Roses From Heaven (6/10)

Roses From Heaven (6/10)

Gorsky and Lottner don't have much time to review what went wrong with the business of Nikolai's statement. The team observing Lenz reports the haulage contractor is being released from hospital after his accident. Gorsky and Lottner watch Lena and Jelena gets into a first class train carriage at Lichtenberg station. Making a quick decision, Gorsky and Lottner follow the couple. At a Polish station they observe how Jelena, severely beaten by Lenz, is thrown from the train. Lenz merely invites some other women into his carriage. But for Jelena this eviction means the good times are over, as her pimp Kolya has made unmistakably clear to her.  

At the Ukrainian-Polish border, the border of the EU, the observation comes to an end. Thus Gorsky and Lottner do not learn that in Ukraine Lenz is made an offer by the General and Serge Sokolov to turn Berlin's hinterland into a cigarette-making machine! Lenz is to take care of the legitimate facade and bring the finished cigarettes to Berlin. "No problem!" says Lenz, who has Berlin's hinterland completely under control. He sees business good times a plenty.  

Meanwhile Stella celebrates her birthday. A helicopter circles the villa's garden. Thousands of rose petals and a precious pearl necklace on a parachute float down from the sky towards Stella. Mischa is using all means possible to save his marriage with Stella.  

A solution appears possible to the conflict with Andrei. Andrei asks Mischa for permission to investment in Mischa's organisation's legal activities. Mischa agrees to the request: Andrei is to bring ¤ 500,000 to the Odessa. Then Mischa will have him registered as part-owner of ten slot machine arcades.    

"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