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TV Cop Dramas – Actresses can do more than play Victims
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German television is known to be quite crime-oriented. More and more formats, series and individual films of this genre are being produced, and it\u2018s increasingly rare that they get by without staging brutal murders and corpses in close-ups. However, it is possible to tell a thrilling and entertaining crime drama in a different way, and this is why I want to give the example of a Swedish mini-series, as counterbalance to the films that begin with a brutal rape or the discovery of a young, pretty, abused, dead woman<\/strong>. Actresses can do more than play victims.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Two Female Criminals and Two Corpses Off-Screen
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By coincidence – because the films and series on arte tv are unfortunately not advertised enough – I discovered JUST A BANKROBBERY \/ ENKELST\u00d6TEN shortly before its term in the media library expired. The 6-part Swedish series (44 min. each) by Felix Herngren<\/span> is based on the novel ENKELST\u00d6TEN: PSYKOLOGISK THRILLER by Swedish author Tomas Arvidsson<\/span> (*1941), which does not seem to have been published in German nor in English. I rang the Swedish embassy in Berlin and a friendly employee – whose name I unfortunately didn’t catch – told me that Engelst\u00f6ten means ‘single thrust’. Arvidsson also wrote the crime novels DUBBELST\u00d6TEN and TRIPPELST\u00d6TEN (and others).<\/span><\/p>\n

The employee was very pleased after he\u2018d quickly read through a Swedish description of the series, he said Felix Herngren<\/strong> was very humorous and the two leading actresses Lotta Tejle<\/strong> <\/span>and Sissela Kyle<\/span><\/strong> were really brilliant. He also told that the story had already been turned into a TV series in the 1980s. What is also remarkable about JUST A BANKROBBERY 2017 is that the main characters in the novel were male. In 2017 they were turned into two women<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n

The two friends Cecilia (Sissela Kyle) and Jenny (Lotta Telje) are in their prime, have never done anything wrong and yet are both in deep trouble: Jenny find sout in the divorce war with her ex-husband that she gets off extremely badly in their old marriage contract. Cecilia, on the other hand, has invested in Chinese stocks – and lost practically everything after a stock market crash. Then one of her patients, Stellan (Peter Carlberg), who is suffering from cancer, makes Cecilia a daring proposal: He has a watertight plan for a bank robbery, but won’t live long enough to carry it out himself. The idea seems perfect – but do the peace-loving ladies really have enough criminal energy for that?<\/em>
\nSource: arte press kit. German first broadcast April 2019 (translated from German by me)<\/span><\/p>\n

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The other characters and their storylines are also quite distinct (without turning them into stereotypes): the older commissioner (woman), her younger assistant (man), the provincial policewoman, the two husbands, the daughter, the boss at the hospital (woman) the biker gang (all male) and many more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the series (directed by Felix Herngren<\/span> episodes 1 to 3, and Emma Bucht<\/span><\/strong> episodes 4 to 6) is no longer available in the arte online library and I haven’t found a DVD version yet either. But I hope there is one because the German dubbing voices for the protagonists are very different from the Swedish original (have a listen to the trailer from Swedish TV4<\/a>). But this is a topic for another day. And hopefully arte takes the series into their program again soon!<\/span><\/p>\n

Why am I talking about ENKELST\u00d6TEN? Firstly, because I really liked the series, it\u2018s full of suspense, wit, depth, surprising twists<\/strong> and yes, also crimes. Also, two people are murdered, but neither do we see the murders, nor the corpses. Secondly, because there is a – still relevant – quote from the author Arvidsson<\/strong> (quoted on the website tomelius.se<\/a> by Bertil Tomelius, subpage Svenska deckare \/ Swedish crime novels): <\/span><\/p>\n

Jag vill ber\u00e4tta en historia som \u00e4r sp\u00e4nnande och f\u00f6rhoppningsvis rolig. Jag vill f\u00f6rs\u00f6ka visa att sp\u00e4nning inte alls kr\u00e4ver v\u00e5ld och att humor kan inbegripa str\u00e5k av allvar f\u00f6r den som vill se dem. Om man vill kan man kanske se mitt ber\u00e4ttande som en stilla protest mot det spekulativa underh\u00e5llningsv\u00e5ld som ibland tar sig groteska uttryck i TV, film och b\u00f6cker.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I want to tell a story that is exciting and hopefully entertaining. I try to show that creating tension does not require violence and that humour can have seriousness for those who want to see it. If you like, my stories can perhaps be seen as a kind of silent protest against the speculative entertainment violence that sometimes takes on grotesque features in television, film and books.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

We know this “entertainment violence” only too well from German television. I sometimes have the feeling that, for example in the TATORTs (Germany\u2018s top cop drama), the regions are in some sort of competition where A says “We have ten murder victims<\/em>!”. and B: “But we have the more violent crime<\/em>!” and C: “And we the younger victim<\/em>!” and D: “And we<\/em>\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n

female, young, dead
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One day last October I read several press releases which were similar in a ways: <\/span><\/p>\n