2023-09-24 19:30:00
– Finally an acceptable “crime scene” from Zurich!
The latest episode from the Limmat city is clearly better than the last – also aesthetically.
Published today at 9:30 p.m
Inspector Grandjean (Anna Pieri Zuercher, front) discovers a child under the skirt of a murdered woman – and her maternal side. Behind the window: colleague Tessa Ott (Carol Schuler).
Photo: Sava Hlavacek (SRF)
We are relieved! The new Zurich “crime scene” works, although the team has not changed since the last, unconvincing one. A red kite flies peering through a bright blue sky, but a little later the head of the innovative company Security Rumpf hits the data protection-sensitive Commissioner Tessa Ott (Carol Schuler) with the manslaughter argument: “In the future, the sky will belong to the drones.” Nobody can change anything about it. And the company boss wants to destroy the young start-up that could actually do something about it with its anti-facial recognition software.
In principle, he is probably right: Apart from the civilian and private use of the small flying miracles, the Swiss army chief recently emphasized in this newspaper that the military is focusing on drone development. And what’s true is that the new “crime scene” belongs to the drones.
Always on the hunt
Director Tobias Ineichen lets us see the world again and again through the camera eye of one of these eerily whirring machines, from above, zooming into offices, following people on the street, always on the hunt – right up to the final showdown. The exhausted Ott then comments on this at the end with the words “I was more afraid of a drone than of a person.”
Enthusiasm looks different: Inspector Ott (Carol Schuler) lets a drone land on her hand.
Photo: Sava Hlavacek (SRF)
In other words: the people of Zurich remained true to their threatening tone in the episode “Blinder Fleck”. But they managed this apocalyptic sound and the whole film much better than before: with less soul bombast and over-the-top absurdities, with more sobriety, speed and “crime scene” feeling.
Troubled children and old crimes
It’s actually a shame that Schuler, who shines with new hardness, can’t bring in a song this time (she recently made headlines with the feminist song “Nitroglycerine”). Her otherwise more rational fellow inspector Isabelle Grandjean (Anna Pieri Zuercher), on the other hand, is allowed to show her soft, motherly side for once and find a connection to a traumatized witness of primary school age.
The story leads to a safe deposit box in a Swiss bank – and to the mountains of Bosnia. A suspect is given by “Wilder” star Marcus Signer.
Photo: Sava Hlavacek (SRF)
But don’t worry, the screenwriters, the Swiss-German duo Karin Heberlein and Claudia Puetz, don’t forego the go-to elements of the Zurich “crime scene”: These include disturbed children – here a six-year-old is found under the skirt of her knocked-down mother; her murdered father lies a few meters away. The story is also typical, going back to old crimes: here to the past of two of the dead in war-torn Bosnia, who were connected to a highly suspicious ex-mercenary leader (“Wilder” star Marcus Signer).
And this time too, the connections are quite complicated, although everything flows into one another more organically than in previous Zurich “crime scene” debacles; also aesthetic. Yes, definitely watchable. It’s fitting that the city council has just asked the local council to support production with 400,000 francs annually from 2024 to 2027.
More about the Zurich “crime scene”Dear Alexandra works as a culture editor in the life department. She writes primarily about theater as well as social and educational issues. Studied German, English and philosophy in Konstanz, Oxford and Freiburg i Br.More information
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