Police call 110: and you're dead

Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title	and you're dead
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	MDR
length	85 minutes
classification	Episode 154 ( List )
First broadcast	June 13, 1993
Rod
Director	Thomas Jacob
script	Barbara Schön Thomas Jacob
production	Werner Uwe Kraft
music	Arnold Fritzsch Hartmut Behrsing
camera	Werner Helbig
cut	Silvia Lever
occupation
Günter Naumann : Beck Arianne Borbach : Kleinert Manfred Gorr : Big head Werner Tietze : Hempel Marco Hofschneider : Peter Hempel Joachim Zschocke : Udo Carl Heinz Choynski : Forester Karin Düwel : Mrs. Schiffer Heidrun Welskop : Mrs. Hartmann Gerd Hartmut Schreier : Hartmann Rita Feldmaier : Karin Gentz Günter Junghans : Gentz Annelise Matschulat : Grandma Rapsch Fred Delmare : Grandpa scold Eberhard Mellies : Glawatty Stefanie Klauck: child Mareen Laqua: child Daniela Rehor: child Steffen Schumann: Child Henning Tölpe: Child Claudia Töpfer: Child Maxi Zimmermann: Child

und tot bist du is a German crime film by Thomas Jacob from 1993. The television film was released as the 154th episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 . It is the first police call that was not produced by German television .

action

Eight-year-old Sandy is murdered in a quiet small town in Saxony-Anhalt . Thereupon the inspectors Beck and Kleinert from Halle are commissioned with the investigation, but come into conflict with the policeman Großkopf, who started the investigation on site. Only after a while do all three of the team determine. Beck and Kleinert is presented to Mr. Förster as the perpetrator right from the start. He'd photographed children in town, lured Sandy from the playground, and taken her out to eat ice cream. He was also seen in the apartment building where Sandy's body was found before the crime. For the local press, Förster is known to be the culprit, but the investigators let him go because the images from his camera show that he was not near the crime scene at the time of the crime.

The citizens of the small town are stunned, no longer trust the police work and set up a vigilante group to protect their children. The investigators meanwhile follow a different lead. Young Peter, who works in his father's toy store, saw construction worker Hartmann run from the floor of the house on the day of the act, where Sandy's body was also found. When the investigators want to question Hartmann, he flees. It soon turns out that Hartmann once sat in prison for exhibitionism in front of children and was suspect in the case of another unsolved child murder that occurred 18 months ago, even if nothing could be proven. In Hartmann's basement there is a telescope that was stolen from the attic locker from one of the residents. Since Hartmann remains missing, he cannot be questioned about the act. However, the local newspaper presents him as a serial killer and Hartmann's wife and child are threatened by the vigilante. Hartmann's whereabouts can be determined and the man arrested. He denies the act.

Peter's father is also active in the vigilante group. One day he sees Peter immorally touching a girl who has bought toys in the store. He suspects that Peter has something to do with the murders, but just tries not to leave him unattended anymore. One afternoon the girl Ulrike appears in the toy shop and Peter promises to repair the doll he brought with him. Ulrike is taken to a wooded area by the confused Udo, who once caused the death of his daughter, where she disappears. Soon after, the parents start looking for Ulrike. Udo brings the investigators to the place where Ulrike ran into the forest. The girl's body is found shortly afterwards. The investigators learn that Hartmann is out of the question as a perpetrator because he was already arrested at the time of the crime. Beck is certain that all three murders were carried out by one perpetrator. The perpetrator and the victim must have known each other. In addition, the perpetrator must have had free access to the house where Sandy's body was found, as the front door was undamaged. The only option is Peter Hempel, who was visiting his grandmother at the time. Peter says that Ulrike was with him with the doll, but that he was able to repair the toy immediately. It turns out, however, that Ulrike left the shop without a doll, so the doll could have been returned in the forest, for example. Peter escapes and his father can catch him when he is about to kill another girl. Beck and Kleinert are there shortly afterwards and arrest Peter.

production

After the end of the DFF, the continuation of the series was initially questionable. In 1992, the MDR initially relied on the West German series Tatort and did not broadcast two films still produced by the DFF with the commissioners Ehrlicher and Kain as police calls . But since, among other things, the episode With the Call Comes to Death was also well received by the entire German audience and the police call was described as “worth preserving” when the DFF was being handled, it was decided in 1993 to continue the series.

and you're dead is the first police call that was produced by the MDR. The unusual title results from a counting game played by the children in the film (“Ene mene muh, und tot bist du”).

With Günter Beck, the leading MDR in this film fell back on a familiar face from the DFF times; he is investigating here in his seventh case. Contrary to later custom, Beck is not yet tied to a city, but rather investigates the entire catchment area of ​​the MDR. In this film the action takes place in an unspecified village in Saxony-Anhalt. In later films, including the police call Brother Lustig , Beck will also investigate Görlitz, for example .

The title music comes from Hartmut Behrsing and corresponds to the music from the DFF times. However, the pictures show action scenes from the police call films from 1993.

When the film was first broadcast on June 13, 1993, it had an audience rating of 16 percent.

The filming location was largely in the small Brandenburg town of Luckau in Niederlausitz and its surroundings.

criticism

On the occasion of its premiere in 1993, the Saarbrücker Zeitung wrote that the film “owed its strength primarily to the atmosphere,” says director Jacob in this crime thriller, “observing and describing people's reactions, as if based on rumors and false suspicions the mood turned violent ”. “The successful crime thriller is also an exciting social drama,” wrote the Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung.

literature

• Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 163, 202ff.

Web links

• Police 110: and you're dead in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• ARD.de Polizeiruf 110:… and you're dead on Das Erste.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tine Welke: 17 years of German unity as reflected in the MDR TATORT productions. Staging of East German identity . Vienna 2011, p. 125.
2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 202–203.
3. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 163.
4. ^ Renate Hengsberger: witch hunt…. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , June 14, 1993.
5. ↑ Crime: Police call 110:… and you're dead. In: Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung. No. 187, August 10, 1997, p. 63.

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