There's A Time For Everything (10/10)

There's A Time For Everything (10/10)

Mourning in the Odessa. Songs, much emotion, vodka - and then business. To their surprise, Stella rejects the offer made to her by Leonid Bondarenko and Victor Lushin: five million euros, a house on the Mediterranean and a lifetime pension of ¤10,000 a month. Stella wants to take Mischa's place in the organisation.  

Stella participates in a meeting at which Uncle Sascha is to end the fighting between the city's criminal groups by pronouncement. Too much blood has been shed, too much attention aroused. Andrei accepts Sascha's pronouncement, which gives him prostitution, drugs and extortion. He is to stay well away from the legal businesses around Stella's criminal structure. Andrei accepts, just in the same moment to whisper to Victor Lushin that they have not seen each other for the last time.  

Gorsky comes across Sokolov, who has returned from Ukraine, at the mourning service. He tells Stella Sokolov is Grischa's murderer. But Stella forbids Gorsky from confronting Sokolov on this day of mourning, in her home, on her ground. She intends to take care of Sokolov in her own way. But it won't come to that.  

As Lenz, the haulage contractor, Bondarenko and Sokolov are inspecting the illegal cigarette factory the LKA people make their move. Gorsky follows his brother's killer into the dark corridors of the abandoned industrial plant.

"Films that throb and pulsate, full of raging, wild, delirious life. (...) Graf's far-reaching, wide-ranging cops and robbers saga is epic, larger-than-life TV moviemaking. Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin "500 minutes of suspense, in ten chock-full episodes, on a par with any big-budget blockbuster. (...) A gift to the audience and a piece of big-screen drama of the sort we need more of (...) The cast is stunning..." Frankfurter Allgemeine