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Wikipedia article
'Strhl' is a 2004 Swiss film directed by Manuel Flurin Hendry. The plot takes place in Zrich, at the notorious Langstrasse.
Plot
Lonesome and medicament addict narcotics detective Herbert Strhl (Roeland Wiesnekker), who hardly can handle his own life, wants to clean up the Langstrasse area. Strhl often watches Berisha (Adem Kicai), the head of a drug trafficking ring, leaving his limousine and entering a dubious building, but he isnt able to arrest him, due to the lacking of an evidence (Berisha never touches the drugs by himself).
Strhl, who hides his depression and craving for love behind rage, clamor and stimulant drugs, has arguments with his chief Brunner (Max Rdlinger) and with his co-workers, e.g. with Ruedi Lautenschlager (Mike Mller), who is rather dull and often visits brothels. When Beat (Raphael Clamer), a former member of the Seepolizei (Police unit on lake), joins the team, Strhl thinks, the new blood was too calm and not tough enough.
During a house search, a junkie named Ren Wehrli (Manuel Lwensberg) falls out of the window. Strhl gets suspended from police service. Moreover, Ren and his girlfriend Carol Caro Hertig (Johanna Bantzer) blackmail Strhl for smart money. The drug addict couple buys a lot of articles in a kiosk, and Strhl has to pay for them (Ren also fills out a Toto-ticket (sports betting) there, and Strhl positively influences him doing it). Despite that, Ren doesnt want to take back his inculpatory statement Ren demands a huge amount of heroin from Strhl.
Strhl catches the dealer Beko (Nderim Hajrullahu), who is related to Berishas drug mafia, and presses him to cooperate. Beko shows a lot of hidden drugs to Strhl. Strhl uses a part of the drug depot's heroine to satisfy Ren. Ren, Caro and Strhl drive to the police station, where Ren wants to deny his statements to Strhl, while the others wait in the car. Ren stays in for a long time, and Strhl gets curious about what happened in the building. He goes in, too and finds Ren dead in the restrooms.
Strhl and Caro smoke drugs on a foil at Strhls. Suddenly, the police enter the flat and find the heroin. The delinquents are escorted away in a car, but Strhl manages to open Caros door to let her escape (Her plastic-handcuffs can be cut off later).
Before Ren entered the police station he had given a roll of Smarties to Caro. It contained a 120'000 CHF winning Toto-ticket. Caro, on the run, now wants to encash the ticket as fast as possible. But the kiosk-woman isnt allowed to pay out such a high amount of cash (the ticket has to be sent in). So Caro asks Beko, if he knew someone, who could exchange the ticket against cash within an hour. The mafia agrees (They offer 80000 CHF) and the parties meet at a small park. The situation escalates and Caro throws a handgrenade (that Ren once took from a dead junkie). The grenade doesnt go off.
Finally Strhl succeeds in arresting Berisha, thanks to a hint by new blood Beat hiding a serious amount of confiscated drugs in Berishas trunk.
Cast
*Roeland Wiesnekker: Herbert Strhl
*Johanna Bantzer: Carol Hertig
*Nderim Hajrullahu: Beko Mussafr
*Mike Mller: Ruedi Lautenschlager
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