“Crime Scene: Among Gardeners”
Cuba Libre or Moscow Mule in Münster
“Crime Scene: Among Gardeners”: Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers, r.) and Thiel (Axel Prahl) enjoy a drink – Cuba Libre and Moscow Mule – on the beach.
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In “Crime Scene: Among Gardeners”, Münster Commissioner Thiel and forensic doctor Prof. Boerne investigate in an allotment garden settlement.
What is “Crime Scene: Among Gardeners” about?
We need to find out whether the idyllic allotment garden in the middle of the picturesque town is actually a crime scene or whether the popular older lady simply died of natural causes. The dead Sabine Schmidt (Sibylle Canonica, 66, “The Pass”) is completely intact on the outside. However, the two dead squirrels right next to her seem to have died at the same time. Not only does Thiel find that strange, the other tenants of the facility are also opaque. Together with his assistant Mirko Schrader (Björn Meyer, born 1989), he interrogates, among other things, Sabine’s outspoken neighbor Klaus Karger (Tobias van Dieken, born 1980, “The Anders Family”), who, as a first aider, broke two of her ribs. The conspicuous interest in Thiel’s investigations by historian Ulrich Winer (Hans-Uwe Bauer, 68, “Die”) – also an allotment neighbor – as well as the great disinterest of his wife Vera (Almut Zilcher, 69) in it, are also suspicious.
And while Prof. Boerne is working expertly on the exact cause of death in forensic medicine, his assistant Silke Haller (ChrisTine Urwurf, 53) notices an irregularity in Sabine’s garden plot, which leads the team to investigate in a completely new direction…
Is it worth turning on?
In any case. With this exciting crime thriller, the Münster “Tatort” makers show once again why they are the most popular Sunday crime team. And anyone who might think in advance, “Oh, allotment garden – that’s too small,” will quickly be proven wrong by this film. It certainly won’t be boring in this organic gazebo settlement – this also applies to the little crash course in poisonous plants.
Elsewhere, screenwriter Regine Bielefeldt and director Brigitte Maria Bertele weave in the social theme of “ageism”, i.e. age discrimination. “Just because someone is old doesn’t mean he or she is automatically nice,” it says, giving an example. Viewers interested in news will probably think of another current one.
The verbal battles typical of Münster are not neglected here either. For example, when Silke Haller presents her newly launched “Lousy Sayings Cash Register”, which is predictably already quite full and which Prof. Boerne is supposed to pay into because of “Because you are so cute”. “That was a compliment,” he tries to excuse himself. But she counters: “In the last century. In this one it falls under harassment…” In general, the professor’s assistant has a slightly larger role this time.
There would be so much more to tell, but anything more would be spoilers and spoil the twist entertainment. Because this exciting crime thriller has numerous surprising twists. One of them can be seen right at the beginning. But what initially seems like a non-whodunit crime thriller soon gets the next twist…