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“Tatort” repeat from Dresden
Brutal and bloody: This “crime scene” is not for the faint of heart
Commissioner Karin Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski, right) and her colleague Leonie Winkler (Cornelia Gröschel) are chasing a serial killer
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Hard times for “Tatort” commissioner Karin Gorniak: The Dresden investigator is targeted by a serial killer. The case of “The Nest” is a dark psychological thriller. ARD repeats the strip from 2019.
- 3 out of 5 points
- A psycho-shocker in the style of Scandinavian crime thrillers. Not a film to watch alone.
What’s the matter?
Inspector Karin Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski) and her team are called to an abandoned hotel in the woods. There, the investigators make a creepy discovery: they find several stuffed corpses sitting at the table and on the sofa. Another dead man lies on a dissection table, bloodless and stiff. Gorniak and her colleague Leonie Winkler (Cornelia Gröschel) want to lure the perpetrator into a trap – but the plan fails. Gorniak is badly injured. After six weeks in a coma and three weeks in rehab, she returns to duty and transfers to the evidence room. But the unsolved case won’t let her go. Together with Leonie Winkler, Gorniak resumes the investigation.
Why is the case “The Nest” worthwhile?
An empty villa in the woods, horribly mauled corpses, a psychopath who hunts people – including Commissioner Karin Gorniak: “The Nest”, the seventh case of the Dresden investigative team, is a psychological thriller based on Scandinavian crime thrillers. Not a film for the faint-hearted, but a surprising change from the weekly survey routine à la “Where were you between 8 and 10 p.m. yesterday?”
What bothers?
In the first 30 minutes you want to bite the edge of the sofa with excitement – after that the drama unfortunately flattens out a bit. Also, because the perpetrator has already been identified and it is just senseless torment and a series of brutal violence. In addition, the viewer always has a knowledge advantage, while the investigators grope in the dark until the end.
The Commissioners?
“Is that her?” Inspector Karin Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski) briefly welcomes her new colleague Leonie Winkler (Cornelia Gröschel. Her former partner Henni Sieland (Alwara Höfels) left the service in 2018. The new one is the daughter of the former head of the commissioner Otto Winkler and not only has to prove to her father. Gorniak also has reservations about the young colleague who, although she was the best in her year at the police academy, approaches the case without feeling or intuition – and fails at the crucial moment. “We are not partners and we are not buddies”, Gorniak says to Winkler in one scene.A difficult start.
Turn on or off?
If you have strong nerves and a penchant for dark psychological thrillers, you are welcome to watch “The Nest” again. If you get scared easily, you should rather leave the TV off.
The “Tatort: The Nest” was first broadcast on April 28, 2019. ARD repeats the case on August 14, 2022 at 8:15 p.m.