Police call 110: death from electric current

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	Electric current death
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Production company	DEFA on behalf of DFF
length	69 minutes
classification	Episode 141 ( List )
First broadcast	October 7, 1990 on DFF 1
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Director	Peter Hagen
script	Horst Ansorge
production	Hans-Erich Busch
music	Conrad Aust
camera	Rolf Sohre
cut	Christine Schöne
occupation
Jürgen Frohriep : First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner Lutz Riemann : First Lieutenant Lutz Zimmermann Jörg Kleinau : Lieutenant Rödel Renate Blume : Sonja Wilke Olaf Hais : Thomas Wilke Peter Prager : Sebastian Brauner Otmar Richter : ABV Karl Teterow Helmut Schellhardt : Hermann Meißner Peter Mohrdieck : Matthes Wilfried Pucher : Mayor Pfühlberg Rose Becker : Neighbor Iris Bohnau : Employee of the district building authority Solveig Müller : Marianne Teterow Bertram Bolz : Schulz Hans-Joachim Brieske : bungalow owner Werner Ehrlicher : Head of VPKA Holger Franke : energy economist Gerd Funk : energy economist Roman-Eckhard Galonska : Shift supervisor for large consumer bakery Werner Kanitz : construction workers Herbert Manz : Client Detlef Neuhaus : Forensic Technician Gerd Staiger : site manager Rainer Doering : Construction worker Gunnar Helm : construction worker Peter Kaden : Weigel Werner Kos : Employee building supervision Dieter Perlwitz : Willi Knut Schultheiß : Construction worker

Death by Electric Current is a German crime film by Peter Hagen from 1990. The television film was released as the 141st episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Spring 1989: During evening excavation work for a planned sewer pipe, the excavator's grapple gets caught in the roots, as excavator operator Herbert Wilke suspects. He tries to loosen the gripper with an iron bar and in the process damages the power cable of a cable route. Herbert is electrocuted. His wife Sonja always had him in view from her house, as her lover Sebastian Brauner was secretly visiting her. So she sees the lightning bolts triggered by the electricity, alerts the emergency services and lets Sebastian drive her to the scene of the accident. Sebastian drives shortly afterwards, he doesn't want to be drawn into the matter.

First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner and First Lieutenant Lutz Zimmermann take over the investigation. During the interrogation, Sonja admits that she wanted to separate from her husband. Now son Thomas also learns that his parents' marriage was over. It soon becomes clear that the work has been done negligently. Herbert's shaft plan is missing and it turns out that the mayor and the representative of the district building authority signed and approved the route marked by Herbert for convenience, but did not check it on site. This would have made it clear that Herbert had not marked the position of the power cable. Investigators soon wonder if he even knew about the main cable. The cable is not recorded in a plan that can be found in Herbert's files. It also turns out that the person responsible for issuing the plan was Sebastian Brauner. He states that the plan, which was found in Herbert's work clothes, was from the time he was building a house a few years ago. At that time the cable was already in place, but the house builders received a plan from 1979 in which the cable was not shown. It was irrelevant for the house builder, so copies were made of an older, already existing plan for the sake of simplicity.

The investigators happened to find out that Herbert had a construction trailer brought to Schwetzdorf for work to be done shortly before his death. Here Lutz Zimmermann finds another work jacket from Herbert that has the correct shaft plan. Herbert had simply forgotten him in Schwetzdorf and, for lack of time, had resorted to the old plan that was available to him, as he absolutely wanted to continue working that evening. He forgot the power cable that was not shown. His death is a simple accident, even if numerous institutions have failed: They did not check Herbert's work properly because he was a reliable and experienced worker, let him work after hours and assigned him work equipment that was ready for scrap, such as the fault-prone excavator and its jammed grab first triggered the accident. Jürgen Hübner indicates that he does not want to be in the shoes of the decisive prosecutor.

production

Death by Electric Current was filmed from January 15 to April 10, 1990 in Potsdam and Bergholz-Rehbrücke . The costumes of the film created Marion Mentel , the Filmbauten submitted by Harry Leupold . The film had its television premiere on October 7, 1990 on DFF 1 . It was the first police call that had its television premiere after German reunification. The audience participation was 31.7 percent.

It was the 141st episode in the series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner investigated in his 61st case and First Lieutenant Lutz Zimmermann in his 23rd case. In view of the political developments, the usual form of addressing comrade in conversations between police officers was avoided in the film. In retrospect, the critics called the case or the problem presented in the film “explosive in the GDR… but now, a year and a half later, only […] yesterday's news. Criticizing the negligence with which plans were fulfilled came too late. The planned economy was broke. "

literature

• Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 188.

Web links

• Police 110: death by electric current in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=141 (link only available to a limited extent)
2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 149.
3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 188.

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