Police call 110: disappeared without a trace

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Disappeared without a trace
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Infafilm
on behalf of the BR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 205 ( List )
First broadcast October 18, 1998 on Das Erste
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Director Ulrich Stark
script Christian Jeltsch
production Manfred Korytowski
music Birger Heymann
camera Wolf Siegelmann
cut Ulla Möllinger
occupation

A German crime film by Ulrich Stark from 1998 disappeared without a trace . The television film was released as the 205th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Six year old Melanie disappears without a trace from a Munich shopping center. The mother Ricky claims to have only been in a shop for a short time. The one-armed chief detective Tauber after an accident brings the Nuremberg psychologist Dr. Silvia Jansen added to the investigation, as she should look after her parents psychologically. She quickly realizes that the family has rather rough morals, the husband Ronny beats his wife more often and the mother wanted to make her child a star as a singer and dancer. When Melanie returns, she will come to the mini playback show and become famous, according to the mother. Tauber, however, believes that Melanie may have fallen victim to a crime. In relevant portals, small children are offered for sex games, but Melanie is not among them.

The press interest in the case is high and so Silvia Jansen has Melanie's parents give a press conference in which the kidnapper is asked to release the child. Shortly afterwards, an anonymous caller contacts the police and demands one million dollars for Melanie. Meanwhile, a man caught in the course of child prostitution raids leads the investigators on the trail of the Kids Cast agency , in which children are cast for advertising appearances and television roles. At the same time, however, Head Sehler-Rednick has contacts with child trafficking, so she is arrested. Melanie also sang for Kids Cast . However, the video shot shows a girl who is forced to perform by her mother against her will. Ricky herself was once a rather unsuccessful singer and wanted to realize herself in her child.

A second phone call comes in to the police and the blackmailer tells how the money should be handed over. When questioned, Ricky said she saw a suspicious man in her garden several times. The description fits Victor Timpe, who has a criminal record for molesting minors, but was treated by Silvia Jansen and released as cured. Silvia is convinced that the police are making a mistake in arresting Timpe. When the money is handed over, the blackmailer can again be found: It is Willi Sorowski, Melanie's grandpa and father of Ricky. He says the family needed the money and the blackmail was so easy.

Melanie's body is found in a garbage facility. As the aggressive rainbow press reveals Ricky and Ronny that Silvia Jansen once released Timpe as cured, Tauber pulls the psychologist off the case. She continues to investigate with the help of journalist Paul Schelski. In a surveillance video of the mall, she saw a man filming the building's children's playground. She finds out that the man was only testing one camera at the nearby electronics store. Paul Schelski promises to organize the tape of the camera. Meanwhile, Timpe is released due to lack of evidence, which is particularly indignant to Melanie's father Ronny. The autopsy of Melanie, in turn, shows that Melanie was not raped, but died of a broken neck. The tape of the video camera finally shows Willi Sorowski, who seems to be waiting for something, and Ricky, who doesn't come from a shop, but from outside, and brings Melanie's bike to the playground. The video is played to Willi and Ricky; after Willi initially described himself as the perpetrator, Ricky finally admits to having killed her daughter. In the meantime, Ronny has fled and organized a pistol. He goes with a gossip reporter and cameraman to Timpe's whereabouts, where the police appear. Silvia Jansen manages to convince Timpe in the building that he is free because the perpetrator has been caught. When she leaves the building with him, Timpe is shot by Ronny. The camera is there live and the reporter triumphs. She spat at her deaf with contempt; Ronny is arrested.

production

Disappeared without a trace was filmed in Munich . The costumes of the film created Natascha Curtius Noss that Filmbauten derived from Pit Janzen . The film had its television premiere on October 18, 1998 on the first . The audience participation was 19.9 percent.

It was the 205th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series . Silvia Jansen investigated in her 3rd case and Jürgen Tauber in his 1st case. It was the first Jansen police call that no longer played in Nuremberg, but in Munich.

criticism

The film was "honorable failed due to the difficult topic", found the TV Spielfilm . The Leipziger Volkszeitung saw in the police call on the one hand the topic of "violence against children" predominant, on the other hand also a dispute about "which traces lurid reports about abused girls leave", the film warns of "against the child molester hysteria".

The Stuttgarter Zeitung especially praised Edgar Selge, who played the hyperactive deaf "terrific". Silvia Jansen as a psychologist, however, is the fate of other psychologists in crime series, including Leslie Malton (Antonia Reiser in Gespenster ), who could not establish themselves in the crime film: “The old concept failed because of the lack of courage to portray Silvia Jansen in a more extreme way. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 214.
  2. ^ Police call 110: disappeared without a trace on tvspielfilm.de
  3. ↑ Klaus Katzenmeyer: Thick applied . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , October 20, 1998, p. 8.
  4. ↑ RT: From the depths of the soul . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , October 17, 1998, p. 40.
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