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Commissioner Ross (André Kaczmarczyk, 2nd from left) at the crime scene: The big couture clash
Photo: Volker Roloff /rbb
The scenario:
Upstate hipsters.
After the farewell of colleague Raczek in the last case, Commissioner Ross (André Kaczmarczyk) is now investigating alone in a chic 1920s suit in the gloomy nowhere of Brandenburg.
A small business owner who has gone bankrupt is found shot dead near the Way of St. James, and the insolvency administrator (Bernhard Schir) is also suspected.
The inspector, always dressed in exquisite Art Deco shirts, rushes back and forth between pilgrims and bankrupt vultures, who are linked in some vaguely plausible way.
The highlight:
The big couture clash.
Sure, it may have sounded funny as an idea to let the investigator stagger around in high-heeled leather shoes with expressive dancer make-up between Brandenburg simpletons.
But in the end, this thoroughly implausible plot leaves the impression that neither the fashion-conscious bull nor the ambitious filmmaker have any interest in the people of Brandenburg.
The picture:
The heartland is in danger of being sold out.
A book called "Riots in the Heartland," by an author named Pete Jackson, is up for sale in the window of a print and paper shop that is also in bankruptcy.
Is this a hillbilly elegy by a right-wing thinker?
Or the prognostic essay by a sociologist on the tipping point in the eastern federal states?
Neither nor.
The book is an invention of the filmmakers - but makes more food for thought than all the characters in their thriller put together.
The dialogue:
In front of the autopsy table, there is an argument between the medical examiner, who is snipping at a corpse, and a new colleague.
The queer detective Ross tries to mediate in his own way.
Coroner: "If he comes here again, I'll show him what you need a colon scissors for."
Commissioner: "Tell me. You're so anal fixated today. Do you want to tell me something?"
The review:
2 out of 10 points.
Lost in Brandenburg - unfortunately applies equally to the commissioner, filmmaker and audience.
The analysis:
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"Police Call 110: The God of Bankruptcy",
Sunday, 8:15 p.m., Das Erste
