Police call 110: The convict
How do you know the violent couple?
"Police call 110: The Condemned": Markus Wegner (Sascha Gersak) and wife Annegret (Laura Tonke) are quickly suspected.
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In "Police Call 110: The Condemned", Commissioner Brasch barely escapes a psycho-killer couple. How do you know the actors?
In "Police Call 110: The Condemned", Commissioner Doreen Brasch (Claudia Michelsen, 51, "Ku'damm") has to endure a brutal excess of violence. She barely escapes the psychopathic killer couple Annegret and Markus Wegner. They were embodied by the Berlin actress Laura Tonke (46, "Baader") and her colleague Sascha Gersak (45, "Gladbeck") from Berlin. Both had already been noticed in Sunday thrillers.
Sascha Gersak as a psychopathic violent criminal
For Sascha Gersak, born in Balingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, "Polizeiruf 110: The Condemned" is the eleventh Sunday crime story in which he played. Most recently he turned the head of his kidnap victim, Inspector Nadeshda Krusenstern (Friederike Kempter, 41), in the Münster "Tatort: Father Frost" (2019) as kidnapper Artjom Sascha Gregorowitsch.
Before that, he also shone in a hostage drama. In "Gladbeck" (2018), the film adaptation of the real and fatal hostage-taking of Gladbeck in August 1988, he played the bank robber and hostage-taker Hans-Jürgen Rösner. For his portrayal he was nominated for the German Acting Award and the German Television Award as best leading actor, and at the German Director Award Metropolis he prevailed in this category.
Gersak was also honored for the rehabilitation drama "Somewhere in Tonga" (2017), his role as a torturing sadist in "Tore tanzt" (2013) and for "5 Years of Life" (2013), the autobiography of Murat Kurnaz, who was innocently incarcerated in the Guantanamo prison camp (38).
Laura Tonke as a battered killer
Laura Tonke has already appeared in a Sunday crime thriller 14 times in the course of her acting career, three times this year alone: in "Polizeiruf 110: Der Verfassungste", in June in the Munich crime thriller "Tatort: Let the moon stand in the sky" and at the beginning of the year in the sixth Til Schweiger case "Tatort: Tschill Out". In the latter, she played the educator of difficult-to-educate youngsters, the retired commissioner. Nick Tschiller supported on the island of Neuwerk.
Tonke had already attracted artistic attention 20 years earlier, when she was awarded the Golden Camera with the Lilli Palmer memory camera as the best young actress. For her role as Gudrun Ensslin in the film "Baader" (2002) she was nominated for the first time for the German Film Award. In the meantime she even has two of these Lola trophies at home and the best: Both were given at the same award ceremony in 2016. For the movie "Hedi Schneider is stuck" (2015) she was awarded as the best leading actress, for "defective copy" (2016 ) as best supporting actress.