"Tatort" today from Dortmund: caught in pain - Faber's gloomy solo
Created: 01/15/2023, 21:45
By: Astrid Kistner
Father and son: Wolfgang Rüter (right) and Jörg Hartmann in the Dortmund "Tatort".
© Thomas Kost
After the death of Commissioner Martina Bönisch (Anna Schudt), the Dortmund "crime scene" is about to start anew.
And it works wonderfully.
Our TV review.
"You stay here" - that's a statement, not a request.
Dying inspector Martina Bönisch (played by Anna Schudt) in "Tatort: Liebe mich" made her colleague Faber promise to continue, and he fights hard to fulfill his partner's last wish.
Because staying here is torture, as you can see from Faber (Jörg Hartmann) from Dortmund in the current case.
Sadness, anger and loneliness throw him back to the time when "Tatort" fans knew him as an inaccessible - and sometimes exhausting - loner.
(Read here: That's why Anna Schudt left the Dortmund "crime scene".)
A murder without a body
As in the case from Berlin with Mark Waschke (who recently had his first solo without Meret Becker), mourning work is now being done in Dortmund.
"Tatort" actor Jörg Hartmann wrote the screenplay for "You stay here" himself and didn't exactly make it easy for himself or the viewers.
The pain that surrounds the criminal who is on leave is omnipresent.
While his colleagues (Rick Okon and Stefanie Reinsperger), who are also mourning, deal with a murder without a body, Faber roams through lonely forests like a wounded animal.
It's already exhausting to watch, you almost want to sink into the sofa exhausted and depressed, that's when the story takes a promising turn.
Faber's father (wonderfully and credibly cast by Wolfgang Rüter) unexpectedly turns up in the course of the investigation.
A Dortmund veteran, cared for by old friends in the area, but without contact with his son.
Faber senior seems to be involved in the case and is the bridge to the past that the inspector uses to find his way back to the present.
Director Richard Huber develops a sensitive father-son drama that would have held up even without the themes of gentrification and progressive dementia.
Nevertheless, this very personal case is definitely worth seeing.
A thriller that gives hope for the future of the Dortmund trio.
