Police Call 110: Crash: Is it worth turning on the Magdeburg thriller?
In "Polizeiruf 110: Crash" (23.9., 20:15, the first) a girl is killed. The commissioners Brasch (Claudia Michelsen) and Köhler (Matthias Matschke) then investigate a group of young men who meet at night for illegal car racing. What it's all about in crime and whether it's worth switching on, you'll find out here.
That's what the crime story is about
A young woman is run over on the streets of Magdeburg at night and dies at the scene of the accident. The driver commits driver escape. He was traveling at extremely high speeds. Commissars Brasch and Köhler quickly suspect that it may have been an illegal car race. But how do you find the racers and the guilty party among them? And how do you prove in retrospect that a race has taken place?
Klaus Wagner (Ben Becker), the father of the dead Sara, is interviewed, but gives little information about his daughter. Garages are visited, the Internet is scoured for illegal races. Finally, the commissioners find a group called "Le Magdeburg". To their surprise, there is a connection of two drivers to the dead ...
Is it worth switching on?
Joah. This Sunday thriller is quite a long time, it is even time for a love story of the Commissioner, which is otherwise a little too cool. Rather uncool, on the other hand, are some dialogues, some of which could well be spoken in a Rosamunde-Pilcher film: "They are my last hope!" - "That, Henry Muller, I'm not!"
The gags - if they should be - are also rather flat. An example: "The only good thing about death is that you do not have to be afraid of it when you're dead, but that's the only good thing." Maybe it will develop from a cult commissioner with a penchant for bad jokes, who knows?
And what all the birds - even on the casket - have to mean in the film, is also not very clear. On the other hand, one of the explanations why these illegal races are driven at all is hardly endurable: they only feel themselves in a rush of speed ... and when someone else closes their eyes. Lard!
But making illegal car racing and its consequences a topic is always good and important. The in reality overly lax judgments about terrible accidents come up repeatedly. And there are also really good scenes that are definitely worth switching on.
For example, the interrogations are well written and played great with different methods. It becomes scary when you take a closer look at the psychopathic son from a wealthy family home in his villa. The showdown in the cemetery has it in itself. And the end of the thriller is really worth seeing - first shocking, then touching.
