Münster-"Tatort: Propheteus" in the ARD: Boerne gets lost
Created: 03/06/2022, 21:45
By: Katja Kraft
On the run from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution: Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne in the Münster "Tatort: Propheteus" (Jan Josef Liefers).
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The Münster "Tatort" is 20 years old this year - and is now celebrating this with the second case in 2022. But "Propheteus" got a bit too weird.
Our "Tatort" review.
Celebrating the anniversary a little too much, gentlemen?
20 years of Münster "crime scene", the second.
The most popular detective duo in the crime series started their birthday year with their 40th case back in January.
In "Tatort: The Devil's Long Breath" Chief Inspector Thiel (Axel Prahl) woke up from a night of drinking - and didn't know what happened to him.
In the new film "Propheteus", Prof. Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) seems to have overdone the celebrations.
You can see him running across Münster's Prinzipalmarkt in a rather disorganized state.
In bowling shoes, slacks and Hawaiian shirt;
violets on the face.
Pursued by a black SUV.
And even this beginning makes it clear: It's getting weird again in Westphalia.
Unfortunately, even as a loyal fan of the team, you have to say in Munsterland: a bit too weird.
Münster "Tatort: Propheteus": Mix of crime and Loriot
As if the twin sisters from Loriot's "Pappa ante Portas" had been resurrected in a younger version of themselves, two caricature-like employees of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution suddenly appear in Thiel's office to question him and Boerne about their investigation into a murder case.
woman pattern and woman man.
Well then.
Director Sven Halfar uses this initial situation for a thriller on two time levels.
In flashbacks, he tells of the initially "completely normal murder investigation" (Thiel).
However, it is becoming more and more unusual.
Thiel and Boerne dive into a bizarre world of scumbags.
And of all things, the professor defends their idea that extraterrestrials rule the earth.
As it turns out, he only does this to be included among the conspiracy theorists and to be able to investigate undercover.
But through Timo Moritz's wide-angle camera, Boerne's face seems distorted and he is alienated by it - crazy?
Until the very end, it's not entirely clear whether the "man of science" fell for pseudoscience.
But as in the first anniversary case, in which Thiel seemed suspicious,
Public prosecutor Klemm (Mechthild Großmann) is now protective of Boerne.
And the viewers too.
We know our Pappenheimer - and know that they only want the good.
The Münster "Tatort" team with (from left) Schrader (Björn Meyer), "Vaddern" (Claus D. Clausnitzer), Klemm (Mechthild Großmann), Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers), Haller (ChrisTine Ursprechen) and Thiel (Axel Prahl).
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Again, this "crime scene" from Münster lives on the advance trust that fans have in the inspector and forensic pathologist.
Unfortunately, through the appearance of the constitutional protection officers, the other beloved characters from Alberich (ChrisTine Ursprechen) to Schrader (Björn Meyer) are pushed into the background.
This is a pity.
Because the (sometimes even too) weird is okay because you like the characters.
Even if they seem to have disappeared into their very own cosmos.
"It is quite possible that we all just live in a simulation here," says Boerne aptly.
One that doesn't get boring even after 20 years.