Thanksgiving. An Allgäu thriller
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| Original title | Thanksgiving. An Allgäu thriller | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Publishing year | 2009 | ||
| length | 88 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
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| Director | Rainer Kaufmann | ||
| script |
Stefan Holtz Florian Iwersen |
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| production |
Katrin Holetzeck Frank Döhmann |
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| music | Rainer Bartesch | ||
| camera | Klaus Eichhammer | ||
| cut | Christel Suckow | ||
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Thanksgiving. An Allgäu-Krimi is a television comedy produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk in 2009. The film belongs to the BR's homeland crime series and is the first literary adaptation of a Kommissar Kluftinger crime story in this context . It is based on the novel of the same name by Volker Klüpfel and Michael Kobr . Directed by Rainer Kaufmann .
action
Chief Inspector Kluftinger is busy driving his apple harvest to the must. With his car, which is far too heavily loaded, he is stopped on the country road by a young policewoman who tells him to reduce the weight of the car. After learning that she is currently reprimanding a colleague, she apologizes, but insists on her demand that the maximum weight limit be adhered to. Without further ado, Kluftinger loads half of his cargo into the young colleague's police car. They now want to go to the cider factory together, but they get caught up in a murder case. The corpse of a stranger was found on a hill. The murderer had laid a dead crow on his back. Everything points to a ritual murder, because the eyes of the dead were hacked out with the beak of the crow. Based on the missing person reports, the dead person can be identified as the tour operator Gernot Sutter, who almost exclusively organized coffee trips and who did not make himself very popular. One of his customers, who felt cheated, even sued him, which ultimately ended up in court. Kluftinger contacted Judge Günter Hartmann, who presided over the trial at the time. He reports of threats that Heinz Brentano, the son of this woman, had made against Sutter. Brentano is interrogated and held in custody as an urgent suspect. For Kluftinger's boss Lodenbacher, the case appears to be closed, but another murder unexpectedly occurred. Michaela Heiligenfeld, a gynecologist from Memmingen , is found dead in a river. Here, too, the murderer performed a mystical ritual on the corpse. Lodenbacher is indignant, such murders shortly before Thanksgiving do not fit well into his concept. He wants to run for the state parliament and cannot use negative press reports.
We are working flat out to solve the murders. While Kluftinger's ambitious colleague Maier goes to the research with objective and vigor, Kluftinger seeks advice from a shaman. Since these ritual murders, the detective sleeps badly and has mystical apparitions in his dreams. Crows also cross his path again and again and so he gradually comes across an old legend, according to which a robber baron had been up to mischief in the Middle Ages, whose eyes had been pecked out by crows on his deathbed. Sutter was also a kind of robber baron who had enriched himself with his customers. The second victim is a woman who had many abortions during her lifetime. Here there are parallels to a legend in which a woman drowned eleven of her sons in the river. Just like Sutter, the gynecologist had to answer in court once. One of the abortions had complications. Kluftinger notices that both cases were presided over by Judge Hartmann, who a few weeks ago switched from criminal to civil law. Furthermore, both victims received an acquittal in their appeal proceedings before another judge. Kluftinger speaks with public prosecutor Möbius about his suspicion that Hartmann might have taken the law into his own hands. He shares Kluftinger's assumption and since there are further "Hartmann" cases that are currently being heard before the appeals court, those affected could be in danger. Kluftinger obtained a search of Hartmann's house, which, apart from various books on old legends, did not reveal anything incriminating. On the other hand, the fact that Hartmann is a founding member of the Heimatverein, which is vehemently committed to a “clean Allgäu”, leads to similarly radical-thinking members of the association. Two of them are Jakob Urban and his mother Rubina, whom Kluftinger already met during his research and noticed this woman's confused sense of justice. When the inspector looks around in Jacob's room, he finds clear clues about the two victims and a hiding place in which a young man who is also in conflict with the judge was kept prisoner until recently. Since it can be assumed that Alexander Diepka will be the next victim, the search for Jacob Urban is at full speed. Together with his colleagues Hefele and Maier, Kluftinger succeeds in finding the person he is looking for and freeing Alexander Diepka.
For Kluftinger it is clear that Hartmann Urban instigated the murders and that his mother saw him as a "tool of God" to serve justice. So the Urbans and also Judge Hartmann are arrested. Hartmann is of the opinion that Kluftinger cannot prove anything to him, but the commissioner is convinced that he will succeed.
background
The character of Commissioner Kluftinger is portrayed as an adorable old-fashioned hero against his will. He doesn't like megalomania or vanity and loves his home. Kluftinger's circle of friends includes the "G'scheithafa" Dr. Langhammer, whom he doesn't really like very much, but inevitably meets often because he is married to the best friend of Kluftinger's wife Erika. Almost unbearable for Kluftinger, Langhammer uses every meeting to bring one of his latest wisdom to the man.
The special Allgäu legends referred to in the film are those of the knight Kuno von Rappenscheuchen , the legend of the twelve boys , and the legend of the Dengelstein , which lies in the forest between Betzigau and Görisried .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said about this thriller: “'Thanksgiving' is told in a refreshingly old-fashioned way. The popular parallel montage is not tricked, but dense, concentrated scenes are the heart of the film. ”He also says:“ This rustic, characterful crime comedy is a rare example of another genre narrative. When was the last time there was such a pleasant permanent smile on the cheeks of the beholder in a thriller ?! "
At Kino.de it was said: “In Rainer Kaufmann's wonderful homeland crime comedy Herbert Knaup convinces across the board in the role of the rugged Kempten inspector Kluftinger.” The director “convinces with his acting as well as with his repeatedly proven sense for the bizarre, but also a certain playfulness that is expressed in individual images and intercuts with which he emphasizes the mythological character of the crime. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm also rated it positively and wrote: “The case is secondary, what counts is the robust game of the Sonthofen native Knaup: The very first adaptation of a Kluftinger crime thriller is fun.” Conclusion: “Cheeky with plenty of white and blue coloring. "
Web links
- Thanksgiving. A Allgäu crime in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Thanksgiving. An Allgäu crime thriller on Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thanksgiving. An Allgäu thriller. In: br.de , accessed on December 30, 2016.
- ↑ Legend of Rappenschuchen. In: haben.at , accessed on May 18, 2017.
- ↑ Says of the twelve boys. In: haben.at , accessed on May 18, 2017.
- ↑ Rainer Tittelbach : crime comedy from the spirit of a landscape, carried by the mentality of the actors - and Herbert Knaup as an Allgäu ignoramus is comical to kneel down. In: tittelbach.tv , accessed on May 18, 2017 - film review and audience rating
- ^ Film review. In: Kino.de , accessed on May 18, 2017.
- ↑ Brief review. In: TV Spielfilm , accessed on May 18, 2017.