Police call 110: dead race

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	Dead heat
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	filmpool fiction of the MDR
length	89 minutes
classification	Episode 384 ( List )
First broadcast	February 16, 2020 on Das Erste
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Director	Torsten C. Fischer
script	Stefan Dähnert , Lion H. Lau
music	Warner Poland , Wolfgang Glum
camera	Theo Bierkens
cut	Horst Reiter
occupation
Claudia Michelsen : Chief Inspector Doreen Brasch Felix Vörtler : Detective Uwe Lemp Pablo Grant : Chief Detective Günther Márquez Henning Peker : Manfred Muser Michael Maertens : Hannes Kehr Martin Semmelrogge : Micky Puhle Torsten Ranft : Father Siebert Catherine Flemming : Mother Siebert Anke Retzlaff : Manu Siebert Vincent Krüger : Milan Siebert Therese Hämer : Benjamin Kramme : Andi Paumer Frank Richartz : Mon Sebastian Weiss : Maik Paumer Francis C. Winter : Bookie

Dead Race is a TV film from the ARD crime series Polizeiruf 110 by director Torsten C. Fischer . The film was produced by MDR and aired for the first time on Sunday, February 16, 2020 on Erste . It is the twelfth case for the Magdeburg investigator Doreen Brasch .

action

Milan Siebert is found dead near the Herrenkrug racecourse on the banks of the Elbe. Chief Inspector Doreen Brasch and Detective Uwe Lemp determine that the dead man was addicted to gambling and heavily in debt, and that he may have worked as an informant for the LKA. But the LKA colleagues in the presidium block: They want separate investigations. Nevertheless, the LKA colleague Hannes Kehr is always looking to be close to the inspector. Brasch learns from him in confidence that Siebert had worked as an informant for him and the betting fraud department. Kehr introduces Brasch to the world of game betting and warns you about it at the same time. But briskly follows her instinct. She suspects that Siebert knew who was manipulating the next big race because he was friends with jockey Andi Paumer. With this knowledge he wanted to free himself and his family from the debt misery. In order to raise the money for the stake, he not only brought everything that was expendable for him to the pawn shop, plundered his son's piggy bank, but also got money from a loan shark who is known for not being squeamish with his debtors when they are unwilling or unable to repay their debts.

Little does Brasch suspect that she will be the next victim in the wrong game. During her milieu research, she comes across the professional gamer Micky Puhle, who had also helped players like Siebert out with money and of whom she is sure that he belongs to the betting mafia. She takes from his statements that there is a mole in the police. During their conversation, Brasch does not notice how Micky puts them out of action with Shanghai drops . While her senses are fading and Micky begins to undress her in a park, a man appears to save her, but he does not intervene directly in what is happening, but only causes Micky to flee through his presence. When Micky Puhle was to be arrested the next day, he was able to escape shortly before the attack. Brasch has more and more suspicions that LKA colleague Hannes Kehr could be the leak and could have warned Micky. In her memory, she thinks she saw Kehr behind Mickey that night.

While Brasch is looking for Siebert's killer in the ranks of the betting mafia, her colleague Lemp has picked up a trace of Siebert's family. After his father found himself convicted, he made a confession. With his gambling addiction, his son had not only disappointed his family but also his parents and almost ruined them financially. He had not only gambled away his mother's disability pension, but also transferred her sports medals. That was too much for his father. In the dispute he was stabbed to death and later cast off on the banks of the Elbe. But the real cause of death was not the knife, but a cardiac arrest. This leaves some ambiguity and it is obvious that there is another perpetrator. While Siebert's father only thought that his son was no longer alive, another had triggered an anaphylactic shock a short time later with a chemical substance . Micky Puhle comes under suspicion. But he is still in hiding and Hannes Kehr suspects him to be at the Herrenkrugpark horse racing track , where he searches for him together with Brasch and ultimately shoots him. Here it becomes clear to the commissioner that Kehr is the leak in the LKA, Siebert recognized him and therefore had to die. After he first sent the scent to Mickey as the perpetrator, he had silenced him, but also betrayed himself. While Brasch is leaving the riding arena, Kehr shoots himself with his service weapon.

background

The shooting took place from August 27, 2019 to September 26, 2019 in Magdeburg .

reception

Reviews

Christian Buß from Der Spiegel assessed: “Even breadcrumbs are worth switching on. He still embodies the changing twilight and fits very well into this technically shaky, but atmospherically dense player thriller. A "police call" between smear and smear, neon light and night blackness, which raises the question of how long Claudia Michelsen as Doreen Brasch can actually endure such solo excesses. "

The Stuttgarter Zeitung said: “It's not up to the actors that this 'police call' comes across as strangely anemic. The scriptwriters want to reveal human abysses, but mostly it sticks to the cliché. ”One would have wished for more of“ moving moments that do without big words. Instead, most dialogues seem memorized. And especially the dream sequences bathed in red come across as heavily laden with meaning. "

Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv wrote: “Michelsen, who was once again extremely nuanced, was put alongside theater giant Michael Maertens . This duo is more than half the battle. And how Torsten C. Fischer and the trades process the story aesthetically, that has a lot of atmosphere and ensures a cinematic flow that lets you overlook small script inconsistencies. "Tittelbach explicitly praised the house actress in scenes where" her face does not Sinking in the atmospheric semi-darkness of the film, these minimal movements of the facial muscles, this eloquent, but never too eloquent play of your eyes, that is great acting - also or precisely because the 'police call' is not about the very exclusive existential drama; after all, in addition to the soul of the commissioner, the crime thriller must also work. "

The film service awarded three out of five possible stars and judged: “A (TV) crime thriller with a very solid narrative, well-designed atmosphere, whose involvement in the betting environment remains somewhat textbook-like. The inclusion of the mentally unstable commissioner in the story and the friction with a dazzling play partner are worth seeing. "

Sidney Schering fromquotemeter.de was almost poetic and said: “'Polizeiruf 110 - Totes Rennen' challenges the filmmakers behind the camera and Michelsen to express Brasch's grumpy streak and her hidden, but never completely disappearing, empathic side differently than before: Talking to less familiar people and non-verbally when she is alone. Goodbye, your typical clichés when the more sociable party collides with the less sociable party in crime thrillers. ”He continued to judge more realistically:“ Torsten C. Fischer [...] stages the case with an accomplished hand and knows how to subliminally create a tense atmosphere. Towards the end, the film turns up memorable despite the weak middle section. "

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Totes Rennen on February 16, 2020 was seen by 7.56 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.9% for Das Erste .

Web links

• Dead heat in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the plot of Totes Rennen on the ARD website
• Dead race at Fernsehserien.de
• Polizeiruf 110: Dead race at crew united

Individual evidence

1. ^ Police call 110: Dead race at crew united
2. ^ Christian Buß: "Police call" about sports betting. Lubricate and lubricate. Der Spiegel, February 14, 2020, accessed on February 17, 2020 : "Rating: 6 out of 10 points" 
3. ↑ Strangely anemic at stuttgarter-zeitung.de , accessed on April 4, 2020.
4. ↑ Michelsen, Maertens, Dähnert / Lau, Torsten C. Fischer. Brasch puts himself in danger at tittelbach.tv , accessed on April 4, 2020.
5. Jump up ↑ Police Call 110 - Dead Race. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .  
6. ↑ Sidney Schering: movie review at Quotenmeter.de , accessed on 4 April 2020th
7. ↑ Laura Friedrich: Prime Time check: Sunday, 16 February 2020. Quotenmeter.de , February 17, 2020 accessed on 17 February 2020 . 

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