Police call 110: wolves
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Wolves |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Claussen + Putz film production on behalf of BR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 358 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | September 11, 2016 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christian Petzold |
| script | Christian Petzold |
| production |
Jakob Claussen , Uli Putz |
| music | Stefan Will |
| camera | Hans Fromm |
| cut | Bettina Boehler |
| occupation | |
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Wolves is a TV film from the ARD crime series Polizeiruf 110 . The film was produced on behalf of Bayerischer Rundfunk and was broadcast for the first time on Sunday, September 11, 2016 on Erste . It is the eleventh case of the Munich police call investigator Hanns von Meuffels .
action
Chief Detective Hanns von Meuffels fell in love with his Hamburg colleague Constanze Hermann, with whom he last solved a case . At the moment she is on vacation. Constanze, who has a severe alcohol problem and continues to drink secretly, has taken up residence in the wellness center of a Bavarian village, where she tries to combat her alcohol addiction. However, she is unwilling to take part in the group meetings. Sometimes she doesn't even appear.
In search of a cigarette machine that doesn't exist in the hotel, Constanze comes to the village inn, where she drinks several glasses of gin and tonic . As she makes her way home at night, drunk and singing, she meets an upright wolf with shining, red eyes. She thinks she is delusional, falls in a panic and loses her cell phone. The next morning an employee of the hotel is found murdered in the forest, her face disfigured by bites. Von Meuffels takes over the investigation and includes Constanze. During the autopsy of the victim, in which wolf hairs were found, the forensic doctor was assisted by the zoologist Dr. Wiesinger aside. He admires Constanze's analytical skills, but immediately notices that she has a drinking problem.
Constanze speaks to von Meuffels about their encounter during the night and they look around in the forest. She still thinks what she saw is a delirium , but when she finds her cell phone on the forest path, she is no longer sure. After two torn sheep are found, it is certain that a wolf must roam the area.
The trail leads both investigators to the Turk Mehmet Özhan, who breeds dogs on a deserted farm and keeps a semi-tame wolf there. He was also friends with the murdered woman and a member of the right-wing extremist Turkish party "Gray Wolves", from which he had withdrawn for some time. Özhan is under the protection of the BND, but has since gone into hiding because he sees the murder of his girlfriend as a threat against him. He shot all his dogs because he couldn't take them with him, he only spared the wolf and released him. A short time later, the animal is shot by the shepherds from whom it killed the sheep.
According to the BND, the case is closed and von Meuffels is suggested to take his remaining leave. Since he can spend more time with Constanze, he doesn't resist this instruction "from above". He brings her to her hotel and just wants to get his things quickly. During this time, Dr. Wiesinger with Constanze and lures her to his research facility under the pretext of having discovered something strange in the section of the wolf. Von Meuffels finds out about this and follows them.
Once in the laboratories, Wiesinger sends Constanze into a dark room and shows herself to her in a wolf disguise with bright red eyes. He admits that this looks a bit strange in the light, but disguised this way he can get closer to the wolves in the wilderness. So he would have approached Kristina, anesthetized her with a shot from the anesthesia rifle and artificially created the bite marks. Since that night he had felt drawn to Constanze because he had met her there and she would have sung so beautifully. He still had so much to tell her, but it was very exhausting. He was born with a wolf's throat as a child and has overcome his language handicap with great difficulty. The scar could only be seen optically. As a child he was teased a lot, later he fell in love with Kristina, but she only mocked him. When he noticed that she continued to despise him, he had ambushed her in the forest, killed her and hoped to free himself. But it was a mistake. After his confession, he leaves Constanze alone and shoots himself.
background
The shooting took place from November 10, 2015 to December 11, 2015 in Munich and Bayrischzell . The songs "Anyone Who Had A Heart" ( Dionne Warwick ), "Rain" (Martin Stephenson and The Daintees) and "Wolves in the middle of May" ( Franz Josef Degenhardt ) were used.
reception
Reviews
“The investigators' difficult love story is almost more important than the case itself. The filmmaker Christian Petzold tells it in a fascinating way: calmly, with often dark images and brilliant dialogues. A little more suspense would not have hurt either. "
Thomas Andre writes for Abendblatt.de: “The self-irony of the 'police call' is pleasant. At least it seems that way if you focus on Matthias Brandt's portrayal of the cultured bull who is not looking for a murderer, but also for the romantic potential of his colleague. "
“The author film star Christian Petzold, who already wrote and shot the 'Kreise' episode , staged this 'police call ' as an artistic and pleasurable stream of associations. [...] With romantic grim and grim romanticism [...] Petzold aims at the collective subconscious of the audience and works through all facets of the wolf topos - including an investigator who, with a red coat, a foggy look and naive interest, is very much in one of the largest Heroines of the Brothers Grimm remembered. Christian Petzold retains his style, which has been freed from all emotional rhetoric. In laconic dialogues he brings up images of fear that slumber in all of us. "
"Towards the end the tension is stretched a bit, but basically Petzold ironically ironizes every kitchen philosophical chatter about problem wolves and leaves no doubt that people - at least the more interesting ones - are only problem wolves, and their biotope is the problem world."
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Wölfe on September 11, 2016 was seen by 6.51 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.0% for Das Erste .
Web links
- Police 110: Wolves in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Police call 110: Wolves at filmportal.de
- Summary of the action of wolves on the ARD website
Individual evidence
- ^ Police call 110: Wolves at crew united . Retrieved September 7, 2016.
- ↑ Barbara Auer and Matthias Brandt investigate demons at goldenekamera.de, accessed on November 11, 2016.
- ↑ Thomas Andre: "Wölfe" - a TV thriller in a class of its own at Abendblatt.de, accessed on November 11, 2016.
- ↑ Christian Buß: Little Red Riding Hood in rehab. Spiegel Online, September 9, 2016, accessed on September 9, 2016 : "Rating: 9 out of 10"
- ↑ Holger Gertz: How a thought can make two people float. Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 9, 2016, accessed on September 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime check: Sunday, September 11, 2016.quotemeter.de , September 12, 2016, accessed on September 12, 2016 .
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