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Crashed: Brasch (Claudia Michelsen) after a little private booze
Photo: Stefan Erha / MDR
The scenario:
In the labyrinth of violence.
After the disappearance of a geriatric nurse, the case for Brasch (Claudia Michelsen) seems to be quickly resolved.
Markus Wegner (Sascha Geršak), a loser with a lack of impulse control, soon confesses to the murder of the young woman - and another of another, for whom someone else has been in prison for three years.
But neither the corpse of the old case nor that of the new can be found, Wegner is set free.
Brasch shoots himself off with vodka and goes into risky contact with Wegner and his wife (Laura Tonke), who live together in an opaque relationship of dependency: is he a psychopath and she the executor of his sadistic desires?
The highlight:
Here the investigation is leading the Commissioner into the abyss.
Again and again new twists and turns open up, the focus shifts again and again, the violence always seems to have a new origin (book: Jan Braren, director: Brigitte Maria Bertele).
The fact that Brasch is now on the road solo after many colleagues have left is told even more consistently than in the gamer thriller from February or the junkie drama from September.
Michelsen is now investigating Brasch as if in free fall, breathtaking!
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Sadists?
Markus Wegner (Sascha Geršak) and his wife Annegret (Laura Tonke)
Photo: Stefan Erha / MDR
The picture
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A drunk couple dance like there is no tomorrow and eventually collapse on the floor.
It's the alleged murderer with his wife.
The scene runs in slow motion, with "Dance Me to the End of Love" by Leonard Cohen playing.
The dialogue:
Commissioner Brasch during the interrogation of the suspect Wegner, in front of her pictures of the two murder victims.
Brasch: "If you've been in Valerie Klein's car, we'll find out, Mr. Wegner."
Wegner: “I give a shit about that. From here to Meppen. "
Brasch: “You don't give a shit, from here to Meppen. It gets on your nerves. You don't wanna talk to me I'm supposed to shut up, that's what you want best, yes? We can also do a polygraph test, is that what you want? "
Wegner: »Oh, lick my ass. Get your fucking lie detector! Just do it! You know what: I killed her! Both! Zack! Dead. It's quiet now, okay? "
The song:
"Valerie" by Amy Winehouse.
The song is playing when the later murder victim sets off in high spirits on the date arranged on the Internet, from which she is not supposed to return.
The rest of the soundtrack is superb too.
The score comes from Sven Rossenbach and Florian Van Volxem, who had previously provided the Morricone sound for Dominik Graf's Mafia thriller.
The review:
8 out of 10 points.
Verbal and physical violence to the limit of pain and beyond: This smartly built and hard staged »police call« drives out residual feelings of Christmas on the brutal tour.
"Police call 110: The Condemned",
Sunday, 8:15 pm, Das Erste
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