"Crime Scene" from the Lucerne KKL
The latest Lucerne crime scene makes music the main character: the entire plot of "Tatort - Die Musik stirbt zuletzt" takes place in Lucerne's KKL in real time, i.e. for almost ninety minutes. To capture this dynamic, the film was shot in a single take.
The patron Walter Loving (Hans Hollmann) organizes a benefit concert with the Argentinian Jewish Chamber Orchestra (Orchestra Jakobsplatz Munich). Music by composers who perished in concentration camps during the Second World War will be performed in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
However, Loving's son Franky (Andri Schenardi) is not the only one with a score to settle with his father. Jewish pianist Miriam Goldstein (Theresa Harder) is also planning to reveal a dark secret about the Loving family during the concert. An unknown blackmailer, however, wants to prevent this. In addition, the orchestra's clarinettist, Vincent Goldstein (Patrick Elias), is the target of a poison attack.
To avoid panic among the audience, the concert continues. While the music on stage reaches its climax, detectives Flückiger and Ritschard look deeper and deeper into the abyss of the Loving family. At breakneck speed, they combine their way through a labyrinth of jealousy, betrayal and bitterness. In the end, they are confronted with the question of whether the good deeds in a person's life outweigh their bad ones.
First broadcast: Sunday, August 5, 2018, 8:05 p.m., SRF 1
