“Tatort” with Wotan Wilke Möhring: Tolstoy and Geballer

In the new “Tatort” with Wotan Wilke Möhring, colleague Franziska Weisz plays the leading role. This is what the crime thriller from Northern Germany is all about.

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The men upstairs, among the decision-makers, tend to take longer to promote women. “But I’m sure that will change now,” believes the detective director (Judith Rosmair) and gives Julia Grosz (Franziska Weisz) the third star. She is now chief inspector. Pressure from above comes not only from men but also from women. She should take good care of the two million that an undercover officer carries with him for the purpose of doing business with a weapons dealer, as the chief of operations she is responsible.

But then not only the millions are gone after a disastrous mission. The colleague (Ercan Karacayli) is dead, the arms dealer is still at large. The fact that Grosz passed out after the news of the death of the smuggled official is a nice change in the subject of top jobs and gender. You yourself would love to see Falke KO or, even better, Nick Tschiller. But Til Schweiger is not there, because the “Tatort” episode “The Power of the Family” is the show by Wotan Wilke Möhring and Franziska Weisz.

“Tatort” commissioner Falke is personally affected

Or that of Tatiana Nekrasov: As LKA officer Marija Timofejew, she is also on the road as an undercover investigator and also the renegade foster daughter of the arms dealer. Yes, this “crime scene” (written and directed by Niki Stein) consistently focuses on games of hide-and-seek and double identities.

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Only Falke is, as always, one to one. And it depends, that might bother some, but basically gives the ARD crime thrillers their emotional level, once again personally involved. The dead colleague was his friend and he knows Marija from before. Probably a bed story too, but never mind, a long time ago. Nevertheless, Falke curses inimitably through the scenery because the colleagues are shadowing Marija. You don’t trust her, blood is thicker than water and all that.

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The big criminal is now supposed to be caught via Marija. Victor Timofejew (Vladimir Tarasjanz) trades with old Russian equipment. After his brother’s suicide, he also took care of his family, his sister-in-law and the children. Marija switched to the other side, while Nicolai (Jakub Gierszal) is the successor chosen by the godfather in the global business that is controlled from the villa in northern Germany. Just bad luck that the heir also dies when the law enforcement agencies use it. Does the family have anything to do with it? The competition from the east?

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Marija, the beautiful woman between the fronts: Her anarchic acting is even better to look at in the progress of the thriller plot, in which there is more than one sharp shot, than Grosz’s attempts to keep the strings in hand the first time the promotion is carried out. It doesn’t work without clichés, which is why the depth of the Russian soul has to be exhibited. The old man jingles Russian tunes at the piano, otherwise the clan is also cultivated. Anyone who cannot quote Tolstoy correctly loses. It’s just a shame that only the first sentence of “Anna Karenina” is served here again. Though the Timofeevs are unhappy in their own way.

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Incidentally, it is clear that the thriller was filmed in the summer of 2020 under Corona conditions: S-Bahn stations are usually not that empty here in broad daylight.

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