Duisbourg: La piste sanglante

Everything screams out "no budget", from the low-key locations to the banal photography. The "strange couple" of cops has been done a thousand times before, the lead female overacts like crazy as the wife of a "malavitoso" and the only message one gets is that it's better to stay away from Italian restaurants abroad because the owner may be mixed up with criminal organisations.

The movie would have been better if it weren't so many mistakes. At one point a woman arrives in Amsterdam and walks to a parking garage. Only everything is written in Greek. Uniforms of the Dutch police are incorrect, they wear Belgian police hats. And so many more mistakes.

Bad filmmaking, terrible location scouting and lazy production design. There are better movies to watch.

Quite good plot and actors. But the location scout has probably used the budget for other purposes. In Amsterdam all cars have white plates, old police and ambulance are hired. White appartment in Geeman style are not find in Holland. Neither one will find hills in or around the Dutch capital. Very poor work.

A TV film by the Italian broadcaster RAI that has made it into the program of the global streaming service NETFLIX! It is about the notorious Mafia murders in Duisburg, which deeply shocked the whole of Germany on Ferragosto (15 August) 2007. The German TV actor Benjamin SADLER plays a German investigator who, together with his colleague (Daniele LIOTTI) from Reggio di Calabria, is able to solve the case after several years. It becomes clear how the Mafia benefits from family connections. In addition, it has long since outgrown Calabria and Italy. The film is a typical TV production, but it benefits from the exciting topic and the explosive event.