Borowski hears it on the car radio in the morning. A psychopathic serial killer breaks out of the Kiel prison and starts killing again. The Commissioner knows: this will not be a good day.
Kiel – For the Kiel “Tatort” commissioner Klaus Borowski (Axel Milberg) it is the resurrection of a nightmare. The culpable serial killer Kai Korthals causes chaos in the prison during a rehearsal of the theater group and fled the penal system murderously.
A psychologically charged game of cat and mouse begins, which Borowski pushes to his limits. “You lost, Klaus, or do you want another round?” Asks the psychopath Korthals, played by Lars Eidinger, who Borowski has already seen in the two episodes “The silent guest” and “The return of the silent guest” had brought the edge of resilience. The third part of the trilogy, “Borowski and the good person”, runs on Sunday at 8.15 p.m. in the first.
The script comes from the award-winning author Sascha Arango, who has already contributed numerous books for the “Tatort” in Kiel. The director was Ilker Çatak, who switched to television for the first time after having made a movie. The bar was high, he says. He tried to find points of contact from the first two parts. Kai Korthals always touched him very strongly when he had something childishly naive. “This ambivalence between this childish quay and this devilish quay, it totally fascinated me.”
Tensions arise between the often laconic and stoic Borowski and his self-confident, pushing colleague Mila Sahin (Almila Bagriacik), which are discharged in pointed dialogues. She accuses him of “working according to the rules”, he rules with “almost childlike defiance,” as Milberg explains. “I want him to disappear from the world, just not be there, no longer exist,” says Borowski about Korthals in such a situation.
There are enough points in history where Borowski is not a good police officer, where he makes mistakes, where he is knocked down, says Milberg of the inspector. “His excessive demands in his inability, in his resistance to the task, I find everything wonderful.”
The film reaches an almost touching climax in a bathtub scene between Korthals and the blind telephone counseling worker Teresa (Sabine Timoteo), who sent him letters to the detention center and who believes in what the killer keeps saying: “I am not a bad person. ”A little later, Borowski and Korthals experience an unbelievable rapprochement between investigator and criminal in a high-rise scene. dpa
