“A lonely forty one year old still living with his mother in the middle of nowhere sets off for Romania in search of a wife…”
Synopsis:
Erwin, in his forties, runs a petrol station with his mother in a lost corner of Germany. This withdrawn mother-son couple leads a life without surprise. But feeling his end approaching and afraid to leave his son alone.Read More »
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A woman is executed in front of her daughter in a remote parking lot. For Nadja, the detective chief inspector Hanns von Meuffels as a dedicated assistant, the case seems obvious. A family drama about sex, blackmail and custody. But von Meuffels is not a fan of hasty theories. Too many inconsistencies that don’t make sense. He is looking for an exchange with Constanze, his former colleague from Hamburg, who has already assisted him twice in solving cases. Von Meuffels has an ambivalent relationship with her that goes beyond the professional level. And so in his last case he is fighting on two fronts.Read More »
German review by Spiegel Online wrote:
Der Autorenfilmstar Christian Petzold, der schon die ‘Kreise’-Episode geschrieben und gedreht hat, hat diesen ‘Polizeiruf’ als so kunst- wie lustvollen Assoziationsstrom in Szene gesetzt. […] Mit romantischem Grimm und grimmscher Romantik zielt […] Petzold aufs kollektive Unterbewusstsein der Zuschauer und arbeitet sich durch alle Facetten des Wolfs-Topos – inklusive einer Ermittlerin, die mit rotem Mantel, vernebeltem Blick und naivem Interesse doch sehr an eine der größten Heldinnen der Gebrüder Grimm erinnert. Dabei bewahrt sich Christian Petzold seinen von aller Gefühlsrhetorik befreiten Stil. In lakonischen Dialogen holt er Angstbilder hoch, die in uns allen schlummern.Read More »
Christian Petzold’s third episode for the Polizeiruf 110 series, “Tatorte,” starring Matthias Brandt, who has a major cameo in Transit.
Episode description: A woman is executed in a secluded parking lot in front of her daughter. For assistant Nadja and Kriminalhauptkommissar Hanns von Meuffels the case seems obvious: a family drama.Read More »