Policeman or underworld size - which side Sascha Bukow (Charly Hübner) would choose in Rostock's “Polizeiruf 110” was open eleven years ago, after which it was sometimes questionable. "One of us" was the name of the first episode that set the series' rough, often brutal and deeply morally critical tone. Eoin Moore (book and director), who together with Anika Wangard (book) decisively invented the characters of the police film and developed them over the years, gave Sascha Bukow a street dog past that was not only external, but made up the DNA of the detective, he gave him his intuition for good and bad and his flair for criminals. With Katrin König (Anneke Kim Sarnau), he was given an equally difficult character as a partner: where he could not be trusted, she was overly correct for fear of losing control, where he grabbed it,she gave him sociological lectures. Rostock played as a mostly inhospitable place, the appropriate stage.
Moore and Wangard shifted the lines of conflict on a case-by-case basis, telling both developments over the years as coherent and opposing movements. Conscience and law in conflict, that was the subject. Sometimes it had the narrative force of ancient tragedy. Questions of justice have been taken to extremes. In the third case, “Enemy”, Bukow destroyed evidence for the first time against the sadistic criminal Subocek (Aleksandar Jovanovic), who terrorized Bukow's family and controlled the son. For König, the moment of the oath came with the manipulative woman murderer Guido Wachs (Peter Trabner). Years ago he had been falsely acquitted, now she could prove the crime to him. Too late for the justice system. In "For Janina" she falsified the evidenceunheard of and actually unthinkable for a public television officer. Wachs was jailed for a murder he did not commit. Her fall persecuted her, wax wrote her letters from prison, terrorized her (in "And deliver us from evil"). More than once, Bukow and König became “partners in crime” and even stood together on trial.
Bukow and König, brittle soul mates
The good-and-bad border crossing topic did not appear in each of the now 24 episodes similarly superficial.
Sometimes it was more decisive, sometimes more of a background, the story with wax was first dropped, then sharpened again.
Bukow's father Veit (Klaus Manchen), the godfather of Rostock, was killed in an ambush, and in each of the most outstanding Rostock “police calls” in recent years it was already known that there are too many loose threads, that there are too many legal violations , too much insight into the sometimes tragic conditionality of the justifiable, even the atonement for murder, has happened and exists to enable Bukow and König, brittle soulmates who were ultimately able to find each other as lovers, a happy ending.
Word has got around that Charly Hübner is getting out of the current episode.
"One of us" was the name of the first episode, the last one with him, which in many ways leads to the beginning, is called "None of us".
Eoin Moore and Anika Wangard turn it into a brilliant case that plays on the mafia family subject according to all the rules of genre art.
The gang war that develops in the underground power vacuum after Veit Bukow's assassination is not just another case that focuses on Bukow's and King's quarrels with the dark and light sides of their characters, but relentlessly drives them out of their already conflict-ridden comfort zones , asks the question of trust with bitter consistency.