“Police call 110: Pigs”
Legal shooting games in the restricted area
The investigators Alexandra Luschke (Gisa Flake) and Karl Rogov (Frank Leo Schröder) during their investigations in the German-Polish epidemic restricted area
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The “Police Call 110: Pigs” is about dead lawyers in the forest and African swine fever.
That’s what “Police Call 110: Pigs” is about
On the German side of the Oder, Berlin lawyer Leon Herne (Kai Dannowski, 29) is found dead with a gunshot wound. He was discovered by a drone that the local veterinary office used to look for sick animals in the fenced-off German-Polish restricted area to contain African swine fever. As it turns out, the lawyer was part of a decadent three-man hunting party that was located on the Polish side in the glamorous estate of the Berlin law firm boss Dr. Albrecht Richtmann (Bernhard Schütz, 65) has quartered.
His two comrades-in-arms Konstantin Richtmann (Nicolas Handwerker, 32), son of the authoritarian law firm patriarch, and Daniel Pillokat (Marius Ahrendt, 32) find the two investigators after a wild night of partying, still heavily intoxicated and with massive gaps in their memory. At first everything points to a hunting party that got out of hand, during which the young lawyers also penetrated the forbidden exclusion zone. Further evidence raises the suspicion that Leon Herne, an unwelcome competitor of the unscrupulous law firm junior, has been brought around the corner.
During their investigation, inspectors Luschke and Rogov soon also set their sights on the Polish hunting leader Marek Kulesza (Piotr Witkowski, 35), who is obviously keeping a dark secret. His girlfriend Agata Jankowska (Izabela Baran, 33) runs a large pig farm in the border area and views the activities of the ruthless German hunting tourists in the epidemic exclusion area with suspicious eyes.
Is it worth turning on?
Yes. In a pleasantly realistic tone and with an authentic cast, “Police Call: Pigs” tells a story that is exciting right to the end, which not only artfully explores the epidemic problem in the German-Polish border area, but also the human depths of the characters involved. This “Polizeiruf” episode becomes a highlight not least because of the extremely atmospheric images and perspectives with which director Tomasz E. Rudzik (45) captures the cross-border activity in the exclusion zone and repeatedly presents the Oder as a gloomy border river.
In the absence of their boss Vincent Ross, investigators Luschke and Rogov finally have the opportunity to demonstrate their strong criminal instincts and acting talent without guidance. The two of them do it so well that you could easily imagine another episode without the eccentric criminal hunt leader Ross. According to the broadcaster, he will be there again next time.