This review was published when the crime scene was first broadcast on December 1, 2019. To repeat the case on August 22nd, 2021 in the first, we will publish the text again.
Since Wotan Wilke Möhring has played investigator Thorsten Falke on NDR, the audience has been waiting for the one outstanding, resonant falcon case. Actually, this man with his street credibility is made for this format, he should be a Schimmi with manners, at least that was announced at the start of duty in 2013. A punk at heart, but also with a sense for light food and health: Falke’s favorite drink is milk.
In the episode “Querschläger” by Stephan Rick (book: Oke Stielow) the milk motif, which has gotten a little lost in between, appears again, the investigator treats himself to a glass. But the fact that one can remember this is also due to the fact that the story as such does not completely grasp one, it is Falke’s 12th case, and the 12th case is not the big hit either. Falke is such a nice guy, he always replaces the exclamation mark with a brotherly “okay” https://www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/. “Don’t do that again, okay?”, Says Falke. “Now we’re going to see your brother together, okay?” But sometimes, when you see Möhring as a falcon like that, you remember, for example, his role in a television film The last beautiful day, Möhring as the husband of a suicidal woman who has to deal with his two children on his own. That was how sad and desperate was the man he was playing – a great television moment, and not a bit sugar-coated.
Sure, that one crime scene is not a drama, there must still be space for the investigating colleague Julia Grosz (Franziska Weisz), and in fact the two are very cooperative with each other. It’s all OK. Still, it’s amazing that this remarkable actor Möhring is so pale in his own Crime scenesthat are not his at all, he does not shape them, and perhaps that is what is wanted. But the restraint is carried over to the stories a little, “Querschläger” is well done, and yet all of this is also to be expected – and sometimes really sugar-coated. There is a good little man (Milan Peschel) who needs money for the operation of his terminally ill daughter, and because he doesn’t have it, he wants to get it from the bigwig. In addition, the complaint about the health system makes a somewhat penetrating noise crime scene as an instructional film, however, has actually had its day. Peschel also outshines the others because their actions are incorporated so half-cooked and carelessly. Ms. Grosz is poked at by a colleague, the joint is circling in the Falke house.
At most solid Sunday evening program and thus in the tone of the previous pieces with Thorsten Falke (“I’m full of Emo”), who, by the way, shares his milk with a stoned (!) Cat. You rarely see something like that.
The first, Sunday, 8.15 p.m.