Gloomy Brandenburg "police call": The patchwork family grave

In the end, the beautiful home looks like a grave. The forensic scientists sealed the windows in front of the sun with tarpaulins to search for traces of violence in recent decades in the dark blue light of the crime scene lights. In the garden, officials in white jumpsuits with metal detectors break the grass, sniffer dogs sniff at each blade of grass, no sidewalk tile that is not turned over.

Whether a dead body is found under one of them or not plays at the end of this "police call" from Frankfurt on the Oder almost no longer matter: Commissioner Lenski (Maria Simon) and colleague Raczek (Lucas Gregorowicz) have in their investigations in the German Polish patchwork family Heise found so many bodies, it depends on a more or less not.

A young woman who worked as an au pair in the family was pulled dead in her bikini from the Oder. The larynx had been dented, the body was in the water for three days, traces of the deed are barely there. The difficult case leads the investigators to an old, still unresolved case around Heises.

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15 years ago, the teenage daughter disappeared, there was the charge in the room, adoptive father Gerd (Götz Schubert) could have abused her, but mother Katarzyna (Lina Wendel) held to her new husband. However, his biological father (Krzysztof Franieczek) has been trying to prove that the daughter has disappeared for one and a half decades. But perhaps his rage is just a distraction from the fact that he has driven his own life against the wall. Losers are sympathetic, but you do not have to trust them anyway.

It accumulate the coercion charges

This "police call" is a patchwork family grave. He attributes the three responsible filmmakers to substances that they have already dealt with more often in their careers. Director Stefan Kornatz shot "One is evil" in 2012, one of the strongest "crime scene episodes" in Frankfurt. It was about men who kept their relationships sacred, but brutally spent their impulses outside of them. Tender are the monsters.

Even with the always tidy patchwork patriarch in the "police call", the suspicion is confirmed that it could be a violent man. In the course of the action, the coercive charges increase against him.

All "crime scene" teams at a glance

Borowski in Kiel

The world converter: As Klaus Borowski Axel Milberg is best when he descends in parallel cosms of psychopaths - perhaps because Borowski itself is built close to madness. Since 2003, by 2009, was meaningfully under the observation of a police psychologist. But the women come and go in the Borowski "crime scene". After Maren Eggert and Sibel Kekilli, the highly-traded Turkish-born actress Almila Bagriacik ("4 blocks") now plays the role of the female sidekick.

Sieland, Gorniak and Schnabel in Dresden

Funny it started, a draw went on, it should be serious. Alwara Höfels, Karin Hanczewski and Martin Brambach had to struggle in the first episodes with the half-baked concept of the MDR. Höfels meanwhile pulled the consequences and said goodbye to the Dresden "crime scene". Her part will soon be taken over by Cornelia Göschel. Two episodes a year. Let's see if the MDR holds out the new seriousness.

Hawk in northern Germany

Forever Punk: Wotan Wilke Möhring as Commissar Falke hears punk and contributes to sleeping as if to find a threadbare Ramones shirt. First he was traveling in Hamburg, then he had to leave the city to Til Schweiger and moved to the north German countryside, now he may again investigate in Hamburg. As a co-investigator Franziska Weisz acts as Julia Grosz. Two episodes a year.

Mountain and Tobler in the Black Forest

From regional cultivation: Harald Schmidt got out shortly before Dreh. Maybe that's a good thing, because the eternally ironic Fernsehpromi, who should play the Commissariatsleiter, would have worked in the barren, cunning and bitter Black Forest thriller out of place. Eva Löbau as Franziska Tobler and Hans-Jochen Wagner as Friedemann Berg do not need dialogue fanfares or exotic role biographies. They exploit what this weather-intensive crime thriller Black Forest gives. A homeland thriller in which everything is produced locally: fruit, schnapps, death.

Murot in Hesse

Do not be afraid of the pianist! Whether on the piano or on a machine gun - Ulrich Tukur as Inspector Murot is almost always a sensation. Almost always: The number with the jugglers in the circus episode "Dizziness" from 2013 was really bad, but the Tarantino-meets-Truffaut episode "Born in pain" 2014 was an absolute masterpiece of the series. It is a pleasant change to watch Ulrich - Oops, now I come - Tukur as LKA - man Felix Murot singing through the action, dancing and making music. Or just sometimes with the rapid-fire weapon ensures order. Great thriller cinema. Run whenever Tukur fancy a "crime scene" shoot.

Lannert and Bootz in Stuttgart

The wounded: Richy Müller as Thorsten Lannert and Felix Klare as Sebastian Bootz are great guys. One with a tragic undercover investigator past, the other an honored failed husband. Since 2008, they are in use, in the beginning, the cases were still flushed routinely routinely. But the most recent Stuttgart episodes treat at the highest aesthetic level excitement topics such as Stuttgart 21 and unprocessed RAF history. A formidable film noir was the thriller that was told completely from the perspective of a liar. Big thriller movie theater!

Dorn and Lessing in Weimar

Is that still a thriller? Nora Tschirner as commissar Dorn and Christian Ulmen as colleague Lessing let the usual "Tatort" -deliector punching go empty-handed with casual elegance - and that just in the sphere of influence of the MDR, where it used to be difficult with humor and subversion. After the initially sluggish programming as an event "crime scene", Dorn and Lessing now investigate twice a year.

Faber, Bönisch, Dalay and Kossik in Dortmund

The sick: Jörg Hartmann swallows plenty of pills and breaks toilets as Peter Faber. Anna Schudt as colleague Martina Bönisch rises more to frustration reduction as a pleasure with callboys and vacuum cleaner representatives to bed. Aylin Tezel as Nora Dalay and Stefan Konarske as Daniel Kossik have already sweated together on patrol and in bed together - but would never use the L-word. Two episodes a year. One of the few TV areas with stringent character development. The elite of the German TV crime. Stefan Konarske has since dropped out and was replaced by Rick Okon ("The Boat").

Boerne and Thiel in Münster

The Prof and the Proll: Since 2002, Jan Josef Liefers as forensic physician Karl-Friedrich Boerne and Axel Prahl as Frank Thiel determine between bis dynasties, potato kings and asparagus emperors. The one snob and closely associated with the Münster dignity, the other St. Pauli fan and outsider. A combination with the grotesque humor smuggled into the "crime scene" at the beginning, but exhausted in recent years in gag cannonades. Two cases a year, almost always flanked by new quota records.

Brix and Janneke in Frankfurt

How are they on it? As balanced as Paul Brix (Wolfram Koch, l.) And Anna Janneke (Margarita Broich, r.) Nobody else in TV crime Germany goes to work. Good mood as a unique selling point, an interesting twist. Instead of rubbing the concentrated attention for each case. Brix was formerly in the habit, Janneke has previously worked as a psychologist: A good addition to descend into the hard, sick and yet often cheerfully twisted cases of the Hessian "crime scene". Two episodes a year.

Tschiller in Hamburg

Who is the biggest in the "crime scene" country? Til Schweiger, with his commissioner Nick Tschiller and his action blockbuster thriller, is clearly switching to this top position. At the last double "crime scene" after the turn of the year, even hit star Helene Fischer was brought on board to set new quota records. Haute but not out, the two-parter came to the audience bad. Since even Schweiger could not do much with Panzerfaust, and even the gifted Sidekick and secret Hamburg "Tatort" star Fahri Yardim as Commissioner Yalcin Gümer did not hold the audience. Audience favorites Axel Prahl and Jan Josef Liefers and their audience numbers are further away than ever before for Schweiger. The movie "crime scene" launched in February 2016 was not a public bomb. Lets see how it goes on. At the moment the script is working on a sixth Tschiller crime scene.

Ruby and Karow in Berlin

He a pig, she a slut: In contrast to the former sunny capital city cops Ritter and Stark "crime scene" successor Mark Waschke as Robert Karow and Meret Becker as Nina Rubin drawn with extremely black line. While Karow in the first episode has crooked business with the drug mafia, Rubin enjoys SM games in the backyards of Kreuzberg hipster bars. In addition to stark character drawings, there are in the radically modernized Berlin "crime scene" especially harmonious capital city impressions. Two episodes a year.

Stellbrink in Saarbrücken

The undecided: Since 2013 Devid Striesow as Jens Stellbrink and Elisabeth Brück as Lisa Marx determine in Saarbrücken. He is a stinking emotional person, she is a rabid analysis machine. One likes it in Saarbrücken in terms of character drawing just like a little plain. The potential of the great actor Striesow was never even nearly exhausted, meanwhile he announced his departure for 2019.

Voss and Ringelhahn in Franconia

The strangers: Felix Voss is a lost and locked northern light with a preference for techno-excesses. Paula Ringelhahn made her way out of the East at the time of the Wall because she believed in freedom and democracy. Now the two commissioners, who are not compatible at all, are investigating an area in which they also seem out of place. A charming basic situation. Once a year, Fabian Hinrichs and Dagmar Manzel appear as unequal pair in the hinterland of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia occur. Hinrichs had previously caused in a BR episode as an investigator squaw Gisbert for furore and amorous audience.

Eisner and Fellner in Vienna

The double espresso: Since 1999 Harald Krassnitzer determined as Major Moritz Eisner grumpy, practical, good. He has since poured into the 5000 mugs of mocha and other strong caffeinated drinks. Since 2011 he has been supported by Adele Neuhauser as Bibi Fellner, a (mostly) dry alcoholic with a penchant for demimonde at the Prater. Vienna, dark and cold, like a stale black man. 2014 saw the Grimme Award.

Ballauf and Schenk in Cologne

The couple: Klaus J. Behrendt as Max Ballauf and Dietmar Bär as Freddy Schenk stood for a long time for the good old sociokrimi - not an issue that was not determined by the two warm-hearted and explained away. Schenk has a wife at home who has never been seen before. But let's be honest: what can be done against his great love Ballauf? Since 1997, three to four cases a year. After Assistant Franziska was brutally murdered from the TV area in early 2014, the people of Cologne are more gloomy and unforgiving. Is the two "crime scene" -Oldies actually quite good.

Lürsen and Stedefreund in Bremen

The eternal Spontis: Sabine Postel as Inga Lürsen and Oliver Mommsen as Nils Stedefreund deliver a nice interplay. If the youngster does it too much, she puts on her stern face, if the boss has too much fun, he makes the grumbler. Schnoddrig solve the two politically charged cases in this way. Left, humorous, sometimes a little too loud. She has been there since 1997, he since 2001. Two to three cases a year, often strong B-movies. For 2019, however, the farewell is announced.

Lindholm in Hannover and surroundings

The woman of today: Since 2002, Maria Furtwängler has performed in the role of Charlotte Lindholm in Lower Saxony and in recent years has become the epitome of the modern female investigator. WG-experienced, highly pregnant during explosive investigations, later brought her child and career together well. Lindholm is personified self-optimization, conservative at heart but open to experimentation. In short: the Ursula von der Leyen of the "crime scene". Two to three episodes a year, now only one. Not always great, never boring.

Batic and Leitmayr in Munich

The eternal bachelors: For more than a quarter of a century, the two are already in action - and still good for a scandal: Recently Commissioner Ivo Batic (l. Miroslav), and colleague Franz Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl) made with an explicit thriller about the Munich porn business for riot among the spectators. Whether swinger clubs or polyamory: Curiously, the Bavarian boys graying in honor continue to descend into the more difficult erogenous zones of German society.

Flückiger in Lucerne

The Leisetreter: After Stefan Gubser as Reto Flückiger had already identified several times as a guest with colleague Klara Blum in Konstanz, he got in 2011 his own area in Lucerne. Bring a soft note into the hysterical "crime scene". In the disastrous first episode, Sofia Milos assisted him as Abby Lanning, then Delia Mayer took on the female sidekick role as Liz Ritschard. She plays the first open lesbian investigator in the "crime scene" alliance. The two were never the crowd favorites, 2019 is the last episode. Then it should continue with the Swiss "crime scene" in Zurich.

Odenthal in Ludwigshafen

The experimental machine: Here were the most beautiful amorous escapades and the boldest stories - including a trip into space. Ulrike Folkerts as Lena Odenthal is in use since 1989, Andreas Hoppe as Mario Kopper joined in 1996. But left the "crime scene" 2017 again. At the moment, the SWR is doing all sorts of experiments with the TV area, but the two improv episodes fell far short of expectations. Nevertheless, please continue experimenting!

Like director Kornatz, scriptwriters Bernd Lange and Hans-Christian Schmid use this thriller to pick up a topic that they have already dealt with, namely the creeping alienation within families, which they have already described in the ARD series "The Disappearance". Their German-Polish "police call", which they fortunately set in biennial stages over distances, they now hold technically skillfully in the balance.

It is not so much about the concrete resolution of the case as about the disturbed attachment dynamics, through which the daughters, but also partly the sons of their mothers and are driven away. Parents are perceived as punishment, children as ballast.

Although some scenes are schematic, most reveal a deep sadness and cruel speechlessness between generations. For example, when the mother of the girl who disappeared 15 years ago is asked what the loss has done to her and she answers with an empty look: "At some point I decided to just go on living." Without memory, without longing, dropped ballast.

A "police call" on family dissolution processes: the ditches between parents and children are as wide as the Oder at high tide.

Rating: 8 out of 10

"Police Call 110: The Case Sikorska", Sunday, 20:15, ARD