Police call 110: Deadly Dreams

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Deadly dreams
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 136 ( List )
First broadcast March 4, 1990 on DFF 1
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Director Thomas Jacob
script Percy Dreger
Thomas Jacob
production Hans-Jörg glasses
music Arnold Fritzsch
camera Wolfgang Huthmann
cut Imke Gerber
occupation

Tödliche Träume is a German crime film by Thomas Jacob from 1990. The television film about criminal machinations on the used car market in the GDR was released as the 136th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

As almost every day, Reinhold Krüger stands at his wife's grave. Her suicide was a severe blow to the man who had been so energetic up until then. His auto repair shop, which he built up and operated in a labor-intensive manner, is now indifferent to him like everything else. After visiting the cemetery, he usually indulges in alcohol in a pub. There he often meets his future son-in-law, Tommy Kellner, a photographer who wants to open a business in order to be his own boss.

Reinhold's son Bernhard is forced to keep the workshop running with the help of his sister Heike, who takes care of the written work. This is becoming increasingly difficult for the young man without the support of his father, as there are often delivery problems with spare parts and the customers blame Bernhard for this. When Mario, a long-time employee, tries to help him, he lets him go ungraciously. Mario loves Heike, with whom he slept once. For Heike, however, it was just a one-off slip.

Investigators Fuchs, Huebner and Grawe have had various reports of injured parties who were tricked into buying a car because the alleged seller managed to run away with the car that had just been sold and the purchase price already paid. As it turned out later, the IDs presented had all been stolen beforehand. Based on various statements, a phantom picture of the "seller" is made and published in the newspaper. Little by little, there are traces that point in the direction of the Krüger garage.

Meanwhile, Heike and Bernhard Krüger have found an account statement for their father in a folder. This shows that 45,000 marks have disappeared, whereupon Bernhard later heavily reproaches his father. The next day Reinhold appears again in his workshop. To the astonishment of his son, Marios and the other employees, Reinhold picks up the book again as if nothing had happened. To Bernhard, who gratefully hugs his father, he says that he has put the 45,000 marks for Heike in a savings account, since Bernhard will take over the workshop.

Heike has stayed with her boyfriend Tommy, who, as it turns out during a visit from Nina Merkowicz, also promised the young woman marriage and has a child with her. When Heike comes home late in the evening, still deeply affected and injured, her father tells her that he thinks Tommy is wanted by the police and refers to the picture in the newspaper. Tommy continues to be cocky. With his newly “acquired” Mazda , he shows up at a photo session where Nina works as a make-up artist. The photographer is angry when he sees the car, since Tommy still owes him 30,000 marks, and wants to know when he intends to pay. When Tommy tries to divest him, he gives him a final week of grace. Nina then inconspicuously shows Tommy the mug shot in the newspaper. She fears that they will be found out.

The VoPo has not remained idle in the meantime and has been able to trace Nina using the stolen IDs. Reinhold Krüger now confronts Tommy and says that he trusted him and that was the only reason why he left him with a customer car without asking any further questions. Tommy threatens him, however, that if he goes to the police he will claim that Reinhold got half the share from the car fraud, and since his workshop is in trouble anyway, he will be believed too.

Tommy can finally persuade Nina to commit a car fraud as the last coup. Since his picture is in the newspaper, Nina is supposed to handle the deal. Nina is nervous when she sees a police car drive by. Karin Gellweit, the potential buyer, is determined to complete the purchase. She forces the money on Nina, but does not pay the agreed amount and drives away in the Trabant without Nina being able to prevent it. Some time later, one of Karin Gellweit's neighbors called the police, because Gellweit was found dead.

In the meantime, Nina has been arrested, but first denies the allegations made against her, but then collapses and tells crying that she did everything for Tommy and never questioned anything. Even Tommy, who tried to escape arrest by escaping, is interrogated by the investigators. He wants to attach the murder of Karin Gellweit to Reinhold Krüger. Trembling with fear, he repeats the same thing over and over, saying that he did not kill the woman.

Reinhold says goodbye to his wife in the cemetery and then goes to the police station to make a confession. He killed Gellweit. When the investigators want to know what exactly happened that evening, he is silent. Fuchs, Hübner and Grawe find that strange. Fuchs thinks that Reinhold Krüger is not the culprit. Reinhold is then taken to the crime scene and meets his son Bernhard there. He can no longer withstand the pressure and confesses that it was him. He wanted to give Karin Gellweit the money back for the car and have the car back that belonged to a customer. Gellweit did not want to cancel the deal, although he had offered her to get her another car and also mentioned that this car had been stolen. She wasn't interested in any of that. When she started barking and screaming, he put a pillow on her face. Confused about his act, Bernhard Krüger is finally taken away. Reinhold Krüger and his daughter Heike are left with sagging shoulders.

production

Deadly Dreams (working title: Misfire ) was filmed from September 9th to October 30th, 1989 in Dresden , Stolpen , Weßnitz (incorporated into Großenhain since 1995) and Riesa in Saxony . For Captain Peter Fuchs ( Peter Borgelt ) it was the 77th case of his career, for First Lieutenant Jürgen Hübner ( Jürgen Frohriep ) the 59th and for First Lieutenant Thomas Grawe ( Andreas Schmidt-Schaller ) the 25th case.

Reviews

Gong magazine says that the film is “not completely convincing” and Hörzu rates the film as “mediocre”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=136 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ↑ See Police Call 110: Deadly Dreams . In: Gong . No. 27, 2012, p. 55.
  3. ↑ See Police Call 110: Deadly Dreams . In: Listen . No. 27, 2012, p. 67.
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