Police call 110: red caviar

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Red caviar
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 177 ( List )
First broadcast November 19, 1995 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Ulrich Stark
script Dirk Salomon
Thomas Wesskamp
production Veith von Fürstenberg
music Birger Heymann
camera Manfred Ensinger
cut Felicitas Lainer
occupation

Roter Kaviar is a German crime film by Ulrich Stark from 1995. The television film was released as the 177th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

Ukrainian Igor is surprised at the shepherd's hour with grocery store owner Marietta Holdebrink. There is a duel in the store's camp, two men flee, and Igor also disappears; What remains is the dead warehouse worker Dimitri Dubinin. This had previously been interrogated by Jutta Schröder and Jürgen Mertens from the Federal Intelligence Service , as he was one of their informants. At first, the BND seemed dissatisfied with Dimitri's research, but pricked up the ears when he reported that a man had apparently offered a small amount of smuggled red caviar.

Igor flees and is shortly afterwards taken by patrolman Sigi Möller in his car. Two men chase the car and push it off the road. Igor is threatened with a gun by the two men, but Sigi is initially able to keep the men in check. It is Igor who finally protects him when the men shoot her. When Sigi confessed to Igor that he was a police officer as he continued to drive, Igor threw him out of the car. Sigi's attempt to stop a following car also fails. Günther Rehberg, who has just broken out of prison to confront his allegedly cheating wife Sonja, sits there.

Sigi issues a wanted report for his car and the people involved in the shooting, but he and his partner Kalle are already calling out to duty. On the market square of their small town Volpe stands a working, stolen tank, the driver of which threatens to shoot at the school on the market. Jutta Schröder and Jürgen Mertens from the BND pretend that Rehberg, who is on medication and therefore unpredictable, is sitting in the tank. They plan to storm the tank. While evacuating a nursing home, Sigi meets Elisabeth Kampnagel, with whom he had dealt with in a previous case . The whole case seems strange to him and so he overhears a conversation of the BND, from which it becomes clear that it is not Rehberg but Igor who is sitting in the tank. The BND has an interest in seeing Igor dead. Since Igor had saved his life, Sigi is now organizing the rescue of Igor. He can find Rehberg, makes him drunk and, with Grandma Kampnagel's help, can secretly exchange Igor for Rehberg before the BND storms the tank. Grandma Kampnagel also makes her jeep available to bring Igor across the Belgian border through Sigi.

The BND is surprised and angry that Rehberg was actually in the tank. Gabi Bauer from the homicide squad tells Jutta Schröder that her friend Sigi was saved by Igor while he was almost killed by two men - who turn out to be BND employees. Jutta Schröder, on the other hand, makes Kalle and Gabi understand their real concern. Ex- KGB man Igor is a highly dangerous man who carries over a kilogram of plutonium - code word “red caviar” - with him. He wanted to smuggle the plutonium out of Germany and sell it abroad. He killed Dimitri in Marietta's camp.

Since Igor suspects that his escape across the border is now known, he and Sigi return to Marietta in Volpe. He wants to flee with her, but the camp is surrounded by Volper police, BND and Gabi by the homicide squad. Igor kills two BND men so that Sigi can see who he is. Igor is finally shot by Kalle after a grueling guerrilla war. Jürgen Mertens wants to have Sigi arrested, but shortly before his death Igor received a document from which it emerges that Igor was supposed to smuggle the plutonium to Germany on behalf of the BND. However, since the entire case definitely has to hit the headlines, Rehberg ends up being the title hero of a magazine that portrays his tank occupation as a protest against prison conditions.

production

Brilon Market Square, a location for the film

Red caviar was shot mainly in Brilon . The action location Volpe is a fictional small town with phonetic allusions to the district town of Olpe . The costumes of the film created Natascha Curtius Noss that Filmbauten submitted by Harald Turzer . The film had its television premiere on November 19, 1995 on ARD . The audience participation was 17.6 percent.

It was the 177th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . The investigators Sigi Möller and Kalle Küppers investigated in their second case. Roter Kaviar was one of the programs that were broadcast in memory of him in the changed program after Dieter Krebs' death in 2000.

criticism

In the film, “the banal meets the sublime, and in the end it is called satire. It wasn't on this 'police call', but it is inside, how pleasant, ”wrote Die Tageszeitung . "More satire than crime, with great actors," said the TV Spielfilm .

Award

In 1996, red caviar was nominated for an Adolf Grimme Prize ; however, the award went to the first Möller-Küppers episode 1A Landeier .

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, pp. 225–227.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 186.
  2. ↑ Krebs' last appearance is not broadcast . In: Berliner Morgenpost , January 7, 2000, p. 25; TA: Remembering Krebs and Wicki . In: Thüringer Allgemeine , January 7, 2000.
  3. ^ Anke Westphal: Rigoletto and Rio Bravo . In: Die Tageszeitung , November 21, 1995, p. 18.
  4. ↑ Police call 110: Red Caviar on tvspielfilm.de
  5. ↑ The search for the murderer in the Sauerland . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , March 15, 1997.
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