Police call 110: burned trace

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	Burned trace
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Production company	Television of the GDR
length	58 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
classification	Episode 4 ( list )
First broadcast	February 27, 1972 on DFF 1
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Director	Heinz Seibert
script	Hans Lucke
production	Hans W. Reichel Gerd Klisch
music	Wolfgang Pietsch
camera	Tilmann Dähn
cut	Margrit Schulz
occupation
Peter Borgelt : First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs Sigrid Göhler : Lieutenant Vera Arndt Eckhard Becker : Hanno Hecht Carola Braunbock : Hildegard Exner Klaus Gehrke : Textile engineer Achim Raschke Maria Rouvel : Beate Loewen Uta Schorn : Ulrike Loewen Rainer Adler : Colleague Persch Kurt Jung-Alsen : Medical Councilor Dr. Lions Hans Lucke : Porter Chemin-Petit or Kleinweg Werner Senftleben : Neighbor Exner Günter Wolf : Brigadier Grabow Gaby Jäh : Mrs. Hecht Jutta Klöppel : Mrs. Schmidt-Geiersfeldt Freimut Götsch : Second Lieutenant Anneliese Müller : Senior Physician Jürgen Rummel : Assistant doctor Charlotte Worgitzky : neighbor Margitta Lüder-Preil : Secretary Anne Wollner : nurse Rüdiger-Hubertus Gumm : Chief Constable Thomas Kästner : Fire investigator Günter Maass : Section representative Klaus Bergatt : Owl

Burned Track is a German crime film by Heinz Seibert from 1972. The television film was released as the fourth episode of the Polizeiruf 110 film series .

action

In the house of Medical Council Dr. Loewen is on fire. Neighbor Exner wants to put out the fire when the apartment door is broken open from the inside and a man in a leather suit runs past him and flees. A little later, Lieutenant Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Vera Arndt appear, who start the investigation. The Loewen couple are on vacation abroad, their daughter Ulrike is also on vacation 150 kilometers away with her wealthy friend Achim. The fire was started and raged mainly on the ground floor. A collection of graphics in a closet appears to have burned. The investigators suspect Hanno Hecht, the ex-boyfriend of Ulrike, who had to part with him at her mother's insistence, soon in the fugitive man. Hanno drives a motorcycle, his driving gear is found in the garbage with burn holes. He is arrested but collapses during interrogation and is hospitalized with blood poisoning from cuts.

Investigators soon had doubts. Apparently the house was entered through the bathroom window that was smashed. However, there are no signs of entry. It also seems unlikely that a burglar will not take the same route to get out, but instead enter a locked door. This seems more like a panic reaction. In the hospital, Hanno testifies that Ulrike wrote him a letter in which, as before, she asked him to come secretly through the back door at night. This is not locked. He actually came into the house that evening when it suddenly caught fire. The back door was now locked so that he pushed open the front door from the inside. However, he no longer has the letter.

When parts of the supposedly burned graphic collection appear in Berlin, the police are puzzled. You now suspect Dr. Loewen of insurance fraud, but who is too absorbed in his work to really want to comment on the allegations.

Suddenly Hanno disappears from the hospital. He drives to Thuringia, where Ulrike and Achim have been on vacation, covered by a work colleague, and investigates on site. He finds out that you could hitchhike from the hotel to Loewen's apartment and back in one evening. Peter Fuchs learns that a milk truck took Achim out of the hotel that evening. Achim, in turn, insisted on a single room in the hotel and claimed in front of Ulrike that he had taken sleeping pills. Achim is arrested as the perpetrator. He has changed his lifestyle by selling stolen paintings from Dr. Loewen's collection financed. In order to cover his trail, he burned down the house and lured Hanno into the house with an old love letter from Ulrike in order to suspect him.

production

Burned Track was filmed from December 6, 1971 to January 25, 1972 under the working title Brandnacht, among others in Potsdam. The film had its television premiere on February 27, 1972 on DFF 1 . The costumes of the film created Ruth Karge , the Filmbauten submitted by Klaus Poppitz .

It was the fourth episode in the Polizeiruf 110 film series . First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Vera Arndt investigated their fourth joint case. It was the first film in which both of them spoke on two terms and addressed each other by first name. In addition, the film had numerous humorous moments, for example screenwriter Lucke wrote a “strange charge ” for himself as the doorman of the Thuringian hotel in the script. His dialogue with Lieutenant Peter Fuchs had the qualities of a cabaret act, wrote the criticism and summarized: “Within six months, those responsible for the 'police call' had learned that the case must not only be exciting, but that the people around it must also be entertaining To captivate the audience. "

literature

• Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 39–42.

Web links

• Police 110: Burned track in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Police call 110: burned trace at filmportal.de
• Police call 110: Burned trace on daserste.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ' at polizeiruf110-lexikon.de, accessed on January 4, 2016.
2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, pp. 41–42.

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