Police call 110: Peter Schnok is missing

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Peter Schnok is missing
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 60 minutes
classification Episode 44 ( List )
First broadcast February 6, 1977 on GDR 1
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Director Otto Holub
script Otto Holub
Eberhard Görner
production Rainer Gericke
music Rudi Werion
camera Bernd Sperberg
cut Brigitte Hujer
occupation

Missing is Peter Schnok is a German crime film by Otto Holub from 1977. The television film is based on the story Missing is: Helmut Schnok by Hans Siebe and was released as the 44th episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Car electrician Peter Schnok wants to fly to Burgas in Bulgaria on vacation the next day . At his place of work he is once again teased by his colleague Ede because of his size - Schnok is not even 1.60 meters tall. After work he is intercepted by Arthur Peltzer. Schnok tells him that he wants to get out, and Peltzer warns him that he will regret dropping out. In the afternoon, Schnok drives to the postal worker Eva Klein, whom he loves. He gives her a color TV and he and Eva Klein plan their lives together. This causes the displeasure of butcher Günter Decker, who is married but had a relationship with Eva. She left him because he didn't want to part with his wife. When Schnok is with her, Decker from the opposite butcher also appears. There is a dispute between Decker and Schnok, which Peltzer overhears in the hallway. He had secretly followed Schnok after his cancellation. Later he went to his friend Gitta Gabler, a cleaner in VEB women's fashion. He tells her that Schnok wants to get out. Both watch a chimney being blown up on the VEB premises.

Two weeks later, Eva wants to pick up Klein Schnok from the airport, but learns there that Schnok never started the trip. It is Schnok's landlady Birgit Peukert who alerts the police. Oberleutnant Peter Fuchs, Lieutenant Vera Arndt and Detective Lutz Subras take over the investigation. In Schnok's room they find a package addressed to Ms. Peukert that contains a bale of fabric. Schnok's travel bags, which Lutz Subras secures at Lichtenberg train station, also contain numerous meters of fabric. The research shows that around 4,000 meters of fabric have been stolen from VEB women's fashion for two months. The damage amounts to 168,000 marks. After an inventory and intensified controls, no theft has been found for three weeks. The cleaning women of the VEB suspect Gitta Gabler to have something to do with the thefts. The trained milliner always comes to work dressed up and does not suit them. In addition, she often reports sick. There is no other lead for the investigators: Schnok had the signed photo of jockey Harald Büttner hanging in his room, but neither of them knew each other personally.

The investigators get stuck with their investigations and publish a missing person report in the newspaper. Eva Klein goes to Decker and tries to get him to testify to the police, but Decker refuses. Peltzer also seeks out Decker and wants to find out from him the whereabouts of his "friend" Schnok. He threatens to tell Decker's wife about his affair, and Decker bribes Peltzer with money. Eva Klein meanwhile notes the license plate number of Peltzer's motorcycle and reports it to the police. The investigators question Peltzer, who reports that he last saw Schnok the day before his vacation departure.

Peter Fuchs' superior Major Lehn initially sees no connection between the disappearance of Schnok, the theft of fabrics and Peltzer. However, it turns out that the technical draftsman Peltzer once measured the complex of the VEB women's fashion and made a floor plan according to which the interior renovation of the VEB was carried out. Lehn now agrees to an observation by VEB and Peltzer. Meanwhile, Peltzer has recruited little jockey Wegner as a new partner for his thief tour. Wegner is a crime fanatic and wants to solve the case on his own. However, his colleague Büttner notifies the police and Peter Fuchs starts a large-scale operation. The investigators follow Peltzer and Wegner to the VEB site, where the chimney was recently blown up. Here Peltzer brings Wegner to the entrance to a shaft in which he has stored stolen bales of cloth. Wegner is supposed to bring the bales up. At that moment, the investigators intervene and arrest Peltzer. Wegner, on the other hand, returns to the light of day without having achieved anything: the tunnel has collapsed, probably in the course of the chimney being blown up. In the tunnel there is Schnok's backpack and later Schnok's corpse. He wanted to steal the material that had been put aside unnoticed by Peltzer, as he has often done. The shaft in turn ends in the production rooms of VEB women's fashion, from which Gitta Gabler smuggled lengths of fabric into the shaft.

production

Missing Peter Schnok was filmed from August 2 to September 10, 1976 under the working title The Little Man in Berlin , Zeuthen and on the Hoppegarten racecourse . The costumes for the film were created by Helga Alschner , the film structures were created by Anna-Sabine Diestel . The film had its television premiere on February 6, 1977 in the first program of GDR television. The audience participation was 56.9 percent.

It was the 44th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Oberleutnant Peter Fuchs investigated in his 26th case, Lieutenant Vera Arndt in her 31st case and Detective Lutz Subras in his 25th case.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 85-87.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=044 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 52.
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