Erzgebirgskrimi - The dead in the tunnel

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Episode of the Erzgebirgskrimi series
Original title Death in the tunnel
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 NFP film production
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 1
First broadcast November 9, 2019 on ZDF
Rod
Director Ulrich Zrenner
script Leo P. Ard ,
Rainer Jahreis
production Rainer Jahreis ,
Clemens Schaeffer
music Ludwig Eckmann
camera Andreas Doub
cut Verena Neumann ,
Marco Baumhof
occupation
chronology

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Erzgebirgskrimi - Deadly chord

Tod im Stollen is a German TV film by Ulrich Zrenner from 2019 . It is the pilot of the ZDF crime film series Erzgebirgskrimi with Stephan Luca and Lara Mandoki in the leading roles of the investigators. The team also includes a pathologist played by Adina Vetter and a forensic scientist played by Adrian Topol . The main guest roles in the film are Teresa Weißbach , Andreas Schmidt-Schaller , Christian Grashof , Katrin Bühring , Hansjürgen Hürrig and Caro Cult .

At the start of the series, producers Clemens Schaeffer and Gabriele Jung explained: “The Erzgebirge is at the center of our new crime series, it plays a leading role, so to speak. The topics that we are telling here are both local and universal. The region is characterized by centuries of mining. There is a strong bond with tradition, but also a high affinity for modern engineering. The people are hospitable, but also skeptical. We want to tell this warmth, inventiveness and down-to-earthness in our stories. That makes the cases of our commissioners special and authentic at the same time. "

action

The forester Saskia Bergelt finds the corpse of Professor Drs in an old mine tunnel near Schwarzenberg in the Ore Mountains. Hellmann, who was responsible for the mining department at Freiberg University. Hellmann was often on the road for research purposes, most recently he checked the lithium deposits in the Ore Mountains. Detective Chief Inspector Ralf Adam and his new assistant, Detective Inspector Karina Szabo, are called to the scene of the crime and begin the investigation by first illuminating the victim's surroundings. Professionally, he did not have the best relationship with his colleague Dr. Winkler, who accuses Hellmann of having spent ideas and research results that would go back on him for his own. In addition to Winkler, the dead man's wife is also under suspicion, who may know that Hellmann had a lover, which would be a very classic motive for murder. After the pathologist came to a change in the likely time of the crime, taking into account the temperatures in the tunnel, the alibi of Winkler and Hellmann's wife, which was believed to be safe, collapsed.

Inspector Adam, who works closely with the forester Saskia Bergelt and her father in his investigation, may have a witness in the poacher Johannes Borchert. He was out in the forest on the day of the crime and may have met the perpetrator as he was seen by Bergelt near the tunnel. Unfortunately, Borchert remains silent about this, because he was obviously intimidated. Adam and Szabo cannot learn anything relevant to the case from Hellmann's lover, Jennifer Lenitz, either, because allegedly both were just having fun together. However, Szabo senses that the young woman is still hiding something. She is not only a student at Freiberg University, but also the employee of the shop owner Erich Fichtner. During the GDR era, he worked as a miner for “ Wismut ”, where the deadly uranium ore was mined at the time. Unexpectedly, she suddenly had a fatal accident with the car herself and the investigators wonder whether there is any connection to the murder of Hellmann. Adam also soon finds evidence that the accident did not happen purely by chance.

Adam and Szabo find out that Hellmann wanted to sell extremely valuable documents about the occurrence of mineral resources to the mining successor company "Wismut". These have disappeared from the Freiberg University archive for some time. Since Erich Fichtner had worked here after his active days as a miner, the investigators suspect that he could have stolen it. Hellmann found out and possibly got the treasure map from Fichtner through his girlfriend Jennifer. Adam and Szabo set a trap for Fichtner to get certainty about their theory. In fact, Fichtner admits to have taken the card at the time, allegedly so that it would not fall into the wrong hands. Unlike Hellmann, he did not want to turn it into money, but rather to protect his home from renewed overexploitation of nature. Now, after 30 years, people and nature have only just recovered from the mine damage and this should by no means be undone again. In the argument about it, he killed Hellmann in affect. Jennifer Lenitz, who knew about his meeting with Hellmann, wanted to blackmail him. That's why he killed her too. Fichtner is arrested and Adam returns the “treasure map” to the mining archive.

Filming, production notes

The location was u. a. the shop of the wood sculptor Hartmut Rademann at Oberen Schloßstraße 3 in Schwarzenberg

The film recordings were made between October 23 and November 22, 2018 in Freiberg and Schwarzenberg at Schwarzenberg Castle and the wider area. The film's soundtrack features the songs Death Row by Chris Stapleton and Lay Lady Lay by Bob Dylan .

reception

Publication, audience rating

The first broadcast of Tod im Stollen on November 9, 2019 on ZDF reached 6.21 million viewers and a market share of 20.8 percent.

Reviews

On the tittelbach.tv site , Tilmann P. Gangloff gave the film four out of six possible stars and praised it: “The Ore Mountains, with their centuries-old mining tradition and enormous wealth of sagas and legends, is a delightful setting for the new crime series with which the ZDF is building on its 'Crime and Nature' tradition. The ensemble of this first 'Erzgebirge detective' (NFP) is just as worth seeing as the impressive landscape: Stephan Luca and Lara Mandoki are an interesting team; The other roles are also attractive and well-known. The suspicions offered may be the usual ingredients, but the plot hooks enough to keep it captivating. "

Tilmann P. Gangloff also evaluated the film for the Frankfurter Rundschau and commented critically: “Unfortunately, [sic] staging does not quite keep what the story promises. The many camera flights that accompany practically every car journey and initiate many changes of scene, for example, are extremely unimaginative. ”[…]“ After all, cameraman Andreas Doub, who regularly provided special images in Hannu Salonen's films, sets visual accents; the light in the night shots in particular is designed with great care. The sympathetic tone of the film is also very successful: 'Der Tote im Stollen' is not a comedy, but many of the exchanges are quite amusing. "

In Quotenmeter.de Sidney Schering ruled: "let loose, re-anziehen' interplay voltage" at Zrenners he speak, you look "sympathetically over it" that "A uneingespieltes townspeople team must determine the first time up in the countryside 'is not exactly the freshest starter. ”But“ apart from a few colors, the' Erzgebirgskrimi 'approaches the material in a fresh way, lets Luca and Mandoki, as Ralf Adam and Karina Szabo, deal with unobtrusive city-country differences and creates more Joke and drama from the respective non-conformities of the characters as from rough clichés. "

Wolfgang Platzeck from WAZ wrote: “Leo P. Ard, […] and co-author Rainer Jahreis reach into the treasure trove of Saxon stories and possibilities in a smart and well-dosed manner. The thrilling crime story remains realistic at all times and never slips into mystery realms, even where legends (the 'white woman') come into play. The dialogue joke is also not neglected, which is not a grafted construct here, but rather stems from laconic quick-wittedness. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave one of three possible points for humor, ambition and action, two for suspense and the best possible rating “thumbs up”. In summary, it was said: “Erzgebirge - this is emphasized again and again so excessively that it involuntarily becomes a running gag. The brisk, sarcastic sayings of the young inspector Szabo are really funny. The second case has already been shot - with a new detective: Kai Scheve ('Der Taunuskrimi') replaces Luca. "Conclusion:" Refreshingly quick gags in a well-kept crime thriller. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Erzgebirgskrimi - The dead man in the tunnel see page presseportal.zdf.de
  2. ↑ Erzgebirgskrimi - Der Tote im Stollen Cf. crew-united.com
  3. ^ A b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Series "Erzgebirgskrimi - Der Tote im Stollen". Stephan Luca, Mandoki, Weißbach, Ard / Jahreis, Ulrich Zrenner. The region is the star see page tittelbach.tv , accessed on January 27, 2020.
  4. ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : "Erzgebirgskrimi - Der Tote im Stollen" - Schauergeschichte from the province In: Frankfurter Rundschau , November 9, 2019, accessed on February 27, 2020.
  5. ↑ Sidney Schering: Erzgebirgskrimi - The dead man in the tunnel at Quotenmeter.de , accessed on February 27 2020th
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Platzeck: ZDF- "Erzgebirgskrimi" - a good start in front of a great backdrop In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , November 9, 2019, accessed on February 27, 2020.
  7. ↑ Erzgebirgskrimi: Der Tote im Stollen See tvspielfilm.de (including 16 film images). Retrieved May 26, 2020.