Eine Stadt wird erpresst

Georg Kalinke has been with the Leipzig PD since the 1970s. For many of his younger, often Bonn-Republic-born-and-bred brethren he's a relic from a long-vanished era. When lone wolf Kalinke catches the biggest case to come along in ages, folks get nervous: if things go wrong, some will ask questions. Kalinke couldn't care less about the backroom power politics raging, as he has problems of his own: from the way it looks, he knows the perps from back in the Honecker days. Chances are Kalinke will go rogue. This is possibly the best piece of genre filmmaking about the economic as well as psychological toll that "unification" took on the people from the so-called Five New States of the Federation (the former East German states). A bleak, pissed-off look at a nation still divided.