Der Bulle und das Mädchen (1985)
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Jürgen Prochnow, Annette von Klier, Franz Buchrieser, Krystyna Janda, Eduard Erne, Stefan Meinke
A lonely, disillusioned police officer tries to help a troubled 17-year-old, but she takes his service weapon and car keys to flee across the border.
The story
Successful but rough-edged, disillusioned, and lonely, a police officer tries to help a 17-year-old after she gets into trouble with her clique. She takes his service weapon and car keys, intending to disappear across the border. Losing the weapon would cost him his job, so he has to find her. He decides to handle the situation on his own, with his job at stake as he searches for her and the missing weapon.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
He is a successful police officer: rough-edged, disillusioned, and lonely. She is 17 and gets into trouble with her clique. When he tries to help her, she takes his service weapon and car keys and wants to disappear across the border. If he loses his service weapon, the police officer would lose his job too. So he has to find her and tries to handle the situation on his own. But his methods lead him further and further into the gray area between legality and illegality. Eventually, they both become fugitives, and they realize they have fallen in love with each other. What follows is a flight with no plan or destination, until the girl is accidentally hit by a bullet and dies. Having lost his will to live because of her death, he lets his former colleagues shoot him while he is unarmed.
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