“Tatort: ​​Everything comes back” on ARD: That's why it's worth watching

Created: 12/26/2021, 3:57 PM

From: Katja Kraft

Who is Udo Lindenberg - and if so: how many?

Charlotte Lindholm (Maria Furtwängler) is annoyed by all the panic rocker doubles.

The real one could also be seen in the “Tatort”.

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Udo Lindenberg in "Tatort: ​​Everything is coming back": ARD will be big on the Christmas thriller on December 26th.

Charlotte Lindholm (Maria Furtwängler) wanted to spend a passionate night - and became a murder suspect.

Our criticism.

Charlotte Lindholm pulls blank.

In the literal sense of the blouse airing in the hotel lobby - but much more essential: The inspector (Maria Furtwängler) was allowed to get mentally naked in the "Tatort: ​​Everything comes back".

Author Uli Brée and director Detlev Buck wanted to show the vulnerable side of the cool blonde in this film.

After 90 minutes you can say with Udo Lindenberg, who is a guest star in this "Tatort": All right on the Andrea Doria!

Udo Lindenberg sings his ballad “Again just like that” in the “Tatort: ​​Everything comes back” in the lobby of the Atlantic Hotel Hamburg.

Charlotte Lindholm (Maria Furtwängler) listens touchedly.

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The fact that Furtwängler falls away from a theater great like ex-Resi ensemble member Jens Harzer is a gift.

The painful flashbacks to her night of love with her colleague Ruben Delfgau, played by Harzer, could have been saved and trusted in Lindenberg, who sings the soulful ballad “Just like that” on the piano.

Lindholm sits next to it and remembers.

Of this little adventure she found when she was looking for a big one.

Detlev Buck relies on humor and feelings in “Tatort: ​​Everything comes back”

The fact that the mix of mystery, thriller, romantic drama and comedy works is because Buck seems to look at it all with a wink. He plays with the cult figure Lindenberg, engages a number of Udo doubles that rob Lindholm of the last nerve; he sends overdrawn characters like Anne Ratte-Polle as an over-the-top aggressive corrupt officer or himself as a quirky brothel owner into this confusion, the solution of which lies in the inspector's past. And in the finale of a Beethoven recording by the Vienna Philharmonic, he has Lindholm perform a persecution dance with the wanted perpetrator in the ballroom that is tailored to the music - conducted by her great-uncle Wilhelm Furtwängler of all people.

Between all of this, the real Udo keeps popping up out of the fog (read our big interview with Udo Lindenberg on the occasion of his 75th birthday here).

Or you can hear his voice echoing from one of the rooms.

It is also an homage to this fascinating hotel world, in which you never really know what is going on behind the other doors.

Charlotte Lindholm's unique excursion into adventure

In view of the title “Everything comes back” one wishes that Jens Harzer would also come back as Delfgau - constantly chewing gum - in the next case.

But it will probably remain a unique episode in Lindholm's life.

At the end she returns to mother and son.

With a scar on his neck.

The fact that it has opened up has left its mark.

But you have the feeling: It was good for her.