The Hamburg KDD commissioner Erichsen (Armin Rohde) has new colleagues in the 17th “Night Shift” episode “Blood and Iron”: Lulu Koulibaly (Sabrina Ceesay, right) and Tülay Yildirim (Idil Üner). (ZDF / Marion von der Mehden)
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In the 17th edition of the “Night Shift”, the team from the Hamburg Criminal Police Permanent Service (KDD) has to temporarily live in the container. And in the summer of 2020, a police officer at the entrance will ensure that the AHA rules are observed. But that’s not all that annoys Erichsen (Armin Rohde). Mimi Hu (Minh-Khai Phan-Thi) and Lisa Brenner (Barbara Auer) are gone – transferred to the Ministry of the Interior. It will be exhausting with the newcomers, Erichsen meets concentrated woman power with Tülay Yildirim (Idil Üner) and Lulu Koulibaly (Sabrina Ceesay). It’s good that the call from a burger shop intervenes. A right-wing extremist, it is reported, threatens the boss of the shop because he does not want to give him the longed-for job as a cook. Chef Kevin (Aurel Manthei) is downright overqualified, but unfortunately he wears telltale Nazi tattoos on his neck and neck. Erichsen and his colleagues enlighten and get into the middle of the Hamburg neo-Nazi scene.
Made a comedy out of the subject of racism
Mabel Kruse (Marleen Lohse, front) also wants to shoot at the right barbecue. Kevin Kruse (Aurel Manthei, right), Dexter (Tristan Seith, left) and Mike Steiner (Frederic Linkemann, back) watch. (ZDF / Marion von der Mehden)
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Kevin stupidly posted a video before his act in which he – his face hidden under a black balaclava – threatens to shoot the relevant personnel manager the next time he is rejected. Eight times he got rejections, mostly “foreigners or some assholes” got the job. He explains to Mabel, his pregnant wife, that he has just started an interview. When Mabel wants to celebrate with him in the burger restaurant, the police come – the burger chef, who had already suspected the Nazi signs on Kevin’s neck, was warned by employees who had seen the video, and only in appearance quickly consented to Kevin’s attitude.
Lars Becker manages to turn the serious issue of racism into a comedy in his 17th night shift crime thriller “Blood and Iron”. The constellation is quickly clear, it is almost overemphasized: Here is someone who has made it into the right-wing scene from Daffke, who loves barbecues with hooligan comrades and otherwise would be nothing better than simply a good cook. Marleen Lohse as his pregnant wife Mabel touchingly helps to strengthen this holy image. Mabel cleverly takes the pistol Kevin was previously using and lets the cops in at home just to prove that everything is clean.
Mabel Kruse (Marleen Lohse) is happy after the interview with her husband Kevin (Aurel Manthei) in the burger shop. But in the background, the branch manager Mübariz is already waiting for the police. (ZDF / Marion von der Mehden)
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Agitators who walk over corpses
Everything would also go well, were it not for the dubious comrades, the agitators, who walk over corpses. But also the frightened, who are too afraid of the violent right. The fact that the burger boss himself picks up the gun should not be without consequences. There will be deaths, in a Lars Becker thriller it cannot be otherwise.
The summoned, Commissioner Erichsen (Armin Rohde, left) and his new colleague Tülay Yildirim (Idil Üner), talk to the restaurant manager (Dela Dabulamanzi) and the managing director Mübariz Pettekaya (Kais Setti) in the burger shop. (ZDF / Marion von der Mehden)
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On the other hand, one might call it a little ignorant to smile gently at the right wing violence scene and thus to go back behind Hoffmann’s military sports group, God be blessed, and the NSU, not to mention all other recent crimes. In fact, the party politicians, who also appear here by tolerating their violent infantry, are badly spared and underexposed.
Nevertheless, Lars Becker made a wonderful film with an acting team that moved away from the mainstream. Armin Rohde is probably the most thrilling detective superintendent there is on German television anyway. A crook among crooks who knows what he wants. Like a skilful hangover, he just barely passes any gender faux pas. One can only hope that he is right with his bold political prognosis about the right-wing scene, which he calls “violent consorts”, “who are working to destabilize democracy and subvert the institutions”. – “They are not nearly as many as they are. We shouldn’t get confused and frightened. “
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