Why does one person murder another? The question of the motive is central in a crime novel. Because if you have a motive, you can be the perpetrator. But in the new “Tatort” episode “Why” from Nuremberg, which broadcasts the first on Sunday at 8:15 p.m., this seems to be missing.
Why did the young IT specialist Lukas Keller (Caspar Schuchmann) have to die? The act plunges his parents into deep despair. The inspectors Paula Ringelhahn (Dagmar Manzel) and Felix Voss (Fabian Hinrichs) are faced with a difficult case that also challenges them emotionally.
Lukas’ mother Marie Keller (Valentina Sauca) was so looking forward to the evening: her son wanted to come to dinner with his new girlfriend Mia (Julie Engelbrecht). But he doesn’t show up, and he can’t be reached on his cell phone either. Later she gets a visit from the two inspectors. Her son was found near his sports club with his throat cut.
Marie Keller is petrified by the shock, but then she clings to Lukas’ new girlfriend like a straw to save her. She really wants to get in touch with the young woman. But she seems to have a secret and is threatened. Does it have anything to do with Luke’s death?
The crime brings Marie Keller and Lukas’ father Fritz Keller (Karl Markovics), who had split up a long time ago, closer together again. They investigate together on their own. The search for the “why” becomes their purpose in life.
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These two roles characterize the new “crime scene” from Franconia: Lukas’ parents Marie (Valentina Sauca) and Fritz Keller (Karl Markovics), who have been living apart for years, fall into the abyss. They barely manage to hold each other up.
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The parents’ pain is palpable in the film – especially when they pick up the packed boxes with his belongings from Lukas’ work place. Götz Otto plays his boss Karl-Heinz Weinhardt, who wanted to develop the young man as his successor in the Nuremberg forwarding company.
Götz Otto celebrates “Tatort” comeback
The actor Otto, who became known as a James Bond adversary, appears as an empathetic family man and paternal friend of the victim, appearing somewhat stuffy in a brown wool sweater and checked shirt. For the first time in 25 years, Otto has again taken on a role in a “crime scene”.
According to his own words, he is a “Tatort” fan, but what appealed to him most about the new episode from Nuremberg was that it wasn’t a classic crime thriller. “It’s not so much a question of who has the young man on his conscience. The special thing is that it is much more about the perspective of the bereaved and how to deal with the death of a person,” he told the German Press Agency.
Valentina Sauca and Karl Markovics convince
Sauca and Markovics convincingly play the parents, who seem to be breaking up more and more. The Nuremberg “Tatort” directed by Max Färberböck is not an action-packed, nerve-wracking hunt for the criminal. The actors speak slowly and quietly, as if it costs them immense strength. There are always moments of silence. You can feel the investigators’ frustration when they get stuck with the case. First they have a hot lead, then it dissolves again in a shocking way.
“I’m more interested in destroyed lives than investigative films,” said Färberböck in an interview with “Nürnberger Nachrichten” and “Nürnberger Zeitung”. “For me, a murder is a tragedy – for the victims, the perpetrator and the investigators.” This is also evident at the end of “Tatort”, which comes as a surprise and where it becomes a minor matter who finally solved the case.
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