Stuttgart crime scene: This fact made "The man who lies" so special
There's nothing good at the end of this thriller. Although the perpetrators were arrested, but next to the two murder victims another life was destroyed. In "The Crime Scene: The Man Who Lies," Bootz (Felix Klare, 40) and Lannert (Richy Müller, 63) examine the life of the desperately suspected, but ultimately innocent, Gregorowicz (Manuel Rubey, 39) and bring his extra-marital, homosexual relationship with one of the two victims. Shortly before the credits, the viewer also learns that Gregorowicz has taken his own life. To tell this moving story as realistically as possible, the makers of an actually simple trick used themselves.
Not the investigators themselves took the audience by the hand and led it through the film, but the suspect himself. A completely unfamiliar for the crime thriller audience on Sunday evening gambit. But why did the authors even opt for this change of perspective? Of course, on the one hand to create more closeness to the actual protagonist. But there was also another reason: The underlying script came from the feathers of Martin Eigler, at the same time the director, and Sönke Lars Neuwöhner, who made common cause in "crime scene" productions.
This is how the actors see their films
"We wore ourselves a bit longer with the idea of telling a kind of reversed 'crime scene'," Neuwöhner admits. It was interesting to see how the view of the familiar commissars changes when they appear as opponents. Eigler adds: "Speaking from the perspective of the suspect, the emergence of the investigators is perceived as threatening and disturbing." At the same time, one knows from more than 20 films that Lannert and Bootz are actually the good guys. This would create an interesting tension.
A concept that, of course, also meant new territory for the two leading actors: in principle, neither Richy Müller nor Felix Klare are the main characters in this completely unusual "crime scene". This benefits the Austrian Manuel Rubey as Jakob Gregorowicz. But what do the commissioners say about the new role? Felix Klare is apparently not sure yet about the resulting effect. He hopes, however, that the wanted "through-the-glasses-of-the suspect", have really transferred. His colleague Richy Müller finds the experiment "very exciting": "For the viewer, it will be different in his viewing habits."
Incidentally, it is actually ten years ago when Richy Müller as Thorsten Lannert and Felix Klare as Sebastian Bootz made in Stuttgart for the first time together on criminal hunt. Since then, a total of 22 other missions have followed, which have so far been staged by 15 different directors. The makers always remained faithful and did not change much. For example, Bootz has been wearing the same brown and worn leather jacket since the beginning, and Lannert has been climbing since 2008 in his characteristic brown Porsche 911 Targa from 1975.
