Murot - 07 - Murot und das Murmeltier

Overview

LKA investigator Felix Murot's phone rings at 7:30 in the morning. It is his assistant Magda Wächter who tells him that there has been a hostage situation in a bank and that he must come immediately. "Who is still robbing a bank today?" murmurs Murot, and: "Probably another desperate amateur." The guard should prepare everything, that's a classic police routine. Wash, shave, get dressed, the same procedure every morning. Murot drives to the scene of the crime, puts on a protective vest and goes into the bank to persuade the bank robber and hostage-taker to give up. Thanks to his knowledge of police psychology, he is able to convince the hostage-taker to turn himself in. But at the last moment something goes wrong. Murot is shot and wakes upback home bathed in sweat. His phone rings. It's guardian. She calls him to an armed bank robbery with hostage situation. A routine case – it seems. Murot fears for his sanity - At the Festival of German Film in Ludwigshafen, "Tatort: Murot and the Marmot" was awarded the Film Art Prize in early September 2018. According to the jury, the film "convincingly and ingeniously praises the time loop in which the oversupply of television crime production is stuck. Imaginative and cleverly staged, dramaturgically refined, full of wit and variety and always surprising, Dietrich Brüggemann leads his great leading actor Ulrich Tukur through the turbulence of madness to a happy ending."