For the fictitious federal government, which performs political egg dances in the new NDR "crime scene", the compromise with tyrants is part of the business basis.
Some call it political realism.
After all, you make peace with enemies, but beneficial trade deals with flawless dictators?
If the tyrant of an imaginary South American state, who has members of the opposition tortured and killed, wants to spend nice days with his German wife in a luxury hotel in Hanover, the security authorities have to stand by their guns.
What stinks Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring), who is supposed to coordinate the mission to protect President Mendez with colleague Grosz (Franziska Weisz).
Despite the "Sympathy for the Devil" ringtone.
Above all, he gets angry when the dictator's entourage demands that demonstrations be prevented.
He offers a few more officers to the liaison officer and a crisp lesson in civil liberties.
Spoken to the wind - she retaliates with a malicious smile.
The tyrant's son goes to boarding school
Falke only finds out that Juan Mendez (Riccardo Campione), the tyrant's son, anonymously enjoys the advantages of humanistic education in the tradition of Humboldt and Schiller in a boarding school an hour's drive away, when the seventeen-year-old disappears.
From the "Rosenhag" institution, in which riding horses and egalitarianism are part of the basic package of student care that is smoothed out without contradiction.
Here the investigator is assigned the village policeman Wacker (Arash Marandi), a sympathetic profiler-to-be who, at the end of this case, prefers to examine vandalism at bus stops again.
It's tiptoe mode – don't disrupt politics, find the kidnappers, and keep the mess under wraps – while Grosz is supposed to handle the diplomatic part.
Then Juan is found dead with his tongue cut out.
Hanna (Valerie Stoll)
Juan's girlfriend, start talking.
Things are getting weirder and stranger.
Not only because the boarding school director Marie Bergson (Katarina Gaub) uses her unusually short line to the Minister of the Interior.
Her husband Andreas (Christian Erdmann) is a genuine socialist who, as a "PoWi" teacher, spreads an all-equal mood among future top managers.
Some are obviously the same.
The star student August Finkenberger (Anselm Ferdinand Bresgott), the son of a judge with a penchant for child abuse, who gave a lecture on the "moral duty of tyrannicide" that was conspicuously applauded by the teacher: "Violence is a solution," was his conclusion.
He should have chosen the examples with more care:
The issue of tyrannicide can be viewed with renewed urgency because of Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine.
The author Jochen Bitzer ("The Jakob von Metzler case") cannot have guessed how up-to-date this "crime scene" was, but his student August at least refers to the Berlin "Tiergarten murder" and the Navalny case.
It is said that Bitzer was inspired to write his screenplay by North Korean President Kim Jong-un and his schooling in Switzerland.
Other despots also knew and still appreciate the system of European education.
There is exciting potential here that “Tyran Murder” only partially utilizes.
Christoph Stark (director) stages the "crime scene" without nonsense, Eeva Fleig's camera is convincingly focused.
But in contrast to the coherent political NDR "Tatort: Burned", in which Falke, then with Katharina Lorenz (Petra Schmidt-Schaller), clears up a crime that is reminiscent of the case of Oury Jallohs, who burned to death in police custody in Dessau (Book Stefan Kolditz, directed by Thomas Stuber), "Tyrannenmord" is not entirely convincing.
The outline of the problem is successful, but then weaknesses in the construction of connections and superfluous secondary staff (rich parents) spoil the good impression.
Most importantly, "Tyran Murder" stops when it gets interesting.
From the further fate of Juan's bodyguard Carlos (José Barros),
who plays a central role, one would have liked to know more.
Including the inevitable diplomatic upheavals at the highest level.
The scene of the
crime: tyrannicide
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