Friday January 24 on Arte, spectators will get to know Commissioner Sifkovits (Thomas Stipsits), an “Austrian Columbo” who is leading the investigation in his native village. Do we advise you to watch this fiction? Our opinion.
The iconic character of Lieutenant Columbo, popularized by the late Peter Falk, has been emulated all over the world, and particularly in Austria. In Crime in the village, the bride was in red, a new police television film broadcast Friday January 24 on Arte, the eccentric local policeman Sifkovits (Thomas Stipsits) worships the policeman in the wrinkled raincoat so much that he repeats all his facial expressions: he wears a beige trench coat, always has one last question to ask, and drives an old Peugeot car . The whimsical commissioner will be able to test his mettle as an investigator and see if he is the measure of his hero when the lifeless body of a young bride is discovered in a field. It’s up to him to solve this murder and confound the assassin!
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The tranquility of the small village of Stinatz, in Austria, is the scene of a sordid crime. The body of a young bride of Croatian origin is discovered on a farmer’s property. This enigma is an opportunity for the eccentric Commissioner Sifkovits (Thomas Stipsits) to show off his investigative skills. For Sifkovits, this case turns out to be thorny, since he personally knows all the suspects. Even his own sister frequented the victim… But he can count on the help of “the headscarf mafia”, a gang of three old ladies, including his mother, who, fond of gossip, comment from their public bench on the smallest facts and gestures of the villagers.
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Absurd humor characterizes this unusual investigation led by the no less unusual inspector Sifkovits (Thomas Stipsits), in charge of solving the murder of a young bride in her native Austrian village. The eccentric character, the sagacity and the faded look of this facetious policeman who winks at Columbo ready to smile and ultimately makes him quite sympathetic. And if he is very far from equaling his illustrious model, his quest for truth is pleasant to follow, especially since the criminal enigma provides good suspense and allows you to come across a gallery of characters, each more picturesque than the others. A thriller which therefore does not spin the drone and which carries out its primary mission: to entertain.
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