A legendary moment in television history is still the scene in which the former national coach Berti Vogts in 1999 in Hamburg crime scene brings back a runaway rabbit and woodenly tells the owner, “Give the rabbit an extra carrot, it saved our lives.” Later, Oliver Bierhoff, Steffi Jones and Jogi Löw are allowed to walk through the picture in the Ludwigshafen thriller. Football and thrillers go well together, and not just because crime scene and match both last 90 minutes. When the box is running, many squat in front of it, who are the better trainers anyway and know the killer immediately, while the inspectors are still looking for their reading glasses.
This time Joshua Kimmich from FC Bayern is playing in Munich crime scene “hack”. He is the influencer and fitness trainer Kenny, who mixes green shakes in a studio in Hasenbergl. A young man was killed around the corner, a laser pointer blinded him on his motorcycle so much that the ride was his last. Policeman Kalli (Ferdinand Hofer) is also investigating in the studio, whereupon Kenny is mostly silent, offers a green shake and says impassively: “No one needs to be afraid here.” Vogt’s rabbit sentence served as a joke for many, and a punk band might be interested in this one.
This “crime scene” is the record of an overwhelmed society
Who does that? Blinding nice Adam so he’s dead? Everyone in the problem area has their own theory, but everyone can agree on one thing: Johannes Bonifaz Hackl (great: Burghart Klaußner). A troublemaker known to the police in lederhosen. When Commissioner Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl) and his colleague Batic (Miroslav Nemec) show up in the Hasenbergl, Hackl screams, offended, and runs away. He’s not a grumbler, not one of the Bavarian originals who have a lot to moan about, but are harmless barkers. The Hackl really bites. Leitmayr has a scar on his finger from a previous meeting.
There is an investigation, there is a surprising twist at the end, Kenny sneaks further through the picture, but that’s only a sideline. This crime scene by Dagmar Gabler (script) and Katharina Bischof (director) is the record of an overwhelmed society in which social drama is stronger than crime. It’s about people who have been left behind in a rich city, who in the end are closest to themselves and quickly point to someone like Hackl, whose fuses really are constantly blowing. Nobody asks why. Who does he belong to anyway? “He still belongs to himself,” says Hackl about the dachshund Ludwig, meaning himself. Sounds like freedom, but it’s the realization that society has no place for someone like him.
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