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"Tatort" masterpiece from Munich - the second anniversary thriller: The family has to die so that they can live

2020-12-05T19:01:43.458Z


The »Tatort« as a Mafia tragedy: the sequel to the anniversary crime story tells of a young woman who has to free herself from the hands of the 'Ndrangheta. Large!


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The mafia as the future?

Emma Preisendanz in the second part of the »Tatort« thriller »In der Familie«

Photo: Hagen Keller / BR / WDR

What does the Dortmund bum do with the Munich noble Italian?

It is Commissioner Peter Faber (Jörg Hartmann) who wants to spread stunk with his mud-colored parka in the snow-white-white restaurant, which he considers a nest of the 'Ndrangheta.

"Meal," he croaks in the hall, and because the waiter doesn't want to listen to him, he first pushes a pallet of champagne glasses from the table.

The good old Ruhrpott style, the opposite of covert investigation.

The brutal appearance is a kind of second leg for Faber.

In the »Tatort« last Sunday he and his Dortmund colleagues received the Munich team led by Batic and Leitmayr (Miroslav Nemec and Udo Wachtveitl) for a guest appearance;

They crouched together in a rickety camper van to observe the goings-on in a trattoria on the outskirts that was under the influence of the Mafia.

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A little chat with Don: Faber (Jörg Hartmann, left) and Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl, right) take Domenico Palladio (Paolo Sassanelli) into their midst

Photo: Hagen Keller / BR / WDR

The Dortmund "Tatort" dealt with the dirty hands on the periphery of organized crime, extortion with protection money with baseball bats, and cocaine transports in tomato cans, with little money left for the freight forwarders.

In Munich it is now about washing the criminally gathered wealth of the 'Ndrangheta, about building land and property.

The clan and local politics

The book is - like that of the first part - by Bernd Lange.

This time the direction was taken over by Pia Strietmann, who had previously filmed the Tempo “Tatort” over Munich in a state of information emergency.

Here, Strietmann shows the city in the octopus of the Calabrian mafia: The local boss (Paolo Sassanelli) is involved in urban planning and local politics in the state capital and lets his son study law, while further capital for the saturated bourgeoisie is raised through drug crime.

We know this from numerous cinema and television works: From Coppola's “The Godfather” to the Italian mafia series “Gomorrah” - everywhere the Dons dream of finally becoming respected members of society.

The urban architecture they have helped to create should be, as it were, their clean face in public.

Most of the time, the plans don't work out after all, because new capital has to be driven in by force, in order to later perhaps become a law-abiding citizen at some point.

Bourgeoisisation, brutalisation, these stories always go into each other.

An endless cycle, which is described in great detail, especially in the four seasons of "Gomorrah" with a view to the Neapolitan Mafia, where the antihero is sometimes a big builder and sometimes a small thug.

The Munich »Tatort« about the 'Ndrangheta is also about the superstructure and the substructure of the criminal clan - and the short distances between them: precariat and pomp, ancient rituals and forward-looking entrepreneurship, that is also part of this »Tatort« above Bavarian outpost of Calabrian narcocapitalism close together.

Kill your parents!

It is told from the perspective of 16-year-old Sofia (Emma Preisendanz), the daughter of the Dortmund restaurateurs family, whose mother was murdered by her father (Beniamino Brogi) in the first part because the blood laws within the clan dictate that.

Now the young woman lives with the escaped father and the also escaped thug Pippo (Emiliano De Martino) in a tenement barracks in the Munich Don and is invited by him to become part of his family.

Can you turn down such an offer?

While Sofia learns to shoot with growing enthusiasm in the forest, Pippo says cynically to the worried father: "Perhaps she will become a real 'Ndrinu." The emotional impact of the subject lies in this threatening process: Will the young half-orphan grow up in the family that took her mother?

Will the ever-present clan manage to fill the vacuum of orientation with perverted care?

Author Lange and director Strietmann play this interlocking process of initiation and rebellion as a classic tragedy.

The young woman is involved in murder plans, dressed in beautiful clothes and introduced to the craft of killing.

The clan's claws wrap around them as protective as they are threatening.

The realization for the heroine: Freedom only exists for those who free themselves from their families.

Whether with anger or with a gun.

Or both.

The family has to die in order to live.

Rating:

10 out of 10 points

"Tatort: ​​In der Familie (2)":

Sunday, 8:15 pm, Das Erste

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Source: spiegel

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