In the "Tatort: A Few Words After Midnight" Rubin and Karow have to solve the death of a 90-year-old businessman. A case worth seeing?
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of German reunification, the "Tatort: A Few Words After Midnight" (October 4th, 8:15 pm, the first) tells the story of two brothers who were separated by the division and also not with the unit could grow together more.
This is what the "crime scene" is all about
The Berlin building contractor Klaus Keller (Rolf Becker, 85) is found shot on his 90th birthday. A sign hangs around his neck with the words: "I was too cowardly to fight for Germany". Keller was the senior boss of a large Berlin construction company, his biggest project at the moment was the construction of a documentation center about the Shoah in Israel. A right-wing assassination attempt? Much seems to speak for it.
But there is another lead. A youth photo of the crime victim Klaus and his brother Gert (Friedhelm Ptok, 87) has disappeared from the dead man's apartment. Does the murder have anything to do with the two brothers? The one who won the economic miracle and won the turn – the other is a Stasimajor, SED functionary and loser from the turn. Two post-war routes that diverged with the division of Germany and could not reunite even after '89.
Commissioners Nina Rubin (Meret Becker, 51) and Robert Karow (Mark Waschke, 48) ask why and delve into a complex family history in which the generation of sons also plays an important role. Michael Keller (Stefan Kurt, 60) now runs his father's construction company and Gert's son Fredo (Jörg Schüttauf, 58) is the owner of a printing company in Pankow. Moritz (Leonard Scheicher, 28), Klaus' grandson, recorded a video of his beloved grandfather on the occasion of the birthday party. Can you move Rubin and Karow forward in the investigation?
Is it worth switching on?
Yes. The crime thriller is exciting, the dialogues are well written and fabulously interpreted by the cast and parts of the resolution should surprise even die-hard Berlin connoisseurs. Actress and West Berlin resident Meret Becker didn't know anything about it either, as she said in an interview with spot on news: "The memorial plaque actually exists and I didn't know it. It's a bit lost on the traffic island. But at least it was originally supposed to be somewhere be placed in the forest, far away from the scene. "
In addition, it was possible to create a case that somehow fits the 30th anniversary of German reunification, but it does not seem convulsively constructed. Rather, in the course of the investigation, the commissioners encounter the German-German past and its consequences, but ultimately it is about a completely different crime …