Frankfurt/Main (dpa) – Things are literally dark in the new Frankfurt “crime scene” around the investigative team Paul Brix (Wolfram Koch) and Anna Janneke (Margarita Broich). Because “Mercy was filmed. Too late” mainly on night-time dirt roads, fields and in the forest – and it’s also about a night full of uncertainties. The first shows the crime thriller this Sunday at 8:15 p.m.
However, the director Bastian Günther, who also wrote the script, takes a lot of time for the plot to gain momentum. For half an hour, Brix and other police officers do not poke around in the fog, but they only have very nebulous information from the well-known right-wing extremist Anton Schilling (Niels Bormann), who told the police about a police officer who was shot. But he can no longer find the place where the body is supposed to be buried. At night all fields look the same.
Weapons and ammunition in a forest hut
Meanwhile, Janneke uncovers information from the missing man’s wife: The man often went to a forest hut with friends. The missing man isn’t in the hut either, but the investigators make an explosive discovery: weapons and ammunition from the Bundeswehr, food supplies and water canisters – the hut has been converted into a “prepper’s” warehouse.
It also turns out that the missing police officer’s circle of acquaintances also includes his colleague Radomski (Godehard Giese), who was transferred to the Offenbach police after a right-wing chat group was discovered in connection with racist threatening letters. As it turns out, Radomski is an old acquaintance for Brix – they once worked together at the vice.
Here the Hesse crime scene combines fiction with Frankfurt reality. The inspiration was the events surrounding the NSU 2.0 threatening letters and the discovery of a chat group with right-wing extremist content in a Frankfurt police station. “The case surrounding the threatening letters is just a case in which the police are connected to right-wing actions,” said Günther. “Police officers or Bundeswehr soldiers can also be found among Reich citizens or prepper groups.”
Dark optics – dark insights
To answer the question: “How many individual cases make up a network?” This will also happen in the course of the “crime scene” plot. However, it’s not just the constant darkness, but also some rather confusing subplots that make this film night confusing, and not just for the TV inspectors.
Was it because of the constant use at night? “At some point, in the third week of night shooting, you notice a collective fatigue in the team,” said Günther about the filming. For the director, this “crime scene” is also a modern western: “The story of one
Group of people looking for a dead person at night – alone in nature. The waiting, the threatening and the slowness, it all reminds me of that.”
However, there is no drama in the Western style. Nevertheless, this “crime scene” makes the creeping distrust noticeable and the uncertainty about who can still be trusted if the boundaries between police officer and perpetrator suddenly become blurred. Brix also receives the request: “Come to us, Paul. It’s not too late yet.”
The dark optics are combined here with the dark findings about preparations for “Day X” and the planned settlements with political opponents, as became known in the trials against members of right-wing networks. “This time next year there will be executions,” predicts one of the police officers in this “crime scene” crime story who has switched sides.
2023-09-09 22:18:43
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