Police call 110: Wanda's last corridor

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	Wanda's last course
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Thomas Wilkening Filmgesellschaft on behalf of the ORB
length	90 minutes
classification	Episode 241 ( List )
First broadcast	June 30, 2002 on Das Erste
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Director	Bernd Böhlich
script	Stefan Kolditz
production	Thomas Wilkening
music	Nicholas Glowna
camera	Thomas Plenert
cut	Jörg Hauschild
occupation
Jutta Hoffmann : Wanda Rosenbaum, chief detective Axel Prahl : Paul Kieslowski Horst Krause : Horst Krause, police chief Claudia Geisler : Maria Kieslowski Bettina Kurth : Annette Rosenbaum Kathrin Angerer : Tamara, forensic technician Luise Wolfram : Theresa Kieslowski Marko Benner : Enrico Kieslowski Moritz Munzinger : Franz Schuhmann Guntram Brattia : Christian Schuhmann Paul Faßnacht : Operations Manager Torsten Michaelis : SEK official Reiner Heise : Police officer Renate Geissler : Kirsten Block : Judge Hansjürgen Hürrig : Lawyer Heike Jonca : Sports teacher Gilbert von Sohlern : Doctor

Wanda's last course is a German crime film by Bernd Böhlich from 2002. It is the 241st episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 and the fourth and last case for chief detective Wanda Rosenbaum. Police chief Horst Krause investigated at her side.

action

Paul Kieslowski's marriage broke up. He can't cope with being separated from his son. He often appears drunk and harasses his ex-family. Over time, Maria Kieslowski even obtained a court order so that she could get some peace from her ex-husband. But this doesn't care. One morning he appears again drunk and even becomes violent. His stepdaughter and son are in the house and watch the argument escalate. Her mother is taken to hospital with a dangerous stab wound. The drunk Paul Kieslowski is picked up by Horst Krause in the ditch and taken into custody. After he is sober again, he will be questioned. He hardly remembers what he did and doubts that he stabbed his ex-wife with the bread knife. Since it seems to be a “typical” case, the highly committed detective is convinced of him as the perpetrator and forces a confession from him without his legal support.

The trial is four months later and Paul Kieslowski is charged with attempted homicide. According to Maria Kieslowski and her daughter, the defendant committed the crime. His son, however, is silent. Wanda Rosenbaum has slight doubts about Kieslowski's guilt. It is entirely possible that Maria or her daughter brought about the injury in order to get rid of her ex-husband for a long time. Although Wanda Rosenbaum is breaking her service regulations , she does not bring Kieslowski back to pre-trial detention immediately after the court hearing, but wants to try to get him to speak to his son. Things go wrong, however, because Enrico is no longer in the school gym, but has left training earlier. In his disappointment, Kieslowski lashes out and meets Wanda Rosenbaum so unhappy that she falls and loses her pistol. Kieslowski now shows clear signs of a serious disturbance of the impulse control and is actually at a loss and overwhelmed with the situation, but he takes the pistol and causes a large-scale operation of the SEK . So cornered, he holed up with the children who were still present in the gym. Kieslowski asks to speak to his son, as he too hopes that he can relieve him. But that turns out to be difficult. The boy is hiding. Wanda Rosenbaum succeeds in persuading Kieslowski to release most of the hostages. Only she wants to stay with him, but he also keeps one of the boys with his mother. Coincidentally, this is Rosenbaum's daughter Annette and her stepson Franz. Kieslowski is torn between the pursuit of his goals, his own helplessness and the welfare of his hostages. He doesn't want to harm them, but he can't give up that easily either.

While the police have been feverishly looking for Enrico for hours, the situation in the gym causes Rosenbaum and her daughter to talk to each other about their problems. Kieslowski, on the other hand, is getting more and more nervous and doesn't understand that the police can't find his son. The SEK is now making serious preparations to end the hostage-taking by force. Fortunately, Krause manages to find Enrico. The shy boy tells him it really wasn't his papa. His sister had taken the knife and his mother ran into it herself in an argument. He was afraid his sister would go to jail, so he didn't say anything. He takes the boy to the gym and arrives just in time because the operations manager is about to storm the building. Wanda Rosenbaum can persuade Kieslowski to release her daughter and Franz as well. After Kieslowski learns that Enrico has exonerated him, he is ready to give up. When he steps out of the gym, waving his pistol, one of the snipers wants to shoot him anyway, but the shot hits Wanda Rosenbaum, who came out of the gym just behind Kieslowski.

background

Wanda's last course was filmed by Thomas Wilkening Filmgesellschaft on behalf of the ORB in Haidemühl , Welzow and Neupetershain-Nord . The departure of Jutta Hoffmann (Wanda Rosenbaum) was received with a certain melancholy in the media. Klaudia Brunst from the Berliner Zeitung is of the opinion that “Wanda Rosenbaum was a particularly good television commissioner. She solved her cases with that mixture of professional foresight and psychological intuition that actually only exists in films. "

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Wanda's last course on June 30, 2002 was seen by 6.32 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.4 percent for Das Erste .

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv thinks: “ Wanda's last course is a very strong final chord, a psychological chamber play of the highest intensity, played in a finely balanced manner by Jutta Hoffmann and Axel Prahl. [...] The warmth of the heart and brittleness that Jutta Hoffmann and her figure exude also breathed the stories. The 61-year-old floated like an ethereal being with baggy pants and plenty of understatement through the village of Brandenburg. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm show their thumbs up and say: "A moving finish, well played."

Web links

• Police 110: Wanda's last walk in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the plot of the film on the ARD website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jutta Hoffmann says goodbye to the police call in: Berliner Zeitung ; Retrieved June 25, 2015.
2. ↑ Audience rating at mediabiz.de, accessed on August 17, 2015.
3. ↑ Rainer Tittelbach : Jutta Hoffmann's furious exit: A touch of DEFA in a Kammerspielkrimi film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on August 17, 2015.
4. ^ TV thriller and farewell to Jutta Hoffmann. Short review by TV Spielfilm at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on August 17, 2015.

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