For the first time this season, Jan Josef Liefers and Axel Prahl go on the hunt for criminals in "Tatort: Limbus". Once more it gets bizarre.
Limbo breaks out in Münster on Sunday, November 8th (8:15 p.m., the first). In the latest crime thriller "Limbus" with the popular "Tatort" team of investigators Jan Josef Liefers (56) as Professor Boerne and Axel Prahl (60) as Inspector Thiel, things are once again unfamiliar. This time, however, there are no typical gag volleys and weird criminal cases; it even becomes thoughtful at times. The makers rely on – with a few exceptions – a serious crime thriller, which is still far from conventional.
That's what it's about
With a dinner with his closest colleagues, Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne says goodbye on vacation to Holland. There he wants to write a book about death. But on the way he suffers a catastrophic car accident. Prof Boerne is seriously injured and taken to hospital. In the intensive care unit, the doctors are now fighting for his life. The accident doesn't leave Chief Inspector Frank Thiel in peace. He doesn't like to believe that Boerne went off the track at full speed without any interference.
Prosecutor Wilhelmine Klemm forbids Thiel to conduct her own investigations and refers to the responsible colleagues from the traffic police. But that doesn't stop the commissioner from doing his own research. Meanwhile, Boerne's representative appears in forensic medicine. Dr. Jens Jacoby is a young, charismatic colleague who has just returned from Brazil. Not an easy situation for Silke "Alberich" Haller. She still has to get used to her new boss.
Is it worth switching on?
In this case the question is easy to answer: In any case, yes. Admittedly: Münster fans who are once again expecting the big slapstick around Boerne and Thiel will perhaps be a little disappointed. But these crime comedies are sure to come back soon. In "Tatort: Limbus" it is not – as usual – over the top funny, but it remains bizarre and absurd. That much can already be revealed.
In the latest Boerne and Thiel crime thriller, the viewers go on a search for the perpetrator who sought his life together with Boerne, who is in a coma and dying. Sounds strange and cryptic? It is like the whole film. But: The TV audience only has to get involved in a very simple conceptual construct and then experience an exciting 90-minute journey with the popular Münster-based "Tatort" team.