Police call 110: Hitchhiker variant

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	Variant hitchhiker
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Production company	Television of the GDR
length	78 minutes
classification	Episode 126 ( List )
First broadcast	February 19, 1989 on GDR 1
Rod
Director	Gerald Hujer
script	Klaus Jörn
production	Erich Biedermann
music	Reinhard Lakomy
camera	Winfried Kleist
cut	Margrit Schulz
occupation
Peter Borgelt : Captain Peter Fuchs Andreas Schmidt-Schaller : First Lieutenant Thomas Grawe Peer-Uwe Teska : Lieutenant Felsch Uwe Lach : Jochen Pankaus Renate Blume : Helma Jonas Wolfgang Winkler : Ralph Jonas Joachim Tomaschewsky : Grandpa cancer Heide Kipp : Angela Kutscher Matthias Zahlbaum : Kai-Dieter Kutscher Alfred Struwe : Uwe Kellerbauer Myriam Stark : Little cellar builder Harry Merkel : Bernhard Krautzig Margot Busse : Mrs. Krautzig Angela Brunner : Ms. Degenhardt Hildegard Walter : saleswoman Eckhardt Bogda : Head of BHG building materials supply Bodo Krämer : First worker Günter Götze : Second worker Mathias Kunze : Third worker Helmut Wenzlau : fourth worker Ingrid Barkmann : Traudl Susanne Eipper : First youngsters on the river Antje Rabenalt : Second young person on the river Karl-Peter Schwidurski : Workers Thomas Klein : Transport worker Knut Schultheiß : Forensic Technician Horst Hamann : Elderly husband Christa Keller : older wife Manfred Schulz : Sergeant

Variant Tramper is a German crime film by Gerald Hujer from 1989. The television film is based on the novel of the same name by Klaus Möckel and was released as the 126th episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

The young Kai-Dieter Kutscher runs over a girl in a curve at excessive speed and runs away. The child dies at the scene of the accident. A witness can only testify that the driver was young. Kai confesses the act to his mother Angela. She alerts her divorced husband Ralph Jonas, who is hiding the Wartburg, which was damaged in the accident, and advises Angela to report the car as stolen. Angela also organizes Kai's departure from the city. He is said to be living with an aunt in the village for the near future, although he would rather face the police. Under no circumstances does Angela want her son to ruin his future and not be able to continue studying because of the accident.

On the way back to his current wife Helma Jonas, Ralph sees a hitchhiking punk standing on the side of the road. He takes the young man with him, who introduces himself as Jochen Pankaus. Ralph asks him to briefly help him lower his boat into the water. However, on the lake property, Ralph leaves him alone with a few bottles of beer and calls Helma. She should drive to the hidden accident vehicle and come with him to a disused train station. Here Ralph drops Jochen off because he suddenly has an important appointment. A rain shower comes down and so Jochen stops the next car that appears on the deserted site: the accident car that the disguised helmet drives. During the journey, which ends at Jochen's house, both drivers change positions. The next day, Jochen is arrested because the car that had been involved in an accident, which had been reported stolen, was parked outside his house. Jochen is now suspected of stealing the car and causing the accident with it. He has little evidence against it, even if there are tracks in the grass that he hitchhiked and he also finds the property to which Ralph took him. However, it doesn't belong to Ralph, but to old Cancer, who immediately thinks of Ralph when describing the car and driver. However, he covers him and begins to blackmail him. A little later, Krebs is found dead on his property.

Jochen is in custody, although the punk also has to fight prejudice among the investigators. Thomas Grawe in particular turns out to be very skeptical about the stories he tells. Jochen therefore confides in Peter Fuchs that the driver first drove on before reversing and taking him along. After clues from neighbors, the investigators finally come across Ralph, who is identified by Jochen as the driver. Jochen can also recognize Helma as the driver of the accident vehicle. To the surprise of the investigators, Helma claims to have killed Krebs who had blackmailed her husband. At the end of the day, the person who caused the accident is quickly identified: Against the will of his parents, Kai voluntarily turns himself in to the police because he can no longer emotionally cope with his family's tactics for his protection and cannot live with the guilt.

production

The Tramper variant was filmed from September 15 to November 25, 1988 in Königs Wusterhausen , Zeuthen , Eberswalde , Zehdenick , Schildow , Lehnstedt , Kallinchen and Jena - Cospeda . The costumes of the film created Evelyn Gesper that Filmbauten come from Rose-Marie Halfpap . The film premiered on February 19, 1989 in the first program of GDR television. The audience participation was 41.4 percent.

It was the 126th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Captain Peter Fuchs investigated in his 76th case and Oberleutnant Thomas Grawe in his 17th case.

literature

• Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 134.

Web links

• Police 110: variant hitchhiker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Polizeiruf 110: Tramper variant at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=126 (link only available to a limited extent)
2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 134.

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