As of: March 17, 2024, 3:35 p.m
By: Katja Kraft
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Dig into the case: (from left) Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers), Haller (ChrisTine Urwurf) and Thiel (Axel Prahl).
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The new Münster film “Crime Scene: Among Gardeners” begins in an allotment settlement - and then becomes a wild spy thriller. Our TV review.
Fans love the people of Münster for films like this.
In the new “Crime Scene: Among Gardeners,” screenwriter Regine Bielefeldt has sown lively dialogues, unusual chases, interesting historical facts – and it grows: thriving crime entertainment.
What a wonderful start to the first week of spring of the year!
Regine Bielefeldt was already allowed to cultivate this Garden of Eden of the crime fiction world in the Münster "Tatort" episode "MagicMom" (2023) - and did it then, as now, with a good feel for the typical Münster mix of success: The author loosens up her exciting plot with funny banter of the beloved characters and fertilizes the whole thing with the most important tool: the noticeable sympathy that everyone here has for each other, despite every exchange of blows.
In this film, in particular, forensic pathologist Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) and his assistant Silke Haller (ChrisTine Urdict).
She put a money box next to the dissection table.
The professor has to pay a few bills for every sexist comment.
Happens quite often.
Boerne dryly to Haller: “This will now be your most important pension component.”
This time the two not only have senior Sabine Schmidt (state drama star Sibylle Canonica) in the forensic medicine department, but also two squirrels.
Schmidt was found dead in her allotment garden, with the animals next to her.
That can not be a coincidence.
Director Brigitte Maria Bertele stages the allotment colony as a haven for strange characters who aren't particularly fond of each other.
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It's cute how Inspector Thiel's (Axel Prahl) cuddly assistant Schrader (Björn Meyer) gives the allotment gardener with a penchant for nudism longing looks.
Here anyone could be responsible for the death of the unloved neighbor.
But because they took advantage of the fact that our superficial society hardly notices people in old age to carry out explosive jobs unmolested, the search for murderers in the tranquil world of allotments turns into a wild spy thriller.
With two successful frightening moments that send popcorn flying through the home cinema.
This successful “crime scene” also shows historical images from Münster
This case goes deep into Münster and German-German history.
Director Brigitte Maria Bertele weaves historical footage into the famous film.
In real life, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and his German counterpart Hans-Dietrich Genscher once met at the Principal Market.
This colorful, fast-paced, witty crime thriller spins the real story in the fictional direction that an attack was carried out at the time - and so reunification was to be prevented.
“Then that would have been it with German unity.
Then some people wouldn’t have gotten to know each other,” says Inspector Thiel – and of course he means himself and Boerne.
He replies laconically: “Unimaginable!” How true!