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Actresses Beckmann (l.), Sarnau: No time for chocolate muffins
Photo: Christine Schroeder / dpa
The scenario:
Pushing frustration and cheating on strangers.
After the murder of a single mother, inspector König (Anneke Kim Sarnau) and her colleague Böwe (Lina Beckmann) are confronted with two types of undignified men in the victim's home environment: One feels overwhelmed by his family duties and stylizes himself as a woman's slave and child, the other type organizes his frustrations with the family during a pastoral hour with the neighbor of the soul.
One way or the other: they are all broken here – including the suburban children who either shoot each other with drug cocktails or become nursing patients after accidents.
The highlight:
It stays in the family.
After Charly Hübner as Inspector Bukow drove into the sunset like a cowboy in a black pick-up during the last "police call", Lina Beckmann now sneaks into the scene as Melly Böwe with homemade chocolate muffins.
In the "Polizeiruf" episode "Sabine" we got to know Inspector Böwe as the half-sister of Inspector Bukow. In real life, Böwe actress Beckmann is married to Bukow actor Hübner.
This episode is teeming with internal references, so the crime drama takes a backseat at times.
In doing so, the filmmakers come up with a few ideas to show the mental deformations that people inflict on themselves in the gangs we call families.
The picture:
Pöschel dances.
In the disco, Commissioner König wants to clarify the team leadership succession with her colleague (Andreas Guenther).
But the otherwise ambitious Pöschel doesn't feel like climbing up the ladder and prefers to reach out to an old flame.
Oller Eighties Klarmacher style - and still the most dignified appearance of a man in this sausage parade from "Polizeiruf".
The dialogue:
In his inimitable down-to-earth manner, Pöschel interviewed a bricklayer at the infirmary who obviously had something to do with the murder victim.
Inspector: "Why are you sweating so much?"
Suspect: "Because that's bad news you're telling me, isn't it?"
Inspector: "Bad because Rieke is dead, or bad because you shagged her even though you're wearing your wedding ring?"
Suspect: "You know how it is: a single woman and a handyman..."
The song:
ABBA's "Dancing Queen".
Runs while Böwe bakes chocolate muffins with her teenage daughter in the sympathetically rocked-down kitchen, which she then tries to bring to the sad men and women in Rostock after her abrupt departure.
"You can dance, you can jive / Having the time of your life" - the chocolate-soaked and disco-shuffle-blissful tone at the beginning is quickly lost in the dissonant Rostock family madness.
The review:
7 out of 10 points.
Here's what's brewing: This is the inevitably difficult and suitably ill-tempered transitional "police call" for a team about to do great things.
The analysis:
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"Police call 110: You can't choose your family,"
Sunday, 8:15 p.m., Das Erste
