Bizarre search for happiness
Tukur “crime scene” divides again
By Julian Vetten
October 22, 2023, 10:13 p.m
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Hardly any Sunday evening crime thriller is as polarizing as the annual experimental “crime scene” with Ulrich Tukur. “Murot and Paradise” is no exception.
Getting a successful turn from embarrassingly cheerful home-baked vagina cupcakes to the bizarre underground car park laboratory of a murderous femme fatale in just a few minutes – including luck-addicted investment bankers with vulva-shaped connections instead of belly buttons: you have to do that first! Oscar winner Florian Gallenberger achieves this feat in his first “crime scene” without it seeming even remotely fake.
Sees the supposed light at the end of the tunnel: Murot.
(Photo: HR / Bettina Müller)
And there are lots of other atmospheric U-turns in a small space: Inspector Murot (Ulrich Tukur) lies depressed on his analyst’s couch during his investigation (strong: ex-“crime scene” investigator Martin Wuttke), drifting in a space suit à la “Space Odyssey.” ” through space, kills Hitler according to “Inglourious Basterds” and covers up two murderesses from his own colleagues in their own search for the next shot at ultimate happiness.
Bizarre search for happiness
“Murot and Paradise” is already the 13th case of probably the most unusual inspector who has ever investigated the “crime scene”. And this time too, exceptional actor Ulrich Tukur was once again able to polarize as much as he has intended since the beginning of the series: On Sunday evening, the audience went on a bizarre search for happiness with Murot, which was more like a wild drug trip than a classic crime thriller. Anyone who managed to get involved was rewarded with a cinematic work of art, which – in concession to the outcry over earlier experimental “crime scenes” – also worked wonderfully as a gripping thriller.
“I wanted to make a ‘crime scene’ that takes its audience to places and situations that have never been seen in a ‘crime scene’ before,” says Gallenberger about his film, for which he both wrote the book and directed it . “So to try to get something new from this flagship of German television after well over 1000 episodes and to surprise and hopefully enrich the viewers.”
After 90 minutes of “Murot and Paradise,” it’s pretty safe to say that Gallenberger has fulfilled all but the last point. And even the dissatisfied among the crime thriller fans were able to go to bed on Sunday evening with one more certainty: “There are no more unhappy people than bankers.”