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The Zurich “Tatort” “Züri brännt” has learned from mistakes. But the dialogues in Swiss German are not convincing.
Down with the Alps, Gubser and Lucerne! Unobstructed view of Züri! “What symbolic power there is in the name of the first episode of” Tatort “in Zurich,” Züri brännt “! On the fortieth anniversary of the youth riots, the new curators of” Tatort “Tessa Ott (Carol Schuler) and Isabelle Grandjean ( Anna Pieri Zuercher) have embarked on a mission to free the Swiss “Tatort” from the dusty image of its Lucerne predecessor.
So a lot is happening for the Zürichberg boy, Ott, and the ambitious working-class daughter Isabelle Grandjean of La Chaux-de-Fonds. And the stakes are high for Swiss television, which with its smart city-clad inspectors wants to show Germans that Switzerland is not just about making bullets. In their first case, “Züri brännt”, the Grandjean / Ott duo encountered the “engines” of the 1980s and their opponents from the Zurich police at the time. What they all have in common is that today they are established people who sit in executive chairs and still can’t get away from their past.
Before a burning corpse at the Rote Fabrik cultural center sets off on a research trip into the past, this “Tatort” travels with power and an aesthetic that stands apart from some of the routine German “Tatort” productions.
Newcomer Tatort, Swiss director Viviane Andereggen, has a great sense of mood.
Viviane andereggen
Swiss director
It has the original footage of the street protests from the 1981 cult experimental film “Züri brännt” cut out with scenes of Tessa Ott riding her bicycle in what is now Zurich. Yesterday and today they are very profiled. And one is happy that in episode one (episode two is sadly about the murder of the owner of a chocolate factory in Zürichberg) there is still no cliché alarm.
Tangled in the plot halfway
A symbolic burning of images, two suicides (one sacrifices one of the best names in the cast) and a rolling skull awaken the pathos. The crime that lies in the past, which is the key to the case, probably would have been eliminated in Zurich rather than staged theatrically. Yes, the pigeons threaten to fly again that once flew out of a Lucerne hotel room when Flücki loved his CIA agent in the first Lucerne ‘Tatort’, with all the bad memories of it.
It would be better if the film did not incite its investigators, who are the most opposed, like the battle chickens (Ott: “Cynical asshole” / “Grandjean:” Ferme ta geule “). In any case, the third corner ironically lifted from Isabelle Grandjean’s mouth raises her eyebrows.
Tessa Ott (Carol Schuler) and Isabelle Grandjean (Anna Pieri Zuercher) question the protagonists of the past: What does former police officer Max Alpiger (Hans Hollmann) know, what is he hiding?
Okay, SRF, understood, they’re both not green. But the two character actresses know something about their subject. There is also potential in the figure of the ambitious prosecutor Anita Wegenast (Rachel Braunschweig). But the secret script very poor dialogues for everyone.
It remains a mystery why the SRF did not rely on new writers. The duo Lorenz Langenegger and Stefan Brunner were already responsible for the clumsy narrative contributions of Lucerna “Little Princes” (2016) and “War Splinters” (2017). Then, as now, they get tangled up in their half-story stories, just to help themselves break out of the narrative impasse with all kinds of twists and turns.
Presumably, his celebrated KKL crime scene “Music Dies Last” was the ticket to Zurich. SRF has forgotten that the story of this experimental film was not as decisive as the way it was made, it was thanks to the director and cameraman. Interestingly, the lazy dialogue sounds even better in standard German. This is due to Carol Schuler’s pure scenic German, which takes away some of her naivety from her investigative figure Tessa Ott.
Ott seems less silly than when the script allows her to spit out Swiss German Buddhist names with a grating, grating sound (“Akuma”). And since Isabelle Grandjean speaks High German with French overtones anyway, here’s our recommendation: Switch to ARD. Then not everything will be fine. But better.
«Tatort» – «Züri is burning». Sunday October 18, SRF 1, 8:05 pm Trailer here.
