Police call 110: dream death

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	Dream death
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	AllMedia Pictures on behalf of NDR
length	90 minutes
classification	Episode 279 ( List )
First broadcast	September 3, 2006 on Das Erste
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Director	Christine Hartmann
script	Ulli Stephan
production	Heike Richter-Karst
music	Fabian Römer
camera	Stefan Unterberger
cut	Bettina Staudinger
occupation
Uwe Steimle : Jens Hinrichs, chief detective Felix Eitner : Markus Tellheim, chief detective Franziska Walser : Luise Rimbach Jenny Schily : Paulina Meier Herbert Trattnigg : Heribert Wölflein Gundula Köster : Mrs. Kirst Rainer Sellien : Uwe Kirst Karl Knaup : Lazy Sanne Schnapp : domestic servant Heidrun Perdelwitz : Museum employee Cornelia Lippert : Mrs. Wölflein Annett Kruschke : Dr. Helmsdorf, coroner

Traumtod is a German crime film by Christine Hartmann from 2006. The television film was released as the 279th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series . The Commissioner Hinrichs is investigating in his 26th case. For his colleague Tellheim it is the second case.

action

Luise Rimbach reports her husband as missing when he does not arrive at the hotel for the agreed breakfast. The inspectors Jens Hinrichs and Markus Tellheim reassure the woman and initially assume a harmless incident. In the conversation she reports that she is the sister of Heribert Wölflein, who owns a large property in Schwerin. Coincidentally, Tellheim ended up with this man that evening when his old friend Paulina Meier unexpectedly showed up and took him to Wölflein's party. In the course of the evening, Tellheim was numbed with knockout drops and woke up after vague dreams in the room of his Schwerin apartment without any precise memory of the previous night.

A short time later he is ordered to find a corpse on Wölflein's property and is horrified to discover that Paulina Meier has been fished out of the water there. He is sure that Wölflein is responsible for the death of his girlfriend. Hinrichs would like to wait and see whether there was a homicide at all, but traces of blood and rubbing make the commissioners' attention. The tracks lead to Wölflein's boathouse, where the investigators found unlocked weapons and the very next day Horst Rimbach's body near the boathouse. He was shot.

Hinrichs and Tellheim find more and more evidence of an illegal art trade that Wölflein is engaged in. The guests at the party consisted without exception of art collectors and art dealers who make no secret of their passion. Shortly before his death, Rimbach acquired a very valuable " amber dragon " that Paulina Meier had given her and in which other collectors were also very interested. For the investigators, the amber could help convict the murderer, because whoever currently owns it is likely to be the culprit. Tellheim had Wöflein's villa searched, which unfortunately was unsuccessful. Instead, a house search at Wölflein's employee Kirst. He comes under suspicion of murder, but denies having murdered anyone. He would only have found the amber dragon on the dead man. Tellheim believes him and wants to set a trap for the real murderer. It asks Ms. Kirst to help her husband and to extort Wölflein to pretend that she can prove that he had killed Rimbach. Wölflein agrees, and Tellheim tries at all costs to extract a confession from him, but he only confesses to hiding the corpse, and when Paulina Meier saw him do it, she slipped and fell into the water, where she was in her drunk state drowned.

Ultimately, Luise Rimbach confesses to having shot her husband himself because he did not want to stop with his passion for collecting and they were already financially almost ruined. When he called her and, contrary to all promises, bought another piece, she couldn't help it.

background

Traumtod was in on September 3, 2006 First for prime time broadcast for the first time.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv writes appreciatively: “The change from the graying cynic Törner to the lonely youngster Tellheim” seems to be a success. And “As inscrutable as the inspector who has so little luck with his relationships, the stories are also puzzling. 'More crime, less sadness', promised the NDR at the debut of the new team from Schwerin. 'The cases should be more exciting and serve the crime genre more than before,' said Eitner. 'Traumtod' is a genuine 'Whodunit'. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave it a medium rating (thumbs to the side) and wrote: "More realism would have helped!".

Web links

• Police 110: its dream in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the plot of the film on the ARD website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rainer Tittelbach : Felix Eitner new at the Schwerin crime scene: more crime, but only a little tingling case, film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 14, 2016.
2. ^ Police call 110: Traumtod at tvspielfilm.de

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