“Tatort: Miracles always happen”
This is the new Munich crime thriller
“Tatort: Miracles always happen”: Commissioners Ivo Batic (Miroslav Nemec) and Franz Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl) interrogate Sister Antonia (Maresi Riegner).
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This time it’s going to the country. In the “Tatort: Miracles There Are Always Again”, the Munich commissioners investigate in a monastery in the foothills of the Alps.
With the “Tatort: Miracles are always there” (19.12, 8.15 p.m., the first) is one of the rare cases in which the Munich investigators Ivo Batic (Miroslav Nemec, 67) and Franz Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl, 63 ) operate in the countryside.
That’s what a crime thriller is all about
The investigation into a murder case leads the Munich inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr to Dannerberg in the foothills of the Alps. There the dead man last worked as an auditor in a nunnery. The godly life, however, only seems contemplative at first glance. The evidence that the monastery caretaker was involved in the act quickly grew. But what is the motive? Were there irregularities in the books that the auditor threatened to uncover?
No less irritating are two ambassadors from Rome who, parallel to Batic and Leitmayr, are carrying out their own investigations. Do the nuns want to cover up their own misconduct? And do other wondrous secrets lurk behind the monastery walls?
Is it worth switching on?
Yes, although the actual murder case seems a bit too constructed.
Apart from that, the clash of two very different worlds is very exciting to watch. “In the world of women, it is essentially about maintaining a community – and about very individual feelings. Their regular everyday life leaves room for conversation and, in addition to a lot of daily work in the monastery, also for beautiful things,” explains director Maris Pfeiffer (59, “Tatort.” : With a steady hand “). On the other hand is the world of men. What is meant is that of “the caretaker and his helper, the Vatican investigator and that of Commissioners Batic and Leitmayer,” continued Pfeiffer. “It’s a world that is more shaped by logic and practical issues, including the world of big gestures and fat cars,” she says.
And there are many individual scenes that are well worth seeing: Batic and Leitmayr’s witty confrontation with the church itself and the nuns’ monastic life in particular, the commissioners looking for the network, assistant Kalli (Ferdinand Hofer, born 1993) in something else Home office or the surprising resolution of the investigation by the Vatican representatives …
Despite their visual uniformity, each of the nuns depicted is a real character. “They are not remote beings,” agrees the director. There is more that connects than that which divides, and more things in common than you would think. “The nuns in the film have become six very different female characters who, like all of us, have longings, fantasies and fears that determine their actions,” says Pfeiffer.
By the way, Berlin “Tatort” fans get the opportunity to see film star Corinna Harfouch (67, “Germany 89”) in the crime fiction format – albeit as a nun and thus in a completely different role than that of the future commissioner .. .
This country thriller was filmed in front of and in the most picturesque and at the same time puristic setting of the Carmelite monastery Reisach in Oberaudorf in the district of Rosenheim. The very idyllic atmosphere in the old walls and in the garden is really nicely captured – at night, however, it is no longer that picturesque.