Reviews

Helen Mirren portraits the female DCI with dignity, courage and flair. She ís Jane Tennisson and every episode of this brilliant British crime series is worth more then any other series ever made before or ever made since. Mirren gets into the character from the very start and she slowly builds a genuine person of flesh and blood, that moves the viewer, because we understand her anger, her enthusiasm, her frustrations. There is an American Prime Suspect series now, but I don't want to watch it, because it can never be anywhere near as good as the original and that is solely due to Helen Mirren. This can never be topped. That goes for all the episodes.

Du bist die Welt für mich is a fictional story of the life of the great German tenor Richard Tauber. No matter, because the portrayal of Tauber by his 'successor' Rudolf Schock is very much worth while. Not only does Schock give an acceptable performance as an actor, but his voice is beautiful and smooth. It is a great shame that this film isn't available on DVD yet. The popular tenor Rudolf Schock (1915 - 1986) made a number of films, the first of these was Du bist die Welt für mich. It was probably his best. Schock is now best remembered for his many recordings of operetta's, but he was also an acclaimed singer of opera, oratorio and Lieder. His recordings of Die schöne Müllerin by Schubert and Dichterliebe by Schumann are legendary and can compete with the finest recordings of colleges as Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Fritz Wunderlich.