If the dead fish that literally hits the windshield of the getaway car out of the blue had fallen moments later, would all the deaths, the exposure of numerous life lies and the events that left two children orphans still have happened?
Could the stupid plan of the two amateur thieves Daniel Kowalski (Joel Basman), cleaning lady in the company of his accomplice, the gambling-addicted head of HR Paula Schönberg (Katja Riemann), have worked out as a grotesque slapstick variant of fate, but all the other things wouldn't have happened?
Or would the rest have happened inevitably like a domino line-up with an invisible route that is constantly being tinkered with?
If another whim of chance had inevitably intervened, because of the stupidity of those involved to be proven,
A god – or alternatively the psychological idea of a demiurge with little philanthropy, a mental necessity or projection that prefers to make its supposed counterpart wriggle so that it realizes that free will and one's own actions are nothing but nonsense?
And brooding pointlessly on fate and coincidence?
It is said that you only see what you know.
If that's true, in the fascinating six-part thriller series "Der Raid" you see little at first, despite the epically diverse scene tracks (camera Michael Kotschi).
Not only do you not know very much after the first episode, these crumbs of decoding are also willfully put up for disposal in the next few episodes and made into game material for various contextual representations, commonly referred to as alternative plots.
First of all, it's Monday morning (at least that's not questioned).
A robbery goes terribly wrong.
The perpetrators are highly nervous.
A shop owner is murdered, a customer seriously injured.
A child is gone.
The lead cop vanishes a projectile and recruits a new investigator to his team.
Inspector Frank Worms (Sebastian Zimmler) puts pressure on Damon Merizadi (Yasin Boynuince), the key eyewitness to the murder of his brother Hassan (Hadi Khanjanpour).
There were definitely two shots instead of one that the spectators only heard.
Damon is lying.
In the background of the shop, the psychotherapist Katharina Abelt (Anna Grisebach) looks horrified at her dying companion.
This is the beginning.
Episode after episode, the screenwriters Stefan Kolditz and Katja Wenzel unfold and entangle the relationships between the numerous people involved in this murder investigation, which becomes a crooked life for many.
Director Stephan Lacant stages credit cards or packets of drugs as thing-symbol turning points.
Friends try to help Damon and make things worse.
The chronology is important, but not always.
Figures are given context, puzzle pieces are given contours.
The commissioner takes care of a brother, a forgotten war hero who lost both his legs in Afghanistan.
Kowalski goes on an "adventure trip" with his daughter Mila (Lara Krymalowski), Schönberg has the internal audit on his neck and is smitten by secretary Maria (Ricarda Seifried).
Whitewashing, lying and concealing are very popular.
Only the policewoman Antonia Gebert (Lorna Ishema) is obliged to investigate, although she is interested in keeping the identity of a certain cyclist in the dark.
Hassan's wife Miriam (Karolina Lodyga), perhaps the only bystander, is desperately looking for their kidnapped eight-year-old son Arian (Elias Danesh Hartmann).
"The Raid" follows the "Rashomon" principle of subjective truths - scenes receive visual reinterpretations and new additions.
In the end, however, there is no dissolving into complete classification.
It is precisely these fragmentations that make the series a thriller for advanced viewers.
"Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is an absurd one" (Voltaire) - that is the aesthetically successful enlightening volte of "Der Überfall".
The raid
is on ZDF, this Friday the first episode at 9.15 p.m., episode 2 on Saturday at 9.45 p.m., episode 3 on March 11th.
(9.15 p.m.), episode 4 on March 12th.
(9:45 p.m.).
Episode 5 on March 18th.
(9.15 p.m.) and episode 6 on March 19.
(9:45 p.m.).
All episodes in the media library.