Unfinished Dinner

A dry, slow-burning police comedy where bureaucratic absurdity and a murder investigation grind against each other, rewarding patient viewers with wry observation.

Created by

Janis Streics

Genres

Crime, Comedy

Starring

Uldis Vazdiks, Romualds Ancans, Janis Paukstello

Overview

In one of the prestigious restaurants during banquet speech a large company's director Palmgren is killed in front of dozen guests . Case is lead by Criminal Investigation Officer Pierre Monson with his assistants. Suspect can be easily intercepted if only miserably lazy police officers Kvant and Kristiansson instead of catching criminal would not argue with father of little 3 years old boy who yelled: "Police, police, mashed potatoes" when they ate hot dogs. Help comes from capital in form of the famous Commissioner Martin Beck, who discovers that murdered industrialist was involved in illegal activities and had many enemies. The case is linked as well with government's "higher ends".

How it feels

Satirical, cynical, dark and absurd. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Crime, corruption, power, deception

Content

Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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