It’s Bremen’s turn, it’s time for a prologue again. On the Weser, people are happy to take you by the hand so that the meta level doesn’t get lost in the course of the thriller. “The wrong dose of love tears us all down the abyss,” says Commissioner Moormann (Jasna Fritzi Bauer) at the beginning of love rage and then it’s about love, its lack, its warmth, its coldness, its control mania. And about love as a motive, it’s a thriller.
And so a woman in a red wedding dress lies dead in her apartment, her two children have disappeared after school, the devil has taken them. So it is written on the wall above the bed where the dead mother is lying. The police are looking for the children, and Liv Moormann, triggered by the red dress that reminds her of her messed up childhood, has to fight with her own demons, she downplays the case at first, out of self-protection. Colleague Linda Selb (Luise Wolfram) naturally stimulates the unsolvable. There are only two of you investigating, your colleague Mads Andersen (Dar Salim) is needed in Copenhagen. Good actually. The case concentrates on the investigators and their relationship with one another, without three ego types constantly being in a clinch in terms of acting.
It is applied thick anyway. Everyone’s slightly off, everyone’s a suspect. The fatso who lives under the corpse and always runs through the picture with a popsicle (great: Aljoscha Stadelmann). The strangely passive dead man’s ex-husband’s girlfriend who is K-pop gaga. The children’s crazy granny. Her husband who handles explosives. The school janitor sniffing children’s tights. In the end there will be three more dead. And the children are still not found.
The investigators are reaching their limits. Moormann has flashbacks from childhood. Her neighbor was also such a fat sod, didn’t he always get too close to her? Self tries awkwardly in empathy, the colleagues approach each other in their third joint case – and get lost in their surveys.
The cuts are harsh, the colors glaring, the characters exaggerated. Of course, the author Martina Mouchot and the director Anne Zohra Berrached are not concerned with a realistic picture of the investigative work. A blessing. This is about love, anything is possible.
The first, Sunday, 8:15 p.m.
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