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Jörg Hartmann as a commissioner in a state of emergency: Faber in the making
Photo: Thomas Kost / WDR
The scenario:
Back on the go zombie!
Almost a year after the death of his colleague Bönisch, who had slowly brought him back to life after ten years of working together, the unstable inspector Faber (Jörg Hartmann) is now living the way we got to know him: as a chunk of puke exuding the smell of death in Kotzgrün , 300-day beard included.
Actually, he is still on sick leave, but the alleged murder of a real estate shark brings him back to Dortmund's Kreuzviertel, where he grew up and where his father Jupp (class: Wolfgang Rüter) still lives.
Now the pit child Faber has to realize that the solidary world of the past is about to be liquidated.
The highlight:
Dortmund in a twilight state: Jörg Hartmann, himself a child of the Ruhr area, co-wrote this intricate and artful »crime scene« about the old dying district.
In old tunnels under the city and in the rubble of his own family, he is looking for traces of a sense of community - and in doing so he has to deal with his own history.
In the most moving moments, Hartmann's Faber looks at scenes from his own childhood, just like the old professor did in Ingmar Bergman's »Wild Strawberries«.
Faber in the making.
The picture:
Commissioner with a perm.
In order to investigate undercover in an old hairdresser's shop in Faber's district, inspector Rosa Herzog (Stefanie Reinsperger) lets the hairdresser prettify her as if she were going to the 85 prom.
The dialogue:
The detective and detective are in the missing speculator's office, interviewing the secretary.
Inspector: "Does Herr Richter have any enemies?"
Secretary: Well, you know. My boss buys houses. He turns rental apartments into property. And well, what can I say: one's friend..."
Inspector: »... is the suffering of others. You said that very well.”
The song:
"Both Sides, Now" by Joni Mitchell.
Inspector Faber runs the old cassette of the folk etude maniacally on his tape deck in the car until there is a tape salad.
Later, in another scene, we hear the later orchestral version of the classic: "It's life's illusions that I recall / I really don't know life / I really don't know life at all".
Faber's life, commented by Joni: only illusions, only false images, only knotted threads of memory in the head.
The review:
9 out of 10 points.
Life, love, pain - is it all just an illusion?
Inspector Faber is in this "crime scene" once again on the big self-discovery trip.
The analysis:
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"Crime scene: You stay here",
Sunday, 8.15 p.m., the first