Crime scene: Deadly flood
Is it worth turning on the new Falke Grosz crime thriller?
The commissioners Julia Grosz (Franziska Weisz) and Thorsten Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring) in the "Tatort: Deadly Flood".
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In "Tatort: Deadly Flood", Thorsten Falke and Julia Grosz investigate the North Sea island of Norderney. Is it worth switching on?
The inspectors Julia Grosz (Franziska Weisz, 40) and Thorsten Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring, 53) are reluctantly lured to the island of Norderney in the "Tatort: Deadly Flood" (January 24, 8:15 pm, the first). But then there is a dead person.
What is "Tatort: Deadly Flood" about?
The investigative journalist Imke Leopold (Franziska Hartmann) is on the trail of an illegal real estate deal on the North Sea island of Norderney. When she asks Thorsten Falke for help with the investigation, the Federal Police commissioner initially reacts skeptically. When Imke is the victim of an attack shortly thereafter, which she survived only by luck, Falke regrets his hesitation and asks his colleague Julia Grosz to investigate with him on the island.
Does the attack have something to do with a large-scale construction project that was waved through with the approval of some local politicians on the island? The lawyer and broker based on Norderney, who arranged the deal and made appropriate hints to Imke, fails as an informant – Falke and Grosz find him slain in his house …
Is it worth switching on?
Yes, because the visually stunning and musically great crime thriller is exciting. In places the film even develops into a kind of psychological thriller with a clearly eerie note. The twist that screenwriter David Sandreuter came up with is also interesting. This is where the film's small drawback lies. Because thanks to the interesting, but also rather special styling of the episode lead actress, this twist should not be immediately apparent to every viewer. Instead, you just have to believe Imke's enormous attraction to the other characters.
On the other hand, the film music is obviously something special. The compositions by Stefan Will and Peter Hinderthür were recorded by the NDR Radiophilharmonie. "We planned the project before Corona times and then had to deal with the current impassability (…) We divided the orchestra into two groups and recorded it. Then our sound engineer Hans-Ulrich Bastin mounted the two musical layers on top of each other", tells orchestra manager Matthias Ilkenhans about the solution to the distance problem.
When filming the film, director Lars Henning already knew that the NDR Radiophilharmonie would accompany the "Tatort". This has had an impact on the unusual landscape shots that viewers will see. "We looked for images on the island and in history that do justice to the power and breadth of a large orchestra. The landscapes of a special place and the inner landscapes of a special woman," he explains.
As an aside in Imke's family history, the crime thriller also addresses the question of what suicide can do to the bereaved. Imke lives in the remote house of her late grandmother, where she grew up after her mother "went to the mudflats and never came back" …