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Page 1 – Don’t be afraid, she’s just dead
Page 2 — All the excitement for nothing
Petrolism continues to enjoy great success in the ARD Sunday evening crime drama. The Frankfurter had it
crime scene The new Rostocker sets standards for the dominance of scene colors at Christmas Police call: thieves (NDR editorial team: Philine Rosenberg) goes a step further, as the sports reporter says. Here, not only the production (Sonja Strömer) and costume designer (Katja E. Waffenschmied) have agreed on a fancy green-blue match plan – the lighting department (Benjamin Dreythaller, Markus Bleier, Angelina Hild, Ole Schmetzer) is also happily mixing in the production preferred color.
Whether it’s an abandoned allotment bungalow or an evening atmosphere at the marina – everything shines in petrol, the not-so-new successor to black as a sign of good taste. The goal is look and the ideal is unity, and there are certainly people who think that’s good because the crime film then looks like itself in every frame. Unfortunately, it is also the case that a lot of things are made to look similar, which, when viewed in a different light, should be different.
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Because thieves tells of at least two distant spheres. There is the single mother Mascha Kovicz (Meira Durand), who lives in the empty allotment squattet and life with daughter Holli (Mathilda Graf) and his own drug addiction are financed through thefts and burglaries. And there are the investment advisor couple Kai (the hot-selling guru from the last Cologne case: Robin Sondermann) and Alina Schopp (Monika Oschek), who are currently setting up the private trampoline for the children in the garden of the detached new single-family home.
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Both worlds are connected by a narratively interesting trick: Mascha Kovicz has gotten into a house in which Vera Bödecke, a former business journalist, was lying dead in the room, whose fortune has become the prey of investment fraud. This means: The crime that Mascha Kovicz committed (burglary) is not the crime that the police want to solve (murder). And so the crime she committed herself prevents the young woman from going to the police so as not to be mistaken for the murderer.
The constellation contains a lot of tension, but only because of that Police call makes no use of the possible confusion (screenplay: Elke Schuch). After just 20 minutes, Kovicz was found dead in the house through fingerprints, and after a good half hour, during the first interrogation by Melly Böwe (Lina Beckmann) and Mrs. König (Anneke Kim Sarnau), she was disqualified as the murderer because of her better knowledge: Mascha Kovicz provides evidence of a pillow that points to Vera Bödecke’s violent suffocation.
The pillow pusher will ultimately turn out to be Alina, and not Kai Schopp, who initially appears suspicious – and that’s another somewhat dutiful twist. In the end, Ms. Schopp also kills Mascha Kovicz, who tried to monetize her knowledge of the crime. The fact that daughter Holli has to watch the strangling makes the second murder shortly before the end seem even more unnecessary (especially from Alina Schopp’s point of view). The only advantage for the film is that it no longer has to worry about the future of the drug-addicted mother, but can mourn the dead woman melancholy on the beach in Rostock.
Petrolism continues to enjoy great success in the ARD Sunday evening crime drama. The Frankfurter had it
crime scene The new Rostocker sets standards for the dominance of scene colors at Christmas Police call: thieves (NDR editorial team: Philine Rosenberg) goes a step further, as the sports reporter says. Here, not only the production (Sonja Strömer) and costume designer (Katja E. Waffenschmied) have agreed on a fancy green-blue match plan – the lighting department (Benjamin Dreythaller, Markus Bleier, Angelina Hild, Ole Schmetzer) is also happily mixing in the production preferred color.