Lena Odenthal heralds the end of the "Tatort" summer break and really gets down to business. Her opponent: a Bundeswehr captain who loves strict rules and deeply despises women. "The interrogation" is a chamber play with a pull effect - and some bang effects.
What is happening?
The successful investment banker Ann-Kathrin Werfel dies a cruel death, she is burned alive. The first suspicion falls on her husband Patrick (Jonathan Werfel). The couple live separately, there is talk of domestic violence, their son is staying with his grandmother. This cannot be substantiated at first, further clues lead Lena Odenthal (Ulrike Folkerts), Johanna Stern (Lisa Bitter) and their team to a nearby army barracks and there to Captain Kessler (Götz Otto).
The people of Ludwigshafen seem to be on the right track here. Kessler's car was spotted near the scene of the crime, and the smart soldier turned out to be a macho with a tendency to short-tempered, and self-confident women in particular are a thorn in his side. But the man with the distinctive profile is a tough dog and hard to beat. Until another crime occurs and a deadly countdown runs in the background of the increasingly feverish investigation.
What is it really about?
It's about the old class of patriarchy, a branch of social evolution whose last hour should have struck. Men who remain in old role clichés and, faced with a gender balance, flee into malice, hatred and violence. As Die Ärzte sang in one of their most famous songs: "Men are pigs". Some of these specimens can be seen in "The Interrogation".
Zapp-Moment?
The burned corpse already looks pretty bad, the sight is not for the faint of heart.
Wow-Factor?
This time he cooks on a low flame, but as consistently as a dinner from the slow food kitchen: it takes patience and attention, then it develops into an extremely tasty crime meal. "Das Verhör" is particularly flavorful due to the narrowness of the scenery on the one hand, and the courage of author Stefan Dähne and director Esther Wenger on the other hand to make the didactic index finger small to make the eruptive moments all the more expansive.
How was it?
9 out of 10 points - gets going a little slowly, but that's exactly why it develops high entertainment potential.
