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The bull's necks stand up: With these men, the security entrepreneur Arentzen (Thure Riefenstahl) wants to bring Ludwigshafen under his wing
Photo: Jacqueline Krause-Burberg / SWR
The scenario:
Gorillas in the drug fog.
After a club owner was murdered, Odenthal (Ulrike Folkerts) and Stern (Lisa Bitter) investigate inflated bouncers who decide who can sell coke and ecstasy in their shops.
Apparently, the security people are not only involved in the drug business, but also take on security tasks that are the responsibility of the underfunded police.
Whenever the commissioners ask colleagues in other departments for administrative assistance, the lament sounds about empty coffers and full overtime accounts.
The highlight:
Gangsters as lawmen.
Director and author Thomas Bohn, who in his »Tatorts« about terror and drone warfare repeatedly linked action and politics in a drastic way, invents a scenario in which dubious security companies take over the tasks of the state.
But the interesting core of the question of what happens when the executive is outsourced unfortunately disappears behind a martially staged crowd of bull neck and undercut rascals.
In the end, Odenthal has no other choice than to ensure order in an equally martial manner.
Phew
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Out and about in the gastro-milieu: Stern (Lisa Bitter, left) and Odenthal (Ulrike Folkerts, center) with witness
Photo: Jacqueline Krause-Burberg / SWR
The picture:
Odenthal and Stern look appreciatively after a sexy drug cop.
Odenthal remarked like a connoisseur: "Italian mother, Cuban father." Sounds like she is appraising a stallion in the stable.
Is such a slogan already relevant to #MeToo?
The dialogue:
The investigators question a security contractor with links to the drug milieu:
Odenthal: “Here someone applies the law of the street. And I have something against that. "
Entrepreneur: "The police should stay out of it."
Stern: "I beg your pardon?"
Entrepreneur: What do you want, Ms. Odenthal? Politics will save you to death. The judiciary is now betraying you in every second case. And insult those you are supposed to protect at every opportunity. The street, as you like to call the underworld, regulates itself. You and your colleagues should stay out of it. Especially since you now lack the means to act effectively. "
The song:
"I have police" by POL1Z1STENS0HN aka Jan Böhmermann.
The song doesn't appear in the film, of course, but it would be a nice ironic commentary on this cop thriller, in which bouncers want to brute law and order: "Stand still, legs wide, ID with you?"
The review:
2 out of 10 points.
In the gesture an editorial for more law and order, in the impression of an action camels from the eighties: We cannot follow this rowdy plea for greater investments in internal security.
Weird choice for a Christmas "crime scene".
»Tatort: Unter Wölfen«,
Boxing Day, 8:15 pm, Das Erste
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