In the last part of the trilogy "Deutschland 89", continued placement of super-spy "Kolibri" into historic events feels like watching "Forest Gump" - but not in a good way.
The series jumps the shark by depicting the end of the Wall as being deliberately engineered by the very same super-spy, and not just as a result of confusion during the last phase of the failing state.
And the eastern secret service trying to kill the party leader and head of state, really? It would have been much more interesting to tell the story of the secret service trying to convince the army to go for the "Chinese solution".
However, the actors are still very good, and I think the depiction of the believer in socialism turning to terrorism is credible - while a lot of her former comrades have a smooth transition to capitalism.
Unfortunately, the mother of "Kolibri"'s child is not re-cast, but only ends up as a corpse - I guess the actress wasn't available at the time. Not being able to see the ambitious young cadre deal with the end of her side of Germany is a big loss, because this is the story of a whole generation being alienated from their now-unified country.
The series jumps the shark by depicting the end of the Wall as being deliberately engineered by the very same super-spy, and not just as a result of confusion during the last phase of the failing state.
And the eastern secret service trying to kill the party leader and head of state, really? It would have been much more interesting to tell the story of the secret service trying to convince the army to go for the "Chinese solution".
However, the actors are still very good, and I think the depiction of the believer in socialism turning to terrorism is credible - while a lot of her former comrades have a smooth transition to capitalism.
Unfortunately, the mother of "Kolibri"'s child is not re-cast, but only ends up as a corpse - I guess the actress wasn't available at the time. Not being able to see the ambitious young cadre deal with the end of her side of Germany is a big loss, because this is the story of a whole generation being alienated from their now-unified country.