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Scene with Ursula Werner (centre) and Ulrike Folkerts: In search of the "Natzweiler snake"
Photo: Benoît Linder / SWR
The nursing home as a place of reckoning: in the »crime scene« from Ludwigshafen, old Nazis and Nazi victims lived side by side.
Brown songs were sung at funeral services, and some old Nazi emblems were hoarded in the chest of drawers.
One of the residents died a horrible death: he was injected with an overdose of insulin, which put him in a state of apparent death, only to be burned alive in the crematorium.
As it turned out, the dead man had once tortured concentration camp inmates to death as an SS henchman.
In the camp he was called the "snake of Natzweiler".
His own cruel death, as it turned out in the end, was concocted by another resident of the nursing home: The 93-year-old concentration camp survivor Mr. Kahane (Rüdiger Vogler), who shared a room with the Nazi criminal, had committed the crime for the murder of his avenged her former love almost 80 years ago.
In our review we wrote: »This »crime scene« (director: Tom Lass) follows a risky narrative arrangement: in the present the cost-optimized barracking of the nursing cases, in the past the establishment of concentration camps that made the crime against humanity possible.
One could be tempted to compare one motif with another and thus put the Holocaust into perspective, the pitfalls are inscribed in the material.
At one point in the film, a Bosnian care worker is surprised at the 'country that builds homes to get rid of old people.' But screenwriter Stefan Dähnert is not suspected of relativizing the Holocaust in his story, which turns around several times.«
We gave 7 out of 10 points.
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Ursula Werner, as a former Nazi hunter, made a big appearance at the »crime scene«.
The 79-year-old is currently filming and acting on many stages and film sets: In the Deutsches Theater Berlin, for example, she can be seen in the ensemble piece »Das Himmelszelt«.
She was also in front of the camera for the opera film »Orpheus in love«, directed by Axel Ranisch.
Another Odenthal case has already been turned off.
It's about a missing banker and coins that could be part of the legendary Nibelungen treasure.
Like Fatih Akin recently in his rapper-robber pistol »Rheingold«, those responsible for the »crime scene« spin the Nibelung myth into the present.
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