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The new “Lost in Fuseta” crime thriller
Isadora Jordao (Iris Cayatte, M) leads the investigative team consisting of Graciana Rosado (Eva Meckbach, l), Leander Lost (Jan Krauter, back) and Carlos Esteves (Daniel Christensen, r) to the crime scene. photo
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A Hamburg inspector is transferred to the picturesque Algarve – and once again impresses with unusual investigative methods.
In September 2022, a very amazing investigator celebrated his debut on German television. Now another two-parter in the series “Lost in Fuseta – A Crime Thriller” is coming to an end Portugal”, under the title “Trail of Shadows” this Thursday and Saturday, at 8:15 p.m. on the first. The focus: the German Europol Commissioner Leander Lost (Jan Krauter), a talented police officer with autistic features.
Lost is now part of the Policia Judicária in Fuseta, Portugal. When a colleague disappears without a trace, he urges his two colleagues Graciana Rosado (Eva Meckbach) and Carlos Esteves (Daniel Christensen) to look for her. Because everything points to a kidnapping. Experience has shown that there is little time to find the woman alive. Meanwhile, Lost’s colleague Duarte (Anton Weil) looks after an Angolan journalist who receives personal protection during her visit to Portugal – why, obviously no one knows. But it soon turns out that the two are connected in an unusual way.
Author Holger Karsten Schmidt (58, “Harter Brocken”, “Die Toten von Marnow”) once again wrote the polished script, based on his six novels, which he has published under the pseudonym Gil Ribeiro. This time the director was Felix Herzogenrath (48, “The Taunus Crime: Mother’s Day”), who includes many moments of poetry and tension in his film. He deals with the former Portuguese colony of Angola and the criminal activities of an elite Portuguese family clan, which for years – with the help of an organization called “The Shadow” – funneled money from development aid into its own pockets and left the Angolan population starving.
Mr. Lost is once again played brilliantly by Jan Krauter (40, “Oderbruch”, “Innocent – The Julia B Case”). He has perfect command of the often awkward body language of a highly intelligent Asperger’s autistic person, which also includes great and effective powers of observation and extremely economical facial expressions. Lost is great at remembering everything, but not forgetting it again.
His character memorizes a lot of pointless phrases – like “You haven’t changed at all” or “You’re saying something” – in order to recall them when needed, which leads to all sorts of strange scenes. And then Leander Lost, who – just wondering which of two women – would like to become a father with, gives this answer to the harmless question of whether children aren’t something wonderful: “That probably depends primarily on the child.”
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