ARD "crime scene": Munich case "Kehraus" is more family drama than thriller
Created: 02/27/2022, 21:45
By: Rudolf Ogiermann
Played out: Nina Proll, here with Udo Wachtveitl (middle) and Miroslav Nemec, as a wannabe businesswoman who is actually standing with her back against the wall.
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A woman wants to go up - and yet she is almost at the bottom.
Then she comes across a suitcase full of money that belongs to someone else.
This is what the well-narrated Munich “crime scene” with the title “Kehraus”, which takes place during carnival, tells about this.
A criticism.
Here you meet a pilot who isn't one, an "Indian", two bees and a "Little Red Riding Hood".
Another, wanting to be another – what primarily serves as amusement at carnival is (survival) content in life for the secret protagonist in this Munich “crime scene”.
Silke Weinzierl dreams of the dream of a successful business woman who wants the best for herself and her son, who gambles high for it - and loses.
"Kehraus" is more family drama than thriller and yet never loses sight of the thriller the whole time.
The great days - from nonsensical Thursday to Ash Wednesday morning - are the well-placed, never-too-intrusive background music for a film full of symbolic images and scenes - from the drunken flirt at the beginning to the sad streamers in the dirt at the end.
The authors Stefan Betz and Stefan Holtz dress the story of Silke Weinzierl (Nina Proll) in the unspectacular story of a criminal antiques dealer who ultimately dies from a fall and not from murder.
In this – literal – case, she sees her chance to finally make money, but takes on an opponent who is too strong.
"Kehraus" keeps the balance between fun and seriousness (director: Christine Hartmann), between drama and comedy.
It shows bizarre scenes and funny dialogues about the fifth season and only moments later causes disillusionment when looking at a woman who, having become homeless, has to hit on men in the living room in the hope of finding a place to sleep.
Betz – he also plays the detective assistant Ritschy Semmler – and Holtz wrote well-made texts for their characters, Miroslav Nemec as Ivo Batic and Udo Wachtveitl as Franz Leitmayr once again play their roles with confidence, Monika Gruber shines in a guest role as a wealthy landlady.
Apart from the inauthentic dialect, Nina Proll is the attraction in this film, which the authors treat to the final triumph in death, having convicted the greatest crook.
Anyone who gets involved with the calm narrative pace will see an astonishingly profound piece about earned and undeserved wealth, light and shadow, appearance and reality.