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Polizeirevier Davidswache
Hamburg: City of Vice
Polizeirevier Davidswache St. Pauli / Seven Consenting Adults
West Germany 1964
produced by Ernst Liesenhoff for Hans Eckelkamp & Sohn
directed by Jürgen Roland
starring Wolfgang Kieling, Günther Ungeheuer, Günther Neutze, Silvana Sansoni, Hannelore Schroth, Jürgen Draeger, Horst Neutze, Fred Berthold, Ingrid Andree, Harald Heitmann, Hans Irle, Johanna König, Hanns Lothar, Günter Lüdke, Helmut Oeser, Wolfgang Borchert, Wolfgang Engels, Ulrich Bachmann, Herbert Malsbender, Edgar Frank, Horst Hesslein, Linde Fulda, Kurt Klopsch, Detmer Gerdes, Gerty Molzen, Margitta von Storen, Hans Lohfing, Guido Steinberg, Helmuth Kolar
written by Wolfgang Menge
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Hamburg, police precinct Davidswache, right in the center of St.Pauli,
Hamburg's (in)famous red light district: Since it is just 48 hours to the
arrival of his daughter Lilo whom he hasn't seen in over a year, officer
Glantz (Wolfgang Kieling) decides to do a double shift ... which is when
he learns that Bruno Kapp (Günther Ungeheuer), a delinquent whom he has
thrown into the slammer, has been released after 4 years of confinement,
and Kapp might have a wrath against Glantz.
Kapp meanwhile plays the good boyfriend to his naive fiancee Margot
(Hannelore Schroth), but at the same time he asks his friend Manfred
(Jürgen Draeger) to get him some guns, and tries to get back together
with the prostuitute Cherie (Sylvana Sansoni). Eventually though, things
get a little out of hand when he robs a store and almost kills its owner,
then beats Cherie up to get his hands on her money ... and accidently
kills her ... but this time he was seen at the scene of the crime and
identified.
Ultimately, Bruno hides in a hotel where a waiter owes him something
... but since he has killed a prostitute, St.Pauli's underworld turns its
back on him, and they eventually even betray his hiding place to the
police. Soon enough the hotel is surrounded, and when he flees to the
hotel's roof, he once again faces Glantz. Kapp threatens Glantzu a bit but
ultimately realizes he has lost the game and gives himself up ...
When Kapp is led by her, Margot all of a sudden realizes what an
asshole he is, somehow gets her ahnds on a gun and threatens to shoot him
... but for some reason, the bullet hist Glantz instead ...
My synopsis, that sounds like a run-of-the-mill crime drama, doesn't do
the film any justice. The story of the film in this case serves as little
more than a (feeble) framing device for all kinds of small stories
concerning St.Pauli, its police, its crooks, its visitors and of course
its prostitutes - and while Polizeirevier
Davidswache might be less than great as a crime drama, it is a
realistic, excellent as well as entertaining portrait of goings-on in Hamburg's red light
district, with most of the stories (allegedly) based on real life events.
Recommended.
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