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Farewell to the cult duo after 35 yearsBig secret about the last Munich “crime scene” for Batic and Leitmayr!
Miroslav Nemec (l.) and Udo Wachtveitl at the premiere of the last Munich “crime scene”
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Two “Tatort” legends say goodbye!
The start of the double episode was dark, exciting and grippingly told. With “Imvergänglich Part 2”, the Munich “Tatort” is now finally entering the home stretch on Easter Monday (April 6th) – and as it bids farewell to Batic and Leitmayr, it focuses more on melancholy, friendship and open questions.
“Imperishable Part 2” will be shown on Easter Monday on ARD
With “Unvergänglich Part 1” the Munich “Tatort” showed that saying goodbye doesn’t automatically have to sink into nostalgia. The prelude to the finale by Batic (Miroslav Nemec, 71) and Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl, 67) was above all a gripping, dark crime thriller with a lot of tension and captivating scenes.
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Now the actual conclusion follows on Easter Monday from 8:15 p.m. on the first with part 2 – and it remains a bit under wraps until the end. Not only do the viewers not yet know how the last chapter for the cult duo ends, the final minutes were also kept a big secret for all press representatives in advance. There is not only sadness surrounding the farewell of the Munich investigators, but also real tension about how exactly their last case together will turn out.
After the nerve-wracking first part, the focus is now on what remains after active service. How does retirement feel when you have been defined almost exclusively by your work for decades? And what happens if a case is not yet closed? This is exactly where Part 2 draws its appeal – even if the film as a whole relies a bit more on a farewell mood and nostalgia than the gripping opening.
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Four days before retirement, Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr were drawn into a disturbing final case. Deep beneath the city, the body of a woman had been discovered, burned beyond recognition – a mysterious find with no clear traces. The investigation led to a network of sublet apartments, hidden entrances and a perpetrator who apparently used keys to gain access to strange places.
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The dubious Mike Werner eventually became the focus, but the situation became even more confusing when Kara Roth showed up. The young woman was severely psychologically affected after an overdose of Captagon, but was carrying a conspicuous set of keys and seemed to know more about the case than she could initially say. Although everything boiled down to a dramatic showdown, at the end of part 1 the impression was that not all questions had been answered.
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That’s what “Tatort: Immortal Part 2” is about
Retirement doesn't really make Batic or Leitmayr happy. The new tasks do not bring the desired fulfillment; instead, loneliness and a crisis of meaning take hold. Then Franz Leitmayr's cell phone suddenly rings: Kara Roth (Lara Feith, 31) answers with a desperate message. Her life was in danger and the old case had turned out completely differently than what she had stated at the time. Shortly afterwards, her cell phone died – and Kara disappeared.
It is clear to the two ex-commissioners that they cannot let the case rest. Her still active colleague and successor Kalli Hammermann (Ferdinand Hofer, 32) officially sees no reason for new investigations – the case is considered solved and a confession has been made. But Batic and Leitmayr follow their uneasy feeling and get to work on their own. Without a badge, without a service weapon, without the options of the police – but with freedoms that they didn't have before. This is how an unusual private investigation begins, in which the two find themselves in the sights of powerful opponents.
Farewell to Miroslav Nemec and Udo Wachtveitl after 35 years at “Tatort”
After 35 years in television service, the actors Nemec and Wachtveitl retired from “Tatort” following the film. At Easter the first shows its very last fall. Then the actors brought 100 episodes of the cult crime series to television in 35 years – and, according to Bayerischer Rundfunk, their films reached a total of one billion viewers.
The long-time Munich commissioners celebrate the broadcast of their last case in very different ways. “I will be at home in Istria and do a public viewing with friends. It will definitely be busy, and the day after Easter Monday will be used entirely for chilling out,” said Nemec (71). His colleague Wachtveitl (67) will take a much calmer approach to the whole thing. “I don’t like looking at myself and I’ll keep it that way here,” he said. “But I will ask how it was.” (nlu/spot on/dpa)
Sources used: Spot on News, DPA
