Sleeping Dog (2023)
The Gist: Taking that scalpel to his wrist is Mussa Basher, a young Moroccan man who’d been inside for the murder of a prominent Berlin judge, a murder Detective Mike Atlas (Riemelt) and his partners Luka Zaric (Carlo Ljubek) and Roland Sokowski (Antonio Wannek) put him away for. But it’s been almost a year since the trial, and these days Atlas has left the force, left his wife Lenni (Peri Baumeister) and teenage daughter Tinka (Tara Corrigan), and is living on the streets, where he’s haunted by fractured memories of the Mussa case and a tragic fire in a festival square.
Mussa always claimed his innocence, but with his suicide, it falls to rookie prosecutor Jule Andergast (Luise von Finckh) to assess what the trigger was and whether or not to open an inquiry. But Jule’s questions about Mussa’s behavior in prison and his visitors – especially his friend Idris, who’s now gone missing – are shut down by her hardass district attorney boss (Melika Foroutan), who agrees with Hartloff (Martin Wuttke), a high-powered defense lawyer, that there’s nothing to warrant revisiting Mussa’s case. Atlas has reason to reopen the case, too, but no one will listen to him since he left the force in disgrace. “Instead of seeking therapy, you let yourself go,” the DA tells him. “I want you back, but you urgently need professional help.”
Atlas and Jule don’t know it yet, but they’re working Mussa’s suicide and the same inconsistencies in his case from opposite sides. And while Atlas has some contact with Tinka, he remains estranged from Lenni, who confides in Luka in his absence. Luka and Roland are also training their new partner Adebayo (Melodie Wakivuamina), who encounters racism and prejudice at the department and in the field. And when Jule uncovers new evidence from Mussa’s life regarding the true nature of his relationship with Idris, it only leads to more questions, the kind that lead right back to the district attorney’s office, the stonewalling lawyer Hartloff, and Atlas, Luka, and Roland’s original murder investigation.
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