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Car bombs included: Lannert (center) and Bootz at the scene of the attack
Photo: Benoît Linder / SWR
The scenario:
Bigwigs in a bloodlust.
A middle-level manager (Barnaby Metschurat) was imprisoned as a pawn victim after a corruption investigation against an auto supplier, and is now demanding more than eight million euros for reparations.
But instead of paying, the CEO (Stephan Schad) instigates a contract killer on his neck.
In addition, the company's HR manager was found dead in the forest.
The inspectors Lannert (Richy Müller) and Bootz (Felix Klare) look on in disbelief at the infamy and the devastation in the Stuttgart model company.
The highlight:
Swabian corporate culture and organized crime lie close together in this business crime: It is important to secure Germany as a work location - if necessary with Mafia methods.
This is a "crime scene" of the striking exaggerations.
The picture:
A jaguar that is blown up with "Poland guns".
Nobody dies - it is a warning from the ex-con to the chairman of the board. The proverbial war on the upper floors of the economy, here it is literally waged by military means.
The dialogue:
The ex-manager, who lost his family during his time in US prison, turns up at his former wife.
One comes to speak of the new partner.
Man: "And what is Fabian doing?"
Woman: "Anything."
Man: "Professionally I mean."
Woman: "Senior Executive Educational Research Manager."
Man: "What is that supposed to be?"
Woman: "Educator."
A nice tip against the man who worked in a world in which only Anglo-Saxon pimped moguls counted.
The song:
"Starman" by David Bowie.
Runs on the radio while the ex-prisoner visits his ex-wife.
Bowie sings "There's a starman waiting in the sky / He'd like to come and meet us."
In contrast to the appearance of the song hero, that of the outcast man is less glamorous.
Nobody wants to meet him.
The review:
5 out of 10 points.
Manager in destruction mode - played well, but implausibly pointed.
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"Tatort: Der Welten Lohn",
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