When it started, I wondered why they cast Ulrich Noethen in a normal part, not main cast, not killer. The regular cast of characters in the Münster Tatort has been pretty strong in the last 20 years - not necessarily the actors, the characters - the autistic doctor, the screaming cop, his blue collor father, the deep voiced woman boss, the Sams - even if you do not know their character names, the characters are memorable and for a Tatort, for a German TV-show fleshed out. And then come the guest actors in this episode or guest characters, also strong. And then comes Ulrich Noethen and you wonder, why they cast a major German movie star - may be not movie star but one of the best actors - in a pretty boring guest part. Well, there is a scene where the Noethen-character tells another character that he is her father. Sounds pretty cliche for a drama, right -I am your father - and it could have been cheesy, but Noethen pulls it off and it is believable, touching, great and not cliche at all. That is why you cast a great actor like Noethen.
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