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Der gleiche Himmel (2017)
Excellent (but be warned it is incomplete!)
Excellent reconstruction of 1970s Berlin. They must have had an immense budget for vintage cars.
Only three weaknesses:
First, the American / English characters. There are several of these. Unfortunately, they are German actors putting on very poor American accents - which is distracting and often completely incomprehensible (there are no subtitles to help). Sadly, when you can understand what these characters are saying, you realise that the English dialogue has been scripted by someone whose level of English high-school exchange at best.
Second, it is not labelled "season one". That may gives the impression that this is a complete show - but when you get to the end of the last episode, it becomes clear that this was intended to be only the first season of several. But it didn't get renewed. So don't expect any closure at all, on any of the stories.
Sorjonen: Ihmisen tahra (2019)
Spoiler alert
The first time I watched this, I didn't understand it. The main crime was one we already saw in season 1 episode 1.
Then I realised that it is splicing together two things.
All of the hospital scenes, leading up to the mother's death, are "now" - except for the two or three scenes where she and kari talk about future plans and going away - they are flashbacks to "last year" when she was ill but the treatment was having an effect.
All of the scenes involving Lena and Katya's trial etc are also "now".
In relation to the police procedural, the scene where kari goes to the office and brings home the water cooler is 'now". Everything else is flashbacks to "last year", when kari was working with NBI in Helsinki.
There is some clever misdirection which throw you off the scent.
The main crime is disastrous. Kari knows who the criminal is and yells at his boss., but they don't have enough evidence. Another death follows.
Great and moving explanation of how kari was talkies into moving to Lapp eranta.