"Police call" vote: How did you like "Black Box" with Claudia Michelsen?

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Commissioner Brasch with the suspect (Eloi Christ): Two wounded souls

Photo: MDR/filmpool fiction/Conny Klein

An unsolved prostitute murder 18 years ago, an inexplicable manslaughter in a train compartment, an inspector in a state of emergency: Before the summer break, ARD once again came up trumps with a particularly disturbing psycho trip.

As a traumatized police officer, Claudia Michelsen empathized with a traumatized manslayer - the psycho quirk as an investigative advantage.

In our review we wrote: »This 'police call' about repressed, faded and false memories also brings up almost faded memories of Alfred Hitchcock's psychiatric thriller »Spellbound«, where Ingrid Bergman struggled to protect the traumatized Gregory Peck.

But that may not be so much because of the similar narrative structure as because the slayer's actor, Eloi Christ, like Gregory Peck, has that sore look on his massive face.

Is the young man guilty or a victim of risky manipulations?

So there are a few reasons to stick with that 'Call the Police' brainfuck.”

We gave 7 out of 10 points.

What do you think of the trauma thriller?

At the end of the current »police call«, Claudia Michelsen returned to the police station after a six-month break from therapy.

Will she now work better with the staff again?

And will sidekick Günther Márquez, played by Pablo Grant with very little text, get a little more space?

The next episode provides the answer: It was shot last March, has the working title "Ronny" and is about a missing child in a foster home.

The broadcast is scheduled for early next year.

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