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The scene of the crime "Rescue so close" from Dresden: The medical staff are militarizing themselves

2021-02-05T14:35:26.618Z


Spit on, beaten and sometimes even murdered: The Dresden »Tatort« shows the brutal everyday life of paramedics - with parallels to the Corona present.


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Luise Aschenbrenner as a paramedic Blaschke: At the limit

Photo: Daniela Incoronato / MDR

What's left of the day when we put our children to bed: In this "crime scene" we meet a young mother named Greta who works as an emergency paramedic, and when Greta tells her daughter stories after the shift to sleep, they are often about broken bones and cardiac arrest, from adrenaline injections and emergency ventilation.

Of course, the painfully real stories end unreally well, because the mother succeeds time and again in saving all the drowning and accident victims.

Mom, the superhero.

With such scenes, the »Tatort« finds a disturbing twist to depict all the frustration and all the overwhelming demands of everyday work that can seep into family life.

And the frustration and the excessive demands are also present in every other moment of this workplace tour in crime costume: It is about a troop of Dresden paramedics who repeatedly go on missions where they can only lose.

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Cornelia Gröschel (.) And Karin Hanczewski as the Dresden investigative team: deployment among paramedics

Photo: Daniela Incoronato / MDR

Repetition and powerlessness characterize the everyday work of the rescue workers: the homeless they collapse under a bridge one day, lies there the next.

The allergy sufferer, to whom they are called because of a shock, should actually need medical help immediately.

And the junkie who calls her to a lonely parking lot takes the medication from the medic at gunpoint.

Lifesaver in mortal danger

Investigators Karin Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski) and Leonie Winkler (Cornelia Gröschel) are confronted by a murder with the conditions in the ambulance of the rescue workers: a paramedic was suffocated in the emergency vehicle, colleagues of the victim are thinking about defending themselves.

The rescue workers have the feeling that they are being held responsible for all imbalances in the health system.

Wherever they approach to save lives, hatred hits them.

They are often spat at, sometimes beaten.

The angry paramedics discuss pepper spray and pistols with Gorniak and Winkler.

The system collapses, the medical staff is militarizing?

The shooting of »Tatort« (script: Christoph Busche, director: Isabel Braak) took place with interruptions until June 2020 in the first months of the corona crisis, when there were in some cases no developed hygiene concepts in the film and television industry.

The script was already there, of course, but you have the feeling that the tension, uncertainties and upheavals of the crisis months are deeply inscribed in this pressure and tipping scenario.

It wouldn't have needed the somewhat too playful murder plot.

The victim at the beginning is killed by a cumbersome killing arrangement using stun guns, cable ties and plastic bags;

later a paramedic is maneuvered to his death with implausible driving instructions.

These are foolishness that distracts from the urgency of the contemporary thriller, which is more effective the closer it stays with the young paramedic mother Greta.

Luise Aschenbrenner plays the rescue worker with an appropriate mix of grim determination and subliminal vulnerability.

The »crime scene« as an address of solidarity to those people who are fighting for life on the front line and often see themselves left alone.

Rating:

7 out of 10 points

"Scene of the crime: rescue so close",

Sunday, 8.15 p.m., Das Erste

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Source: spiegel

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