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Tatort: 'Murot und der Elefant im Raum' Premieres Tonight With a Mind-Bending Case

The episode employs a fictional neurofeedback therapy that lets Murot enter a comatose mother's subconscious to search for her missing child.

Overview

  • ARD broadcasts the Wiesbaden case on December 28 at 20:15, with concurrent streaming in the ARD Mediathek and later repeats on One and ARD.
  • The story begins with Eva Hütter leaving family court with her five-year-old son Benjamin, later crashing during a police pursuit and falling into a coma as the boy’s location remains unknown.
  • Under Dr. Schneider’s experimental setup, the subconscious is depicted as navigable territory, providing Murot an unconventional path to potential clues.
  • Ulrich Tukur leads as Felix Murot alongside Barbara Philipp, with Nadine Dubois as Eva Hütter and Robert Gwisdek as Dr. Schneider in a film written and directed by Dietrich Brüggemann.
  • Early reviews describe a deliberate formal experiment with surreal imagery and loosened detective logic, highlighted by Murot’s meta line that they have never solved a case in “so‑called reality.”