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This episode has more plot holes than substance. It features almost every cliché about pubescent teenagers, male homosexuality, working class dads and transgender people. These topics are merely for show in a crime story that never gets gripping. Chief inspector Jana Winter, full of herself as usual, is mostly clueless this time. The case solves itself. And Winter's no-nonsense colleague, almost ten years her senior, saves the day heroically while she is watching helplessly. This is clumsily written and rather poorly acted. Better luck next time. Some episodes in this series were pretty good, though.

There was a lot of hype in the media about this miniseries. Considering the spectacular subject it was nothing special. The outcome is well known in Germany. So it wasn't even exciting to see those men fighting for their lives. There was an old TV docu-drama about the miracle of Lengede. Forty years ago the filmmakers could dare to show a dark screen for most of the time when the men in the "old man" tunnel had dialogue in complete darkness. Naturally, this was not the case in this movie. It's just a fair, routine drama. Heike Makatsch gives a good performance as grieving widow, though.

Even for a German comedy this is incredibly bad. The film is cheaply made, absolutely not funny, filled with childish jokes. Usually at least the German actors hold their own against terrible scripts. But even that is not the case here.