Erzgebirgskrimi - Deadly accord
| Episode of the Erzgebirgskrimi series | |
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| Original title | Deadly chord |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NFP film production |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 2 |
| First broadcast | March 7, 2020 on ZDF |
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| Director | Ulrich Zrenner |
| script | Leo P. Ard , Rainer Jahreis |
| production |
Rainer Jahreis , Clemens Schaeffer |
| music | Ludwig Eckmann |
| camera | Wolfgang Siegelmann |
| cut | Marco Baumhof |
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Tödlicher Akkord is a German television film by Ulrich Zrenner from 2020 . It is the second episode of the ZDF crime film series Erzgebirgskrimi with Kai Scheve as Robert Winkler and Lara Mandoki as Karina Szabo as investigator duo in the lead roles. As in the first film, Teresa Weißbach is again cast as the forester and Andreas Schmidt-Schaller as her father . Adina Vetter is again the pathologist and Adrian Topol the forensic person. The main guest roles this time are with Tim Bergmann , Katharina Lorenz , Esther Zimmering and Alexander Hörbe as well as Florian Panzner .
The fact that the ZDF press portal wrote that it was “one of the goals of the new Saturday evening series to tell stories that would not only use the Ore Mountains as an attractive backdrop”, but “that are specifically located in the Ore Mountains”. In the second film, "the impressive mountain battle day that has been taking place in Schneeberg annually on July 22nd since 1665 (!)" And the proximity to the Czech Republic play an important role ".
action
Main storyline
Katja Hartmann, a landscape architect, is found in the forest. She was slain. Chief Detective Robert Winkler and his colleague Karina Szabo take up the investigation, which initially focuses on the members of the Schneeberg miners' band. Katja was a horn player there. The forester Saskia Bergelt is also a member of the orchestra and offers her support. The questioning of individual orchestra members crystallizes some who come into the focus of the investigation. There is Heidi Köhler, who also plays the tenor horn, and resented Katja that her former friend Thomas Majewski had turned to Katja. Katja had meanwhile given the tuba player the pass. Majewski is known for his irascibility. But also the big farmer Manfred Schüppel, who played the big drum, repeatedly clashed with Katja Hartmann, an ecological and animal protection activist, by whom he felt threatened in his existence. There is also a connection to the married couple Constance and Peter Wiese, who have built an internationally successful company from a musical instrument company. They are also members of the miners' band, in which they play the trombone and trumpet.
An attack committed on Klaus Hartmann, Katja's brother, poses additional puzzles. The farmer Schüppel, on the other hand, can be proven that he is not so strict about the truth. Contrary to what he said, he last saw Katja on the day of her death and not about a week earlier. He says she sniffed around his farm again and he expelled her from the farm. However, Schüppel's brother confirms his alibi. There is also contradiction in relation to Heidi Köhler, she does not confirm Majewski's alibi, who stated that he was with her. Majewski then admits to have met with Schüppel about an expert opinion. All stables are regularly checked for exposure to radon radiation. The burden on Schüppels farm was seven times the limit value. In the afternoon, Katja confronted the farmer with the facts with which she wanted to be made public. There is a manipulated report from the past that he left Katja. Now it also comes out that Majewski knocked down Klaus Hartmann in his house. This had threatened him because of his manipulation. He only wanted to get the report back and bring it to safety, says Majewski.
When an orchestral rehearsal is on the program, Majewski approaches Winkler and assures him that he has very important information for him, gives his bag a meaningful hug and says he will give it to him after the rehearsal. The orchestra starts the Steigerlied , no sooner has Majewski brought his tuba to his mouth than he begins to cough terribly and then collapses gasping for air. He can still stammer: "My bag, my bag" before he's dead. The pathologist Charlotte von Sellin explains that Majewski died of anaphylactic shock with subsequent circulatory collapse and the resulting multiple organ failure . Majewski suffered from extreme hypersensitivity to celery, which led to this strong reaction. Someone who knew about Majewski's allergy must have deliberately contaminated the tuba or the mouthpiece with celery powder. It seems that there was an emergency kit in the pocket that Majewski asked for. Someone must have known about this and made the bag, which was later lost, disappear.
Karina Szabo has since found out from Klaus Hartmann that Katja wanted to sell the nursery, which she owned half, and that she had already had someone interested. Of course he was against it. But he had an alibi, he had been to his tax advisor that evening to work out whether he could have continued the business with his half. His statements are true. But the Wiese couple also withheld information, for example the fact that they both went to Karlsbad in the Czech Republic more than once with Katja . The couple also reacts cautiously to questions. Allegedly Katja had a cosmetic surgery done there. Since Winkler and Szabo doubt this based on the information given by Charlotte von Sellin and want to know exactly, they follow Peter Wiese, who, startled by their hints, is going to Karlsbad. There he meets with a Dr. Steffens. While Winkler clings to his heels, Szabo is supposed to shadow Wiese.
It turns out that Katja Hartmann has donated an egg to Constance Wiese because she could not have children herself. The egg cell fertilized with the semen from Peter Wiese was then used by Constance. Little Mia has two mothers, one legal and one biological. However, whoever brings the child into the world has all rights and obligations, explains Charlotte von Sellin.
When Katja's missing cell phone is suddenly switched on again, Winkler uses a trick to find out who is in possession of it - it's Peter Wiese. Winkler catches him after a chase. Wiese thinks that someone must have given him the cell phone, so he ran away in a panic. Wiese admits that she met Katja that evening, that they developed feelings for each other and planned a future together with Mia. Wiese can hardly believe what Winkler tells him a little later and then shows him. His own wife wants to blame him for a murder she committed. It wasn't because of the affair that she acted like that, says Contance Wiese, but no one will take her daughter away from her. While she is being led away, Peter Wiese fights back tears.
Subplot
It is mentioned in passing in the film that the chief detective Ralf Adam, played by Stephan Luca in the first case, did not feel comfortable in the Ore Mountains and went back to Berlin. As already indicated with Adam played by Luca, the new Inspector Winkler, embodied by Kai Scheve, also has to struggle with a problem from his past. He left his homeland, the Ore Mountains, after his girlfriend at the time was killed in a car accident in which both were drunk. Winkler indicates to Saskia Bergelt that nobody wanted to know the truth at the time, he evades her inquiry. Later he hands her an old newspaper clipping that shows that a black BMW cut the car and stole the right of way. The owner was never identified.
production
Filming, production notes
The film was shot from July 16 to August 16, 2019 in Schneeberg , the wider Ore Mountains area and in Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic . Pit Rampelt was editor of the film for ZDF .
The film's soundtrack features the songs: Electric by Madrugada , Country Boy by Johnny Cash , Howling At Nothing by Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats.
background
On the side of the ZDF, its editor Pit Rampelt stated: “Two protagonists of the second film are mainly responsible for the desired authenticity: Teresa Weißbach (forester Saskia Bergelt) and Kai Scheve (commissioner Robert Winkler) were both born in the Ore Mountains. Teresa Weißbach even officially bears the title of Ambassador for the Ore Mountains. With Kai Scheve, an actor who has been positively conspicuous on television for many years, has been found in many thrillers, but has never played a detective. "Lara Mandoki was told that she could use" her Hungarian roots "in her role bring in and the castle actress Adina Vetter plays as Charlotte von Sellin a noble bailiff.
Kai Scheve was asked how the region had shaped him and what he liked about his homeland and whether he was familiar with some of the locations. He replied that he was born in the Erlabrunn hospital, a "still impressive building". Since his parents moved to Leipzig with him as a toddler, his connection to the Erzgebirge was therefore rather early on. The forest house scenes, for example, were shot in Erlabrunn. The basis of the film team was in Bad Schlema. He was not aware of the story of the mountain battle day in Schneeberg, which appears in the film. In 1498 the miners and the miners went on strike because they wanted to pay them a silver groschen less a week. The miners prevailed, and that is still celebrated in Schneeberg today.
When asked what makes the Erzgebirge so special, Teresa Weißbach replied that this piece of earth was "hard to beat in terms of charm". As far as the eye can see: "Nature, mountains, forests, rivers, lakes". In real life she doesn't play an instrument, but she has taken horn lessons in preparation for her role. During the lessons it was crucial to make it look as if she could play the French horn routinely and without errors.
When asked Lara Mandoki how much of herself there is in Karina Szabo, she said that in every role she plays, of course, there is always a bit of Lara, but in fact she has the feeling that this role is probably the most most of her stuck. Mandoki said the films showed sides of the Ore Mountains "that many in Germany might not even know or expect".
reception
Publication, audience rating
The film premiered at the Saxon State Representation in Berlin on February 27, 2020, before being shown for the first time on ZDF on March 7, 2020 (available in the broadcaster's media library the day before). When it was first broadcast, the film had 7.13 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 24 percent.
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff rated the film on tittelbach.tv and gave it 2.5 out of 6 possible stars. The first 'Erzgebirgskrimi' was “a worth seeing regional crime thriller with a good story and an interesting ensemble”, the second was “at least one class worse”, wrote the critic, and continued: “That is also due to the plot, which in the end is not is more than a hodgepodge of well-known crime stereotypes, but above all in the staging: because the direction makes the two main actors look bad again and again. In view of the accumulation of meaningful glances that Kai Scheve and Lara Mandoki have to throw at each other during questioning, 'Deadly Chord' […] can no longer be taken seriously at some point. The film becomes almost a farce when the investigative duo constantly has to say the obvious. To make matters worse, Kai Scheve does not have the format of his predecessor Stephan Luca. ”Director Zrenner has“ just staged the dialogue scenes at times on the level of a children's crime series ”. Gangloff also criticized the editing and said that Scheve emphasized "questions often wrong, so that they do not sound spontaneous, but learned by heart".
In the Frankfurter Rundschau , Harald Keller dealt with the film and said, unlike Gangloff, that the second film "ties in with the strengths of the opening sequence with original staff and regional content". He continued: “Landscapes and cultural features not only provide the decor, they also determine the narrative. In terms of time, the current plot moves around the annual mountain dispute day in July, which reminds us of how brave miners in the 15th century thwarted a wage reduction through solidarity. "With the blue-blooded forensic doctor Dr. Charlotte von Sellin, who puts more emphasis on the aristocratic preposition than on her doctorate, the authors “succeeded in creating a particularly colorful figure”. In addition to “idyllic forest stretches and Schneeberg's baroque architecture”, there are “further attractive backdrops in the Czech Karlovy Vary [...] from whose photogenic cityscape director Ulrich Zrenner knows how to draw optical benefits”, “without falling into excessive indulgence”.
The Hamburger Abendblatt praised: "Although [...] there were some jumps in the plot, the short 89 minutes arouse curiosity about the sequel thanks to interpersonal subtleties."
TV Spielfilm pointed with the thumbs up, marveled at the quick change and stated: “Second homeland thriller in front of an attractive backdrop and already with a new investigator: Kai Scheve [...] succeeds Stephan Luca. Leo P. Ard and Rainer Jahreis tell the case as a classic Whodunit thriller, versatile, multi-toned and sprinkle a little bit of Erzgebirge tradition to loosen up (and promote tourism?) "
Julian Miller fromquotemeter.de, however, totally panned the film and introduced his criticism with the words: “A public-law crime thriller like a parody on 'Switch Reloaded': Where Heimat is called Bummsfallera and the tuba becomes a patent instrument of murder.” You have to "Often look very closely at the logo in the top left corner of the screen to make sure that you have actually landed on the serious ZDF crime thriller" and "not a silly 'Switch-Reloaded' parody in which the calculated to strange stereotypes of this Saturday evening variety into the unrestrained satirical “have been turned over”. "If you distill the quintessence of the material in a single sentence", "the difference does not become clearer". The new 'Erzgebirgskrimi' mean, "to have to constantly explain its location to the audience, as if it were not a part of Germany, but a strange, distant country with all sorts of incomprehensible customs and completely unknown geographical conditions for our audience" .
Web links
- Erzgebirgskrimi - Deadly chord in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Erzgebirgskrimi - Deadly accord at crew united
- Erzgebirgskrimi - Deadly chord at Fernsehserien.de
- Erzgebirgskrimi - For the interviews on the 2nd case in the video, see page behring-berlin.com
- Erzgebirgskrimi - Tödlicher Akkord full film in the ZDF media library (available until June 5, 2020)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Erzgebirgskrimi - Deadly chord see page presseportal.zdf.de
- ↑ Erzgebirgskrimi - Tödlicher Akkord See crew-united.com
- ^ "Deadly chord" - ZDF shoots a new Erzgebirge thriller See presseportal.zdf.de
- ^ A b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Series “Erzgebirgskrimi - Tödlicher Akkord”. Kai Scheve, Lara Mandoki, Teresa Weißbach. Good luck, the killer is coming! see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
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↑ Harald Keller: TV review: ZDF film "The Erzgebirgskrimi: Tödlicher Akkord" convinces with regional charm.
In: Frankfurter Rundschau , March 7, 2020. Accessed on May 26, 2020. - ^ "Erzgebirgskrimi: Tödlicher Akkord" In: Hamburger Abendblatt , March 7, 2020. Accessed on May 26, 2020.
- ↑ Erzgebirgskrimi: Tödlicher Akkord see page tvspielfilm.de (including six film images). Retrieved May 26, 2020.
- ↑ Julian Miller: "Erzgebirgskrimi - Tödlicher Akkord" see page quotenmeter.de, March 5, 2020. Accessed on May 26, 2020.