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Tragedy with little glimpses of light: Inspector Brasch (Claudia Michelsen) with the victim's daughter
Photo: Stefan Erhard / MDR
The scenario:
Heroin hotspot Saxony-Anhalt: After the body of a young woman was found on the edge of a country road who was executed by a mafia-style head shot, Commissioner Brasch (Claudia Michelsen) investigates the drug scene in Magdeburg.
Junkies on cold withdrawal, dealers with a darknet connection and gangsters who also go about their business behind bars - soon the policewoman is wading knee-deep through Magdeburg's drug swamp.
On her hand: the three-year-old daughter of the murder victim.
The highlight:
When parents lose their children to heroin - and children lose their parents: The drug misery in a loop is reflected here in the eyes of the fathers, whose daughters and sons fell victim to addiction.
Although this "police call" now seems like a drug thriller, it is mainly about failed relationships between parents and their children.
The picture:
Close-up of a syringe sticking into a vein.
Then the face of an ex-junkie who immediately collapses after that first shot in years.
The tragedy of a fixer life, brought to the point in two cuts.
The dialogue:
In the murder victim's youth room - the superintendent asks the dead's father:
Commissioner: "Was she a drug addict?"
Father: "She was 14 when it started. First pills, then heroin. This was just a place to sleep for her. She lied to us that she stopped, that she was away from that stuff. And then left everything starts all over again. My wife always believed her. It made her sick. "
Commissioner: "And you?"
Father: "You ask me that? Now? Do you know how often I have been to the colleagues?"
The song:
"The Hanging Tree" by James Newton Howard ft. Jennifer Lawrence.
The song from the soundtrack of "The Hunger Games", which is placed over the cathartic finale, is certainly an efficient accelerator of emotions - but it also seems a bit oversized for the filigree family drug drama that was told before.
It is generally annoying that now every second Sunday thriller has to end with the really big, tasty power ballad final chord.
The review:
6 out of 10 points.
Violence, pain, hope: despite small dramatic mistakes, a drug tragedy with glimpses of light.
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"Police call 110: Death of a dead",
Sunday, 8:15 pm, Das Erst
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