“The Man Who Fell into the Jungle”

The new Münster film “Tatort: ​​The Man Who Fell into the Jungle” is not just for Münster fans. Detlev Buck shines in a guest role.

Going for a drink with Axel Prahl and Detlev Buck would be fun. There doesn’t have to be any alcohol involved, the two also chat over Fanta and currywurst. And that’s why the new episode of Münster’s “Tatort” – “The Man Who Fell into the Jungle” – lives above all from the interaction of these two pleasantly calm guys, with whom you always think: They’re not acting, they’re like that.

Buck is great as Stan Gold, who had a bestseller with his book “The Man Who Fell into the Jungle,” in which he dealt with a plane crash over the Paraguayan rainforest and a 15-year stay with an indigenous people. You just want to believe everything about this North German sea dog with a matching mustache, who can look so inimitably stupid with his button eyes. People do it. And because he always invents new, coherent stories in a childlike, imaginative way, this Stan Gold succeeds in making not only Prof. Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) and Inspector Thiel (Axel Prahl), but also the audience, overcome their doubts about supposed ones Push aside inconsistencies and believe him. It must have been a real pleasure for screenwriter Thorsten Wettcke to spin this sailor’s yarn. And Buck, to make it seem so matter-of-fact. For example, that he is being pursued by a dangerous man named Pablo and therefore urgently needs to be placed under police protection.

This Münster “crime scene”: unbelievably good!

Director Till Franzen starts the film with a bang. Better: with shots that hit Thiel. Fired by a hooded figure (Pablo?). The inspector lies dead on the ground. Cut. “Four Days Before” starts the action again. And although the Münster “crime scenes” like this one are always more humorous than nerve-wracking crime novels, with this opening scene in mind you sometimes wonder whether this Pablo that Gold swears about actually exists.

All in all, the team managed to create a film that might also appeal to those who otherwise find the people of Münster too silly. Even Boerne, who is usually overly exaggerated by Liefers, is pleasantly little in focus in this case and in the end convincingly shows a thoughtful, human side of the arrogant cynic.

Mechthild Großmann has the funniest moment

But the funniest scene goes to Mechthild Großmann as prosecutor Wilhelmine Klemm. She is asked to come to an interrogation because the arrested person wants a female person with her. When the young woman bosses the lawyer: “Are you even a woman?” and the Großmann hisses with her deep, cigarette and whiskey-soaked voice and a twinkle in her eyes: “What else am I supposed to be?”, that’s exactly it self-deprecating way that millions of viewers love the Münster team for. Human, warm, funny, good. Not a lie.