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“Tatort” scene with Ines Marie Westernströer (l.), Vladimir Burlakov and Brigitte Urhausen: Who is responsible for the victim’s heart attack?
Photo: Manuela Meyer / SR
All's well that ends well? In the end, the gambling addicted pregnant woman was on the plane bound for freedom with a bag full of money, and the two inspectors Hölzer (Vladimir Burlakov) and Schürk (Daniel Sträßer) were finally free of the blood money that Schürk's father had left to them in an earlier episode.
The finale of the Saar "crime scene" on Sunday seemed as contrived as the whole case: Hölzer had crept into a group of gambling addicts who spent the days and nights with silly bets, nicotine chewing gum, heroin and peanut flips Ears skinned. There was also a drama about having children between two of the gambling addicts. Hölzer believed that the troop was responsible for the death of an old lady who had suffered a heart attack behind the wheel of her car. The unusual crime: murder by scaring.
In our review we wrote: "The well-rehearsed duo Hendrik Hölzemann (book) and Christian Theede (director) unfortunately remains far below the high level of storytelling with which they launched the Saar 'crime scene' around Hölzer and Schürk four years ago have. While the challenges often seem like something from a worse RTL game show, the criminal dialogues sound like Telekolleg on the separation of powers. At one point the public prosecutor lectures to the excited Hölzer, who is the only one in the station who sees the dead driver as a murder case: 'Mr. Hölzer, it is the task of the executive to collect clear evidence of a crime and the task of the judiciary to evaluate it.' (. ..) Learned something again. “A few peanut flips on top.”
The “crime scene” from Saarbrücken runs at irregular intervals. Another episode is not expected until next year. Inspector actor Vladimir Burlakov is also busy without the crime thriller. Among other things, he can be seen in the “Herzkino” series in “Hotel Barcelona”, which is about a German-Spanish entrepreneurial family. The Moscow-born actor has also just finished filming the artist biography “Münter & Kandinsky,” in which he portrays the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky.
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