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"Tatort" actor Nicholas Reinke: "Guilt is filled with such infatuated fear that, hiding, it reveals itself."
Photo: Benoît Linder / SWR
Create, create, disguise guilt.
The "crime scene" from Stuttgart showed on Sunday a career lawyer who committed a driver's escape after an accident resulting in death and who made himself more and more suspicious to the investigators when trying to remove the traces.
As the coroner quoted from Hamlet during the course of the investigation: "Fear so infatuated is guilt that, hiding itself, it reveals itself."
In our review we wrote: »In many ways one is reminded of Claude Chabrol's classic Before Nightfall.
Here, too, we follow the perpetrator through his bourgeois life, which is determined by rituals and runs like clockwork despite all the external and internal shocks.
(...) While the lawyer tries to cover up his guilt more and more clumsily and exhausted, the annoyed wife, who is about to give birth, takes the initiative.
Just a few hours before it goes to the delivery room, she rebukes the man on the hospital phone in a martial Swabian singsong that he has to pull himself together to defy the increasingly tough police with lies.
After all, it's about her marriage and her children.
That's how criminal a sense of family can be."
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Two other "crime scenes" in Stuttgart have already been filmed.
It was not until this summer that the episode »Forgiveness« was shut down, in which the forensic doctor Vogt (Jürgen Hartmann), who quoted Hamlet, played a central role.
The plot: A corpse is washed up on the banks of the Neckar - and the coroner, of all people, is suspected of withholding information.
Responsible for the episode are author Katharina Adler and director Rudi Gaul, who shot the very demanding rape "crime scene" entitled "Videobeweis" in the Swabian district.
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