Has this unprecedented police comedy inspired by Columbo?

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Friday, January 24 at 8:55 p.m., Arte broadcasts Crime in the village, the bride was in red. A thriller that should delight fans of police comedies … We explain why!

A chain where culture and information take an important place, Arte does not stay back when it comes to giving pride of place to fictions. Great classics, unpublished TV movies, feature films from all over Europe … No doubt, the Franco-German entity can do it to tickle our curiosity! This is still the case this evening with Crime in the village, the bride was in red. A police fiction of the best effect, signed Daniel nextka, in which humor takes a certain place …

Crime in the village, the bride was in red : Tonight on Arte, the crime is in the meadow!

Here, it will start in Austria, within the village of Stinatz. It was there, in the middle of a field, that a peasant found the corpse of a young woman. The victim is a young bride of Croatian origin, who had disappeared the day before … dispatched on the spot, the commissioner Sifkovits will take care of this more than complicated file. A native of the area, the whimsical investigator will stir everything on care passage, rekindling resentment and local rivalries. During his investigations, Sifkovits will also be helped by a particular gang that one nicknamed “The scarf mafia” : Three elderly ladies, experts in gossip, real wine -ups in the village!

Crime in the villagea funny fiction to the airs of Columbo

A rural investigation, a victim from an East country, a group old ladies helping the police … on paper, Crime in the village, the bride was in red has everything to please us. In addition, note that this thriller has a few airs of a great classic of police fiction on television: Columbo. Here, like Peter Falk, actor Thomas Stipsits likes to play the investigators falsely next to the plate. Whack upon, impermeable far from leaving the pressing, sarcastic projections and other points of humor make the salt of the character of Inspector Sifkovits. Let it be said, the aficionados of the famous cigar investigator will find themselves there, but will compose this time with an ended to the Austrian accent assumed!