Police call 110: The convict
Is the new crime thriller from Magdeburg worth it?
"Police call 110: The condemned": Chief Inspector Doreen Brasch (Claudia Michelsen) calls for an observation
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Commissioner Brasch wants to find out in "Police Call 110: The Condemned" what happened to the nurse. Is the thriller worth it?
In "Police Call 110: The Condemned" (December 27th, 8:15 pm, the first) a nurse disappears after a blind date. Magdeburg's chief inspector Doreen Brasch (Claudia Michelsen, 51, "Ku'damm") takes over the case, although there is no corpse.
That's what "Polizeiruf 110: The Condemned" is all about
After a blind date with an Internet acquaintance, the young domestic nurse and single mother Valerie Klein (Amy Benkenstein) disappears. Her best friend and neighbor Sandra Möller (Hanna Hilsdorf) wakes up the next morning after Valerie's daughter is crying. The missing person lands on the desk of Chief Detective Doreen Brasch and an intensive search begins. The first traces lead nowhere.
But then her necklace and traces of blood are found in the house of a deceased patient of Valerie. The gardener Markus Wegner (Sascha Gersak) has rented a barn on the farm. At first, the unpredictable choleric blocks the conversation with Brasch. But during the interrogation he suddenly claims to have killed Valerie and another woman.
The latter case has long since been concluded. The perpetrator has been serving his sentence for several years. Brasch was also the investigating commissioner at the time. Despite a clear warning from the public prosecutor's office, she is now investigating Wegner's claim and hoping that his mistreated wife Annegret (Laura Tonke) is a key to both cases …
Is it worth switching on?
Yes. Because the thriller is pretty exciting, especially the last third is tough. However, there is also a brutal excess of violence that is not easy to endure. In contrast, one would like to watch the charismatic actress Amy Benkenstein longer. Speaking of which, all of the main characters in the episode are really well cast and play enthralling. In addition, the costume and mask support the performance of the artists in this crime thriller.
Claudia Michelsen also delivers a great performance as an investigator. However, there are quite a lot of solo attempts that she takes on in this crime thriller. Somehow a co-investigator is missing. After two departures, Commissioner Brasch is the sole investigator, as in the current Sunday crime cosmos comprising 26 teams, otherwise only Wiesbaden's "Tatort" commissioner Felix Murot (Ulrich Tukur, 63), "Tatort" opportunity investigator (Freiburg, Mainz) Ellen Berlinger (Heike Makatsch, 49) and the new Munich police officer Elisabeth Eyckhoff (Verena Altenberger, 33).