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"Tatort" actresses Cornelia Gröschel, Karin Hanczewski: Again in the sights of psycho killers?
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Hardy Spitz / MDR
Who needs ibuprofen when they have a baseball bat on hand?
Commissioner Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski) is driven by a cruel pain, it comes from deep inside and overwhelms the whole body, the cause is not apparent.
And when this pain attacks her again at work, Gorniak tries to fight back with a solid self-therapy: She rents herself into a so-called anger room for an hour, where she then beats plastic furniture dummies with the club.
When colleague Winkler (Cornelia Gröschel) called her cell phone a little later and asked where she was, Gorniak replied in a relaxed manner: "During yoga, why?"
Fibrillation and cardiac arrest
This is a great prologue for a horror thriller in which people are haunted by attacks of pain for which there doesn't seem to be any conventional medical explanation: right at the beginning a young waitress collapses in the middle of the street.
First cardiac fibrillation, then cardiac arrest, but the forensic scientist cannot detect any previous illnesses or external influences during the autopsy in forensic medicine.
Very suspicious: The ex-boyfriend of the dead (Christian Friedel) works at an institute that researches the manufacture of painkillers using nano-technology.
You don't have to be a Sherlock to hear the nightingale trap.
And from now on it will be incredibly complicated and terribly simple at the same time in this "crime scene".
Nano!
Nano!
People bent over pipettes and computer images hold monologues about molecules and amino acids, about pain fibers and nerve fibers that make you dizzy, while at the same time the source of all evil creeps through the laboratory so clearly in smock and wig that you are ashamed as a spectator, from so early on to sense the dissolution: Here a humiliated, disfigured creature wants to inflict maximum pain on people.
The basic motif of this »crime scene« is astonishingly close to the new James Bond film, where an insulted, disfigured villain is on a quest for revenge with a neuro-weapon.
The question here and there: How do you depict a horror that cannot be seen with the naked eye?
Director Sebastian Marka is actually exactly the right man for such subjects. At the highest level he negotiated classic horror material in the »Tatort« - from the »Se7en« variation with Ulrich Tukur to the haunted house horror fair in the penultimate Dresden episode. In the ARD film »Exit« he also talked about loving and making money in cyberspace. The visualization of the invisible, the physical unleashing through the digital, Marka has found strong concepts for this. But his Dresden »crime scene« about the fatal effects of nano-medicine involuntarily turns into a scientific parody. Maximum pain, minimum horror.
Screenwriter Michael Comtesse - who had already written the Munich horror »Tatort« about digital toys for Marka - puts the horror motif of the Mad Scientist at the center of the story.
But the way in which trauma, delusion and hubris of the researcher personality is spread as a driver for the nano plot does not even work according to B-movie criteria.
Which also has to do with the fact that the eternal emotional involvement of the two Dresden investigators seems to be slowly exhausted after several serious injuries from serial killers and psycho killers.
Gorniak in particular has often been targeted by violent criminals who are mentally ill.
It doesn't seem plausible how long this time it will take her to realize that the whole amino acid nerve fiber terror is being organized just because of her.
Rating:
3 out of 10 points
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