Police call 110: taxi to the bank

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	Taxi to the bank
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Polyphon Film- und Fernseh GmbH for NDR
length	89 minutes
classification	Episode 168 ( List )
First broadcast	February 26, 1995 on Das Erste
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Director	Manfred Stelzer
script	Oliver G. Wachlin , Manfred Stelzer
production	Klaus-Dieter Zeisberg
music	Reinhard Schaub
camera	David Slama , Jochen Moess
cut	Marion will
occupation
Kurt Böwe : Kurt Groth Uwe Steimle : Jens Hinrichs Karl Kranzkowski : Taxi driver Harry Melchior Yasmina Ahcene-Djaballah : Susanne Oliver Böttcher : Max Gabriele Völsch : Juliane Hanna Petkoff : Ursula Jutta Breu : older bank clerk Birgit Frohriep : bank teller Bea Tober : younger bank clerk Peter Groeger : Bank Branch Manager Hans-Martin Stier : Willy wood Jörg Thieme : Joe Alfred Hartung :

Taxi zur Bank is a German crime film by Manfred Stelzer from 1995. The television film was released as the 168th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

Because he has also placed two hemp plants at his workplace , the young flower seller Max is dismissed without notice. The scene is followed by Susanne, who falls in love with Max at first sight and runs after him. He falls in love with her too. They go to Susanne's friend Juliane Groth, who gives them her apartment and stays with her grandfather, Detective Inspector Kurt Groth.

Susanne and Max, who always have a Fender guitar with them, want to get out of Schwerin. You decide to rob a post office, but it's under renovation. So they decide on a bank where Susanne used to deposit money and therefore knows the unlocked back entrance. To the bank they ride in a taxi from Harry Melchior, let him wait a moment, the bank robbing, taking 35,000 German marks prey, and then go in the taxi to the cemetery. Harry, who has already accepted another customer order, races at it so that he is flashed.

Groth and Hinrichs appear at the crime scene. The security precautions are inadequate, the surveillance camera was not installed, the alarm did not work and a camera was incorrectly adjusted. In addition, the door to the back entrance was open so that everyone could get into the bank unhindered. The employees can only testify that the perpetrators were a man and probably a woman. Susanne and Max were disguised so that exact details are not possible. However, the staff know they escaped in a taxi. The taxi description quickly leads the investigators to Harry, who is arrested but, after questioning, released for shadowing. After a while, Groth only knows that Harry is married to Ursula, but visits numerous lovers at night. This is also known to Harry's wife, who eventually throws him out of the shared apartment. She learns from Groth that Harry is suspected of robbing a bank. In a summer house by the water, Ursula finds a money box in which Harry has been saving money for many years. She makes the savings notes disappear and presents the investigators with the 19,000 D-Mark as part of the bank robbery. Harry is outraged. Hinrichs is convinced of Harry's guilt, while Groth thinks he is innocent.

Harry sees Susanne and Max again, who spent the night in a luxury hotel and now want to travel to the USA via Hamburg. He stops her and takes her to a café, where he also orders Hinrichs. Susanne and Max can escape. The next day Harry waits for them both at the train station and, with guns drawn, takes their ID cards and the money from the bank robbery from them. He demands another 10,000 D-Marks by the next day. Susanne and Max try to rob the bank a second time. A crying toddler, who is finally threatened with a gun by Max, causes Susanne to break off the attack; both flee without money. Harry now takes Susanne hostage to extort the money from Max. He goes with Susanne to the summer house by the lake, where he ties her up. Max visits his friend Joe, who only wants to lend him money for a favor. Desperate, Max turns to Juliane, who is at the disco with Hinrichs. Hinrichs realizes that Max is part of the bank robbery duo and goes with him to Joe, where Max steals money, and then to the meeting point that Max has arranged with Harry. Meanwhile, Groth was supposed to shadow Harry, but lost sight of him. He learns from Ursula that Harry is probably in the summer house. Groth can free Susanne here. With her he goes to the meeting point, where Hinrichs and Max are just threatened by Joe, who wants his money back. Hinrichs overpowers Joe, and Groth comes to his aid. Susanne and Max use the time to escape. However, the investigators know that neither of them will get very far and, with Joe in their midst, slowly go to their vehicle to issue a wanted report.

production

Schwerin Castle and Pond, a location for the film

Taxi zur Bank was filmed in Schwerin from August to September 1994. A pond in front of the Schwerin Castle served as a backdrop . The costumes of the film created Stephanie Polo , the Filmbauten submitted by Ulrich Isfort . The film had its television premiere on February 26, 1995 on ARD . The audience participation was 18.9 percent.

It was the 168th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . The commissioners Hinrichs and Groth investigated in their 4th case.

criticism

“The criminal offense is staged with a delicious sense of macabre comedy”, stated the Stuttgarter Zeitung , and found that because of the perpetrators who were established from the start, “the little stories that are stored in the crime story are more interesting and exciting than the Rest “. The Süddeutsche Zeitung saw in Taxi zur Bank a variant of “ Bonnie & Clyde as a cardboard-nose parody with a happy ending: The smallest, happiest variant of the big model. Nothing more, nothing less than likeable, this little piece. ”For TV Spielfilm it was a“ tragic-comic moment of the crime series ”.

Web links

• Police 110: Taxi to the bank in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Police call 110: Taxi to the bank at filmportal.de
• Police call 110: Taxi to the bank on Das Erste.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 177.
2. ↑ Viewed critically - taxi to the bank . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , February 28, 1995, p. 0 / FIFU.
3. ↑ Wilfried Geldner: Cardboard nose parody . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 28, 1995, p. 13.
4. ^ Police call 110: Taxi to the bank on tvspielfilm.de

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