Police call 110: Saturdays when there is war

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Saturdays when there's war
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SDR
length 95 minutes
classification Episode 163 ( List )
First broadcast September 18, 1994 on ARD
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Director Roland Suso Richter
script Klaus-Peter Wolf
music Jens Langbein
Robert Schulte-Hemming
camera Hans Grimmelmann
cut Ursula Fritsche
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Saturdays when there is war is a German crime film by Roland Suso Richter from 1994. The television film produced by SDR was released as the 163rd episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 and is the only episode that was banned from television broadcasting for several years.

action

Like young Renate Kroll, Siggi Schmidtmüller works in a bakery in the small town of Ichtenheim. He refuses her invitation to a party at the Italian Gino's because he already has other plans for the evening. Siggi belongs to a right-wing extremist skinhead grouping around the violent Wolf Kleinhaupt. In the evening the group moves to the city's Jewish cemetery, smashes and sprinkles gravestones and lights a fire in the shape of a swastika . They are observed by Siggi's brother Yogi, who has been severely mentally disabled since an accident and cannot speak. Yogi reacts disturbed and runs away before Siggi, who was supposed to take care of him in the evening, can calm him down. The group returns to their local pub in the evening. Wolf is restless - he cannot accept that Renate recently broke up with him and tries in vain to contact her. He drives to Gino and watches Renate dance with the young Italian and kiss him. When Renate rides home alone on her bike at night, Wolf breaks into Gino's car and follows her. He pulls her into the car at a bus stop and follows her when she gets out of the car in a wooded area and tries to escape. Furious with jealousy, he strangles her. Yogi, who was wandering around, observed the murder. However, Wolf threatens him with death if he reveals something, whereby Yogi rips a badge from his clothes in the scuffle. Yogi has to help Wolf maneuver the cart out of the forest; Wolf parks the car undiscovered in Gino's yard, and Yogi is discovered by Siggi in the forest and brought home.

Wolf covers his tracks and throws away his boots and things he wore on the day of the crime. A little later he meets with his colleagues at a quarry where they carry out a test blast. In the future, asylum seekers' homes are to be attacked in order to make Ichtenheim “free of foreigners”. Shortly thereafter, another member of the gang appears and reports that Renate's body has been found. Siggi is certain that Gino was the culprit, as he saw his car at the bus stop while he was looking for Yogi. Secretly, however, he fears that Yogi killed Renate because, among other things, he has been painting disturbing pictures and choking puppets since the day of the crime.

Investigator Vera Bilewski and her assistant Heinz begin the investigation into the Renate case. Vera Bilewski receives photos from the family in which Renate can be seen with the gang members. Shortly thereafter, the gang attacked Ginos Restaurant and smashed the facility. Gino is injured and threatened. The gang members manage to escape. Only Siggi, who smashed the facility as if in a frenzy, is arrested. Vera Bilewski can quickly trace the break-in at Gino's and the desecration of the cemetery. The landlord says that the gang was sitting in his pub at the time of Renate's murder, but also that Wolf first and Siggi later went alone. An interrogation of Wolf fails because Vera Bilewski allows herself to be provoked by Wolf and becomes violent.

The gang knows that they have been followed for some time, so they were observed by officers during their meeting at the quarry. She sets a trap for the pursuers and beats the two men together. Vera Bilewski also realizes that the LKA is observing the gang. However, the LKA is not interested in the right-wing extremist activities, but only in the people behind the gang who supplied the gang with explosives. House searches of Wolf, Siggi and the others for the explosives are unsuccessful, as Wolf deposited the explosives directly at the quarry. When he brings the material to Siggi, because his rooms have already been searched, Yogi reacts extremely panic at the sight. This makes Siggi suspicious, who suspects that Wolf did something to his brother. Wolf realizes that Yogi is a danger to him. Before a new rehearsal in the quarry, Wolf deposited an explosive charge with a timer under Yogi's bed . A little later Yogi attaches Wolf's badge to one of his dolls. He makes it clear to Siggi that Wolf was Renate's murderer, and he rushes to the quarry, where Yogi follows him with the explosive charge, which is regarded as a toy.

Vera Bilewski was able to assign yogi's fingerprints to the crime scene, but he is not in his apartment. Vera Bilewski instinctively sends several units to the quarry and goes to the site herself. Here Siggi and Wolf are already fighting, with Wolf trying to blame Yogi for the murder. Yogi appears with the explosive charge that falls from his hand and explodes. Yogi is seriously injured in the process. Wolf, in turn, can overwhelm Siggi. He wants to kill him with a sledgehammer. Vera Bilewski, who asked him in vain to lay down the gun, shoots him before he can kill Siggi. Siggi rushes to Yogi and takes him in his arms.

production

Saturdays when there is war is a film adaptation of the 1994 novel of the same name by Klaus-Peter Wolf . Wolf wrote the script while he was still working on the novel. He proposed DEFA star Angelica Domröse as commissioner Vera Bilewski; Wolf also wrote the script for the two other Bilewski police calls. The later police call investigator ("Markus Tellheim") Felix Eitner was still an acting student at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich at the time of shooting . The presentation of the mentally disabled yogi who can not speak and does of course over looks, facial expressions and gestures, not was hard for him because he at the Paris Ecole de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq , the pantomime had learned. Aenne Plaumann created the film costumes and Klaus-Peter Platten created the film construction .

The film premiered on June 26, 1994 at the Munich Film Festival . ARD showed the film for the first time on German television on September 18, 1994, with audience participation at 17.1 percent. It was the 163rd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Commissioner Vera Bilewski investigated the first of three cases. Although the small town of Ichtenheim is fictional, director Roland Suso Richter and SDR editor Ulrich Bendele made it clear that it was a small town in West Germany.

Saturdays, when there is war, was shown several times on television and was last broadcast on SWR on February 20, 2002 . In an official announcement on December 27, 2006, the SWR announced that the film "will not be repeated for the time being because of the misleading depiction of violence [...]." On January 16, 2016, however, the episode was broadcast again on SWR .

criticism

“The work of Commissioner Vera Bilewski (Angelika Domröse) is only a secondary issue in this 'police call' case. While the policewoman pokes in the dark, the spectators, as witnesses to the murder, have known for a long time who committed it, ”wrote the Stuttgarter Zeitung . The Süddeutsche Zeitung was that the film "is primarily a social study [is] and [...] so that [is] in the tradition of the series, has the less criminologists as the criminals in the eye." While the Police but in the If the first 20 minutes were “great cinema”, the pace of the film was lost with Bilewski's appearance. For TV Spielfilm it was a “disturbing, well-acted milieu study”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Saturdays when there is war. Experience with books and films . klauspeterwolf.de, accessed on August 22, 2014.
  2. ↑ A grouch, but a modern one . In: Sonntag Aktuell , April 30, 2006, p. 24.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 172.
  4. ↑ a b Sybille Neth: It's not just a thriller . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 17, 1994, p. 18.
  5. ↑ SWR program for January 16, 2016. Accessed December 23, 2015 .
  6. ↑ ws: Sunday 20:15 ARD - Polizeiruf 110 . Stuttgarter Zeitung, September 17, 1994, p. 0 / FIFU.
  7. ↑ Saturdays when there is war on tvspielfilm.de
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