New “Polizeiruf 110” from Rostock: Deep waters are cold

You don't know anything. You can't save me. And they won’t protect me.” That's what Natasha (Anastasiia Mazhara) tells the commissioners, who can't make her an offer she can't refuse.

The new “Polizeiruf” from Rostock takes place in the prostitution milieu, which is also just a subdivision of organized crime, whose boundaries to the legally impeccable real economy are fluid.

There is a lot in this film, sometimes too much in terms of plot and subplots. At least for the occasional viewer who cannot always immediately understand the outline of the main characters that extends over several episodes.

Sunday, November 1st in the first and from October 30th in the media library.

But being overwhelmed is a good thing; it makes you want to look up old episodes. The characters have depth, sometimes a bit of German gravity.

But maybe that's just who we are; and it would be a mistake not to emphasize one's own interests in a globalized television market. “They have names” is a German crime thriller, even if it is influenced by people from Eastern Europe, especially the great Anastasiia Mazhara.

The waters are deep and cold in this country, the corpse that is fished out of a lake is well preserved, it turns out to be an underage prostitute, tortured to death, with a pimp stamp in the form of a tattoo.

Katrin König (Anneke Kim Sarnau) and Melly Böwe (Lina Beckmann) get to work. They want to clarify an individual fate and individual responsibility. But they come across structures in the form of the diabolical senior public prosecutor Jan Jürgens.

Thorsten Merten is perhaps the main acting event in this “police call”. Everything is right, right down to the very harmonious wardrobe (costume: Katja E. Waffenschmied).

And the issue of prostitution, which is what everything revolves around? "The first and most important step would be to ban prostitution. We need the Nordic model," says Juliawege, expert advisor for the shoot, in an interview with NDR.

There is nothing to add to this; And it will happen sooner or later, depending on how long we want to tolerate legal sexual violence. The woman as a commodity in prostitution, the everyday carnage of sexual violence that is accepted and encouraged, is the prerequisite for cases like Pelicot.