The German TV series “Berlin Cops” / Dogs of Berlin, 2018, directed by Christian Alvart, filmed under the auspices of Netflix and in English, was very much praised, so I even decided to watch. I often watch TV series on criminal-police topics, but here we are dealing with a slightly different hypostasis. Although, in principle, they
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The German TV series “Berlin Cops” / Dogs of Berlin, 2018, directed by Christian Alvart, filmed under the auspices of Netflix and in English, was very much praised, so I even decided to watch. I often watch TV series on criminal-police topics, but here we are dealing with a slightly different hypostasis. Although, in principle, they seem to investigate crimes, but not the first thing that is guided by this is the law, there are often personal problems of a quite criminal nature, blackmail, deception, betrayal, personal gain, meanness, etc. Although the two main characters and many others there are police, but to call them good guards of order, the language does not turn. On the eve of the match between Germany and Turkey, the body of the most important forward of the German team is found, while a Turk by origin, by chance there is just one of the main characters Kurt Grimmer (Felix Kramer), who is fond of betting with bookmakers, because of which he is mired in debt, he has a lightning-fast idea that by betting on the Turkish team instead of the obvious favorite - the German team, he will be able to improve his financial situation and pay off his debts. And then a complex and multi-figure intrigue begins to twist, overgrown in the course of events with increasingly complex problems and various defendants. He is doing everything possible to lead the investigation appointed him, but somewhat upset by his plans that he is assigned a pair of Turkish police officer Erol Birkan (Fahri Ogun Yardim) and also a gay man, since the Turk is killed, he tries to do something to get him out of the way, organizing even his beating, but is forced to accept. And then we see all sorts of events and crimes related to Turkish and Yugoslav gangs, with a neo-Nazi group, which Kurt himself once belonged to, but left from there, which hates both, with difficult relations between the policemen, with their rivalry between themselves and within their clans, with the thoroughly corrupt Football Union, with the enmity between the Turks and the Germans. The plot cannot be called very logical and coherent, the most important intrigue is weaved at the same time by a completely bastard, but undoubtedly quite intelligent Kurt, he finds the murderer, but he is not so much interested in justice as the need to escape from a well-deserved punishment, for which he manipulates and destroys evidence and commits many other unseemly acts. This is a series of those in which there are almost no positive characters. He shot quite well, though sometimes with some rude physiological details, you do not feel sympathy for the heroes, except that children are sorry. I can’t say that I share the rave reviews, but since I watched it, it means something interesting.
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