamed and cried, choked and he also killed them in the affections , then took her body in the car of his cousin home. The vehicle is later found burnt out.

During the search of the Schoppes property, the investigators found Enrico's shed noticeably cleaned. Sabrina's body is finally found buried with the otherwise rather phlegmatic-looking dog from the guard in Świecko. Her bloody hands are the decisive indication that she was still alive and that Kubiak did not kill her, but that Enrico apparently committed a double murder.

Heidi has meanwhile hid her son, who is urgently suspected, in an empty shop in Schwedt / Oder . Only with a lot of empathy can Lenski convince Heidi to reveal Enrico's whereabouts. Here Enrico is finally arrested.

In a subplot, the relationship between the commissioners is deepened. Lenski is considering not renewing her engagement in the German-Polish police unit and returning to Potsdam , as she is a single parent, has problems reconciling family and work and has little chance of accommodating her little daughter when she is on duty. Raczek also complained to the joint manager because Lenski had to bring her daughter to work several times. In the course of the investigation, the commissioners approach each other and, among other things, have to share a boarding house. Raczek ultimately convinced Lenski to extend her collaboration and offers her help with future childcare.

background

The film was shot from September 27, 2016 to October 28, 2016, among others in Groß-Ziethen , in the vicinity of Schwedt / Oder, in Stettin and Gryfino.

reception

Reviews

“The Brandenburg 'police call' is finally beginning to develop strong, disturbing images and dialogues. After Lenski moved to the German-Polish border, there were initial difficulties; No narrative capital could be made from the specific topography, despite the top actors Simon and Gregorowicz, there was no dynamic. The third case, in which Lenski is investigating with Raczek, was shot by the author and director Eoin Moore, who once brought the Rostock 'police call' to life. In 'Mother's Day' [...] Moore depicts the Uckermark as a remote place. Crooked trees, crooked cottages, swarms of crows over cabbage fields, time seems to have passed by at this Uckermark. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

“The investigative couple Lenski and Raczek is rather simple in its composition, somehow you don't really dare to cross the path, but the course is clearly heading towards a political thaw. Ulrike Krumbiegel, who played the partner of the television therapist in the ARD series Bloch for years and leads the investigations astray with a blonde pony and the resoluteness of a disappointed, but always unconditionally loving mother, is what sets the film apart from the Sunday monotony . "

- Katharina Riehl : Süddeutsche Zeitung

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Mother's Day on May 14, 2017 was seen by 7.69 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.5% for Das Erste .

Awards

• 2018: Hamburg detective award in honor of Jürgen Roland for Eoin Moore

Web links

• Police 110: Mother in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the plot of Mother's Day on the ARD website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Police call 110: Mother's Day at crew united
2. ↑ Christian Buß: "Police Call" for Mother's Day. Work hard, love hard. Spiegel Online, May 12, 2017, accessed on May 13, 2016 : "Rating: 7 out of 10 points" 
3. ↑ Katharina Riehl: Mothers Without Borders. In: Media. Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 12, 2017, accessed on May 13, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime Check: Sunday, May 14, 2017.quotemeter.de , May 15, 2017, accessed on May 15, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award 2018 - The winners . Article dated June 6, 2018, accessed June 7, 2018.

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