POLIZEIRUF 110 - BREAKING POINT MIDNIGHT
Film - New German TV Movies Filmfest 2021

POLIZEIRUF 110 - BREAKING POINT MIDNIGHT

Directed by Dominik Graf

Info

Director: Dominik Graf
Section: New German TV Movies
Country: Germany
Year: 2021
PT: POLIZEIRUF 110 - BIS MITTERNACHT
OT: POLIZEIRUF 110 - BIS MITTERNACHT
Language: German
Version: Original version
Cast: Verena Altenberger, Michael Roll, Martin Schaub, Thomas Schubert, Daniel Christensen, Robert Sigl
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

Mercilessly stylish thriller by the Munich Polizeiruf team, told from an unusual perspective.

The power of the police is limited by law, as newly appointed Chief Inspector Elisabeth “Bessie” Eyckhoff realizes in her first case with the Munich homicide squad. A young woman living alone has been attacked by a stranger at her door. Eyckhoff and her team are able to link the case to the killing of a woman three years previously, and a suspect is taken into custody. Eyckhoff is convinced she has the perpetrator, but she lacks the compelling evidence necessary to detain him further. Without a breakthrough by midnight, she will have to release a man she considers extremely dangerous. The accused is very intelligent and her team’s nerves are on edge. Then Josef Murnauer, Bavaria’s most seasoned homicide investigator, is called in, even though he’s retired from that job. Eyckhoff must show that her strategy is the right one, and fight to the last minute.

Meet the director

POLIZEIRUF 110 - BREAKING POINT MIDNIGHT

Dominik Graf

Born in Munich in 1952, Dominik Graf studied German literature and music for two years before transferring to the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF). In 1980, his graduation film DER KOSTBARE GAST received the Bavarian Film Award for best new director. Since then, he’s been a sought-after award-winning director of motion-picture and television productions. Among his various works, A MAP OF THE HEART (2002), BELOVED SISTERS (2014) and FABIAN – GOING TO THE DOGS (2021) were shown in competition at the Berlinale. In addition to being a director, Graf teaches feature film directing in Cologne as a professor at the Internationale Filmschule Köln.

Credits

Screenplay: Tobias Kniebe
Director of Photography: Hendrik A. Kley
Film Editor: Claudia Wolscht
Composer: Florian von Volxem, Sven Rossenbach
Production Designer: Claus Jürgen Pfeiffer
Costume Design: Barbara Grupp
Sound: Roman Schwartz
Sound design: Michael Stecher
Make-up artist: Nannie Gebhardt-Seele, Friederike Mirus
Casting director: An Dorthe Braker
Producer: Jens Susa
Production Company: PROVOBIS Gesellschaft für Film und Fernsehen
Editor: Claudia Simionescu, Tobias Schultze
TV channel: Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR)