“Crime Scene: Queens”
This is how the Munich crime thriller with Veronica Ferres will be
Udo Wachtveitl (l.) with his long-time partner Miroslav Nemec and Veronica Ferres in “Tatort: Queens”.
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In “Crime Scene: Queens” Batic and Leitmayr do not investigate in Munich, but in the village. In the middle: Veronica Ferres as a suspect.
Homeland, customs, Bavarian folklore – and in the middle of it all, a ruthlessly depicted, disgusting abuse of a powerful, old-fashioned man who abuses young women. The new Munich”Tatort: Queens” (October 29th, 8:15 p.m., the first) takes the audience not to the Bavarian capital, but to the Bavarian countryside.
Udo Wachtveitl (65) and Miroslav Nemec (69) received well-known support in their 94th case: Veronica Ferres (58) and Wolfgang Fierek (72) take on the main roles in the episode. The internationally renowned musician Stefan Dettl (42) and his band LaBrassBanda provided the film music – including a cameo appearance on a Stadl stage. But with so much Bavarian fanfare, did a good crime thriller come out?
That’s what “Crime Scene: Queens” is all about
White sausage queen meets potato and honey queen: During the top Bavarian meeting of numerous young, pretty women, each of whom represents their agricultural product with the help of their feminine charm, an assassination attempt occurs: The chairman of the Bavaria Association (Fierek) was seriously injured by a bolt gun is now in critical condition in a hospital. The investigators Batic (Nemec) and Leitmayr (Wachtveitl) discover that the injured man had previously abused his position of power to make completely inappropriate advances and sexual assaults on the women:
Hardly any of the queens were spared from his advances and repulsive actions. So each of them could have a reason to take revenge – including, of course, the coordinator Sylvia (Ferres). The investigator duo goes into the seemingly idyllic setting of the harvest nobles and looks for clues among the straw, agricultural machinery and Bavarian flags. They move among asparagus, hops and white sausage representatives from Aschaffenburg to Berchtesgaden, from Lindau to Hof. Luckily, the two quickly get support: the onion queen from Nördlingen (Daria Vivien Wolf, 22) is a police trainee in her everyday life and tries to help the experienced inspectors…
Is it worth turning on?
In any case, a “crime scene” of the “worth seeing” variety. The latest Munich crime scene, “Queens,” easily manages the balancing act between humor, suspense and current relevance. In the middle are the still convincing Nemec and Wachtveitls as the investigative team Batic and Leitmayr. They are flanked in the good Sunday evening crime thriller by a strong Ferres and the timelessly impressive Vierek. It’s also good for the grandees of the “Tatort” series to leave their usual Munich city surroundings again to carry out their investigations in an idyllic village.
The only drawback: the somewhat clumsy ending. The turn that the film takes at the end somehow seems a bit contrived and doesn’t really do justice to the whole film, the setting and the atmosphere. Here, a person has thrown his entire life overboard because of an attitude that is completely incomprehensible. The script would have benefited from a little more depth and innovation here.