Police call 110: night duty
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
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| Original title | Night duty |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
The Film GmbH on behalf of the BR |
| classification | Episode 363 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | May 7, 2017 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Rainer Kaufmann |
| script | Ariela Bogenberger and Astrid Ströher |
| production |
Uli Aselmann , Sophia Aldenhoven |
| music | Richard Ruzicka |
| camera | Klaus Eichhammer |
| cut | Vera van Appeldorn |
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Nachtdienst is a television film from the ARD crime series Polizeiruf 110 . The film was produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk and was broadcast for the first time on Sunday, May 7, 2017 on Das Erste . It is the 13th case of the Munich police call investigator Hanns von Meuffels .
action
The 80-year-old, seemingly confused, Elisabeth Strauss reports to the chief detective Hanns von Meuffels about a murder of a roommate she claims to have observed shortly before he leaves work. The inspector first takes the old lady to the address given on her ID, where he learns from her daughter that she suffers from vascular dementia and lives in the Johannishof nursing home . However, when Meuffels sees blood on the pensioner's bathrobe, he decides to drive her to the nursing home himself. The investigations in the nursing home lead von Meuffels to a dead resident who has a head injury. This and the location of the dead man lead Meuffels to suspect a violent death, so he calls in the forensics department. However, the pathologist cannot make a clear statement so quickly whether there is actually an unnatural cause of death. The other colleagues do not want to go into further investigation; therefore the inspector tries alone and during the night to find out what exactly happened that evening in the home. The nursing staff on duty does not appear to be very cooperative, but this does not only seem to have to do with the enormous workload caused by the many care-intensive residents. Meticulously scoured room by room in the nursing home from Meuffels, but only Claus Grübner, classified as a troublemaker, and the demented Elisabeth Strauss seem to be the only addressable people among the residents. Grübner has now become a very bitter man in old age. Once he worked for the SEK and campaigned for the protection of the citizens, and now he ekes out his existence in a simple nursing home. As a reminder of his active time, he took one of his old rifles with him here. He assures von Meuffels that she is without ammunition.
So the inspector gradually discovers the little secrets in the house: The nurse on duty Sebastian Kroll drinks secretly and covers up the small mistakes of his employees, because Tscharlie Meier sells watches and other valuables of his protégés, and caregiver Marija Abramovich lets her little son stay overnight in the home when she's on duty there. The killed Karl Urban had various video recordings in his room, which von Meuffels looks at bit by bit. In doing so, he discovers how Urban secretly films the residents at night with his camera in hand. During one shot he is in Elisabeth Strauss's room, who almost scares herself to death when she sees Urban approaching with the camera. When the inspector asked, the carer stated that there were complaints about Urban, but that it was attributed to the dementia of the residents and that this was not taken into account. While von Meuffels is trying to clarify these events and is therefore interrogating Marija Abramovich, Claus Grübner suddenly appears and claims to have killed Urban because he threatened him. The inspector immediately notices that this cannot be true, and so Marija Abramovich confesses that she hit the old man on the head with a water carafe because he repeatedly molested her and touched her immorally. She was tired from all the night shifts and when Urban pushed her against the wall in the hallway and bit her ear, she fought with the carafe. Von Meuffels is not happy to have to arrest the overworked woman, especially since her son Janni would have to see it now. Grübner is also depressed and wants to give Marija his savings account because she can now need it better than him. Without a word he watches as von Meuffels leaves with the two of them. On the way, the inspector received an emergency call from carer Kroll, according to which Claus Grübner would shoot people in the nursing home with a gun. Von Meuffels immediately turns around, drives back and calls the SEC from the car. When the inspector enters the house with the pistol released, he sees a picture of horror. Resident for resident was killed while sleeping with a targeted head shot. Nurse Kroll, who wanted to stop Grübner, is also dying in the corridor. When von Meuffels met Grübner, he said: “I am creating a small disaster in order to uncover a larger one. Only then would you perhaps stop treating people like slaughter cattle. ”He accuses von Meuffels that he should have just left and then shoots himself. When the SEK arrives, only nurse Meier and a woman are found alive who were able to hide. 23 people are dead, including Elisabeth Strauss.
Hanns von Meuffels leaves the nursing home in resignation and fears that this catastrophe would not have happened if he had not insisted so persistently on the clarification of Karl Urban's death. Whether he will arrest Marija Abramovich again remains to be seen.
background
The film was shot in Munich from November 16, 2016 to December 16, 2016. The shooting location for the Johannishof nursing home in the film, in which the episode predominantly takes place, was House 8 of the Schwabing Hospital .
reception
Reviews
“This crime thriller is deadly sad. And extremely vital. One feels strongly reminiscent of the episode in which von Meuffels uncovered abuses in the healthcare system while under the influence of medication in a hospital. Even in this jazz-and-nursing emergency "police call", an extremely high atmospheric density is now casually created. On the other hand, the film also assiduously compiles facts about the long-running political issue. "
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said appreciatively: “'Nachtdienst' is a crime drama that gets under your skin. Reduction and concentration determine the dramaturgy - this results in a story that you can only really believe in a detective in this country: Hanns von Meuffels, who, between anger, irony, penetrance & with a certain charm, uncovered the nursing emergency in passing, just like the film shows the tragic (comic) phenomenology of dementia in a sensitive but unadorned way. The intimate play fits the story, and the fact that the social catastrophe leads to criminal energy does not seem artificial in this film: The drama uses the crime thriller to put the finger even deeper into the wound. "
Heike Hupertz wrote at the FAZ : “Klaus Eichhammer's camera looks at what otherwise remains hidden. 'Night duty' […] is not a crime thriller, although people are violently killed in this 'police call'. The film is an aesthetically outstanding accusation; a night story about the horrors of the end of individuality and the loss of the human, carried by a brilliant ensemble of ancient actors. The film does not dwell on allusions, its exaggeration is systematic. "
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Nachtdienst on May 7, 2017 was seen by 8.03 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.0% for Das Erste .
Awards
- FairFilm Award 2017: Fairest production of the year 2016
- Rolf-Hans Müller Prize for Film Music 2018 to Richard Ruzicka
Web links
- Night service in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of night service on the ARD website
Individual evidence
- ^ Police call 110: night duty at crew united . Retrieved May 4, 2017.
- ↑ Christian Buß: Munich "police call" about care emergency. Only the excrement is free. Spiegel Online, May 5, 2017, accessed on May 8, 2017 : "Rating: 9 out of 10"
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Matthias Brandt, Bogenberger / Ströher, businessman. A social catastrophe Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on September 3.
- ^ At night on the ward at faz.net, accessed on September 3.
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime Check: Sunday, May 7, 2017.quotemeter.de , May 8, 2017, accessed on May 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Gesine Pucci: BR-Polizeiruf 110: "Nachtdienst" (AT) awarded as "fairest production 2016". FairFilm Award 2017. In: Press releases. Bayerischer Rundfunk, February 11, 2017, accessed on April 29, 2017 .
- ↑ The winners of the FensehfilmFestival 2018. TV Film Festival Baden-Baden, November 30, 2018, accessed on December 1, 2018 .
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