2024-09-30 21:49:27
After ten years and 19 cases, Margarita Broich and Wolfram Koch, alias Janneke and Brix, say goodbye to the “crime scene”. Your last case will be special.
Anna Janneke and Paul Brix go hunting for criminals one last time in the first. Margarita Broich and Wolfram Koch are putting an end to the “crime scene”. The Sunday crime thriller “It’s so green when Frankfurt’s mountains are in bloom” therefore has the difficult task of giving them a worthy end – and presenting an exciting crime film at the same time.
Tristan Grünfels (Matthias Brandt), psychological psychotherapist and victim support officer for the Frankfurt police, actually has everything you could wish for: a big house, a wife, two children and a good job. Nevertheless, his life has fallen apart. He keeps having lapses, talks to himself and sees himself commenting on his actions.
The developing psychosis culminates in the art-loving Grünfels emotionally killing a law enforcement officer while rescuing a painting from the trash. When he wants to confess the murder to his colleagues in the Frankfurt police, due to a misunderstanding, Anna Janneke instead employs him as a victim support worker for the husband and son of the murdered woman. From then on, Grünfels is closely involved in the investigation into his own crime.
A game of entanglements ensues in which the Frankfurt underworld is also involved. Because of his gambling addiction, Grünfels’ brother Hagen is being blackmailed by the red light boss, whom Paul Brix suspects of murdering one of his informants. Grünfels wants to help him, but because his wife is having an affair, his daughter is pregnant and his son doesn’t do what his father wants anyway, the psychologist’s nerves go completely crazy…
Definitely. The perpetrator is directly identified in this “crime scene” because you accompany him in his crime and experience his feelings about it through his imagined superego. But the film still works. Because this trick creates an unusual closeness to the murderer, you are drawn deeper and deeper into his psychological abyss. There is a constant fluctuation between pity and contempt for the perpetrator, whose budding psychosis Matthias Brandt portrays in a particularly gripping way.
The motif of Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” as a symbolic image of unquenched longing runs through the film from the first second and will certainly be recognized as such by art fans. In combination with the film music inspired by Richard Wagner – like Friedrich, a romantic, the name “Grünfels” could also allude to Wagner and his green hill in Bayreuth – this creates a special atmosphere.
Local color is also provided: a Bundesliga professional is featured in this crime thriller – Timothy Chandler. The now 34-year-old won the Europa League and the DFB Cup with Eintracht Frankfurt, wore the Frankfurt jersey in almost 200 games and became an identification figure. Recently, however, he was no longer a regular employee and apparently had time for a guest role as a cleaner – similar to Joshua Kimmich in “Tatort” from Munich, who appeared there twice.
Meanwhile, Brix and Janneke live in their own world. You don’t just want to call on the investigators to finally wake up and understand the connections. But every time they are about to do so, they are disturbed. A circumstance that gives the “crime scene” tension, but could also drive some viewers to despair. All in all, it is a worthy final case for Margarita Broich and Wolfram Koch.
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