“The Wallenstein: Dresden Demons”, ZDF – Hearts and Minds – Frankfurter Rundschau

April 18, 2015

mother and daughter trying to break the ice: Kim (Lisa Tomaschewsky, l.) and Barbel (Anja Kling). Photo: ZDF / Conny Klein

The start of the new crime series “The Wallenstein” lives from Anja Kling and Lisa Tomaschewsky as an investigator team, which is also a mother and daughter. ” / p>

Four years ago Sat.1 surprised with a very sexy Krimiduo. The title heroines of “Hannah Mangold & amp; Lucy Palm “(played by Anja Kling and Britta Hammelstein) were a combination such as nitro and glycerin: a tough, crossed the other.

The sender has made produce another film with the two (“Death in the Woods”), but not broadcast until today. For this, the ZDF will now start with “Wallenstein” a crime series, whose personnel constellation sounds quite similar, and not only because Anja Kling plays the experienced Commissioner also here: Bärbel Wallenstein have to wrangle with a new young colleague, although clever, but is also cool, besserwisserisch and cheeky.

Scenes from “The Wallenstein”

Barbel (Anja Kling, l.), (Lisa Tomaschewsky) Kim and Fabian (Tobias Oertel, r.)

. Photo: ZDF / Conny Klein

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Above all, however, and that is really original, the two are mother and daughter who have not seen each other for ten years, so the combination is similar explosive as in Mangold & amp; Palm: (Lisa Tomaschewsky) Kim still has a huge bill with Bärbel open. The episode title “Dresden demons” refers to the shadows of the past, which she wants to face at last.

In the prelude films new series introducing the characters urges the actual case, mostly in the background , This is no different this time, especially since the constant skirmishes between mother and daughter anyway are more interesting than the search for the killer of a junkie, which is found in the remains of his apartment exploded. His girlfriend has the misfortune survived only by chance, because it was just in the bathtub.

Since the intrafamilial conflicts probably intended to represent in the coming episodes such thing as a unique selling point for “Wallenstein”, had the award-winning author duo Christoph Silber and Thorsten Wettcke (“The Miracle of Carinthia”, most recently “The dead from Lake Constance: Family Secret”) in the first meeting of the two women, the foundations for the Next story this horizontal plane create.

The program

Thriller : “The Wallenstein: Dresden Demons”

aired TV : Saturday, 04/18 at 20:15 clock, ZDF;. Repetition 0.35 clock.

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By Benjamin Sadler (as a colleague from the Narcotics Division and the father of the survivors), Andreas Schmidt and Inka Friedrich (as parents of the dead) are the guest roles occupied prominent, and their level of action is also quite eventful, because the brave suburban couple is threatened by a city known drug dealer but basically the investigations themselves serve only as a stage for the duel of the two title characters.

Of course, the emotional Bärbel Wallenstein is for Anja Kling, a comparatively normal role, especially when they measures to Hannah Mangold, who has been a traumatic experience the gift to sense evil. After all, the Dresden Commissioner is a gifted crime scene analyst who has also enjoyed a forensic training; are adequate, Kim she was a “riot maker and small psychopath” is, as a statement of a mother rather unusual about her daughter. Here, Kim has actually only a small obsessional neurosis.

Vicious dialogues

In the implementation falls “Dresden demons” hardly out of the frame (Director: Carlo Rola) and this not only in comparison with the far gloomier designed Sat.1 thriller. The greater the entertainment value of the leading ladies. The film is indeed anything but a comedy, but the wicked dialogues are a delight. No wonder that the colleague from the Narcotics Division, given the duration of the dispute between the two women asked if this was a new method of interrogation.

It speaks for Written and directed that the character designs appear not oversubscribed, although the area is the purest Beziehungskiste: Bärbel Wallenstein has a current relationship with a colleague (Tobias Oertel) and a former with the coroner.