FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Andreas Dresen - Die Polizistin


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 When I have breakfast on Hermannplatz, in the Süss bakery, in the morning, crowds of policemen and women come in to order their coffee. They are regular customers, fooling around with the baker. A bit like we used to do in the schoolyard. Then they stop you on your bike because you're dressed in black again, riding without lights and their tone of voice sounds completely different. Strict, psychologically trained. The way policemen sound.  "The policewoman" or Anne (Gabriela Maria Schmeide) is completely different.  Anne is in her late 20s and her life has reached a low point. Because she was transferred to Rostock. Behind the grey facades of the prefabricated buildings she finds no private happiness. I think she feels very alone. Therefore she works on the outskirts of the city. That's her routine, diving into the social offside. Anne is not someone who wants to make the world a better place. Sensitive yes; she helps in small ways, not ideologically. In uniform, she always remains Anne. And she always sounds like Anne. Never like a 15-year-old brat, never like a policewoman. What interests director Andreas Dresen is the conflict between the law and Anne's own sense of morality and justice. And we quickly realize that Anne is too good for this world. Once she tries to mediate between a ten-year-old boy, his mother and his father. Shortly afterwards she meets the father again. He has just robbed a gas station. How is she supposed to deal with this, since she has just made a little peace in the family? What about the boy? Andreas Dresen's film lives from such episodes. Like in Danish "DOGMA" films, the camera follows Anne. Coarse-grained, unadorned. "I like dealing with people, something solid - I thought"; Anne explains that she went to the police. But does everyday life as a police officer take into account such a beautiful attitude as Anne has towards her job and life?