Police call 110: taxi murder
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
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| Original title | Taxi murder |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Saxonia Media on behalf of the MDR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 296 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | September 7, 2008 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mathias Luther |
| script | Arthur Boettger |
| production | Hans-Werner Honert |
| music | Günter Illi |
| camera | Carl Finkbeiner |
| cut | Monika Schindler |
| occupation | |
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Taximord is a German crime film by Mathias Luther from 2008. It is the 296th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 and the 37th case for Schmücke and Schneider .
action
Late in the evening, a bus driver discovers a parked taxi with the doors open, initially there is no trace of the driver. A short time later, the body of the taxi driver Julia Richter is found on the banks of the Saale . The inspectors Schmücke and Schneider are entrusted with the case. They meet Georg Sendler at the place where the victim was found. He was close friends with Julia and is the co-owner of the small taxi company "Sendler", which also includes his brother Jens, his wife Elke and his mother Hanna. The loss of Julia Richter and the lost revenue hit the company hard, which has been struggling with financial problems for a long time.
Richter's last passenger got on from the “Metronom” music club. Since the landlord can remember the Swiss guest well, a phantom picture can be made. This picture is distributed among others to other taxi companies. The Swiss Ulf Neuber is recognized the next time he takes a taxi and is almost lynched by his taxi colleagues . The police have to step in and explain that Neuber was initially only wanted as a witness.
Julia Richter was no stranger to the police, because the drug squad was already investigating her because she was suspected of dealing drugs on her taxi rides. Colleague Müller informs Schmücke and Schneider about what now gives rise to the assumption that the young woman's death has to do with the drug trade and that the seemingly harmless Neuber may not be as innocent as he was. Since the victim's cell phone and taxi receipts are now also found, robbery is ruled out. In Julia Richter's taxi, in addition to smaller packages of various drugs, there is also a hiding place that suggests larger quantities and that the victim may also have worked as a drug courier.
Schmücke tries to find out whether Julia Richter worked alone or whether the whole Sendler taxi company is behind it. The police actually get knowledge of a planned courier trip through telephone monitoring. The caller can be identified quickly and leads to Erik Schumann. A young man from a good family who claims to have given his second cell phone to a man to whom he owed money for drugs. The investigators are at a loss again and are now putting everything on the surveillance of Georg Sendler. He is under surveillance on his courier trip to the Czech Republic and the investigators suspect that he will hand over his goods to “the great stranger” in Halle and that they can transfer him that way. Schmücke and Schneider watch how Georg Sendler, after returning to Halle, swaps suitcases with the tea merchant Jacobs. Even if Jacobs can now prove the drug trade, he denies having anything to do with the death of Julia Richter. At the same time, Georg and Jens Sendler are arrested and accused of murder. During the interrogation, Jens Sendler admits to having argued with Julia because she had started to deal on her own and thus put her secret business in danger. When he tried to confront her, he pushed her to the ground, which unfortunately led to her death.
background
Taxi murder was the Saxonia Media Filmproduktion commissioned by the MDR produces and on 7 September 2008 at the First for prime time first aired.
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff from Kino.de writes: “Friends of the 'Polizeiruf' crime thrillers from Halle in central Germany know what to expect. This is not about thrills or surface stimuli. […] Measured against the usual pace of ARD Sunday films, things are going very slowly here […]. But the plot is carefully thought out, even if you hardly have to be an old hand to know straight away that it could never have been robbery and murder. The repeated encounters between Schmuck and the tea merchant are all the nicer. The ending is a bit simple, but it could come straight from an American crime thriller. "
Julian Miller judges much more harshly ofquote meter and evaluates: “The new edition of the Saxon“ Police Call ”offers neither an interesting basic idea nor a particularly well-made elaboration. The subject of drug smuggling in taxis has something bizarre about it and is dramatically problematic. In the first hour there is no tension or dynamism, but the investigations come on the spot. Nothing is moving forward and the investigators' thoughts keep revolving around the case, and people keep talking around the bush. Granted, that might be a realistic picture of a police investigation; nevertheless, it is neither exciting nor interesting and therefore unsuitable for filming. Watching the characters get no results forever can be very frustrating. [...] The actors do their work neither badly nor well; What is striking, however, is Jaecki Schwarz's incompetence to convey his stereotypical role credibly. 'Polizeiruf 110 - Taxi Murder' is therefore a below-average crime thriller that can be safely missed. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm give their thumbs up and say: “The duo from Halle tackles even the most complicated cases with the greatest serenity. Somehow always sympathetic, but 'exciting' is different. "Conclusion:" Flows leisurely like the Saale. "
Web links
- Police 110: Taxi murder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of the film on the ARD website
Individual evidence
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Film review at kino.de, accessed on August 19, 2015.
- ↑ Julian Miller Die Kritiker: “Polizeiruf 110: Taximord” at quotenmeter.de, accessed on August 19, 2015.
- ↑ TV thriller from Saxony-Anhalt about money, drugs and family problems. Short review by TV Spielfilm at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on August 19, 2015.
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