Death on the island.

In the film "Small Crimes" longs a policeman on a sleepy island after nasty cases - indeed up to a corpse turns up. Nearly every islander has an absurd explanation for the death. And the audience? Has fun.

 

A happier start date would be for this film can hardly indicate: Surrounded by low pressure regions, the Germans mourn the early summer after all want a bit of sun, but it's far and wide not in sight. Except in the cinema in "Small Crimes".

What the small, lovable Greek film offers the viewer, to a short anderthalbstündigen same: fun, sea, something adventurous, bright landscapes, nice people. And because the holidays only a few of the great depth and interest in social relationships, there are also "small crimes" not much. The second feature of the Cypriots in London, grew up Chistos Georgiou has the sun in the heart, and a glance out the window enough to say: Thank you!

In the center of events, the young policeman Leonidas (Aris Servetalis) - which is just very little happening there, because Leonidas is bored to death on his sleepy island on which it is no more than take a Rotfahrer to admonish or a couple of nudists to warn applies. After Athens he would, but then it just comes with relationships. And because he has not, he is annoying the islanders with his constant tendency to over correct, which it did not take particularly seriously, but somehow love.

And then suddenly there is but a corpse: The old Zacharias has fallen from the cliff. Or was he pushed around? Leonidas created to preserve the dead in a Eistruhe and immediately plunges into the investigation. The people shake their heads, but for the Inselcop is any suspicion. Did the neighbor Zacharias with the water gun into the abyss gepustet because it is against their house has wall gepinkelt? Has the Mayor their fingers in the game? Or his former lover? Or even the U.S. Secret Service?

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The short, absurd scenes where Leonidas imagine what really happened might be among the best in "small crimes". A little unwieldy, the film only if it seriously tries to establish a love story between the hero and the pretty island princess and television presenter Angeliki (Viki Papadopoulou) to construct. But mostly govern carefree cheerfulness, and mild slapstick unaufgesetzte warmth that you desire in the cinema more often.

"Small Crimes" is not the great masterpiece, the Oscar for best foreign film could win. But the perfect movie for the summer, that's it.

Especially when it rains.