The "crime scene" from Hamburg "The golden age" is about a case in which a 14-year-old from Romania is hired as a killer. The scene is the neighborhood on which Commissioner Falke used to pursue a completely different “profession”.
- The ARD crime scene from Hamburg takes place in the neighborhood.
- The crime thriller entitled “The Golden Age” shows that even children like a 14-year-old boy from Romania are now being hired as murderers.
- For Commissioner Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring) the case is a home game because he used to be a bouncer on the Reeperbahn.
If you walk through the Hamburg neighborhood on a Saturday evening, you will walk past countless bars, shops that have never heard of curfew, and establishments with red light offers. But it mainly runs through hordes of silly hen parties, past students who seem to be in the big city for the first time and urinate against facades, and bowling clubs that pretend to be partying now.
“Crime scene” from Hamburg: The neighborhood of yesteryear no longer exists
The neighborhood of yesteryear, from the 1970s and 1980s, no longer exists. "The golden age", that is the title of the NDR "crime scene" that ran in the first one last night, is over. It is thanks to the screenplay by Georg Lippert and the direction of Mia Spengler (a Munich woman, by the way) that the film - with a few exceptions - does not succumb to the temptation to drift into nostalgic, transfiguration emotions. According to the motto: Everything used to be better, even in the neighborhood.
"Myth Kiez" - Wotan Wilke Möhring about the # crime scene "Die goldene Zeit": https://t.co/xCBbPTbnmr pic.twitter.com/p7CniDNNpk
- Crime scene (@Tatort) February 9, 2020The real star of the film is Lübke. Michael Thomas (top) plays the neighborhood legend.
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Rather, the thriller shows how tough the business is, no matter who pulls the strings. And the fact that children like the 14-year-old Romanian Matei Dimescu (Bogdan Iancu) are now hired as murderers, where the Luden themselves used their hand and weapon, makes matters even more tragic. People like Lübke (the real star of this film), who were top dogs 20 years ago, no longer find their place in today's world. Michael Thomas plays this neighborhood legend strongly, which is full of force and tearfulness at the same time. And for Commissioner Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring), the ex-bouncer, this case was a home game anyway. He is convincingly supported by Julia Grosz, who gives Franziska Weisz more and more contours.
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