The setting:
The hills of the West Palatinate, filmed like the mountains of Nevada. The deepest west of the old Federal Republic, staged as for a Western. Lena Odenthal (Ulrike Folkerts) returns to this deserted corner after almost 30 years because a patrolman has been shot on duty. She meets her old lover, the policeman Stefan Tries (Ben Becker), who after the ascent to the district leader gives the over all laws standing provincial marshal. Who can do something against crooked business if it benefits their own community?
The clou:
Three decades of German television - everything has changed, nothing has changed. This "crime scene" is the sequel to the first broadcast in 1991 episode "death in the shredder" in the Odenthal ever met Tries. Nico Hofmann staged the home of former chancellor Helmut Kohl as a backward, emotionally iced border region, as "Palatine Siberia". Nearly 30 years later, a modern recycling plant flushes money into the area, but recreational activities are still rather primitive. Never mind, the two main characters have so much fun together. Drugs, weapons, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash help.
The picture:
Fueled by fresh coke and old infatuation, the Commissioner shoots empty bottles with the provincial bull at night in the garden. She is still a bit shy, he even hits backwards from the hip.
The dialogue:
In an internal investigation, a provincial police officer must explain how he can afford the flashy pick-up SUV on the doorstep. Policeman: "That belongs to my wife, gift for the wedding day." Internal investigator: "Rustic taste." Policeman hugs the guy in front of the car: "That's how the women are here."
The song:
"Gril from the North Country" by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. Invite Tries to an intimate reunion with Odenthal, including: red wine, white powder, flashbacks to first kisses almost 30 years ago. The two have gotten a little older, but the making is still working quite well.
The review:
7 out of 10 points. Back in Kohl-Country: Despite a few solemn monologues, a pretty strong Sunday thriller about how much and little has changed in this country. Folkerts as Odenthal celebrate with him their 30th anniversary. A "crime scene" that seems to stop time.
The analysis:
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"Scene of the crime: The Pfalz from above", Sunday, 20:15, ARD
All "crime scene" teams at a glance
Lannert and Bootz in Stuttgart
The wounded: Richy Müller as Thorsten Lannert and Felix Klare as Sebastian Bootz are great guys. One with a tragic undercover investigator past, the other an honored failed husband. Since 2008, they are in use, in the beginning, the cases was still flushed routine routinely. But the most recent Stuttgart episodes treat at the highest aesthetic level excitement topics such as Stuttgart 21, unprocessed RAF history and nursing emergency. Only the Satanist horror was a bit dull recently.
Boerne and Thiel in Münster
The Prof and the Proll: Since 2002, Jan Josef Liefers as a forensic physician Karl-Friedrich Boerne and Axel Prahl as Frank Thiel determine between bis dynasties, potato kings and asparagus emperors. The one snob and closely associated with the Münster dignitaries, the other St. Pauli fan and outsider. A combination with the grotesque humor smuggled into the "crime scene" in the beginning, but exhausted in recent years in gag cannonades. Two cases a year, regularly flanked by new quota records.
Borowski and Sahin in Kiel
The world converter: As Klaus Borowski Axel Milberg is best when he descends in parallel cosms of psychopaths - perhaps because Borowski himself is built close to madness. Since 2003, until 2009, was meaningfully under the observation of a police psychologist. But the women come and go in the Borowski "crime scene". After Maren Eggert and Sibel Kekilli, the highly-traded Turkish-born actress Almila Bagriacik ("4 blocks") has now taken on the role of the female sidekick.
Murot in Hesse
Do not be afraid of the pianist! Whether at the piano, on the chainsaw or on the machine gun - Ulrich Tukur as Inspector Murot is almost always a sensation. Almost always: The number with the jugglers in the circus episode "Dizziness" of 2013 was really bad, but the Tarantino-meets-Truffaut episode "Born in pain" 2014 was an absolute masterpiece and the marmot episode of the SPIEGEL -ONLINE readers' most beloved "crime scene" last season.
Gorniak, Winkler and Schnabel in Dresden
Funny it started, a draw went on, it has become dark. Alwara Höfels, Karin Hanczewski and Martin Brambach were struggling in the first episodes with the half-baked concept of the MDR. Höfels meanwhile pulled the consequences and said goodbye. Now Cornelia Göschel has taken over as Commissioner Winkler - in her first appearance was a stuffy serial killer. The Dresden "crime scene" now wants to be a tough, contemporary cop thriller.
Mountain and Tobler in the Black Forest
Eva Löbau as Franziska Tobler and Hans-Jochen Wagner as Friedemann Berg do not need dialog fanfares or exotic role biographies. They use what this weather-intensive crime thriller Black Forest gives. A homeland thriller in which everything is produced locally: fruit, schnapps, death. With the last, exceptional consequences, the area in Germany's most extreme southwest also showed an extreme willingness to take risks and showed one case each from the perspective of a schizophrenic and a sex offender.
Tschiller in Hamburg
The "crime scene" power dreams have not been fulfilled. The dedicated to extra conditions Mega-star Til Schweiger brought the thriller series no mega-odds as Commissioner Tschiller. Not even by Panzerfaust and Helene Fischer use. After the audience block failed action blockbuster attempts just the sixth Tschiller episode has been filmed in Hamburg: The Haudrauf, so you hear, should be drawn in it as a broken figure. Broadcast not before 2020.
Dorn and Lessing in Weimar
Is that still a thriller? Nora Tschirner as commissar Dorn and Christian Ulmen as colleague Lessing let the usual "Tatort" -deliector punching go empty-handed with casual elegance - and that just in the sphere of influence of the MDR, where one used to do hard with humor and subversion. After the initially sluggish programming as an event "crime scene", Dorn and Lessing now investigate twice a year.
Hawk in northern Germany
Forever Punk: Wotan Wilke Möhring as Commissar Falke listens to punk and contributes to sleeping as if to find a threadbare Ramones shirt. First he was traveling in Hamburg, then he had to leave the city to Til Schweiger and moved to the north German countryside, now he may investigate again in Hamburg. In the role of co-investigator Franziska Weisz acts as Julia Grosz. Two episodes a year.
Faber, Bönisch, Dalay and Kossik in Dortmund
The sick: Jörg Hartmann swallows plenty of pills and breaks toilets as Peter Faber. Anna Schudt as a colleague Martina Bönisch rises more to frustration reduction as a pleasure with callboys and vacuum cleaner representatives to bed. Aylin Tezel as Nora Dalay and Stefan Konarske as Daniel Kossik have already sweated together on patrol and in bed together - but would never use the L-word. Two episodes a year. One of the few TV areas with stringent character development. The elite of the German TV crime. Stefan Konarske has dropped out and was replaced by Rick Okon ("The Boat").
Brix and Janneke in Frankfurt
How are they on it? As balanced as Paul Brix (Wolfram Koch, l.) And Anna Janneke (Margarita Broich, r.) Is no one else in TV crime Germany to work. Good mood as a unique selling point, an interesting twist. Instead of rubbing the concentrated attention for each case. Brix was once in the habit, Janneke has previously worked as a psychologist: A good addition to descend into the hard, sick and yet often cheerfully twisted cases of the Hessian "crime scene". Here is a favorite experiment, unforgotten the haunted house horror, which caused fierce debates inside the ARD. Two episodes a year.
Ruby and Karow in Berlin
He a pig, she a slut: In contrast to the former sunny capital city cops Ritter and Stark "crime scene" successor Mark Waschke as Robert Karow and Meret Becker as Nina Rubin drawn with extremely black line. While Karow in the first episode has crooked business with the drug mafia, Rubin enjoys SM games in the backyards of Kreuzberg hipster bars. In addition to stark character drawings, the radically modernized Berlin "Tatort" is above all a harmonious metropolis impression. Two episodes a year. Meret Becker will soon leave the series, the succession is still unclear.
Stellbrink in Saarbrücken
The undecided: Since 2013 Devid Striesow as Jens Stellbrink and Elisabeth Brück as Lisa Marx determine in Saarbrücken. He is a stinking emotional man, she a rabid analysis machine. One likes it in Saarbrücken in terms of character drawing just like a bit plain. The potential of the great actor Striesow was never even nearly exhausted. Departure in January 2019.
Voss and Ringelhahn in Franconia
The strangers: Felix Voss is a lost and locked northern light with a penchant for techno-excesses. Paula Ringelhahn made her way out of the East at wall time because she believed in freedom and democracy. Now the two commissioners, who do not match at all, find themselves in an area where they also seem out of place. An attractive basic situation. Once a year, Fabian Hinrichs and Dagmar Manzel appear as an unequal pair in the hinterland of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia. Hinrichs had previously caused in a BR episode as an investigator squaw Gisbert for furore and amorous audience.
Eisner and Fellner in Vienna
The double espresso: Since 1999 Harald Krassnitzer determined as Major Moritz Eisner grumpy, practical, good. He has since poured into the 5000 mugs of mocha and other strong caffeinated drinks. Since 2011, he has been supported by Adele Neuhauser as Bibi Fellner, a (mostly) dry alcoholic with a penchant for the demimonde at the Prater. Vienna, dark and cold, like a stale black man. In 2014 there was the Grimme Prize.
Ballauf and Schenk in Cologne
The couple: Klaus J. Behrendt as Max Ballauf and Dietmar Bär as Freddy Schenk stood for a long time for the good old sociokrimi - not an issue that was not determined by the two warm-hearted and wegerklärt. Schenk has a wife at home who has never been seen. But let's face it: what can be said against his great love Ballauf? Since 1997, three to four cases a year. After Assistant Franziska was brutally murdered from the TV area at the beginning of 2014, the people of Cologne are more gloomy and unforgiving. Is the two "crime scene" -Oldies actually quite good.
Odenthal in Ludwigshafen
The experimental machine: Here were the most beautiful amorous escapades and the boldest stories - including a trip into space. Ulrike Folkerts as Lena Odenthal is in use since 1989, Andreas Hoppe as Mario Kopper joined in 1996. But left the "crime scene" 2017 again. At the moment, the SWR is doing all sorts of experiments with the TV area, but the two improv episodes fell far short of expectations. Nevertheless, please continue experimenting!
Lindholm in Hannover and surroundings
The woman of today: Since 2002, Maria Furtwängler has performed in the role of Charlotte Lindholm in Lower Saxony and in recent years has become the epitome of the modern female investigator. WG-experienced, highly pregnant during explosive investigations, later brought her child and career together well. Lindholm is personified self-optimization, conservative at heart but open to experimentation. In short: the Ursula von der Leyen of the "crime scene". Two to three episodes a year, now only one. Not always great, never boring.
Batic and Leitmayr in Munich
The eternal bachelors: For more than a quarter of a century, the two are already in action - and still good for a scandal: Recently Commissioner Ivo Batic (l. Miroslav), and colleague Franz Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl) made with an explicit thriller about the Munich porn business for riot among the spectators. Whether swinger clubs or polyamory: Curiously, the Bavarian boys graying in honor continue to descend into the more difficult erogenous zones of German society.
