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After ten years we say a melancholy goodbye – while the HR turns up and down again in the last crime scene with Brix and Janneke from Frankfurt.
Frankfurt am Main – It’s becoming high culture again, but high culture only serves to give madness and crime a higher level. That works quite well. Murdering to “Siegfried’s Funeral March” is something to behold. Or shooting around Caspar David Friedrich’s sea of fog.
They want to know again. How far can you go in the Frankfurt crime scene with Janneke and Brix? Very far. And doesn’t the path lead astray, and isn’t being astray another word for complete nonsense? But yes. In a sense, you remain true to yourself.
Crime scene from Frankfurt: “It’s so green when Frankfurt’s mountains are in bloom”
In addition, the 19th and final episode of Tatort with Margarita Broich and Wolfram Koch (and Isaak Dentler as Jonas-now-even-has-a-last-name and Zazie de Paris as Fanny Last-Nameless-on-Principle) is called “It’s so green when “Frankfurt’s mountains are blooming.” Without wanting to anticipate events too far, one can say that this says everything, namely nothing.
Now they might even be going out together. Anna Janneke (Margarita Broich) and Paul Brix (Wolfram Koch) in the farewell scene. © HR/Degeto/Bettina Mueller
Director Till Endemann can let the nonsense flow in the ARD crime scene, there are surrealistic sequences and the city of Frankfurt is dark and totally abstract. Michael Proehl, author of the very first Janneke Brix crime scene in 2015, “Colder than Death,” and Dirk Morgenstern also make a lot of space for a guest star in their script – which is surprising for a final episode. Matthias Brandt plays the police psychologist Tristan Grünfels, a friend of romantic painting and probably also the music of Richard Wagner. In any case, he and his wife, Patrycia Ziolkowska, named their children Senta and Eric. Is this an attempt to escape or a small gap in the team’s knowledge? Wouldn’t be bad, whereas Tristan Grünfels’ gaps in other areas are devastating. On the one hand the gaps, on the other hand the duplication, namely he himself in conversation with himself. As a psychologist, he is good at marking the line he crosses. Now, he realizes, he’s gone crazy.
It begins justifiably in the Frankfurt crime scene “It’s so green when Frankfurt’s mountains are in bloom”
With the beginning of “It’s so green when Frankfurt’s mountains are in bloom” this becomes justiciable. He was just arguing about a traffic ticket when the city traffic police officer was already lying there dead, beaten to death. Tristan Grünfels practically didn’t notice. The woman is played by Melanie Straub, who now appears to him to be elf-like and yet down-to-earth. It doesn’t stop with this one dead person.
Crime scene in the first
“Crime Scene: It’s so green when Frankfurt’s mountains are in bloom,” ARD, Sunday, 8:15 p.m.
Because of his job, Tristan Grünfels is crazy – because it’s not just him who is crazy, the circumstances are too – who is appointed as a victim support worker for the husband and son of the city traffic police officer. The man is Sascha Nathan, because for the last time the Frankfurt crime scene is also a small theater meeting, and Brix lets the mourners beat him up as part of a role play. Then he continues as usual.
Matthias Brandt plays it brilliantly and subtly, remaining friendly and level-headed in the madness. The fact that Brix and Janneke have to solve a death in the drug world in addition to the mysterious murder of a traffic police officer also brings a bit of hardcore into the action. Tristan Grünfeld can show that madness also gives madness power.
Frankfurt crime scene “It’s so green when Frankfurt’s mountains are in bloom” – the cast
The duo, who have to say goodbye, and finally, hold back again. That was always a strange thing about Koch and Broich in the film, especially he as if with the handbrake on, she non-committal as if in a life completely foreign to her. Janneke is in good spirits this time and the two are also flirting. Hui.
People begin to hope again at the Frankfurt crime scene
But while you start to hope again that things could be great and interesting in the Frankfurt crime scene, it’s just melancholic and laconic in a way that reaches its limits in a crime thriller. It’s cool when Brix asks every now and then: “What are we actually doing here?” and it’s a rhetorical question because it’s all nonsense. Of course you stick with it and want to know how it ends.
If it’s driving you crazy that the cleaner looks so familiar, it’s footballer Timothy Chandler from Eintracht Frankfurt.
And while you get sad and then even sadder, the future looks like this: Melika Foroutan and Edin Hasanovic will compete in 2025. HR has already announced that it will be about “cold cases”, old unsolved cases. The station is also handing over the Tatort production. Almost everyone does it that way now, but it’s a shame, it was a bastion from old, ambitious times.
