Natalia Wörner investigates a series of rapes. Is the son of an ambassador involved?
Berlin – A rare sight in prime time: Natalia Wörner only comes on television once a year on average with a new episode of the crime series “Die Diplomatin”. Fans can console themselves with a repeat this Saturday.
The fourth episode, “Bad Game”, wanted 6.41 million viewers to see the first in May 2019. This Saturday it runs at 8.15 p.m. on the special interest channel One.
Why is? The young tourists Vanessa and Lydia from Germany are approached by 18-year-old Philippe (Johannes Meister) in Prague. His parents are not there at the moment, and their villa is empty. The young man treats the girls there with champagne – until some of his friends join them. Lydia leaves, but Vanessa is mistreated and later lies unconscious in the hospital.
Commissioner Jan Horava (Alexander Beyer) believes he is finally on the trail of a clique of young men who have raped several women. He arrests Philippe at school. Since he enjoys diplomatic immunity as the son of the French ambassador Beaumont (Jean-Yves Berteloot), Horava has to let him go. The German ambassador Karla Lorenz (Natalia Wörner) is friends with Margo Beaumont (Jeanne Tremsal) and is actually biased.
Natalia Wörner (“Under Different Circumstances”) convinces with a quiet game and in this tricky case shows significantly more sensitivity and diplomatic restraint than before. Which does not prevent the ambassador from investigating herself – quite discreetly and with a certain dignity.
Karla Lorenz also falls out with her aunt (Maren Kroymann), who was ambassador to the Czech capital before her and is now Minister of State in the Foreign Office in Berlin. Fortunately, she gets along well with her assistant Nikolaus Tanz (Jannik Schümann), who makes a decisive contribution to solving the case.
The Lobkowitz Palace is a stately building on Prague’s Lesser Town and has been the seat of the German Embassy in Prague since 1974. Director Roland Suso Richter (“Der Zürich-Krimi”) was allowed to shoot in it and puts the space in the limelight very vividly. This also applies to other places in his film that are captured atmospherically by cameraman Max Knauer. The end of the film shows – after various, not always logical hooks, the complete disintegration of a previously supposedly well-off family. There is nothing left of the supposedly so fine circles. dpa
