The “Tatort – Fährmann” gives the Advent season a psychological thriller
Published: Tuesday, Dec 17th 2024, 12:50
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Sunday's Swiss "Tatort" is all about Christmas with fir trees and fairy lights. But the horror won't be long in coming on the fourth Advent on SRF 1.
It's just before Christmas Eve and Inspector Isabelle Grandjean (Anna Pieri Zuercher) is lonely: her son isn't coming to the party and her boyfriend is celebrating Christmas with his wife and children. The charming stranger at the Christmas market is just what she needs - so much so that she finds herself panting in a hotel bed with him hours later.
But it's not just the beautiful Marek (Lucas Gregorowicz) who takes Grandjean's breath away in "Tatort - Fährmann". She often gasps in horror in this psychological thriller. For example, when she realizes that she has made a fatal mistake in a previous case.
The man she once put behind bars in her home town of La Chaux-de-Fonds for a double murder took his own life in prison. But was he really responsible for the mysterious deaths in which the victims were found with a coin in their mouths? In Greek mythology, a coin placed in this way is the reward for the ferryman who takes the souls to the realm of the dead in Hades.
Inspector investigates on her own
Grandjean now finds just such a body in Zurich after the investigator was directed to the site by an anonymous message. Now she realizes that she was wrong back then. She wants to make amends, makes the coin disappear from the dead man's mouth and investigates on her own. Her colleague Tessa Ott (Carol Schuler) is initially in the dark about the investigation before she follows the trail of Grandjean, who has suddenly been reported ill.
As if delirious, Grandjean tries to make up for her mistake. But when the scales fall from her eyes, she has already fallen into the trap of a psychopath. Ott is now on the right track.
The dynamic between the two unequal Swiss detectives is turned on its head in this crime scene. Grandjean is usually the one who always keeps a cool head, while Ott often acts impulsively. This time Grandjean loses her cool and Ott is the sensible one.
Gregorowicz brilliantly plays the handsome Marek, who turns out to be an ice-cold management consultant who causes mass redundancies among his company's clients. Such a quiet, elegant man - can he really be up to no good? His eyes and the sometimes eerie soundtrack are likely to make the hairs on the back of the audience's necks stand up.
"Tatort - Fährmann" airs on Sunday, December 22 at 20:05 on SRF 1 and in the Play Suisse stream.
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