Double episodes on the ARD Sunday evening crime drama are always significant. They are brought out around the 50th anniversary of the West German invention Crime sceneto celebrate the anniversary as a state visit-like encounter between two locations with a return match Dortmund and Munich to commit. Or, like last time with that one Right-wing extremism conspiracy in Berlin, to be able to elegantly program a major political issue on the public holiday weekend (Easter Sunday and Monday).
At the Hamburg doubleCrime Scene: A Good Day/Black Snow (NDR editorial team: Christian Granderath, Patrick Poch), on the other hand, is broadcast one after the other in one evening as humorlessly as it was filmed: in one go. That seems less exciting because there is an economic calculation behind it (two films in one go), which should also help save costs at the new Frankfurt location – that last episode Light emerged during the same shoot as the yet to be scheduled episode Torch (AT)between March 24 and May 23, 2025. The double episode is also a co-production with the Dutch public broadcaster (NPO).
It should be significant Hamburg still approach, how Christian Granderath, the recently retired head of film, family and series at NDRclaims in its foreword: “Only rarely does it come from Mirror-Cover stories Crime scene and therefore great Sunday evening entertainment.” Unfortunately, that’s not entirely true, as journalistic texts often shine through as sources of ideas for ARD Sunday evening thrillers; it was in Dresden Mirror-Reporter Frauke Hunfeld was recently even a co-author of a film that the depths of her magazine research However, I couldn’t get hold of it.
That works A good day / Black snow no different. The topic is the “Mocro-Mafia” from the Netherlands, which deals drugs particularly aggressively, recruits young people and terrifies journalism, politics and the judiciary. But that it is an adequate film adaptation of the said Mirror-Texts from Jürgen Dahlkamp, Jörg Diehl and Roman Lehberger It is difficult to claim that this is from 2021.
Rather, you are confronted with a lot of set pieces with which other ARD Sunday evening thrillers have tried to create a picture of organized crime: the inconspicuous, middle-class-looking but evil head mafioso in prison; his more exalted but no less evil son outside; groups of men attacking people and chasing the police; an innocent boy who nevertheless falls into the web of evil; a shady-looking BKA figure.
Or a corrupt provincial mayor, played by Sebastian Hülk. And a good example is of a film that doesn’t Mirror-Needs research because he always uses the same transfers from other average films anyway. The mayor has just done coke when he receives a visit from the police in his huge office, which is lit as stylishly and discreetly as the shady gangster dens (gaffer: Stefan Peters, production designer: Thomas Freudenthal).
