“Tatort” (ARD): The fans have only one question

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Incomprehensible for the viewers, but useful for the TV commissioner: she will still be opened.

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That was what the “Tatort” from Ludwigshafen was about:

Professor Bordauer has a dangerous dream. The brain researcher wants to “reverse the polarity” of pedophiles, cure Alzheimer’s and let the lame go – with the help of artificial intelligence and high-tech in the head. He wants to save lives and goes over dead bodies. What can medicine do? This question is very topical in an aging society.

An abandoned wheelchair on the banks of the Rhine in Ludwigshafen initially indicates the suicide of a paraplegic. However, in search of the missing, the river releases another body: a murdered doctor, once in the service of Bordauer. Sebastian Bezzel plays the researcher as a casual genius in a T-shirt and thus undermines the general idea of ​​how a scientist should look. But Bordauer may be soft in tone, but tough as hell. What is human about this professor is only the shell. It is not even enough for a first name.

“The sterility of Bordauer Clinic is more like a computer chip factory than a human hospital. The brain rules in her. The heart got lost, ”says director Tom Bohn. “We chose this radical means to make it clear what our world could look like if we left it to research and the unreflected belief in the future of some of our contemporaries.”

Actors give the crime scene some style

It is the actors who add elegance to the occasionally predictable story. Folkerts acts as usual with cool sunglasses with round glasses. At her side, employee Johanna Stern (Lisa Bitter) emancipated herself after the quirky investigator Mario Kopper (Andreas Hoppe) left. Heinz Hoenig as hospital pastor and Dominique Chiout as Bordauer employee are driving the action at the right moment. Gregor Bloéb is a wonderful cast as an ironic parody of a half-world size, with an oily charm and a shark-cold look.

Bloéb alias Ali Kaymaz runs a tuning workshop that director Bohn uses in “Maleficius” as a dramaturgical hinge. Bordauer repairs heads, Kaymaz vehicles. Or, as Odenthal puts it: “One hairdresses cars, the other brains.” It is a sharp contrast – on the one hand the cool machine world of a clinic, on the other hand the semi-criminal mate world of car screwdrivers.

An even stronger contrast is the happenings in the hospital itself. The Latin “maleficus” means “malignant”, with the Brothers Grimm Malefiz was a witch. “Maleficus” can also be translated as “godless”, and in this “crime scene” that is probably meant by the modified “Maleficius”.

Professor plays God with people

Bordauer plays God, director Bohn clearly mixes the blood on the operating table with the blood of Jesus on the cross in the hospital chapel. While Pastor Hoenig demands more humility before creation, the commissioner speaks of “freaks who tinker with superhuman”.

In places, this “crime scene” dares a lot. When Folkerts, pensive about piano music, whispers “You also want to unravel the last spell” and raves about “Cars without electronic frills”, it is difficult to do justice to the complex topic of artificial intelligence. A surgical robot is spectacular, with its spider legs drooping like an insect from the ceiling (scene: Andreas C. Schmid).

Bohn also sees the film as a warning. “It’s a warning that certain technologies, if used, can fall into the wrong hands,” says the director. “This is the case with genetic engineering – and it is exactly the same with brain research.” (Fb / dpa)

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