Police call 110: Rasputin

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	Rasputin
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Polyphon Film- und Fernseh GmbH on behalf of the NDR
length	89 minutes
classification	Episode 210 ( List )
First broadcast	April 11, 1999 on Das Erste
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Director	Hans-Erich Viet
script	Edmund Grote , Hans-Erich Viet
music	Kambiz Giahi
camera	Udo Franz
cut	Birgit Levin
occupation
Kurt Böwe : Kurt Groth Uwe Steimle : Jens Hinrichs Julia Richter : Nina Edgar Selge : Dr. Siggi Langer Thommi Baake : Daniel Blind Heike Falkenberg : Sabine Horst Frank : Pathologist Natascha Graf Hubertus Hartmann : SOKO official Wegener Hans-Helmut Müller : Dr. Stuber Wolfgang Rau Uwe Rohde : Special Agent Paul Sabine Wegner : Schmitz-Bollinger Pamela Großer : Stephanie Armin Rohde : Urologist Willem

Rasputin is a German crime film by Hans-Erich Viet from 1999. The television film was released as the 210th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

A serial killer is going on in Schwerin who has already killed several prostitutes. A high dose of morphine was always involved . Chief Detective Jens Hinrichs meets young Nina while checking the Relax brothel , whom he asks to become his informant, as her friend was the perpetrator's last victim. He now meets the attractive young woman more often, even if he cannot always hold back his prejudices. He learns from her that she once had to deal with a very strange suitor who planned to conduct medical experiments on her, which she refused.

Although the case of the serial killer is actually a matter for a responsible SOKO from Berlin, it has been trying in vain to solve the case for three years. Hinrichs researched on his own and initially contacted the doctor Dr. Siggi Langer under suspicion. Langer has behavioral problems, dances through the night and is always too sleepy the next day to open his practice in time. He contractually forces the practice employees to accompany him home in the evening and to help him fall asleep or to relieve him of some of the housework. Hinrichs finally learns from a former colleague of Langer that a patient died a year ago, which was covered up. Although this was already over 60 years old and thus falls out of the grid of the serial killer, Hinrichs sticks to his perpetrator thesis. It was only Groth's research that brought Hinrichs to his senses: Langer is known in the Schwerin drug scene and was given the name “Rasputin” there. His case will be followed up, but no more than that of the possible serial killer.

Hinrichs also found out about Nina from an acquaintance with whom she had a brief relationship and who has followed her since then. His name is Daniel; one of its central features is half a tattoo. Hinrichs receives the template from a tattoo artist, which Daniel himself had drawn at the time. You will remember works by Keith Haring and Hinrichs and Groth that a similar drawing was found not far from a crime scene. In fact, the Tatort drawing appears to be an early version of the tattoo that Daniel may not have completed because the Tatort picture was in all the newspapers for a while. Hinrichs proudly presents his findings to the SOKO investigators, but to his great disappointment is not officially included in the case, on the contrary, he has to vacate his office for the SOKO. Nina uses them as a decoy at a vernissage in which Daniel is exhibiting new works. Hinrichs, who fell a little in love with Nina, disapproves of this. He secretly goes to the vernissage with Groth, even if his superior, Dr. Stuber and the SOKO employees have forbidden him to interfere.

Nina disappears from the vernissage after a short time with Daniel. Both go to Daniel's apartment. The officer, who should always stay with her for Nina's protection, gets stuck in the elevator because of his technology. Hinrichs and Groth, on the other hand, cannot find any protection on their little exploration tour in front of Daniel's apartment block. When firefighters suddenly appear because they suspect suicide candidates in the SOKO men on the roof of the house, Hinrichs joins them. He goes to Daniel's apartment, where suddenly Nina begins to scream. Daniel has tied her to a chair and wants to give her morphine. With the help of the fire brigade, Hinrichs succeeds in breaking open the apartment door and freeing Nina. The SOKO investigators finally praised the good cooperation between SOKO and Schwerin police in front of the press. Dr. Stuber is full of praise for Hinrichs' work. There is a glimmer of hope in love too. Nina agrees to meet Hinrichs again.

production

Rasputin was filmed in Schwerin and the surrounding area in November 1998. The costumes of the film created Heidi Plätz that Filmbauten derived from Marion Strohschein . The film had its television premiere on April 11, 1999 on Das Erste . The audience participation was 15.9 percent.

It was the 210th episode in the Polizeiruf 110 film series . The inspectors Hinrichs and Groth investigated in their 12th case. In this episode, Hinrichs meets his future wife Nina.

criticism

For the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Rasputin was the “most light-footed, most detailed and eccentric German crime thriller in a long time.” “Scriptwriter Edmund Grote and Hans Erich Viet knew how to add humor to the story without revealing the crime game,” wrote Die Tageszeitung and praised it the "panopticon of quirky characters" and the "multitude of amusing ideas and scenes" that tie in with the main storyline.

The Leipziger Volkszeitung wrote that the film was a crime grotesque, which, however, vacillated “between seriousness and fooling around, murder hunt and whimpering”, could not decide on a direction and therefore ended up “at the fair of harmless, gritty, everyday jokes”. The Berliner Morgenpost gave a similar verdict : Since it is “fixated on the bizarre, the plot barely allows the tension to arise. Rather, it is exhausted in parodistic mess work. ”The Mitteldeutsche Zeitung noted that the film“ was at times very funny, but all too often the gags were repeated. ”The Stuttgarter Zeitung found that the duo Hinrichs-Groth would become a caricature if as in Rasputin, "the reasonably plausible action [...] is withdrawn from them". In addition, the motive of the East investigators against the “clever West Soko” is now exhausted.

Web links

• Police 110: Rasputin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Police call 110: Rasputin at filmportal.de
• Police call 110: Rasputin on Das Erste.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 219.
2. ↑ Christine Dössel: Pleasingly crazy . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 10, 1999, p. 20.
3. ↑ Harald Keller: Really 1A . In: Die Tageszeitung , April 13, 1999, p. 14.
4. ↑ NW: Windy north . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , April 12, 1999, p. 10.
5. ↑ Max Callsen: Hardly any tension . In: Berliner Morgenpost , April 12, 1999, p. 33.
6. ↑ Uwe Deecke: Undecided . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , April 13, 1999.
7. ↑ abt: stumbling policemen . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , April 13, 1999, p. 32.

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