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The commissioners Ott (Carol Schuler) and Grandjean (Anna Pieri Zuercher): Have the cocoa clan in their sights
Photo: Sava Hlavacek / SRF / ARD
The scenario:
The degenerate charm of the bourgeoisie.
After the murder of a Swiss chocolate manufacturer, Isabelle Grandjean (Anna Pieri Zuercher) and Tessa Ott (Carol Schuler) investigate the people around him and experience how the victim's mother and daughter struggle with elegance and meanness for supremacy in the sweets dynasty.
The highlight:
Guilt and chocolate: This "crime scene" is about amorality and lust for power in the upper class - but it plays through the genre of the traditionally male industrial thriller with female staff.
Men appear here almost exclusively as corpses or cues.
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Industrialist Claire Chevalier (Elisa Plüss): Men are only good as helpers here.
Photo: Sava Hlavacek / SRF / ARD
The picture:
Inspector Ott is secretly licking a cocoa fountain that is in the corporate headquarters of the influential clan.
Oh, sweet power chocolate!
The dialogue:
The commissioners talk about family and origin in the car.
Then this exchange of blows:
Grandjean: »Roots provide stability. If you want or not."
Ott: "I've repotted myself."
The music:
Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth.
On the way to the interrogation, prosecutor Anita Wegenast (Rachel Braunschweig) rewrote the chorus part "Joy, beautiful gods spark / daughter from Elysium" with lively: "Drug trafficking, hit-and-run / armed robbery." .
The review:
8 out of 10 points.
Premium class chocolate shocker: a double-sided plot meets a strong female ensemble.
The analysis:
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