Police call 110: death in the power plant

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Death in the power plant
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MDR
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 155 ( List )
First broadcast September 8, 1993
Rod
Director Michael Knof
script Uwe Petzold
Michael Knof
production Werner Uwe Kraft
Walter Heigl
music Christoph Schambach
Hartmut Behrsing
camera Thomas Plenert
cut Renate Schäfer
occupation

Tod im Kraftwerk is a German crime film from 1993. The television film was released as the 155th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

Chief Inspector Beck is visiting Wittenberg . Shortly after arriving, he witnessed an accident. While he tries to help, his luggage is stolen. The brothers Tommy and Ralf Schroth and their friends Otto and Leo, the perpetrators of this alleged accident and thieves of Beck's bag, have no permanent job and drive motorcycles in an industrial ruin during the day. They also spend their time with young Tina, who helps out her aunt Hilde in the hotel. Beck finds accommodation in Hilde's hotel, where he saw the city bombed in 1944. The hotel awakens special memories in him, as he spent several days in one of the rooms and waited for his parents, who, however, were killed in the bombing and whose grave is in the cemetery in Wittenberg.

Tommy is the leader of the motorcycle gang that has been making their living selling synthetic drugs for some time . They receive the material from Schroth's father, Müller, who was once the laboratory manager in the city's chemical combine and who produces the drugs in a private laboratory. With the motorcycles, the gang reached a circle of 40 kilometers around Wittenberg, so that professional drug dealers soon became aware of them. While visiting a big disco where Tommy and the others sell drugs at night, the dealers lie in wait for them. The gang can barely escape. Tina suspects that the gang and especially her friend Ralf are involved in crooked business, but she doesn't know which one. She would like to confide in Beck, but she doesn't want to get her friends into trouble.

One day, Chief Inspector Weibrecht appears at Beck. He has been investigating synthetic drugs for a long time and, after unsuccessful investigations in Magdeburg, is now starting to look for the source of the drug in Wittenberg. One reason is that at events with numerous drug users, motorcycles with Wittenberg license plates have been noticed for some time. The drug dealers also hunt down the man behind and destroy various chemical laboratories in the city as well as Müller's work laboratory. The police are starting the investigation. Meanwhile, Müller seeks out Tina and advises her to get out of town; he fears that she will confide in Beck. Ralf intervenes and threatens Müller to report him to the police. A little later he meets Ralf in the old power station ruins and wants to bribe him so that he and Tina disappear from the city. Ralf refuses and drives into a trap of Müller, Müller ties him up and sedates him in the ruins with drugs from his illegal laboratory there. Tommy, who was looking for Ralf, arrives and there is a scuffle with Müller, who shoots him in the end. At that time, Beck and Tina arrived at the power plant, Tina knew that Ralf wanted to ride his motorcycle on the power plant site that evening. You hear the shots and Beck can overwhelm Müller. The body of Tomm is found, as is Ralf, who is heavily drugged. Tina bursts into tears at the sight of him.

production

Death in the power plant was partly filmed in Wittenberg. The shooting locations included the Piesteritz cemetery and the port area with a granary. The costumes created Anne-Gret Oehme that Filmbauten come from tungsten guest and Lothar Holler .

When the film was first broadcast on ARD on September 8, 1993, it had an audience rating of 13 percent. In contrast to the usual broadcast on Sunday evening, this film was broadcast on a Wednesday from 9 p.m.

It was the eighth case of Günter Beck who investigated in this film in Lutherstadt Wittenberg.

criticism

"Michael Knof's film succeeds in translating the gloomy shadows of the GDR past into deadly sad images", wrote Der Spiegel on the occasion of the first broadcast in 1993. The Stuttgarter Zeitung criticized the episode as "rather naively told ... and realized ... story" that was like a "Memory of the sixties" works:

“The leisurely German of the dialogues, the acting style of acting by actors who have not yet been formed as psychologically coherent characters, or the way of thinking of the story, which has to carry out every thought, every scene instead of making a dash or a cut . The dust of television history is now whirling around in the second series episode and - as before - the morality of the script replaces what its content only produces thinly. "

- Stuttgarter Zeitung 1993

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 164, 202 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A cinematic glimpse into Wittenberg's past reminds us of many an unfinished business . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , January 8, 2010, Lokales / Jessen.
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 164.
  3. ↑ Television - Wednesday . In: Der Spiegel , No. 36, 1993, p. 263.
  4. ↑ bo: Viewed critically - Police call 110: Death in the power plant . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , September 10, 1993, p. 0 / FIFU.
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Films from the DFF

The Crossword Case (1988) | Committed to the Truth (1989) | False Jasmine (1990) | The Duel (1990) | The Greenhouse (1991) | With the Call Comes Death (1991)

Films of the MDR

and you're dead (1993) | Death in the Power Plant (1993) | Smoldering Fire (1995) | Brother Lustig (1995) | The Swap (1997)