Crime scene: The fine spirit
Is it worth turning on the New Year's thriller?
Kira Dorn (Nora Tschirner) and Lessing (Christian Ulmen) in the latest "Tatort: The Fine Spirit" from Weimar
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The Weimar team goes on a hunt for criminals on New Years. A huge surprise awaits the audience in "Tatort: The Fine Spirit".
The first "crime scene" of the year takes the audience once more to Weimar. In "Der fein Geist" (January 1st, 8:15 pm) it gets bizarre again about Lessing (Christian Ulmen, 45) and Kira Dorn (Nora Tschirner, 39). Above all, there is a huge surprise in the film. Anyone who does not want to be spoiled should stop reading after the content description of the crime thriller.
This is what "Tatort: The Fine Spirit" is all about
In the middle of the day, a money messenger is murdered in cold blood in front of a jewelry store in downtown Weimar. Kira Dorn (Nora Tschirner) and Lessing (Christian Ulmen) accidentally become witnesses and pursue the perpetrator. Lessing is injured in an exchange of fire in the park cave and the perpetrator escapes. The dead messenger is Ludgar Döllstädt, managing director of the security company "Geist Security". While Kurt Stich (Thorsten Merten) is convinced that the act is a robbery, Kira suspects more behind it:
Lessing had stopped the murder victim a few days earlier with Maike Viebrock (Inga Busch), a department head of the state administration office, at a traffic control. There was a rare parrot in the trunk. Did the owner of the security company, John Geist (Ronald Zehrfeld), want to liquidate his managing director in order to protect his company from an animal bribery scandal? Kira Dorn and Lessing give everything to find the culprit in this complex case, in which nothing is what it seems …
Is it worth switching on?
Anyone who likes the slapstick kind of Christian Ulmen and Nora Tschirner will be a little disappointed in "Der fein Geist". It still has a hint of absurdity, but the film is much more serious than the previous episodes. Nevertheless, the 90 minutes are definitely fun. Certainly a good first TV evening of the year. Above all, the end, which has already transpired in the last few weeks, has it all: Lessing is killed.
But it will not be over with elms and his role: As the WDR already revealed at the request of the news agency spot on news, his role as a ghost will live on. But not too quickly: Due to the Corona, no Weimar episode will be produced in the coming year. So how things will go specifically with Lessing and Dorn is still in the stars.