“Police call 110: Until midnight”
Is it worth tuning in to the new Munich crime thriller?
“Police call 110: Until midnight”: The chief detective Elisabeth “Bessie” Eyckhoff (Verena Altenberger) interrogates the suspect Jonas Borutta (Thomas Schubert).
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In the exciting “Police Call 110: Until midnight”, Chief Detective Bessie Eyckhoff has to convict a suspected serial killer.
The “Police call 110: Until midnight” (5.9., 8:15 pm, the first) is based on the case description “Lust” from the book “Abysses: When people become murderers” by the former police officer and author Josef Wilfling (born 1947 ). Director Dominik Graf (68, “Fabian or The Walk to the Dogs”), together with the cast and crew, turned it into a thriller that was well worth seeing, which premiered at the Munich Film Festival.
That’s what a crime thriller is all about
Elisabeth “Bessie” Eyckhoff (Verena Altenberger, 33), who has recently moved to the Munich Homicide Commission as Chief Detective Officer, has arrested the alleged serial killer Jonas Borutta (Thomas Schubert, 28). Everything speaks for his guilt, but the evidence is missing. Bessie needs a confession to pull the dangerous perpetrator out of circulation until midnight, otherwise the judges will release him. The accused is highly intelligent and the team’s nerves are on edge. Against Bessie’s will, an interrogation specialist is called in, retired detective Josef Murnauer (Michael Roll, 60) …
Is it worth switching on?
In any case. Two crimes are told, there is a suspect and the audience can help investigate. The thriller is exciting until the very end, played again in a gripping manner by Verena Altenberger and Co. and peppered with great dialogues by screenwriter Tobias Kniebe (born 1968). And without wanting to reveal too much, the content of the film can also be understood as a kind of appeal to undiscovered sex offenders.
As the main actor in the episode, the Austrian actor Thomas Schubert shows his skills once again, his role remains opaque until the end. For his first major film “Atmen” (2011), the Viennese had already been awarded the Austrian Film Prize for Best Actor.
A little fun fact for Eberhof thriller fans on the sidelines: This thriller also features a reunion with a star from Niederkaltenkirchen. While Stephan Zinner (47, butcher Simmerl) could be seen as Bessie’s colleague in “Frau Schrödinger’s Cat” (June 2021), this time it is Daniel Christensen (43, Flötzinger heating bungler).