Crime scene: mirror, mirror

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Mirror Mirror
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 1088 ( List )
First broadcast March 17th, 2019 on Das Erste
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Director Matthias Tiefenbacher
script Benjamin Hessler
music Biber Gullatz and Andreas Schäfer
camera Hanno Lentz
cut Horst Reiter
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Mirror, mirror is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by WDR is the 1088th episode of the crime scene. The first broadcast took place on March 17, 2019 on Das Erste , ORF 2 and SRF 1 . The investigator duo Thiel and Boerne is investigating its 34th case. The episode is a continuation of the 14th case of the wolf hour .

action

A corpse was found behind the St. Paulus Cathedral in Münster on a Monday - it looks very much like prosecutor Klemm and next to her were cigarettes of the brand that Klemm smokes, even though the dead woman is a non-smoker. But the murder is not the only one. On Tuesday, a short woman who resembles Boerne's assistant Haller and wore a scarf that Haller had lost was found dead from the canal . Haller takes the whole thing with her because she knew the ice cream seller. Thiel and Boerne assume a series and look in the files of previous cases for criminals who might want to take revenge on them. Markus Timotschek, who has meanwhile been dismissed and works as a ticket inspector in Münster, is initially targeted. They interrogate him and arrest him. But when a taxi driver who looks like Thiel's father Herbert is found shot on Wednesday, they have to fire Timotschek again because he is obviously not the wanted serial killer.

Thiel's father brings the investigators on a new track with the description of a suspicious woman. On Thursday, Commissioner Thiel and Professor Boerne find the Boerne doppelganger, Professor Scharmacher, a music teacher whom they can visit just in time before the perpetrator can strike. The doppelganger von Boerne remembers that the woman is working at the road traffic office on the phantom picture drawn according to Herbert Thiel's information. The perpetrator, the municipal official Birgit Brückner, overheard the conversation behind Scharmacher's house and then flees her apartment, but receives the instruction from her "fiancé" Sascha Kröger, an imprisoned sex murderer - and "psychopath", according to Thiel - to complete. Thiel's doppelganger, Jens Lange, who is last on her list, will also be saved on Friday because Thiel shoots Brückner in self-defense. On the day of his release from prison, Boerne and Thiel inform the puller Kröger that his “tool” has survived. He must expect the clarification of the joint crime plan.

Boerne describes the perpetrator as Herostrate , d. i.e., he suspects that she acted out of a desire for recognition.

background

The film was shot from September 4, 2018 to October 4, 2018. With Mirror, Mirror , director Matthias Tiefenbacher staged his fourth Münster crime scene after Tempelräuber (2009), Herrenabend (2011) and Das Wunder von Wolbeck (2012). The screenplay comes from Benjamin Hessler, who is particularly known for his collaboration with the Austrian director Marvin Kren (e.g. on Rammbock , Blutgletscher or 4 Blocks ). For Hessler, this is the second Tatort script he filmed after a Treibjagd (2018) with Wotan Wilke Möhring . Arnd Klawitter appears again in his role as Sascha Kröger, which he played as the perpetrator in Tatort: ​​Wolfsstunde (2008). Ronald Kukulies , who plays the first suspect Markus Timoschek, played the police chief Olaf Künast, who was arrested on suspicion of a crime , in the Münster crime scene asparagus time .

reception

Reviews

In Spiegel online , the film two out of ten rated, critic Christian Buss thought that it was "Dumb and Dumber-variant of a doppelganger comedy" and "sad". No profit is drawn from the doppelganger construction: “When classical music fan Boerne meets his counterpart, a jazz teacher who is pushing away, the clash does not spark any sparks. […] At this point, of all places, those involved don't care about the self-imposed narcissism theme - the self-loving Boerne is not even interested in his reflection. ”The film service was also disappointed and rated the film with one of five possible stars and criticized it as a “slapstick (television) crime comedy that tries to elicit humor from its absurd basic idea, but does not go beyond thin jokes. The performers also show no enthusiasm for the material, which generates neither tension nor interest. "

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Spieglein, Spieglein on March 17, 2019 was seen by 13.58 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 36.9 percent for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crime scene: mirror, mirror at crew united
  2. ↑ Christian Buß: Dumb and Dumber. In: Spiegel Online . March 15, 2019, accessed March 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Crime scene - mirror, mirror. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Manuel Weis: Almost a record: New «Tatort» from Münster brings the second best range. In : quotemeter.de . March 18, 2019, accessed March 18, 2019 .
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