Tatort today from Cologne: This is how emotional the crime thriller will be on Sunday

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“Tatort” from Cologne
Inspector Ballauf is in love: Can this work out?

Max Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt) in Love: He has been in a relationship with Nicola Koch (Jenny Schily) for some time.

© WDR/Bavaria Fiction GmbH/Martin Valentin Menke

Sarah Stendel

Things get emotional in “Crime Scene: This Time It’s Different” from Cologne: Inspector Ballauf is newly married and can hardly believe his happiness in love – until his chosen one becomes the focus of a murder investigation.

  • 4 out of 5 points
  • slightly melodramatic, excellently acted crime thriller

What’s the matter?

The chief inspectors Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt) and Schenk (Dietmar Bär) find out that a murder victim, the unemployed Peer Schwarz, was deliberately run over by a car. In his apartment they find large amounts of cash and documents that point to the systematic blackmail of well-known personalities. Schwarz obviously looked for incriminating material in their social media past. Did Peer Schwarz have to die at the hands of one of his own blackmail victims? The first clue leads to pop singer Mariella Rosanelli (Leslie Malton). But suddenly Ballauf himself is affected: his new girlfriend Nicola Koch (Jenny Schily), with whom he is on cloud nine, could also have something to do with the case. Things get emotional for the investigator.

Why is “Crime Scene: This Time It’s Different” worth it?

Have you ever heard Leslie Malton belt out a hit song? “The man who makes it worth it / To know where he lives” she sings as Mariella Rosanelli and that alone is worth tuning in for. Good actors and a quick narrative with a lot of atmosphere surrounding the love story make this crime thriller from Cologne stand out.

What bothers?

One particular stylistic device from this “crime scene” takes some getting used to: trust between Ballauf and his girlfriend is crumbling, and a lot remains unsaid between them. But her thoughts can be heard as a voice-over. What often helps to understand the inspector’s emotional life and to get closer to the love story (“I can’t lose you, I just found you”) sometimes slips into the cheesy. The fantasy sequence in which Ballauf imagines the crime could have been avoided entirely.

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The commissioners?

Schenk becomes a minor character, this “crime scene” is the purest Ballauf show: for the investigator it becomes private as rarely. We see him in the throes of love with his new girlfriend Nicola Koch; the two have been a couple for three months. “This time it’s different,” he swears to his slightly skeptical colleague Schenk. Ballauf is glued to his cell phone in love, Schenk takes care of the case almost alone. And then Ballauf begins to investigate privately on his own initiative – and has to act contrary to his feelings.

Turn on or off?

Turn on! And watch how romance films and crime thrillers mix when the eternal bachelor Ballauf meets his soul mate.

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