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Trouble with rockers in the TV thriller “Harter Brocken”
Village sheriff Koops (Aljoscha Stadelmann, r) and postman Heiner (Moritz Führmann) in a precarious situation. photo
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Reunion with an old episode of the popular crime series: A criminal rocker gang and opaque BKA colleagues make Aljoscha Stadelmann create in the episode “The Arms Deal”.
The men’s leather vests clearly read: “Blutadler Hannover”. Already in the first few minutes of the new part of the crime series “Harter Brocken” it becomes clear to the viewers: This time the village policeman Frank Koops (Aljoscha Stadelmann) has to deal with a rocker gang that, in case of doubt, will stop at nothing. The first shows the episode “Der Waffendeal” (2021) on Saturday evening (8:15 p.m.).
At that time it was the sixth part of the series, which was not originally intended as such. The start of 2015 was – probably to everyone’s surprise – the most successful television film on ARD that year, as screenwriter Holger Karsten Schmidt once said. So more parts followed.
Meanwhile, others are continuing the series. Anke Winschewski and Niels Holle took over from Schmidt for the “arms deal”. But the main characters remain the same: in addition to Koops, his young and this time extremely pregnant colleague Mette (Anna Fischer) and postman Heiner (Moritz Führmann), who is not only the father of Mette’s child – but regularly works as a kind of deputy sheriff and supports his two friends in investigations.
This time, too, Heiner is part of the party when the Sankt Andreasberg police duo becomes skeptical as to what the bikers want here. In addition, the village forester is missing. He was actually on his way to his divorce after carousing with Koops in the Hochsitz – only he never made it to the office.
Right from the start it is made clear that not everything is going smoothly among motorcyclists: there must be a mole in their ranks. But who? The somewhat unequal pair of brothers? The man with the two cell phones? The only woman in the clique? By the time TV audiences realize it, the rockers have already made a decision for themselves. It’s a deadly one. But also the right one?
The sixth part is also understood by those viewers who have not previously followed the stories from the slightly sleepy little town on the steep slope in the Harz mountains. Fans of the series will also get their money’s worth. The writers have retained Koops’ dry humor and a touch of slapstick comedy. It seems absurd when the policeman recognizes the gang boss from childhood and addresses the beefy, bearded guy (Nicki von Tempelhoff) as “Mofa-Andy”. Or when he lets it be known ambiguously: “We have our methods here.” And anyway, boxes full of weapons and several corpses don’t really fit into this idyllic, remote area.
You should also pay special attention or, in this case, listen to the soundtrack. Tobias Wagner and Justin Michael La Vallee literally made a fine selection from the first to the last minute.