The ARD “crime scene” from Frankfurt is about a murder committed by a police chief. In an overall strong case, Peter Lohmeyer in particular shines. A criticism from TV editor Stefanie Thyssen.
- The ARD “crime scene” from Frankfurt is about a murder committed by a police chief.
- The thriller is Peter Lohmeyer, who has not played in a crime scene for 20 years.
- The crime thriller from Frankfurt is ennobled by a performance by Hannelore Elsner.
For 20 years, Peter Lohmeyer recently said in a talk show, he had no longer participated in any "crime scene". At that time he played the lead role in the episode of Lena Odenthal "The Black Knight". Now the thrill of crime has once again seized him - and as a viewer you can only be thankful for this decision. How Lohmeyer plays the figure that everything in the strong episode "The good and the bad" revolves around is great.
Chief police officer Ansgar Matzerath (Lohmeyer) leads his colleagues Anna Janneke (Margarita Broich) and Paul Brix (Wolfram Koch) to the scene of a crime - and confesses there. He claims to have murdered the man sitting naked and tied up in a chair. His motive: revenge. The dead kidnapped Matzerath's wife seven years ago and raped him several times.
ARD crime scene from Frankfurt: viewers only remain briefly in the dark
The two commissioners are not only appropriately puzzled, but on top of that they hangover because they celebrated and drank the night before, one cannot say it otherwise. Her colleague's sobering announcement quickly brings her back to the bottom of the sad facts.
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What is special about this film by David Ungureit (book) and Petra K. Wagner (director): It only leaves the viewer in the dark for a relatively short time. We soon know that it really was this Matzerath. And wants to be prosecuted according to all rules of police and legal art. Above all, Brix wants to help him, builds bridges for mitigating circumstances, cannot believe what is going on here. Around this dilemma, clever, level-headed, even philosophical dialogues emerge about the meaning and essence of the work as a commissioner. Which - not only because the Frankfurt commissioner is currently being rebuilt or demolished - can be pretty grueling. The house is falling apart, dripping from the roof, the falls remain.
That this case is ennobled with an appearance by Hannelore Elsner is a perfect fit. She once had the murder case on the table as Commissioner Elsa Bronski - and had to file it unsolved. Now she faces the perpetrator she once met on duty every day. In the end an intimate hug. A beautiful moment that will not only be remembered by Peter Lohmeyer.
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