Anticipating a major drug deal the Düsseldorf LKA (state police) conducts an observation of a flat in Cologne. The night shift in the camera-equipped camper is assigned to local police ...
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Title: Die Musterknaben (1997)
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3 wins & 3 nominations.
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| Jürgen Tarrach | ... | Jürgen Docker | |
| Oliver Korittke | ... | Oliver Dretzke | |
| Ellen Ten Damme | ... | Wanda | |
| Herbert Knaup | ... | Kamphausen | |
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Alexander Held | ... | Wempe (as Gerald A. Held) |
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Walter Gontermann | ... | Linseisen |
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Wolfgang M. Bauer | ... | Leo (as Wolfgang Maria Bauer) |
| Annett Renneberg | ... | Diana | |
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Henriette Thimig | ... | Mutter / Mother |
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Heinrich Giskes | ... | Der Doktor / The Doctor |
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Christian Markoc | ... | Wouters |
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Michael Stehr | ... | Bodyguard |
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Gary Tang | ... | Chinese |
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Renate Dissel | ... | Pizzafrau / Pizza Woman |
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Colette Koo | ... | Alexa |
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Anticipating a major drug deal the Düsseldorf LKA (state police) conducts an observation of a flat in Cologne. The night shift in the camera-equipped camper is assigned to local police losers Docker and Dretzke. Taking breaks from the boring job Docker starts flirting with bartender Wanda and all too soon he boasts about their investigations. Conceivably, Docker and Dretzke are stunned when they hear Wanda's voice through the wiretap, as she confides the story of the funny policeman to the answering machine in the surveilled apartment. When the buddies decide to break into the flat to erase Wanda's message, they discover something that sheds a different light on the whole affair. Written by Armin Ortmann <armin@sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de>
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Country:
GermanyLanguage:
GermanRelease Date:
12 March 1998 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
Die Musterknaben 1 - Dumm wie Brot See more »Filming Locations:
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyCompany Credits
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Die Musterknaben (lit. The Prigs) is the inaugural episode of three made for TV police flicks, and earned a VFF TV-Movie Award.
Surprisingly, the mini-series is quite unknown even in Germany - and undeservedly at that.
The main characters, which are superbly played by Juergen Tarrach and Oliver Korittke, are archetypal urban anti-heroes, be it professionally, or in their private lives. They are chronically unmotivated and usually only excel to impress women. When doing the latter, they try to outdo each other, but ultimately always fail to land with the target of their affection. However, it leads to the case they are working on being solved, more or less as a by-product.
The outward appearance of the slightly chubby Tarrach, and the skinny Korittke, is not coincidentally calling on images of the legendary Hardy/Laurel duo. The two are constantly slagging each other in funny, yet intelligent and witty dialogues.
The plot isn't anything to write home about, but is set dead centre lower middle class in one of Germany's biggest cities, oozing local colour. It not only picks heavily on stereotypes associated with this milieu, it brilliantly persiflages it with loving attention to detail.
Add to this the hierarchy within the German state police, with which the two main protagonists often clash, and some corrupt undercover DEA officers, which have long switched sides, and you have a nicely satirical and entertaining take on 'serious' German police series.