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»Police call« farewell to Charly Huebner: Youth Day in Rostock

2022-01-07T13:38:28.824Z


For 23 episodes he raged through Rostock with righteous fury, now the collateral damage is listed. Hübner quits as Bukow - and the "police call" turns into a furious junk court.


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Charly Hübner as Commissioner Bukow: day of reckoning

Photo: Christine Schroeder / NDR

Cuddling by the fire of hell, partying on the abyss: this is how you could describe the peculiar feel-good factor of the Rostock “police call”, which is taken to extremes in this particular episode.

In one scene the inspector himself orders the murder of a mafioso, in the next the inspector's colleague falls on her knees in front of him to propose a wedding.

The great thing is: Neither one scene looks excessive, nor is the other cheesy.

They only come to such heights when they call the police with Anneke Kim Sarnau and Charly Hübner, without one thinking: Now the scriptwriters are completely crazy.

This very special and warming "police call" hellfire would have been allowed to continue crackling for all eternity.

But in March, Huebner announced in a SPIEGEL interview that he was leaving the crime series.

After the announcement, he filmed this 24th and last joint Rostock "police call" with Sarnau, in which all the strange feelings and unresolved conflicts from the previous episodes are washed up again.

day of reckoning

Because with König and Bukow, embodied by Sarnau and Hübner, it was always like this: the more cases they solved with the use of rough violence, the more opulent the collateral damage in this only really horizontally told German television thriller added up to a gigantic heap of broken glass. Broken relationships, official offenses and moral misconduct have existed in the Rostock “police call” since 2010. And now it's time for Huebner's Bukow to sweep up the pieces.

After the murder of the seedy manager of the Miau music club, Bukow is confronted again with his own criminal origin.

Because the deceased was well acquainted with Bukow's "Vadder," who gave the shimmering underworld greatness until his death.

The murder victim was supposed to take over the old man's business;

The Serbian mafioso Subocek (Aleksandar Jovanovic), who already played a role in the 2011 episode »Feindbild«, is now pushing into the vacant position.

Back then it was naturally indented, pouted in jail since then and now appears all the more rested and aggressive again on the scene.

Greetings from the past

"None of us" is like an echo room into which a number of references from old König / Bukow episodes blow. Eoin Moore was responsible for the direction and screenplay, who set the rabid, delicate tone in the TV area in the beginning and has since filmed some of the best episodes. Moore and his co-author Anika Wangard manage to bundle the loosely fluttering narrative threads without all of it appearing too constructed - even if you have packed the mystery lucky bag and farewell greetings from the emotion of the historical moment a little too full.

The musician Jo Mennecke, for example, who climbed the stage of the Miau Club shortly after the murder, is also suspected in the crime thriller.

Doctors drummer Bela B. Felsenheimer gives the guy a German rock corpse with plait appliqué;

as a narrow-gauge Lindenberg who messed up alcohol withdrawal and attempted comeback.

It's just as funny to look at as the stupid would-be mafioso who calls himself "the falcon" and wants to use slogans like "Rostock the Rostockers" to challenge the Serbian gangster for supremacy in the red-light district.

Judgment Day in Rostock

Ultimately, these grotesque characters distract from the emotional center of the story. And that lies with Bukow and his highly ambivalent self-imposed task: Out of obligation to his dead father, he has to sort things out in the red-light district, while at the same time he wants to enter into a regular relationship with his colleague - including brushing teeth together after violence and before going to bed.

We can't even spoil here how the daring double strategy might turn out, since only 70 minutes of the »police call« were available in advance.

In spite of all the brushing of teeth and courtship, Bukow will probably not have a future together with König, because the actress Sarnau will receive the Rostock "police call" - in the future she will investigate as a duo with Lina Beckmann, who is married to Charly Hübner in real life and in the "Police call" as the sister of whose Bukow appeared.

It is easy to imagine that it will keep hellfire crackling.

For Bukow himself, there are three realistic options for his Judgment Day to end: jail, death or escape to Siberia, where his Russian-born father is said to have acquired a piece of land before he died.

Evaluation

(for the first 70 minutes): 8 out of 10 points

"Police call 110: None of us,"

Sunday 8:15 pm, Das Erste

Source: spiegel

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