Crime scene: Tree of Redemption
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Tree of salvation |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German , Turkish |
| Production company |
ORF |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 717 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | January 4, 2009 on ORF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Sicherheitsitz |
| script | Felix Mitterer |
| production |
Burkhard Ernst Niki List |
| music |
Peter Herrmann Lothar Scherpe |
| camera | Thomas Kiennast |
| cut | Ingrid Koller |
| occupation | |
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Tree of Redemption is the title of the 717th crime scene thriller. In his 20th case, Chief Inspector Moritz Eisner ( Harald Krassnitzer ) is confronted with two clashing cultures, which does not make the investigation of the murder of a young Turkish woman and her Tyrolean friend any easier. The ORF television film based on a script by Felix Mitterer was first broadcast on January 4, 2009. He attracted special attention, especially in Austria, by processing the real minaret dispute from Telfs in the crime story.
The ORF embedded the film in a themed evening "Islam". With 1.039 million viewers and a 35% market share, Tatort achieved an unusually high audience rating in Austria.
content
The Turkish Özbay family sits at the table in mourning. Suddenly the young Melisa drummed her father on the chest and yelled: “You should look at her”, and then: “Katil! Katil! ”(Turkish for“ murderer ”) Melisa thinks she also has a Tyrolean friend, and when father and brother react indignantly and upset, she adds that they will not be pushed to death. When her brother tries to strike, the mother stops it. Shortly before, Melisa's sister Ayşe Özbay was found hanged from a tree. In the population, especially among migrants, this tree is only called The Tree of Redemption , as four more young people who were supposed to be forcibly married have hanged themselves here within the past year. It turns out that Ayşe did not kill herself and also that she was pregnant. Chief inspector and special investigator Moritz Eisner is ordered to Telfs to deal with the case. The local policemen Franz Pfurtscheller and the young policeman Vedat Özdemir of Turkish origin are put to his side. Pfurtscheller explains to Eisner on the tree of salvation that the Turkish girls would fall in love, but that their fathers had already chosen other husbands for them and, as he saw it, some would still hang themselves on this tree.
Martin Greiner, Ayşes' local friend, is missing and is finally found in a lake with a broken skull. Ayşes older brother Serkan had conspicuously asked Edith Greiner, Martin's mother, in her restaurant about her son that night, around the time the young woman died. He wanted to know if he wasn't helping her in the pub today - as if he had wanted to get an alibi.
The controversial minaret has just been completed in the village , because of the construction of which there was bitter confrontation between the local Tyroleans, led by Patriarch Klaus Larcher, and the Islamic immigrants, led by the Turkish family Kâzim Özbay. The strict separation of cultures was particularly important here. And of all people Klaus Larcher's son Christian is Melisa Özbay's friend. When she meets him, the young woman is often surprised by her brother Serkan, who is not afraid to strike and has already pulled Melisa away from Christian by the hair. After Melisa meets Christian again, Serkan locks the sister in a trailer with the help of his younger brother Erkan and tries to force her to take sleeping pills. When asked later that he also had Tyrolean friends, he replied that that was something completely different, that he was a man. And besides, it is a mistake that Melisa is so smart. During his visit to the Özbays, Eisner also registers that the sons display typical behavior towards women. In contrast to Melisa and her slain sister, who are or were both very good at school, their achievements tend to be in the lower range. When the inspector looked around in Melisa's room, he found the message hidden on her pin board: If I was found at the “tree of salvation”, it would not be suicide any more than it would with my sister Ayşe.
Klaus Larcher wants to know from his son Christian why it must be the daughter of his archenemy of all people, why he is doing this to him. Christian replies that he won't let Melisa go, then he won't be his son anymore. Larcher implores Christian that Melisa's father will kill her as well as her sister.
In an interview, Kâzim Özbay lets Klaus Larcher know that his daughter is flying to Istanbul tomorrow, where he will marry her off to a good man. The men do not notice that Melisa and the Larcher brothers are also on the premises. Christian Larcher was able to persuade his older brother Georg to help him and Melisa. Georg says that Melisa should hide in a hut in the mountains first. Melisa definitely wants to continue studying and declares that Telfs is her home and that she is definitely not going to Turkey. Already on the way to the hut, Christian receives a call from his father that Serkan is on to them. Eisner has since learned from Vedat Özdemir that the Larcher brothers have been working on a construction site up in the mountains for three years. So he too sets off for the mountains with Vedat Özdemir.
When Kâzim Özbay comes home from praying from the minaret, he learns that his wife Enise had gone with the words that she was going after Ayşe and Melisa ahead. Together with his younger son, Özbay arrives at the “tree of knowledge” just in time to cut the rope and save his wife from death. “I can't take it anymore,” she whispers to her husband. Kâzim Özbay then calls his son Serkan back. Although Enise lets her son know that she will curse him if he does something to Melisa or Christian, Serkan pats himself on the chest and says only that he is strong and goes on undeterred. When he meets Christian, he is alone. Serkan holds his knife to his throat to find out Melisa's whereabouts. Georg Larcher is traveling alone with Melisa over the ridge. In the meantime, Özdemir tells Eisner that he doesn't trust Georg Larcher, because he only went through the whole smear campaign with his father. At the same time Melisa takes a short rest at the abyss and Georg has already raised his hands to push her when she thanks him for his help, which surprises him so much that he does not carry out his plan for the time being. Serkan, who is driving Christian forward, stumbles on the way and threatens to fall, but Christian grabs lightning-fast and prevents him from falling into the depths. Georg Larcher has now arrived at the mountain hut with Melisa. The young woman warns him about her brother, who is dangerous because he practices martial arts. Completely surprising for Melisa, however, he attacks her and wraps her legs and hands with tape and also seals her mouth with it.
Eisner and other colleagues he had notified arrive at the hut just in time and were able to put Georg Larcher out of action with a shot in the arm. It turns out that Georg has Ayşe and her friend Martin on their conscience. He had watched them caressly on the boat dock and killed them. He then tied Ayşe to the "tree of salvation". “If we mix with them, we wipe ourselves out,” he explains.
Serkan finds it difficult to accept that his father gave his blessings on Melisa and Christian's connection, even though the father tries to make it easier for him. The “tree of salvation” is felled and even the youngest Özbay son, Erkan, seems to have learned something, no, he doesn't want to be mayor anymore, his sister should do that, he says, judging correctly.
Accompanying programs
In direct connection with the film, the ORF produced the discussion round in the center and an Am Schauplatz special , which dealt with the current situation in Telfs. These programs were only broadcast on national television. In the German ARD the tree of redemption ran without comment.
Production and Background
The shooting for this crime scene episode took place from July 29th to August 30th, 2008 in Telfs and the surrounding area as well as in Innsbruck and Vienna .
Felix Mitterer , who wrote the script for all ORF crime scenes from Tyrol , emphasized that this film was “a single call to reconciliation” and went on to say: “It's not about tearing up trenches that have grown over. And with us it will end better than Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet': The lovers don't have to die for the fathers to shake hands. "Mitterer found this 'crime scene' to be the best of all that he has written so far," because it is closest to the truth. ”For director Harald SICHERITZ , his first crime scene is“ a special matter, because it shows in a wonderful way how strongly politics [is] rooted in our everyday life. ”It felt the same way Leading actor Harald Krassnitzer , who said that this 'crime scene' "is the most beautiful, most exciting, most political and the most interesting topic that he has done so far - because we tell stories of people and show their fears."
In this episode, Moritz Eisner has to deal with his Tyrolean colleague Franz Pfurtscheller, who has his problems with the Turkish residents of Telfs and who emphasizes that his family have been thoroughbred Tyroleans since ancient times. Pfurtscheller also occasionally bumps into each other with his Turkish colleague Vedat Özdemir. At the end of the film, he then announces to Eisner that, like every year, he is going on vacation to Antalya with his wife Mama . During his assignment in Tyrol, Eisner telephoned his daughter Claudia several times, who told him that she had a new boyfriend, but was still holding back on details. Only at the end of the episode does he find out that she has fallen in love with a Turk.
reception
Audience ratings
At its premiere in the First 4 January 2009 8.1 million viewers watched, representing a market share of 21.8%. In Austria the average was unusually high with 1.039 million viewers and a 35% market share.
criticism
The film was largely positively received in Austrian and German media. At a preview in Telfs, both locals and immigrants were “enthusiastic” about the film. The renowned author Mitterer, who wrote the screenplay as a call for reconciliation and as a gift to the Telfs community, said with satisfaction: "You rarely get the feeling that you have made a difference." The German news magazine Focus later saw especially for ARD viewers have a special chance of reception: The view of Austria allows “German viewers the luxury of distance, through which much can be seen more clearly. Hatred of foreigners by the locals on the one hand and the radical isolation of immigrants on the other are likely to be worrying phenomena on both sides of the Alps. But if they are not demonstrated using your own example, you are not so sensitive to (self) knowledge ”. In the German monthly magazine Cicero , Josef Girshovich criticized the film and recognized it as "90 minutes of political glaze", behind which no crime story was hidden. Just as well, says Girshovich, a murder could have been dispensed with: “Then at least one educational film about integration policy would be left for the regional evening program.” In the Frankfurter Allgemeine , Edo Reents was of the opinion “that more and longer than usual were in limbo [ stay] who it was. ”He ended his criticism with the words: An exciting, high-alpine showdown is not the end of this very good, well-staffed 'crime scene'. Eisner then wants to go on vacation with his daughter, but she now has a boyfriend and he should go with her. Now guess where it came from.
Web links
- Tree of Redemption in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Tree of Redemption on the ARD website
- Tree of salvation at the crime scene fund
- Tree of Redemption at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Teletest - ORF quotas from Sunday, January 4, 2009. ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 9, 2009.
- ↑ APA : 1.823 million watched the ORF theme evening 'Islam'. Tiroler Tageszeitung online, January 5, 2009. Accessed January 9, 2009.
- ↑ a b c Tatort: Tree of Redemption at tatort-fundus.de
- ↑ APA / DPA : ORF dedicates Sunday evening to 'Integration and Racism' Der Standard , January 2, 2009. Accessed on January 9, 2009.
- ↑ Gregor Dolak: The Döner Saga. Focus Online , January 5, 2009. Accessed January 9, 2009.
- ↑ Joseph Girshovich: A mosque for Tirol. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cicero , January 3, 2009. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
- ↑ Tatort: Tree of Redemption Edo Reents, Frankfurter Allgemeine of January 5, 2009: “Tatort” You are not here in Istanbul, says the inspector . Retrieved August 11, 2013.
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