Police call 110: turning maneuver

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Turning maneuvers
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Filmpool Fiction ,
Saxonia Media
on behalf of NDR & MDR
length 2 × 90 minutes
classification Episode 352, 353 ( List )
First broadcast September 27th and October 4th, 2015 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Eoin Moore
script Eoin Moore,
Anika Wangard , based on
: Thomas Kirchner
production Iris Kiefer ,
Britta Hansen ,
Sven Sund
music Warner Poland ,
Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt ,
Wolfgang Glum
camera Jonas Schmager
cut Antje Zynga
occupation

Wendemanöver is a two-part German crime film by Eoin Moore from 2015. It is a double episode within the film series Polizeiruf 110 and takes place in Rostock and Magdeburg . Chief Inspector Alexander Bukow ( Charly Hübner ) and the LKA profiler Chief Inspector Katrin König ( Anneke Kim Sarnau ) investigate in their twelfth case, which is also to be their thirteenth, together with the Magdeburg team, Chief Inspector Doreen Brasch ( Claudia Michelsen ) and Chief Inspector Jochen Drexler ( Sylvester Groth ), for whom it is their fourth and fifth case respectively.

The main guest stars of this episode are Steve Windolf , Cornelius Obonya , Jörg Gudzuhn , Zoe Moore , Peter Schneider as well as Michael Kind and Thomas Fränzel .

action

Part 1

In a fire at the Richter company in Magdeburg, the wife of the junior boss, who worked there as an accountant, was killed. A few hours later, the body of the Magdeburg auditor Andreas Janssen was found in a hotel in Warnemünde , who was shot four times from a silenced pistol. Both cases seem to be related, because Astrid Richter tried to call Janssen in the middle of the night. His number was the last one on her cell phone. Since Janssen had deposited a six-figure sum of cash in the hotel safe, the Rostock investigators assume that the motive for the murder is to be found here. Profiler Katrin König is working on the case alone with her colleagues Pöschel and Thiesler. Since her colleague Bukow is suspended because of a police psychological problem, Pöschel is in charge of the team. The officials first come across Heiko Steiner, who had a dispute with Janssen in the casino because he lost a large amount of money to him. When they want to question Steiner, he spontaneously flees. As it turns out, he already has a criminal record for fraud and bodily harm and is currently working as a bodyguard for a security service called "Rheingold", whose head is Siegfried Wagner. König finds out that Bukow and his father Veit Bukow are acquainted with Steiner. When the two found out that Steiner was being wanted, Veit Bukow asked his son to contact him before an official interrogation and to bring him to him because Steiner had carried out minor criminal assignments for his father. Bukow begins his own investigation despite his suspension.

Research reveals that Janssen used to work at the Treuhandanstalt and may have extorted the money in the safe from someone. This opens up a new group of perpetrators for the investigators.

Kai Förster, who was dismissed from Richter's company only a few months ago, was the first to be suspected of the fire in Magdeburg. Förster belongs to a group of activists who act against Richter's company, as it manufactures and exports electronic components for military purposes, among other things. However, Förster is close friends with Jenny Richter, the victim's daughter, which makes a possible perpetrator unlikely. Förster cannot be found at first. After an interrogation of Jenny in the Magdeburg police headquarters, Chief Detective Doreen Brasch observes Jenny and tracks down Förster. He explains to the inspector that Jenny's grandfather Herbert Richter is by no means the caring grandfather and local hero who created jobs, but that he is only interested in "riping off" wherever possible.

Meanwhile, Commissioner Jochen Drexler follows a trail to Helmstedt . On surveillance recordings by the Richter company on the day of the fire, he recognized his former colleague Ferdinand Frey, with whom he had a relationship in the past and who is still not indifferent to him. As it turns out later, Frey was in Warnemünde at the time of Janssen's murder. Since the two murder cases are increasingly leading to each other, the Rostock investigators König and Pöschel go to their colleagues in Magdeburg. Employee Mautz has meanwhile checked Richter GmbH there and found out that considerable funds were being transferred to a Dr. Roland Kastner, who is responsible for granting subsidies and state loans at the Ministry of Economic Development. Janssen has also received a six-figure sum from Richter, which the investigators classify as hush money in the context of extortion, since he must also have noticed the money transfer. In addition, he had already dealt with Richter during his trusteeship days, which is seen as an additional motive for blackmail.

Part 2

Bukow succeeds in locating Heiko Steiner in Rostock. When he meets with him, he is stunned by a stranger with a stun gun. After he regains consciousness, he finds Steiner shot dead next to him in his car and a pistol in his hand. Since he is convinced that no one will believe his innocence, he hides the body.

In Magdeburg, Ferdinand Frey is now more and more distressed. Through his work in the past, he had learned of Herbert Richter's complicity in the area of transfer ruble fraud in the millions. In order to silence Frey, he was accused of raping a 20-year-old woman. Because of overwhelming evidence, Frey was sentenced to 16 years in prison. The commissioners consider Frey's late act of revenge conceivable and are now finding evidence of the arson, petrol-soaked gloves and a code card for the premises of the Richter company in his house. After Frey ran amok in a building of the Ministry of Economics and an attack on Richter in his private house, Frey was arrested. He was found in his cell that same evening shortly after attempting suicide, but died in prison. Solving the cases seems too easy for the commissioners, especially since the murder of Steiner comes out in the meantime and Bukow is suspected of the crime, as expected. König and Pöschel therefore return to Rostock immediately.

Commissioner Brasch finds out that Herbert Richter bypasses arms embargoes in his exports and illegally exports parts to war countries. As a partner for this, she can identify Siegfried Wagner, who employed Steiner and whose wife, as the head of "Ista-Tec", was also demonstrably blackmailed by Janssen. That in turn leads the Magdeburg investigators Drexler and Brasch to Rostock. While the background of their murder cases is becoming clearer to them, Herbert Richter's granddaughter Jenny is in danger. In order to relieve your grandfather, she tried to get behind his business on her own and has now been abducted in a truck unplanned. At the same time, Bukow was able to convince his colleagues of his innocence and gradually all the evidence led to Siegfried Wagner. All four investigators now go to "Ista-Tec", where Wagner is about to receive the truck with the delivery from Magdeburg. Jenny can be freed unharmed, and after a brief resistance, Wagner is arrested. During interrogation he confesses to the murder of Janssen and Steiner, as he happened to observe him in the hotel.

Astrid Richter was accidentally the victim of an act of desperation. Moritz Richter wanted to destroy his father's life's work after he had learned the truth about his father's machinations as part of the blackmailing of Janssen. It was never his intention that his own wife would be killed in the process and he continues to be stunned.

Filming

The double episode was shot on 44 days from January 27, 2015 to April 2, 2015 in Hamburg, Magdeburg and Rostock.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of the first part on September 27, 2015 was seen by 7.34 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.6% for Das Erste . The second part only reached 6.88 million viewers and a 19.6% market share on October 4, 2015.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv said: “The 'Polizeiruf 110 - turning maneuver', in which the teams from Rostock and Magdeburg investigate together, is exciting, action-intensive, fast-paced, tragic and underlaid with extravagance from the inspectors. The film is less closed than the top productions from Rostock. This is mainly due to the format of a two-part series, which also has to deal with the small parts of a double detective crime in Whodunit mode. But the four are great! "

“As a political panorama over three hours, this 'police call' failed, but the time investment pays off for the individual insane appearances of the investigators. Madness, increased to the power. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

“In terms of content, the first part of 'Wendemanöver' is rather weak. After all, it is the prelude to a multi-layered and complicated plot that only needs to be broken down gradually - over two episodes. [...] Above all, it is the idiosyncratic investigators who whet the appetite for more. "

- Carolin Gasteiger : Süddeutsche Zeitung

Trivia

  • Towards the end of the second part there is a small swipe at the crime scene : Röder takes a call from a Mr. " Tschiller " from Hamburg. As he walked by, he said to König: “You can hardly understand, mumble!” (From minute 1:17:25).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Turning maneuvers at crew united
  2. ↑ Timo Nöthling: Primetime check: Sunday, September 27, 2015.quotemeter.de , September 28, 2015, accessed on October 5, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime Check: Sunday, October 4, 2015.quotemeter.de , October 5, 2015, accessed on November 12, 2017 .
  4. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Michelsen, Huebner, Sarnau, Groth, Eoin Moore. From fathers, sons & loners Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 15, 2015.
  5. ^ Christian Buß: Crazy "police call" two-part. Ill to the power of four. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , September 25, 2015, accessed September 27, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Carolin Gasteiger: How does Bukow get out of there? Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 27, 2015, accessed on September 28, 2015 .
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