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"Tatort" today from Berlin: "The girl who goes home alone" in the quick check

2022-05-22T13:22:19.191Z


Big feelings, brutal pictures: The plot about the Russian mafia is above all a pretext for staging Meret Becker's departure in this "crime scene".


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Rubin and Karov at their colleague's funeral: "Was he buried with his hands?"

Photo: Hans Joachim Pfeiffer / rbb

The scenario:

The inspector has goosebumps, the inspector is handling pork knuckles.

And all for the same case: Rubin (Meret Becker) meets at a lesbian ball with a witness who wants to testify against the Russian mafia, and during the tight dance perhaps not just snuggles up to the other for camouflage.

Meanwhile, Karow (Mark Waschke) is carrying a dead pig to the Spree on his shoulders.

According to old Mafia custom, the headless 90-kilo corpse of an undercover investigator was sunk in the water;

the policeman wants to record the flow conditions in the river with the fattening cattle, which are just as heavy.

The pig's fat little legs crumple up the beautiful suit when it is dragged along.

Anxious question from Rubin as from Karow: does the Russian mafia have moles in their department?

The highlight:

The long goodbye.

The organized crime plot is more of a pretext to give Meret Becker a visually stunning and emotionally intense exit.

This is her 15th and last time playing Inspector Rubin.

The farewell procession was directed by Ngo The Chau, who is a full-time cameraman and provides some potentially iconic shots.

The picture:

The last glance.

In the last third, Rubin and Karow chase through the expansive tunnel system of BER airport, and as the action logic wants, a grid suddenly goes down between them: How much love there is between the two, who may be the last time in each other the eyes look.

The dialogue:

Rubin and Karow stare down into the grave of their mutilated colleague - and the camera films them from the perspective of the corpse in the pit.

Rubin: "Was he buried with his hands?

Are they there?'

Karow: »Yes, we added them.

If the head doesn't..."

The song:

»Love is everything« by Rosenstolz.

The song is playing when the detective and the mafia witness meet at the lesbian ball.

In order not to attract attention, the two have to join the other couples on the dance floor and get very close to the love command of the power ballad.

The review:

6 out of 10 points.

Big feelings, brutal images, but badly redundant in the end: the »crime scene« as a farewell opera that endlessly escalates.

The analysis:

Read more here!

"Crime scene: The girl who goes home alone",

Sunday, 8:15 p.m., Das Erste

Source: spiegel

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