Police call 110: Prejudice?

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Prejudice?
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 68 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 42 ( List )
First broadcast October 3, 1976 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Hans Knötzsch
script Erich Loest
as Bernd Diksen
production Ralf Siebenhörl
music Rolf Zimmermann
camera Helmut Borkmann
cut Renate Mueller
occupation

Prejudice? is a German crime film by Hans Knötzsch from 1976. The television film was released as the 42nd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Bus driver Horst Eggert and his wife Christine Eggert quarrel so loudly that even the neighbor Mrs. Sandow wakes up. Horst drives away on his motorcycle angrily. A few hours later, lovers at a lake think they see another couple swimming. The next morning, Christine Eggert's body is found at the lake. She was put dead in a boat but, according to the autopsy, drowned. First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs takes over the investigation.

As always, Horst appeared at his place of work. During the interrogation he speaks of Christine in the past, so that Peter Fuchs openly tells him that Christine is dead, but that he has the impression that Horst already knows this. Although there is no urgent suspicion, Horst is already viewed by his colleagues as a perpetrator. His supervisor gives his bus to another colleague and transfers Horst to the workshop. There is enough Horst and he goes. Colleague Gutewort, in turn, misses 1,800 marks from his wallet, for which he wanted to buy a motorcycle, and suspects Horst of stealing the money for his escape. Only later will it be found that Gutewort's wife had secretly taken the money out of her wallet to prevent the motorcycle from being bought.

Horst is on the run to meet his son Lutz, whom he brought into the marriage and who is currently at holiday camp. Lutz is happy that he can go with his father because the spoiled boy has never heard his father say no, but is supposed to live according to rules at the holiday camp. Lutz also had problems with his stepmother again and again, and so he is delighted when Horst tells him that Christine will never return to the family. Horst gives Lutz 50 marks and brings him back to the holiday camp. In Horst's apartment, the investigators have meanwhile seized numerous drugs, including special medicine for Christine, who has kidney disease, but also nerve-calming drugs and painkillers. According to the autopsy, Christine had taken a large amount of sleeping pills, but such drugs cannot be found in the house. At the holiday camp, the carer had told Horst that the boy apparently only lives on pills, so he also prefers to cure his toothache with painkillers instead of a visit to the dentist.

Horst goes to his brother-in-law Rudi Töpfer, who has already received a visit from Peter Fuchs. Rudi tells the investigator that Christine was sexually abused as a child, which would explain her emotional imbalance. Peter Fuchs expects Horst at Rudi's and finally arrests him. At the interrogation, Horst finally reports from the evening. He drove through the forest until his motorcycle suddenly went on strike. There was a defect, which the investigations have also confirmed. Horst wanted to get spare parts when he saw Christine's bicycle nearby. Christine herself was sitting by the lake, but didn't seem to notice him. He called for her, but she got up and apparently made ready to go swimming. He saw her fall into the water and angrily wished her a nice bath. When he came back with the spare parts, Christine's bike was still in the same place. He rode home on his bike, but Christine wasn't there either. When he returned to the lake, he saw her body. He lifted her into the rowboat lying on the bank. Only then did he become afraid because he suspected that everyone would take him for the murderer. So he went home. The sleeping pills in Christine's blood turn out to be a fatal accident: Lutz had taken the painkillers from a tube and put sleeping pills into them instead. Christine took several sleeping pills, assuming they were pain pills. When she fell into the water, she was already unable to go ashore by itself. The investigators leave the father and son alone.

production

Prejudice? was filmed from May 25 to July 10, 1976 under the working title The Prejudice in the area around Frankfurt an der Oder . The costumes for the film were created by Margarete Salow and Doris Wolf, the film construction was done by Werner Jagodzinski . The film had its television premiere on October 3, 1976 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 64.6 percent.

It was the 42nd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Peter Fuchs investigated his 25th case. In the film, first colleagues from the location, Lieutenant Krüger and ABV Unterleutnant Schladitz, investigate. Both “tend to be quick to draw conclusions about Eggert's guilt, and an outsider Fuchs needs a distanced approach in order to even get involved in the analysis of interpersonal relationships.” Instead of a search for a motif, the film becomes a piece of social analysis, so the critic.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 82-83.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=042 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 50.
  3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 82.
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