“Police call 110: Cottbus is headless”
The unusual investigator trio
In “Polizeiruf 110: Cottbus kopflos” they investigate together: Vincent Ross (André Kaczmarczyk, left), Alexandra Luschke (Gisa Flake) and Karl Rogov (Frank Leo Schröder).
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In “Police Call 110: Cottbus Headless” Ross, Luschke and Rogov appear as a trio of investigators. The German-Polish investigative constellation.
“Gisa Flake and Frank Leo Schröder have us in their episodic roles […] strongly impressed. We are pleased that we will be able to expand the team of investigators around André Kaczmarczyk as Vincent Ross in rbb’s ‘Polizeiruf 110’ to include the characters Alexandra Luschke and Karl Rogov,” enthuse the responsible editors Cooky Ziesche (63) and Daria Moheb Zandi ( 50) from their new trio. The three will be seen in changing investigative constellations in the future, the broadcaster continues.
Carnival in Cottbus?
Ross, Luschke and Rogov start with a crime thriller that takes place during the carnival season in Brandenburg – which is somewhat less well known nationally. Many spectators are likely to associate Carnival with the Rhineland or are familiar with the southern German customs of Fasching and Fasnacht. They are not alone, the Cologne director Christoph Schnee (51, “Miss Merkel – A Uckermark Crime”) also did not know the colorful hustle and bustle in the Brandenburg university town.
“No, I didn’t know about the carnival in Cottbus. Even when I was in Cottbus for the first time in 1995 for the Federal Garden Show, I had no knowledge of it,” he admits in the rbb interview. When researching the crime thriller, it was all the more interesting that carnival was celebrated so big in Cottbus. “As a Rhinelander, I naturally have carnival in my blood and am happy to see how different and yet always special the traditions in Germany can be,” he adds and reveals another detail from the filming: “I was really looking forward to it. that we could actually film in the Cottbus carnival and that I could also experience the largest carnival parade in East Germany.”