A murder in the monastery - that could have been a thriller la “The Name of the Rose”, but the BR's latest “Tatort” with Miro Nemec and Udo Wachtveitl and the title “Miracles are always there” develops no tension.
A criticism.
Singing, cooking, picking herbs - and answering friendly questions from the criminal in an unchristian way. Not only because this is a "Tatort" (ARD), there can be no doubt that these nuns have something to hide. In the lovely Chiemgau, behind crumbling monastery walls, the Munich inspectors Batic and Leitmayr (Miro Nemec and Udo Wachtveitl as always sovereign) have to solve a murder this time. But anyone who was hoping for a refined, enigmatic, mystical thriller à la “The Name of the Rose” must now be disappointed.
Despite the pompous, sacred soundscape and nocturnal tracking shots through dark corridors, past ghostly-looking figures of saints, “there are always miracles” does not develop any tension. Batic's nightmare sequences don't help either. This story seems too constructed about forbidden love behind monastery walls, an illegitimate child who has to be hidden, and an extortionate auditor who is poisoned into the afterlife.
The fact that many monasteries are on the verge of bankruptcy is, at least from a church perspective, a serious issue.In the script by Alex Buresch and Matthias Pracht, the struggle for existence of the not very glorious Seven is belittled down to a weird whistle - including false blood miracles and stock market speculation.
The dramaturgy is accordingly conservative, director Maris Pfeiffer lines up the same dialogue scenes between the Rosenheim cops for a time and not very talkative religious women, downright silly, like would-be mafiosi, the two obscure ambassadors of the Vatican seem.
The actresses also have to surrender to so much holy simplicity, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrike Willenbacher and Christiane Blumhoff can do a lot more than they are allowed to show here.
Miracles may happen again and again - this thriller is definitely not one.
