Dominik Graf for years detective series revolves for German television. Now also celebrates Christian Petzold with a shiny Munich “Police” his ARD debut.
Matthias Brandt and Barbara Auer as Detective Chief Commissioners Hanns of Meuffels and his colleague Constanze Hermann in Christian Petzold’s first “Police” | © Christian Schulz
There’s this quiet irritating moment Hanns of Meuffels (Matthias Brandt) and Constanze Herrmann (Barbara Auer) determine in a murder case, he questioned a suspect, it looks next to a monitor for, and suddenly he turns and looks over her surveillance camera straight in the eye: an interrogation as a love story, not only between the two investigators, but at the same time between the alleged perpetrator and the Commissioner.
It’s about the desire to be looked at, about seduction and manipulation: “The interrogation is inscribed in the cinema,” says Christian Petzold, “that there is so in any other medium Only the camera can make this. place the interrogation really understand because it charges this space between two people, consisting of fear, seduction, manipulation. The Gegenschuss invented the cinema for the love and for questioning. Because it’s all about people who through all their disappointments and damages have developed a dermis. You will not want to be opened, but because in these situations scrape against each other, tearing back on something. It created friendships, loyalties, affections, that’s what this movie. ”
After the two historical films Barbara and Phoenix , who played in the GDR and in postwar Germany, Christian Petzold enjoys in this Police the freedom of the present, in which one does not have to reconstruct everything and readjust. For the first time he blends in a the serial narrative, in the system of the Polizeiruf 110 , which is the crime scene was the GDR counterpart and taken the leap into the reunification successfully has.
The silent, a little brittle Commissioner of Hanns Meuffels, the Matthias Brandt plays in the Munich version of the series since 2011, Petzold liked very well: “I had him in the police call by Dominik Graf seen and in one of Jan Bonny and thought to myself: ‘This is a great figure, as I imagine that none of these menschelnden Commissioners as Heinz Rühmann This has a lot more to do with the solitude of Erik Ode…’ “
From Meuffels is one, the less based on the template of the police academy as to the fantasies of the literature and the cinema. With the way he meanders at Petzold under interrogation, as he with seemingly trivialities lull the interlocutor, and then suddenly get tough, a little reminiscent of Peter Falk’s Columbo . And when it harder rannimmt the witnesses as the suspect, it is because that the denunciation and slander mentality of honest provincial town citizens it is a horror. Eduard Zimmermann’s Mystery still unresolved , in which the nation is called to spies since 1967, he hates probably just as Christian Petzold.
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