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If only she knew who she killed. At the time, in 1987, in the Berlin club "Big Eden". But asking questions is not part of the job. Kleo (Jella Haase) is a hitman for the Stasi, and although the murder goes as planned, nothing works for Kleo afterward. Someone betrays her, she goes to jail. Then came the turning point, the GDR disappeared, the Stasi too. So Kleo wants to know who put her in jail. And this story is told by the Netflix series “Kleo”.
In eight episodes, Kleo walks angrily from one bigwig to another: Sorry, wasn't in charge, just carried out orders. Babbling, Kleo touches a poisoned cake and sews explosives into clothes while singing. If necessary, she flies to Majorca to kill a former head of the Stasi.
This woman would be hired immediately if you were planning to liquidate someone.
Women who take bloodthirsty revenge and look cool at the same time have been known since Quentin Tarantino let Uma Thurman go wild on her tormentor in "Kill Bill." Despite her slightly socialist conservatism, Kleo is also a nod to Tarantino, as she performs supernatural combat moves in a prisoner costume, shown here not with Nancy Sinatra, but with the band GDR Panta rhei are highlighted.
But Kleo is more than a angry young woman. She is driven by a deep sense of morality, a desire to establish justice for herself. She is barely discouraged by emotions, pragmatically marching past friends and men in the direction of revenge. The series does not dare to do without the obligatory amorous banter and, so much can be revealed, the subject of motherhood, which is a bit of a shame because Kleo obviously gets along very well on his own and not all the conflicts in a woman. life is necessarily capable of something with it having to do. In any case, Jella Haase alternates so easily between a child-like killer and a disappointed woman that one would hire him immediately if one thought of liquidating someone.
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If "Kleo" recounts the era of reunification - of former Stasi employees who now do business with the Americans ("Binz becomes the AL of the East"), of anarchic Berlin and of the authorities where the GDR plays simply – is the series is not a turning political drama, but an entertainment. There is only a faint mention of who will take responsibility when what was supposed to be safe suddenly collapses. And then there is also the policeman Sven Petzold (Dimitrij Schaad). A West Berlin official, only Miami Vice in style, who follows Kleo's heels, always the obligatory second too late.
This feminist-tinged Stasi action-comedy was dreamed up by Hanno Hackfort, Richard Kropf and Bob Konrad, who also invented "4 Blocks." Their many brilliant ideas sometimes lead to some indecision in the pacing and temperature of the series. But above all, because the brilliant Jella Haase forms a nightmarish team with the no less brilliant Dimitrij Schaad, the series works. So good that she even recommended Stephen King as a "breath of fresh air." And he really knows a thing or two about storytelling.
Kleo, eight episodes, Netflix
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