The series Informant – Fear over the city on ARD

The series Informant – Fear over the city on ARD

Der Schlaf der Vernunft gebiert ­Ungeheuer. Im sechsteiligen Terrorismus-Thriller „Informant – Angst über der Stadt“ des Berlinale-Gewinners Matthias Glasner (Buch und Regie) ist das die Verhandlungsgrund­lage. Der Schlaf der Vernunft: Misstrauen durch professionelle Defor­mation, Angst aus Vorurteilen und Lebenserfahrung. Taktisches Kompetenzgerangel der Sicherheitsbehörden und, gleichermaßen entscheidend, der brandgefährliche Größenwahn eines afghanischen Migranten, der, einmal als Informant der Sicherheitsbehörden angeworben, plötzlich eine Zukunft sieht. Eine vorübergehend glaubwürdige Illusion, wie vieles in „Informant“. Wo schließlich polizeiliche Fehleinschätzungen zur sich selbst erfüllenden Prophezeiung werden und eine Katastrophe bewirken.

Denn die Angst vor einem Terroranschlag in der Elbphilharmonie ermöglicht hier erst das Attentat mit sechs Toten. Dieser „lange Autorenfilm-Thriller in Form eines Mehrteilers“ (Glasner), der nach der Mode nun eben in sechs Teilen zerstückelt gesendet wird, könnte dabei, zumindest visuell, auch als dokumentarisches Format gelten. Dafür sorgt die rückwärts chronologische Erzählweise, dafür sorgen Szenen einer späteren Gerichtsverhandlung oder eines Un­tersuchungsausschusses mit Publikum. Jeweils zwei Kameras begleiten die fiktiven, oft reportageähnlich gestalteten Ereignisse (Friede Clausz, Alex Förderer, Matthias Biber), die Montage von Andrea Mertens und Falk Peplinski sorgt für einen hochspannenden Wechsel von Dynamik und Reflexion, die Musik von Florian van Volxem und Sven Rossenbach mit einer leitenden Jazztrompete bietet den passend düsteren Großstadt-Soundtrack.

Trailer“The Informant”

With them the story unfolds in a breathtaking way. Gabriel Bach (Jürgen Vogel), a washed-up undercover investigator from the LKA, is reactivated to collect information about a planned Islamist terrorist attack during a concert with a supervisor from the BKA, Holly Valentin (Elisa Schlott). A Jewish conductor, a Muslim concertmaster with a headscarf – hatred is boiling online. The artists emphasize the freedom of art; rejection is out of the question. By chance, Raziq “Raza” Shaheen (Ivar Wafaei) comes into view. The adult education center teacher has just assigned his integration class to read “Nathan the Wise”. He lets himself be recruited so that his girlfriend Sadia (Bayan Layla) can get a passport. The first results of his spying lead the BND, BKA and LKA to believe they were on the right track. Competition instead of intelligence, prejudice-based paranoia on the part of the security organs, the escalations could be dramatically exciting. Unfortunately, the fictional state personnel are weak in their one-dimensional character drawing, except for Gabriela Maria Schmeide as agent-whispering LKA superior Rose Kuhlenkampf. With the condescendingly stupid BKA representative Edgar Braun (Nico Holonics), “Informant” goes below its own level. So as the clock ticks, authorities become increasingly desperate to find the unknown terrorist. The more nervous, the more blind; the more action-oriented, the more dangerous they act.

Unlike the excellent BBC original “Informer”, whose independent adaptation is “Informant”, Glasner focuses on the story of the actually integrated Afghan Shaheen family and the destruction of their precarious cohesion. The father Hanif (Majid Bakhtiari) drinks, Raza’s brother Nazir (Ali Reza Ahmadi) looks for support. Bach’s family with his wife Emilia (Claudia Michelsen), a history professor, is also destroyed, not least because of Bach’s past as “Charlie” – a right-wing extremist with a relationship with the scene singer Marion (Katharina Schlothauer). The series balances the various storylines confidently. Fear eats up the soul – this is made clear here in a drastic way and all in all, very worth seeing. There is no trivialization of Islamist terrorism. “Informant,” like the British series “Informer,” is about the potentially fatal consequences of hasty suspicion.

Informant – Fear over the city runs on Arte today and tomorrow from 8:15 p.m. and on ARD on October 16th and 17th from 8:15 p.m. All episodes in the Arte media library from October 10th and in the ARD media library from October 11th.

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