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"Tatort" scene with Ulrike Krumbiegel and Klaus Steinbacher: "She helped a lot: implants, botox, facelifting"
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A shy lady in her 60s who reads Schiller with her lover, who is half her age.
A sadistic lady in her 60s who whips her lover half her age around the apartment as a puppy.
Let's put it this way: the values of sympathy and pity are fairly clearly distributed in this »crime scene«.
And that makes him quite boring.
Because it was actually conceived as a sophisticated, ambiguous game with different time levels, in which you should constantly readjust your view during the jumps between past and present in order to revise hasty assessments.
But despite the complicated network of flashbacks and flashbacks, the female characters remain extremely one-dimensional.
The wallflower remains a wallflower, the man-eater remains a man-eater.
This thriller deals with three crimes of varying severity: First we see how a dog that has been poisoned before is cremated.
Then a diabetic dies from an insulin shock, which probably involved external influences.
Finally, the prosecutor's daughter is kidnapped.
The man as a sex toy
A younger man quickly becomes the center of attention of inspector Ellen Berlinger (Heike Makatsch): Hannes Petzold (Klaus Steinbacher) wears conspicuous prison tattoos, spent six years in prison for various violent crimes and is now struggling as an undertaker at the dog cemetery.
He acted, as the web of flashbacks and flashbacks suggests, both as the gentle romantic beau of Schiller's wallflower and as a sex toy for her best friend, the sado man-eater.
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Investigator Berlinger has now placed both daughters in the care of other people and therefore has plenty of time to throw herself into the clarification of the opaque death of the diabetic (and all other related crimes).
The character Berlinger has fallen almost completely out of every kind of social environment over the past six years due to the difficult development of the Makatsch »crime scene«;
colleague Martin Rascher (Sebastian Blomberg) is now a kind of supervisor who has to protect her from the worst self-hatred attacks.
She is a bad mother, but a good detective, says Berlinger in the current episode.
Maybe that's why she almost maniacally celebrates her criminalistic instinct.
From the moment they first meet, she thinks the ex-con is the murderer: "It was like lightning, a realization, I saw it: cunning, fear, panic." The investigator's view narrows when she solves the crime.
SM games in leather hot pants
Author Thomas Kirchner (main author of the "Spreewald" series on ZDF) and director Tim Trageser have built and staged their intricate crime plot with solid craftsmanship - but basically they share the problem of the narrowed view with their investigative heroine Berlinger.
Wallflower, man eater, manic woman – despite the complexity of the story, the female characters never step out of their cemented role description.
Sometimes the assigned attributes seem downright perfidious - for example, when it comes to the description of the 60-plus woman who dies of insulin shock and previously directed her young, financially dependent lover in leather hot pants through the house playing SM games, then rewarding him with a putting a valuable Krugerrand coin in your mouth.
Are the lusts of an older woman actually being portrayed here – or is this sweaty recreation of SM porn more of a male projection by the filmmakers?
Nothing against leather sex in old age, but the fact that the protagonist's fetish is only shown in the picture in order to further disavow her character reveals a very old-fashioned view of the rather obscure forms of gaining pleasure.
At some point, the tautological sequence of attributions with which this woman is portrayed as a vain, egoistic, sadistic bitch gets annoying.
In one scene, the woman's body lies on the autopsy table.
The inspector says: »She looks damn good for her age.« The young coroner smiles smugly and explains: »She helped a lot: implants, botox, facelift.
But at some point that doesn't last anymore either.«
The measurement of the woman 60 plus - in this "crime scene" it becomes almost an obscene act.
Rating:
3 out of 10 points
»Crime scene: In his eyes«,
Sunday, 8.15 p.m., the first
