Police call 110: Pig life

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	Pig life
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	AllMedia Pictures on behalf of NDR
length	90 minutes
classification	Episode 299 ( List )
First broadcast	January 11, 2009 on Das Erste
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Director	Eoin Moore
script	Rolf Greulich
production	Heike Richter-Karst
music	Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt
camera	Bernd Lohr
cut	Antje Zynga
occupation
Uwe Steimle : Jens Hinrichs, chief detective Felix Eitner : Markus Tellheim, chief detective Margarita Breitkreiz : Irina Schramm Geno Lechner : Wiebke Perlach Stephan Szász : Rene Wolf, Eisenwolf Katharina Heyer : Dr. Niethnagel, coroner Bernd Stegemann : Dr. Armin Koerber Thomas Morris : Gerrit van Zachten Christoph Bernhard : Mirko Max Mauff : Matthes, postman Hildegard Schroedter : Ellen, farmer Heiko Pinkowski : Horst Riesbeck, farmer Gunnar Helm : villagers Rainer Winkelvoss : Pub guest Wolfgang S. Zechmayer : truck driver

Schweineleben is a German crime film by Eoin Moore from 2009. The television film was released as the 299th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Commissioner Hinrichs is investigating his 30th case. It is the 6th case for his colleague Tellheim.

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A postman happened to find the body of Professor Clemens Taschowski on his tour near a forest lake. Taschowski was only dressed in swimming trunks and was obviously frozen to death. The investigating commissioners Jens Hinrichs and Markus Tellheim initially struggled to find their way to the remote Dagenow. Various inconsistencies suggest the suspicion of a homicide. According to their research, there are several people who had a motive for killing the professor.

A Dutch investor is planning an organic pig fattening facility for 100,000 animals, for which the geophysicist wanted to work out a report for an animal welfare organization that would have been directed against the construction. It looks like these documents were stolen. Irina Schramm, an active animal rights activist, accuses the “iron wolf” of killing the professor as the investor's henchman, Gerrit van Zachten. He owns the old pig fattening systems from GDR times, which are to be converted into new, modern stables, and he is very interested in being able to sell the site for a profit soon. Hinrichs visits him, but can find no concrete evidence against him other than assumptions.

Tellheim meanwhile speaks with the investor Gerrit van Zachten, who states that he has reached an agreement with Taschowski and nothing stands in the way of his investment. Dr. Supported Armin Körber as a lawyer and advisor. As a member of the state parliament, Körber has an interest in promoting the new plant, which would create over a hundred new jobs in the structurally poor region. When the inspectors question Körber, it turns out that he had known Taschowski since GDR times and knew that he had destroyed his report because he owned a piece of land near the mast facility and was not interested in the air of 100,000 To contaminate pigs.

After Hinrichs and Tellheim's investigations, the restaurant operator Wiebke Perlach had also learned of Taschowski's change of heart. She planned to open a wellness hotel, which would no longer be compatible with the new fattening facility in the neighborhood. She admits she was so angry with Tashovsky that she locked him out of his bungalow when he went swimming. She just wanted to give him a lesson and had no idea that this could be fatal.

background

Pig's life was in January 11, 2009 First for prime time broadcast for the first time.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv comes to the verdict: “A frosty breath of broken east blew through the scenery.” This police call 110 is: “Pork cold and sucking - double melancholy came up with this thriller, which managed to unobtrusively affect politics and philosophy connect and draw an atmospheric picture between resistance and resignation. As is so often the case in Schwerin 's' police call', social sensitivities overran the crime case. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and wrote: “Complex, melancholic and funny”.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Steimle, Eitner, Breitkreiz, social sensitivities and a hot-blooded activist, film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 15, 2016.
2. ^ Police call 110: Pig life at tvspielfilm.de

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