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Commissioner Lindholm (Maria Furtwängler) between Lindenberg doppelgangers: Udos, wherever you look
Photo: Frizzi Kurkhaus / NDR
The scenario:
Advice fun for udologists and urologists.
During a planned one-night stand in Hamburg's Atlantic, Commissioner Lindholm (Maria Furtwängler) suddenly lies in bed next to a bloody corpse - the murderer could be one of the many Udo Lindenberg doubles hanging out in the famous luxury hotel.
The dead person is the operator of a karaoke bar in the Kiez, who only had one testicle and was therefore allegedly into sex games that were dangerous to the public.
Lindholm errs in the investigation between Hamburg sights and Udo show performances back and forth.
In between: dropouts, blackouts, crashes.
And that on all levels of the crime thriller.
The highlight:
Udo, Elphi, Alster, Reeperbahn: Sure, those responsible wanted to bring as many of the city's landmarks as possible to their lens on the Hamburg excursion from Lindholm, but the paths between the tourist spots simply don't follow any logic.
In this respect, the »crime scene« is reminiscent of a tourist who, after a derailed Kiez night on the Lombard Bridge, which leads over the Alster, asks where the Alster is now at seven in the morning.
The picture:
A scary pair of twin children.
The image of the two little girls suddenly flares up like a vision in the confused plot.
One of many references to Stanley Kubrick's hotel horror "Shining", which director Detlev Buck ("Bibi & Tina") and author Ulli Brée ("Wrinkle-Free") bring to their trip to the Atlantic.
Is that still funny or is it already presumptuous?
The dialogue:
The inspector is investigating on her own in the victim's karaoke bar.
Lindholm: "Where's a toilet here?"
Bartender: "Back there for the brave, the rest goes at home."
The song:
»Compass« by Udo Lindenberg.
The nightingale itself moves her lips to the song, sometimes Lindenberg is sitting at the counter of the Atlantic bar, sometimes he's standing on the roof of the hotel.
In between the faces of sad and happy people are mounted.
Full emo and place chaos.
It is better not to follow this compass.
Is there no moment in this "crime scene" that somehow makes sense or makes fun?
Yes, when Udo scatters and trumps at the end credits to the "Tatort" title topic.
Dub-dub-dub-dub-dub-dä-dä-dä!
There is a consolation point for that.
Evaluation:
1 out of 10 points.
Eggnog excess while shooting?
This "crime scene" looks as if those responsible had a film torn - and then glued the torn film back together with the help of the most hideous moments of the eighties art house cinema and eighties music videos.
Today, for once, watch »Traumschiff« on ZDF.
"Scene of the crime: Everything is coming again,"
Sunday, Boxing Day, 8.15 p.m., Das Erste
