Police 110: Payday

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title payday
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 73 minutes
classification Episode 135 ( List )
First broadcast January 28, 1990 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Hans Knötzsch
script Otto Bonhoff
production Erich Biedermann
music Rudi Werion
camera Michael Albrecht
cut Susanne Carpentier
occupation

Payday is a German crime film by Hans Knötzsch from 1990. The television film was released as the 135th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

Udo Gernot, disguised with a wig and a false beard, assaults the money messenger Traudel Gröditz when she appears at VEB Karotex on payday with the wages. Her driver, Mr. Kiel, is still trying to overtake Gernot's car, but he is stopped because the speed limit is exceeded. He noted the license plate number of the car. Later it turns out that the perpetrator changed the license plates. Udo Gernot is quickly collected. Witnesses noticed that although he had blond hair and a blond beard, he had dark eyebrows. A phantom image can be created without cladding. The local car rental company then recognizes Udo Gernot. He is arrested. Police officers bring the suitcase of money, which he has deposited in a locker at the station, to the investigators, Captain Peter Fuchs and Lieutenant Thomas Grawe. Udo did not know the number combination and had therefore not yet opened the suitcase. At the station he is therefore surprised, like the investigators, that the suitcase does not contain any money. The notes, around 250,000 marks, were replaced by newspapers. The investigation, which appeared to be over, begins again.

Udo Gernot lives with his sister, who also protects the naive and easily influenced brother from herself. She suspects backers who persuaded Udo to commit the robbery. Above all, Udo's ex-girlfriend Renate Pickert has her under suspicion, as she even works in the payroll department of VEB Karotex. However, like other people in the company, Renate could not know the combination of numbers. The investigators soon realize that they made false assumptions. The money could as well have been stolen before the theft. Thomas Grawe has the normal workflow checked when delivering the suitcase and there are actually weak points in which the driver in Kiel could exchange the full suitcase for a false empty suitcase. Kiel is now considered suspicious of having taken the real suitcase. As a driver, he was always not far from Traudel Gröditz when she entered the combination of numbers on the suitcase. To make matters worse, Kiel is Renate Pickert's current boyfriend. He actually planned the robbery with her, but wants to trick her. He claims to have no knowledge of the money's whereabouts. When she threatens to hand him over to the police, he beats her so brutally that she has to be hospitalized.

Wolfgang Paulsen, chief accountant of VEB Karotex, told Kiel the next day, apparently casually, that the thief could never spend the money because the notes are numbered and registered. Kiel immediately goes to his lake property and Thomas Grawe and his men shadow him. Kiel checks the loot that he has hidden on his motorboat, but notices one of the investigators who has taken cover carelessly. He escapes with his boat, but can later be caught by the water police. During a later interrogation of Udo, the investigators played Renate Pickert's confession for him. In him she makes it clear that she was never serious about him. Now Udo confesses that he only carried out the robbery at her request - without knowing that he was only to serve as a scapegoat for her.

production

Payday (working title: The robbery ) was filmed from June 9th to July 30th, 1989 in Berlin . The costumes of the film created Ruth peoples who Filmbauten submitted by Jürgen Malitz . The film premiered on January 28, 1990 in the first program of East German television. The audience participation was 44.3 percent.

It was the 135th episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 . Captain Peter Fuchs investigated in his 78th case and Oberleutnant Thomas Grawe in his 24th case.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 187–188.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=135 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 143.
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