A corpse is found in a Friedwald that doesn’t belong there. The subtle thriller comes up with a disturbing ending.
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Crime scene: love me!
Crime movies • 20.02.2022
• 8:15 p.m
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Which place would be ideal to hide corpses? How about a Friedwald – on a reserved plot of land where normally no digging should take place? Due to the carelessness of a forester, the Dortmund “Tatort” team found the body of a blond woman in such a last resting place, which DNA analysis turned out to be a missing person. The woman can be identified by her breast implants, which have serial numbers. A first trace of the investigating Peter Faber (Jörg Hartmann), Martina Bönisch (Anna Schudt), Jan Pawlak (Rick Okon) and Rosa Herzog (Stefanie Reinsperger) leads to the funeral home.
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Neither the owner Thomas Ihle (Jan Krauter) nor his wife Julia (Marlina Mitterhofer) can remember who paid for the grave in cash a year ago – apparently under a false name. In the funeral home, further investigations are carried out: the Dortmunders take a close look at the owner couple and their employees. But what motive should they have for murdering the woman around 40? There was apparently no connection between her and the undertakers. Then a second woman’s body is discovered, also in Friedwald. And the pattern of the case is startlingly similar to that of the first find.
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The core of the Dortmund “Tatort” team – Peter Faber and Martina Bönisch – would be celebrating its tenth anniversary next fall. At that time, her sidekicks were played by Aylin Tezel and Stefan Konarske – now replaced by Stefanie Reinsperger and Rick Okon. The inventor of the “crime scene” in Dortmund, which introduced Peter Faber, a severely traumatized psycho inspector, is Jürgen Werner. The 1963-born author, who wrote the first five episodes, now also created the anniversary year case, which makes a lot of sense because “Love Me!” should henceforth be considered a key Dortmund result.
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Is the love carousel about to derail?
Most recently, Faber, Bönisch and Co. were guests in the “Tatort” living rooms three times in a period of three months. The motif of scorned or hidden love, from which the protagonists suffered, became more and more present in Dortmund crime novels. Starting with the “Masken” case, which ran in November, as well as the narrative thread about Commissioner Pawlak and his long-missing wife in the January episode “Greed and Fear”. Parallel to the actual cases, the less and less secret love of Commissioner Faber for his long-term colleague Martina Bönisch “escalated”. At the same time, however, she had an apparently toxic relationship with KTU colleague Sebastian Haller (Tilman Strauss). It was clear that this carousel was bound to derail at some point – and this time it could be so.
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Even if it shouldn’t be revealed whether and in which direction the whole thing will dissolve – one can say that the “crime scene: love me!” not only makes the hidden message of the last episodes more explicit in the title, but also that Faber and Bönisch themselves experience something decisive in this episode, which is why fans of the Dortmund “Tatort” area should not miss this film under any circumstances. Regardless, “Love me!” enormously exciting, even if the thriller temporarily flirts with Stephen King-like horror elements in the second half, which the first part, full of subtle tension and about the funeral home and lonely “daters”, wouldn’t have needed at all.
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But that’s how you know it, the Dortmund “crime scene”: Ingenious plot ideas, great characters and wonderful fantasies in relation to its permanent staff, i.e. the investigators, make you happy – or they sometimes overshoot the mark a scene later so that not everyone fan of classic detective stories or of subtle storytelling. With “Love me!” Dortmund remains true to itself after ten years and screams quite loudly from the “Tatort” slot on Sunday, 8:15 p.m. With this case, inventor Jürgen Werner comes to a turning point that also goes back to the beginnings of 2012. Not a “Schalker Kreisel”, as the new tactic of one-touch football was called in the 1920s, but rather a locally neighboring “Dortmunder Kreisel”.
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Crime scene: love me! – Sun. 20.02. – ARD: 8.15 p.m
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