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Love, lust and diamonds in the “Zurich crime thriller”
Borchert (Christian Kohlund, left) and Greta (Nurit Hirschfeld) examine the diamonds. photo
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A womanizer is crushed between business machinations and jealousy and ends up with lawyer Borchert as a murder suspect. There’s also sex in the new “Zurich crime thriller” – but what about Borchert’s love life?
Just the look, the annoyed gasp and a barely noticeable twitching of the corners of the mouth: actor Christian Kohlund (73) needs in the new “Zurich Crime” there are no words to express the lawyer Borchert’s displeasure with the proletarian behavior of a group at the bachelor party. You’re straight into the film.
In the new episode “Borchert and the Trail of Diamonds” (Thursday at 8:15 p.m. on Erste), the rowdy groom-to-be sits in his boss Dominique Kuster’s (Ina Paule Klink) office the next day, completely out of sorts. Xavier Schliemann (David Rott) woke up next to a corpse, one of his former lovers.
Kuster is one of them, but she is fond of her former boyfriend and believes in his innocence. But when his fingerprints are found on the murder weapon, she can’t save him from custody. Borchert doubts his sincerity, convicts him of lying, but overcomes his initial dislike for the man.
He delves into Rott’s life as a dealer in artificial diamonds, a business that destroys the sales of long-established jewelers. There are loans, debts, blackmail, and then there are the women that womanizer Schliemann can’t let go of – another great moment with Kohlund’s facial expressions that say more than a thousand words. “I like doing silent things where you watch others and react to them,” Kohlund told the German Press Agency.
Borchert exposes a sleazy businessman who brutally eliminated competitors. But of course nothing is as it seems at first glance. The lawyer puts himself in mortal danger twice, investigates Rott’s exes and current ladies and saves the young bride, who was at times suspected, from the hands of a rival at the risk of his life before he uncovers the true revenge plan behind the murder.
Love and jealousy don’t just play a big role in murder. In this episode, the audience gets very close to Borchert’s boss, Kuster. She has just reconciled with police captain Marco Furrer (Pierre Kiwitt) after a lengthy falling out and the two are tumbling naked in bed. But the case puts their relationship to the test again. Not just because Furrer believes the suspect whom Kuster and Borchert are defending is guilty. He can hardly stand the familiar closeness between Kuster and her client.
When will the crackling happiness in love finally come for the gnarled lawyer Borchert in the “Zurich crime thriller”? “I don’t think a love affair at Borchert will happen,” says Kohlund. “I don’t think he can open himself up to a relationship anymore, because he has an obsession with doing justice. He’s happy when he sees a beautiful woman, but that it will turn into something more? Not that I know of. “
Kohlund and the team are currently filming three more episodes of the successful series, both in Zurich and for the interior shots in Prague. Three episodes at once? “You have to jump through the scripts a bit because we don’t shoot chronologically. That takes extra effort, but it’s really fun,” says Kohlund. Episodes 20 and 21 are scheduled to air as a two-parter next spring.