Im Schatten (2010) follows
Line of Events
Twelve years after his escape, professional criminal Trojan returns to Berlin. A valuable painting is to be stolen in the city. But a meticulously planned robbery soon gets out of hand.
Berlin, how beautiful you are
Your splashes of color are always against a gray background, your sound is unpleasant, your light shines artificially, you look crazy because you madmen are a magnet, Moloch, you are a legend, but why, for what? There is a heist film today, without the glitz. One that lives less on tension and action than on its mood.
Marked, lonely, disappointed
Minimalist, sparse, joyless, gloomy. Like Berlin, but different, because “Scorched Earth” is certainly not gossipy and self-promoting. The characters are at the center of life, not in a bubble.
Every straw means everything
And how it ends, well, that’s just how it is. I don’t remember the content of the predecessor, but it doesn’t matter, because this is an independent work. Not bad, quite the opposite, but with the feeling of watching a better “Tatort”.
But without the poorly cast detectives and the director who thinks he’s one of them
For the primitive “Tatort” audience, however, this film is probably not for them – they are not taken for fools here.