There was once a country where everything seemed strangely manageable. This country was the BRD. Men drove domestic cars with bumpers visible through carefully paved roads, while wives working part-time doing laundry. Communications was the key telephone or face to face. Smoked was almost always, but in good conscience, mainly HB or Reval. At breakfast you read this newspaper paper and the most BTX screen. Approximately over elections in which exclusively Christian and Social Democrats were fighting for majorities and politicians still radiated reliability, even if they were called bouquet or Wehner. For weeks filled their scandals headlines, if only because it is not so many scandals were like today.
Man is quickly inclined in times omnipotent surveillance networks and indiscriminate terror, is there zurückzusehnen after supposedly quieter past, when reporting to a government circled whose lies, resignation and suicide, the Federal Republic 1987 half year staggered into turmoil. But are we not equally inclined to idealize our past into good? If the case Barschel only half should be true on sensational ARD film , the top event of the medial Vorwendejahre must in no way hide behind NSA and NSU.
As a reminder, 31 years ago, it became known that Schleswig- Holstein Prime Minister Barschel challenger Björn Engholm was ausspitzeln to prevent a change of power. The press spoke of “Waterkant Gate”, Barschel resigned after a broken parole five weeks later he was dead in the bathtub of a Geneva hotel, which investigations have been started, the official successor Engholm tore six years later into the abyss and were discontinued in 1998 without result.
Decent Elite
With these investigation results but the director Kilian Riedhof were not satisfied and that’s a blessing for German television. His screenplay is doing now on a huge barrel to a piece of history that was actually long shelved. In The case Barschel appear obscure agents, international arms dealers, self-righteous journalists and politicians embroiled in and give a film, which should already among the favorites on all national television film awards season. And that in a genre that is this country has always been difficult: political thriller.
The German says Riedhof, like would give up after two dictatorships due to the illusion towards their government is not perfect, but in the core decency. Thanks Pegida and AfD the fear of conspiracy vanishes Although visibly; the intrigues of the ruling class but, action base big movie stories of The Untouchables to House of Cards , prepare the local audience majority still more concern than an entertaining evening. Also why the award-winning skilled case Barschel staged for fictional realism ( Home Video ) only marginally as criminalistic Whodunnit . It’s more about civil society control, embodied by two journalists of the old school.
Factory work in the service of democracy
Instead of Bernstein and Woodward they are called here Burger and nits. Alexander Fehling and Fabian Hinrichs they play with similar devotion as once Hoffman and Redford their truth hunters in the Watergate scandal. Wildcards of papierknisternden image from roving reporter shoot the staccato mechanical typewriters through the haze of cigarette smoke ant-like open-plan offices, as if they were from professional factory workers in the service of democracy.
sniff Driven from such bloodhounds who undergo a “good story” with hookers, coke and bubbly in the five-star hotel before the day it slept, but alert evidence. That they bring back the average elderly ARD viewers with huge rimless, Gelsenkirchen Baroque and Dagmar Berghoff also sensual in the eighties, this equipment is in public law a high level; in the center are types that revive the spirit of their time as the smells of childhood: incorruptible, imperishable.
Not necessarily true, but positively
Edgar Selge about as gorgeous nosed editor, patriarchal and chummy simultaneously. The media Speaker Pfeiffer unleashed headless enlivened by fabulous Martin Brambach. Shrouded in mystery, the only woman of rank inhaltlichem but unfortunately usually entrusted with the erotic: Antje Traue. And who plays his character Barschel so photorealistic over all Matthias Matschke, that it’s almost spooky. When he was in fact this easy bräsige politician who was speaking even before cameras; as the Kieler beak had grown – So mostly around his neck.
That his departure after just 30 minutes initiates the phase of speculation, makes the film not less. How much space Riedhof the real and the intentioned staff to develop leaves, shows in perfection, what does ARD program director with creative freedom: “Whether the film gives a true picture,” says Volker Herre, “we are probably in spite of all search never know “. Finally, the BND maintains the files under wraps. “Conclusive” it does. And despite 180 minutes at a stretch fabulously entertaining.
“The case Barschel” runs on Saturday, February 6, at 20.15 in the ARD.
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