Für immer Sommer

This is basically a scandalous production. Anke Retzlaff is one of the best actresses of her generation. Here she's given the lead part in a sloppy written kitschfest. The story is entirely constructed from used parts that have bored us before. How many tough female cops with severe - not to say: pathological - daddy issues are there on German tv alone? Half a dozen, I would say. How many of them actually talk to their dead fathers? I remember at least two. (The others are usually sleeping with their superiors, which is not the case here. Somebody should investigate this. There is a pattern not only in German crime shows. Not a feminist one.) Even Retzlaff has done the "cop's-daughter-hunts-his-killer"-stuff before. The series "Über die Grenze" was much better. The cases in this mini series are forgettable. The main story arc is implausible. So why not 2 stars? Because Anke Retzlaff, Lana Cooper and Michael Roll grace the most ridiculous scenes with undeserved skill and their considerable charisma. The rest is silence.