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Commissioner Berlinger (Heike Makatsch, r.) With girlfriend (Jule Böwe): How do I keep track?
Photo: SWR/Daniel Dornhöfer
At the "crime scene" from Mainz, you could lose track of things on Sunday.
The new case of Commissioner Berlinger (Heike Makasch) involved at least three crimes that were negotiated on at least three time levels.
The focus was on a younger ex-con who had a difficult relationship with his son and a widow who betrayed her alleged best friend.
In the end, the main culprit turned out to be the son of the former prisoner, who wanted to get a better life for himself and his father through his actions.
But although the plot seemed complex - the images of women remained under-complex.
In our review we wrote: »Sometimes the assigned attributes seem really 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 , and then put a valuable Krugerrand coin in his mouth as a reward.
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?
(...) The measurement of the woman 60 plus - in this ›crime scene‹ it becomes almost an obscene act.«
We gave 3 out of 10 points.
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After the difficult history of the development of the Makatsch »crime scene«, new episodes are now to be produced more regularly.
In the spring, however, Makatsch was first involved in filming the Sky series "Tender Hearts" - alongside the former "Tatort" actress Friederike Kempter.
It is about a world in the near future where algorithms and artificial intelligence decide on the initiation of relationships.
The broadcast is planned for spring 2023.
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