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Batic (Miroslav Nemec, M.) and Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl) in the sleep laboratory: dreaming at full speed
Photo: Hendrik Heiden / Hendrik Heiden / BR
The scenario:
Self-optimization through to sleep.
In their most recent investigations, Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl) and Batic (Miroslav Nemec) meet future music and sports stars who want to increase their performance with the help of so-called lucid dreams.
In the sleep laboratory, young violinists try to fathom new dimensions of virtuosity and young gymnasts to perfect their sense of space.
One of the musicians (Jara Bihler) can no longer distinguish between dream and reality, she believes she stabbed her friend.
Both women had applied to be deputy concertmasters with a symphony orchestra.
In fact, there are traces of blood at the alleged crime scene, but the girlfriend has disappeared.
The highlight:
The dream as terror.
The artfully constructed crime thriller shows how the last corner of our existence is capitalized by the performance society with sleep.
Sometimes there is a little too ambitious lecture about Rapid Eye Movement, phases of deep sleep and CG Jung's collective archetypes, but there are tricky dream-to-dream sequences and elegantly flowing transitions from the concert performances in the plot to the film music.
The picture:
The young musician is standing in the interrogation room, through the wall of mirrors you can see how she flies her fingers over an imaginary violin neck.
A life between madness and virtuosity that has no breathing space.
The dialogue:
Franz Leitmayr and colleague Kalli Hammermann brood over the case.
Leitmayr: "Do you really kill someone because of such an orchestral position?"
Calli: “Yes. Do you know that the stress level of an orchestra musician is as high as that of a Formula 1 driver? «
The music:
David Reichelt wrote his own orchestral score, which was recorded by the Munich Radio Orchestra.
The composer contributed 130 pages of score and a net hour of solo and symphonic music.
The music smoothly carries us across the boundaries between dream and reality.
The review:
8 out of 10 points.
Sleep is also no longer what it used to be: This “crime scene” leaves the audience upset.
If you want to continue watching TV afterwards, you can watch the first part of the right-wing terror series »Furia« on ZDF.
The analysis:
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"Tatort: Dreams",
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