Police call 110: Quiet as the night

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title As quiet as the night
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 DEFA
on behalf of
DDR television
length 86 minutes
classification Episode 119 ( List )
First broadcast May 22, 1988 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Hans-Joachim Hildebrandt
script Hans-Joachim Hildebrandt
production Erich Albrecht
music Karl-Ernst Sasse
camera Günter Eisinger
cut Anneliese Hinze-Sokolowa
occupation

Still like the night is a German crime film by Hans-Joachim Hildebrandt from 1988. The television film was released as the 119th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

During her cure, Renate Liebig met the musician Horst Plessow, who organized music evenings for the spa guests. He always puts on shellac records from his collection of classical music. While Renate is attending Horst's evening with her husband Falk, who has come to visit, their house is being robbed. Among other things, valuable photographic equipment and Falk's stamp collection are missing. The loss amounts to around 50,000 marks. In the apartment there are footprints and a pipe that was lost by the perpetrator and rolled under a cupboard. House roommates say they recognized a man with a mustache. The description fits Horst Plessow, but the music evening gives him an alibi.

The investigators, who in addition to Captain Wolfgang Reichenbach and Lieutenant Thomas Grawe also include Lieutenant Sabine Baumert in their first case, find older unsolved cases with a similar pattern. The husband or wife was always on the cure and was visited by the partner when the apartment was broken into. With the more recent break-ins, however, it is astonishing that the traces in the apartments are apparently deliberately laid and thus the suspicion is actively directed towards Plessow. In an apartment where a valuable painting is stolen, a whole series of steps in the garden can be secured and analyzed. It turns out that the perpetrator is a woman.

Horst Plessow has numerous women around him with whom he has started relationships. He met Elsa seven years ago when he was finishing his job. She built it up again. However, he has been cheating on her for some time with the much younger masseuse Kerstin. When both women happen to meet in the presence of Horst, both of them split up with Horst - Elsa because she can no longer tolerate his cheating, and Kerstin because she no longer wants to be Horst's assistant. Kerstin moves in with Elsa, who wants Horst to repay her debts of 5,000 marks in the next few days. Instead, he bequeaths her a valuable painting that he allegedly inherited from his parents. Elsa takes the painting to the police, as the owner's note on the back makes it clear that the painting does not come from Horst's family. In fact, it turns out to be stolen. The research shows that Horst is a trained locksmith. He always flirted with his future victims and unnoticed stole the house keys from them, which he copied until the next meeting. While he was entertaining the guests with music a few days later, his accomplice broke into the home of the spa patients. The investigators set a trap for Horst: this time when he breaks into an electronics store with counterfeit keys, he is arrested.

Horst also flirted with Renate Liebig, who responded because her husband Falk, as a fashion designer, constantly cheated on her with models. In her absence, Falk found a new love in Uta Mahlow. However, Uta does not accept that Falk wants to part with her shortly before Renate's return from the cure. She sets up on the Liebig's waterfront property and tells Renate that Falk had persuaded her to robbery. Renate reports Uta to the police who have been looking for Uta for a long time. She had previously rehearsed a variety show with Horst, in which she turned into Horst. The utensils for disguising can be found in Uta's apartment. Uta is arrested as Horst's accomplice.

production

As silent as the night was filmed from September 1 to early November 1987 in Berlin , Potsdam , Brandenburg , Eisenach , Bad Liebenstein , Bad Salzungen and Steinbach . The costumes for the film were created by Katrin Johnsen , the film structures were created by Heinz Leuendorf . The film premiered on May 22, 1988 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 34.1 percent.

It was the 119th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Captain Wolfgang Reichenbach investigated in his 6th and last case and Lieutenant Thomas Grawe in his 14th case.

The eponymous poem Still like the night of an unknown author was set to music by Carl Bohm and can be heard several times in the film.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 127.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=119 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 127.
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