The viewer is more fascinated than disgusted by Rainer Benzinger’s (August Zirner) great success in defending a crooked client in court. This is largely due to the fact that Zirner plays the lawyer with complete indifference and deadpanness in the best sense of the word, but also because the crime thriller does not blame him so much as it blames the justice system. This is particularly interesting because – and this is what defines the Black Forest crime scene from the start – the stage is not the big stage of Berlin, Munich, Hamburg or Cologne, but the small stage of the Black Forest.
