For TV federal police officer Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring, 55), “Hidden” was the anniversary episode for 10 years of crime scene service. Many of his 17 cases so far revolve around immigration and migration. No coincidence, that’s part of the concept of the character of the heart-in-the-right-spot inspector Falke.
The question is: How much cliché is there in his stories?
This time it was about “illegals” who live in Hanover without papers and get by with odd jobs. The focus is on the Makoni couple, who had fled Zimbabwe. She gives private German lessons. He always tries to speak German, is friendly and works tirelessly. So to speak, model illegals.
thriller? social drama.
The baddest characters, on the other hand, were (as is so often the case) German entrepreneurs, of course unscrupulous and inhuman. And federal policeman Falke promised cooperative illegals “tolerance”. Humanly decent, legally questionable.
Of course, a crime scene can and may be socially critical. But does he have to be week after week? In the Berlin case at Easter, it was right-wing extremist forces in the police force, this time the refugee problem. In such cases, perhaps the title should not be “crime” but “social drama”.
Despite the sympathetic inspector Falke, but because of the clichéd case, there is only BILD grade 4.
