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Tatort: 'Nachtschatten' Premieres on New Year's Day With Chilling Captivity Claim

Critics highlight a fragmented, unsettling narrative that probes trauma within a paranoid family worldview.

Overview

  • Das Erste schedules the Dresden-set episode for 20:15 on New Year's Day.
  • Amanda, bloodied and disoriented, tells police she grew up locked in a cellar and says her sister Jana remains imprisoned without food.
  • Kommissarin Leonie Winkler pushes to investigate the account despite skepticism from her superior Peter Michael Schnabel and a youth psychiatrist.
  • The case unfolds across multiple narrative strands with ambiguous cellar scenes that keep investigators and viewers uncertain for much of the film.
  • Reviews note resonances with notorious captivity cases yet a different outcome, emphasize themes of trauma and 'prepper' paranoia, and single out performances by Emilie Neumeister and Cornelia Gröschel.