TV tip: “Tatort: ​​Propheteus” from Münster

20 years of Thiel and Boerne: The case from Münster this time targets conspiracy theories. Our film tip

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Nanu, what kind of strange word is that in the title of today’s “crime scene”? First we pause, then we take a closer look and understand: Aha, this week’s thriller comes from Münster! And that there is room for humour, absurdity and nonsense has long been agreed. More precisely, for 20 years. Because the team of Commissioner Thiel (Axel Prahl) forensic doctor Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) is celebrating an anniversary this year. And that’s why this Sunday it’s going to be cranked up again – for a case that has socially critical undertones, but at least as much slapstick.

Everything actually starts quite normally: with the murder of Magnus Rosponi, a popular person in his bowling club, whom even Silke Haller (ChrisTine Ursprechen) knows from before. But it quickly turns out that the dead man was a member of a group that believes in the existence of aliens – and they are said to be among us. Appropriately, Boerne finds an implanted chip in Rosponi’s body. It doesn’t take long for the investigative team to be the focus of conspiracy theorists, who don’t shy away from an assassination attempt. Their aluminum hats and secret messenger groups are reminiscent of lateral thinkers and Reich citizens. Is everything as nonsensical as on Telegram?

Or is there something to the crude theories? After all, two men-in-black cuts named Muster and Mann suddenly appear, played by the twin sisters Daniela and Melanie Reichert. Are they really from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution – or from a lot further away?

March 6, 2022 // Matthias Jordan

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