Wotan Wilke Möhring as Commissioner Falke: The suburb is at war.
Photo: Christine Schroeder / NDR
With this »crime scene«, Das Erste ends the period of repetitions of crime novels. The original version of this text was first broadcast in December 2019.
The scenario:
The suburbs at war.
A trucker was shot dead in a truck stop in the south of Hamburg;
Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring) and Grosz (Franziska Weisz) determine between arterial roads, forwarding agents and hardware stores.
A customs officer (Milan Peschel), who is in an uproar because the insurance company does not pay for the operation for his terminally ill daughter, is also targeted.
What the audience, unlike the investigators, knows from the start: the angry citizen who despises the state is actually the sniper.
The highlight:
Hamburg from its ugliest side?
These are no longer the red light zones and the gray skyscrapers, but the green belts around the city, which are no longer so beautifully glowing, in which an angry middle class vacillates between self-pity and militancy.
Falke and Grosz came to this crisis area for the second time two years ago - thanks to the ambivalent portrayal of the main character of the episode, Peschel, there is no cheap petty bourgeois bashing this time either.
The picture:
A run-down haulage company, a cupboard full of rifles, a frustrated trucker: During their investigations, the investigators also stop in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg - with a gentleman named Rolle, a former paratrooper and hapless entrepreneur, who shows them his completely legal weapons collection.
The dialogue:
Falke talks to the suspicious customs officer's seriously ill daughter.
Commissioner: "What's next?"
Girl: “Not at all. I'm dead for Christmas. "
Commissioner: "Christmas is crap anyway."
The song:
"Slow" by Giant Rooks.
Five serious young men sing a gospel to the piano and glockenspiel, while in the "Tatort" the murderous father keeps watch over the bed of his sick daughter and the inspector gives the son, who has become very tired from smoking pot, a blanket.
And now all in unison: "Down the river, boy, it takes a long ride but I take it slow".
The review:
7 out of 10 points.
Despite a small hitch in the plot: Falke, the St. Pauli punk, acted once again in this episode from 2019 as a seismograph of the suburb.
From next Sunday there will be »Tatorte« again in the first broadcast.
The analysis:
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"Crime scene: ricochet",
Sunday, 8.15 p.m., ARD