All meat is grass

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Movie
Original title All meat is grass
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2014
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Reinhold Bilgeri
script Agnes Pluch
production Helmut Grasser
music Raimund Hepp
camera Tomas Erhart
cut Karin Hartusch
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Alles Fleisch ist Gras is an Austrian television film from the country crime film series from 2014 by Reinhold Bilgeri with Wolfgang Böck , Tobias Moretti and Harald Schrott in the leading roles. The screenplay by Agnes Pluch is based on the novel of the same name by Christian Mähr (2010). The film was shown for the first time on ORF on December 27, 2014 , and the first broadcast on ZDF was on July 29, 2020.

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The chemist Dr. Anton "Toni" Galba is the operations manager of the Dornbirn-Schwarzach wastewater treatment plant (ARA). He has a secret affair with his colleague Helga Sieber. Because of this, there is a dispute between him and his colleague Roland Mathis. Galba pushes Mathis away, Mathis falls over a staircase and dies. As a result, Galba reports Mathis as missing. The investigating police officer, Chief Inspector Nathan Weiß, a former school colleague of Galba, finds photos on Mathis' hard drive that show Anton Galba having sexual intercourse with Helga Sieber. Weiß suspects that this is why Galba killed Mathis and disposed of it in the meat mill for the facility's catering waste.

But instead of arresting him, White calls on Galba to help him with his own agenda. White has an affair with Adele Stadler who was abused by her husband, the building contractor Ludwig Stadler. Galba lures Ludwig Stadler, on the pretext that White is on his track and therefore urgently needs to speak to him, to the ARA, where he is beaten up by White. In the news program Vorarlberg presented by TV journalist Ingomar Kranz today , the death of Ludwig Stadler is presented as an alleged suicide, he is said to have embezzled parts of the company's assets for private purposes and to have been involved in a corruption scandal surrounding the new building of the state hospital and City Councilor Wilfried Karasek. There is also a report about Hans Summer, who practiced vigilante justice and shot around with an air rifle in the local tunnel known as the drug handling point . The married couple Hans and Gitti Summer had lost their daughter to heroin addiction, the couple felt abandoned by the police.

Next, White has the drug trafficker Konrad Mugler in his sights, whom he has not yet been able to arrest. Anton no longer wants to support Nathan in his further plans and therefore contacts Ingomar Kranz. He is supposed to report on Ludwig Stadler's murder, but Kranz refuses due to a lack of evidence. In addition, Galba fears becoming a victim of white himself. Kranz, on the other hand, suspects that Ludwig Stadler had only faked the suicide to get out of the affair after Stadler's body was not found. Galba promises Kranz a video evidence. Kranz himself is being put under pressure by City Councilor Karasek that if he continues to report negatively about him, Kranz's head could roll at the next restructuring.

Galba transmits a video from the surveillance camera of the sewage treatment plant to Kranz, which shows Weiß disposing of a corpse wrapped in fabric in the plant's meat mill. The photos also show a woman helping Weiss with the disposal, but who cannot be identified. Galba suspects that it is his now former lover Helga Sieber, who had meanwhile also resigned from the ARA. Confronted with the recordings, Weiß Kranz confesses that he disposed of the bodies of Mugler and his bodyguard Warlam in the facility. So that Kranz does not publish the story, he offers to dispose of town councilor Karasek, whom he has been trying unsuccessfully for years to prove corruption, for him. Ingo gets on the deal, but then fears to be seen on video recordings of the disposal of Karasek's corpse.

When viewing the video material, Galba notices a leap in time in the recordings. Hilde Galba, Anton's wife, is friends with Gitti Summer, who runs the KMD - No Power to Drugs Association . Weiß introduces Kranz to Hilde as the one who helped him dispose of the bodies of Mugler and Warlam. Nathan and Helga ask Ingo to act as a supervisory authority for their further projects, the two bank directors have chosen Baumann as the next victim. Shortly before a family tragedy in which a family man shot his wife, child and ultimately himself, the bank made a foreign currency loan payable to him. Bank director Baumann talked him into the loan. Kranz has no objection to Baumann as the next victim. Weiß has kept the video recordings of Weiß and Kranz at the disposal of Karasek's corpse as a security to prevent Kranz from publishing parts of the story.

Chemist Galba is making an explosive with which he will carry out an attack. The radio reports that Ingo Kranz was killed and Nathan Weiss was seriously injured and was in a coma. During a visit to the intensive care unit, Anton meets his wife, who suspects that Mugler's people were responsible for the explosion and that she could be their next victim. Anton tries to reassure Helga by assuring her that it was not Mugler's people who carried out the attack. The next day she asks him to help with bank director Baumann.

Production and Background

One of the locations: the Dornbirn-Schwarzach wastewater treatment plant

The shooting took place from September 16 to October 14, 2013 in Vorarlberg . The shooting locations were Dornbirn and the surrounding area; the shooting took place in the wastewater treatment plant in Dornbirn-Schwarzach , in Hohenems , Wolfurt , Lauterach and at the bathing house on the Kaiserstrand in Lochau .

The film was produced by Allegro Film , the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation was involved , the production was supported by the TV Fund Austria and the state of Vorarlberg . Christine Egger was responsible for the set design, Heinz Ebner for the sound, Kerstin Stattmann and Martha Ruess for the mask and Brigitta Fink for the costume design.

The script, based on the novel of the same name by the Vorarlberg author Christian Mähr , refers to the Requiem by Johannes Brahms and the Bible verse Because everything is flesh, it is like grass .

reception

Reviews

Teresa Schaur-Wünsch found in the daily newspaper Die Presse that Bilgeri had prescribed a strange Vorarlbergerisch for the ensemble , "a kind of Ländle Esperanto".

Sarah Kohlberger wrote in the Weser Kurier that the dark film is a refreshingly different crime thriller and told grippingly and quickly from the first to the last minute. The highlight of the film is Tobias Moretti.

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv decided that the film will not be a thriller like any other. Agnes Pluch and Reinhold Bilgeri would tell an unusual story. The image design also makes it clear that Bilgeri and his cameraman Tomas Erhart had anything but an off-the-peg work in mind. The genre refusal is particularly appealing: despite its black humor, the crime thriller is not a comedy, but rather a grotesque one.

Thilo Wydra said in the Tagesspiegel that everything meat is grass is recognizable as Austrian television. This television film is staged bitterly angry and black as a raven and may elude any genre classification. The grotesque à l'autrichienne is as bizarre as it is splattering . The exciting thing is that the audience is constantly drawn on tracks that ultimately will not turn out to be what they seem to be. Just as no genre really fits, almost all of the characters don't seem to be who they claim to be. You are led by the nose and repeatedly put on thin ice by the dramaturgy, direction and ensemble of actors. It is a puzzle with the audience, Tobias Moretti exploits it with a visibly thieving joy of playing.

Sylvia Staude wrote in the Frankfurter Rundschau that the film combined laconicism with images that pay attention to detail, such as a gallows tattoo on the slim ankle. And add characters who, despite their courageous, down-to-earth people-setting aside, are somehow nice too. That keeps the balance between robust humor and fine irony, between crime comedy and a calm marriage story.

Ursula Scheer found in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that you should have a weakness for deep black humor and a certain visual freedom from pain in order to enjoy this thriller. The dialogues are pointed, the characters wonderfully exaggerated, but at the same time refreshingly ambiguous in their essence. Tobias Moretti and Wolfgang Böck did not miss out on lustful verve in the embodiment of the two provincial unsympaths. Together they both ran into great shape in this farce, from which Tomas Erhart's camera kept gaining new, unfamiliar perspectives. The fact that crime investigation is never of interest, but only the question of who will be left alive in the end, is what makes this light entertainment mystery of a different kind so attractive.

Audience rating

In Austria, the film was watched by 778,000 viewers when it was first broadcast on ORF, with a market share of 27 percent.

On ZDF, 2.57 million viewers saw the film when it was first broadcast, with a market share of 10.4 percent.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b All meat is grass at crew united . Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  3. ↑ All meat is grass. In: Wishlist.de . Retrieved June 17, 2020 .
  4. ↑ ZDF has secured four new ORF country thrillers for 2019 . Article dated December 18, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018.
  5. ↑ Vorarlberg 'cleansing campaign' in the ORF country crime film 'Alles Fleisch ist Gras' . Article dated December 11, 2014, accessed November 9, 2018.
  6. ↑ Dakapo for Bilgeri's ORF country thriller “All meat is grass” . Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  7. ↑ a b Thilo Wydra: Austrian country crime with Tobias Moretti: The bone man. In: tagesspiegel.de. July 27, 2020, accessed on July 28, 2020 .
  8. ↑ diepresse.com: Moretti as Vorarlberger: “Des isch” the new country thriller . Article dated October 18, 2013, accessed November 9, 2018.
  9. ↑ Sarah Kohlberger: "Person gone, problem gone. Very easily". In: Weser Courier . July 22, 2020, accessed July 22, 2020 .
  10. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : TV film "Alles Fleisch ist Gras". In: tittelbach.tv . Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  11. ↑ “All meat is grass” on ZDF: In addition, a delicate swirl of flakes. In: fr.de. July 28, 2020, accessed July 28, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Ursula Scheer: One hand soils the other. In: faz.net. July 29, 2020, accessed July 30, 2020 .
  13. ↑ derStandard.at: Schalko's country thriller only saw 673,000 . Article dated December 30, 2016, accessed November 9, 2018.
  14. ↑ orf.at: Quota success for “All meat is grass” . Article dated December 29, 2014, accessed November 9, 2018.
  15. ↑ Sidney Schering: "Alles Fleisch ist Gras": Late German premiere, sobering ratings. In : quotemeter.de . July 30, 2020, accessed July 30, 2020 .