Police call 110: Smoke on the Water

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	Smoke on the water
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production ; company	TV60Filmproduktion ; on behalf of BR
length	90 minutes
classification	Episode 345 ( List )
First broadcast	October 19, 2014 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Dominik Graf
script	Günter Schütter
production	Andreas Bareiß ; Sven Burgemeister ; Gloria Burkert
music	Sven Rossenbach ; Florian van Volxem
camera	Hendrik A. Kley
cut	Susanne Hartmann
occupation
	Matthias Brandt : Hanns von Meuffels; Ken Duken : Dr. Joachim von Cadenbach; Judith Bohle : Corry Hüsken; Marek Harloff : Mischa Eigner; Berivan Kaya : Aleyna Kaan; Anja Schiffel : Margot von Cadenbach; Lena Baader : Anne ten Hoff; Ursula Gottwald : little calves; Markus Ertelt :; Maximilian Laprell :; Torben Liebrecht : Dr. Christian Strobl; Michael Vogtmann : pond graves; Justus Menges : Holger Zacharias 'Holzi' from Cadenbach; Sascha Maaz : Chief Commissioner; Christine Adler : Policeman; Joss Uhler : Emergency doctor; Meik Engelmann : Salinger Plant Manager; Thomas Kiessling :; Gerhard Koller : Emergency doctor; Herbert Forthuber : Owner's lawyer; Leon Stoelzel :;

Smoke on the Water is a TV film from the ARD crime series Polizeiruf 110 . The film was produced on behalf of BR under the direction of Dominik Graf and was broadcast for the first time on Sunday, October 19, 2014 on Erste . It is the eighth case of the Munich police call investigator Hanns von Meuffels .

action

The young journalist Anne ten Hoff is killed in her apartment in Munich. Chief detective Hanns von Meuffels coaxed a confession from the unsuccessful musician Mischa Eigner after a long interrogation.

Corry Hüsken, a friend of the murder victim, doubts the musician's act and the motive of jealousy. She gets von Meuffels to research the case again. Since no documents relating to her last journalistic work are found in the victim's apartment, it is quite possible that she was on the trail of a scandal. Recently your attention has been drawn to the Verbier works , which have developed a new satellite guidance system that is very interesting for the defense industry. The sponsor and advocate of this research is the EU politician Dr. Joachim von Cadenbach, who is therefore attacked by peace activists and worried about his safety and that of his family after the journalist's death.

In addition to the inspector, Corry Hüsken is also investigating the case and finds out that von Cadenbach and Mischa Eigner already knew each other from school. One of them was Christian Strobl, who disappeared without a trace one day after the journalist was murdered. Von Meuffels was able to track him down and Strobl declared that he was afraid to go into hiding because he knew of a financial scandal involving Cadenbach, which the journalist wanted to expose. Since she was killed, he too fears for his life. As far as he knows, it is about a billion-dollar black money affair in which many politicians are involved who have no interest in making this public. Strobl thinks it is possible that von Cadenbach bought the unemployed artist Eigner and paid for his confession. However, the owner can no longer ask von Meuffels about this because he is found hanged in his cell. He also finds out that even his police colleagues were "bought" by Cadenbach. He even suspects that the officers strangled owners themselves and that it was not suicide.

Von Meuffels now goes on the offensive and confronts von Cadenbach with his findings. He demands a DNA comparison with evidence at the crime scene, which would bring clarity. But before he can arrest Cadenbach, two masked police officers storm into the politician's villa and take all those present hostage. They leave no doubt that they want to kill the five people and disguise it as a terrorist attack. Cadenbach's secretary manages to find a pistol in the house and shoot one of the policemen. Left to his own devices, the second perpetrator is powerless against the hostages. They flee the villa and von Meuffels arrests von Cadenbach.

Von Cadenbach had an affair lasting several weeks with the victim. When he found out that she was only using and listening to him, he confronted her and wanted the material she had gathered about and from him. In the dispute, he then killed the journalist and asked Mischa Eigner to help him - knowing that the musician would not turn down a financially lucrative offer.

background

The shooting took place from May 6, 2014 to June 4, 2014 in Munich and the surrounding area (Pähl and Raisting).

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Smoke on the Water on October 19, 2014 was seen by 7.29 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.1 percent for Das Erste .

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv writes: “In 'Polizeiruf 110 - Smoke on the Water', Hanns von Meuffels has to deal with a blue-blooded high-flyer who is acting like a provincial king. Did he pay someone else to serve his homicide offense? Or are more global forces at play in and around Cadenbach, for whom one or two murders are peanuts? The interplay of power and powerlessness drives this film, which comes to its desperate end in an insanely brutal 15-minute dance of death. With this thriller, Dominik Graf torments Sunday crime fans less than last time. This is also due to the great sensuality with which he implements Schütter's complex script. Atmospheric, cool, weird, political & a bit sexist. "

“Flashbacks and flashbacks, long zooms and frozen images: director Dominik Graf, who drove the audience to the barricade with his last ' Tatort ' in Munich , edited the plot by screenwriter Günter Schütter like a free jazz musician on a classic song. […] Praise to the Bavarian Radio: After the wonderfully melancholy Gustav Mahler ' police call ' two months ago, there is now an unleashed Ornette Coleman ' police call ' from Munich. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

“It's all played very well. And the dramaturgy also has a few surprises in store. The story, however, groans tremendously under its political-sociological superstructure, which is not constructed ironically enough to pass as satire. With a little less kitschy criticism of power, ' Smoke on the Water ' would pass as a columbing parody of the Left Party's image of Europe. "

- Oliver Junge : Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung