All over. The marriage of Nina (Laura Tonke) and Paul (Felix Klare) is over. They still live in a stately villa in Hamburg, but Paul has lost his job as a doctor and is now working as a pharmaceutical salesman. Meanwhile, Nina helps out in a cleaning operation. It is only with difficulty that they can protect the crumbling facade from their little son Tim. This is the starting point for the drama “No Simple Murder” this Wednesday (8:15 p.m.) in the first.
During a chance encounter, Nina flirts with her son’s hockey coach, Viktor. She goes home with him. There she is almost raped by Viktor. When she fights back, she kills him with a trophy. Paul witnesses what is happening, he has followed the two. The couple drove home in a hurry without notifying the police. Inspector Märthesheimer (Barbara Philipp) still gets close to the two with the investigation. The quarreling couple has to stick together very closely.
Gripping drama reveals the breakdown of a family
Director Sebastian Ko (51, “Helen Dorn”) has staged a gripping drama (book: Stefan Rogall) that mercilessly reveals the disintegration of a family. The husband takes pills, which is why he is no longer allowed to work as a doctor and has to work as a pharmaceutical salesman. Meanwhile, his wife, once a successful hockey player, is trying desperately to keep up the bourgeois facade in front of friends and neighbors. The spouses are often shown in close-up, which makes their increasing estrangement all the greater.
Laura Tonke (48, “Beyond the Spree”) plays this deeply sad and almost emotionally cold woman who unintentionally kills a person, not exactly a sympathetic character – but excellent. Her Nina is still suffering from a premature birth in which she lost a child. Amazingly, she doesn’t seem at all surprised that her husband suddenly appeared at the scene of the crime that fateful night. It’s not really explained either.
Felix Klare (44, “Tatort”) tries everything as Paul to save his little family. He loves his wife, whose infidelity he seems to suspect – he is also completely at a loss, has to do a job that he deeply despises. Finally, both of them – independently – are subjected to a rigorous interrogation in which they cannot hear each other, but can see across the hall. This scene alone is so exciting that the viewer really hopes that the two of them will come out of it in one piece.
