This text was first published when this crime scene was first broadcast in September 2018. Now the case is repeated in the first.
Wild animals have been in business for a few years crime scene and in Police call, and mostly it was the wolf who brought the protagonists of the crime films into contact with the limits of civilization. in the crime scene From this week wild boars and foxes are out and about in Berlin at night, looking for food and maybe for a connection, and the message is the same: animals are only human – and vice versa.
The inspectors Rubin and Karow (Meret Becker and Mark Waschke) investigate two cases in “Animals of the Big City” that are not related to each other, apart from a thematic bracket like from the literature seminar: A jogger dies because she is in the wilderness around the capital is underestimated, and a young man dies at the hand of an artificially intelligent robot that sells coffee on Kurfürstendamm without any help. So man between the force of nature and progress.
The crime scene of the RBB (book: Beate Langmaack; director: Roland Suso Richter) is then not as cerebral in detail as its theoretical superstructure, rather a classic murderer search in the private lives of the two victims. Spoiler: didn’t go so well with either of them. The jogger and her husband had lost their child shortly after the birth, which is bad enough in itself, but then also seriously affected their relationship; and the man with the coffee robot lived with his wife and a lot of cats in a dark house with cat litter instead of carpet on the floors. The film works with a beautifully staged desolation, accompanied by Nils Frahm, who works for Sebastian Schippers Victoria provided the film music, and this crime scene also owes its big city sound to it.
It all goes wonderfully with Rubin and Karow, because these two investigators have always been very dissatisfied with life. Rubin because she no longer has a private life, Karow (presumably) because he never had one. In his apartment, only the voice computer asks if he would like to have a cup of tea. Lonely wolf.