Borderland (2018)
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| Original title | Borderland | ||
| Country of production | Austria | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Publishing year | 2018 | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
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| Director | Marvin Kren | ||
| script |
Konstanze Breitebner , Marvin Kren |
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| production | Klaus Graf | ||
| music |
Stefan Will , Marco Dreckkötter |
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| camera | Georg Geutebrück | ||
| cut | Olivia Retzer | ||
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Borderland is an Austrian television film from the country thriller film series from the year 2018 by Marvin Kren with Brigitte Kren and Christoph Krutzler in the lead roles. The premiere took place on March 15, 2018 as part of the Diagonale . In Germany, the film was shown at the 2018 Biberach Film Festival . The first broadcast on ORF took place on January 15, 2019. On May 20, 2019, the film was shown for the first time on ZDF .
action
In southern Burgenland on the border with Hungary , where a wave of refugees reached Austria in 2015 , the deaf 18-year-old Renate Horvath is found dead by the hunter and foreign landlord Josef Vukic. She had worked in the local asylum center in Güttendorf . The asylum seeker Ahmed, who comes from Syria , is suspected of being the perpetrator . Some villagers see this as an admission of guilt. Ahmed had previously received a negative asylum decision. Together with district inspector Hans Boandl, chief inspector Elfriede Jandrasits, investigator of the Eisenstadt criminal police, takes over the case. She suspects a relationship act, but she lacks the motive.
Ahmed is eventually arrested while trying to escape from the home of the Arabic interpreter Mashid. While Jandrasits is traveling to Eisenstadt for her husband Wolfgang's retirement party, Ahmed is attacked during the night and his detention cell is set on fire. Ahmed manages to escape in the ensuing confusion. Jandrasits asks the armed forces under Colonel Walter Jerovic to look for the fugitive as part of the assistance mission at the border. She also learns that the armed forces are making video recordings with drones, including the night of the murder.
Interpreter Mashid and his wife Martina tell Jandrasits that Ahmed and Renate were lovers and wanted to leave the place together, but they were prevented. Ahmed stays in the area contrary to general expectations, Jandrasits suspects that he is looking for the real culprits to avenge Renate. Norbert Horvath's car, Renate's uncle, and two male perpetrators can be seen on the video recordings of the armed forces. Norbert Horvath and the men in the village put together a protective force to look for Ahmed, while Boandl tries to maintain order in the village.
Jandrasits assumes that the two perpetrators on the video are Norbert Horvath and his brother Karl, Renate's father. You can see the two men hitting Ahmed. At this point in time Renate was probably already dead. Chief Inspector Jandrasits confronts Karl Horvath with a drawing by Renate, from which she concludes that Renate's father had sexually abused her. After she struggled, he closed her mouth and nose so that she suffocated . After Karl's confession, his wife Maria stabs him with a knife.
production
The shooting took place from October 2 to 31, 2017, and the shooting took place in Burgenland . Filming locations were among others Ollersdorf , Kemeten , Stegersbach , Jennersdorf and Rechnitz . The film was produced by Graf Filmproduktion GmbH , Austrian broadcasting and ZDF were involved, and the production was supported by the Austrian television fund. Leonie Zykan was responsible for the costume design, Verena Wagner for the production design, Dietmar Zuson for the sound and Martin Geisler for the mask.
There was no funding from the state of Burgenland . The office of Cultural Councilor Hans Peter Doskozil cited the general lack of a film fund as the reason.
reception
Reviews
Astrid Ebenführer found on DerStandard.at that the great strength of this ORF-Landkimis would lie in the fact that chief inspector Jandrasits would go through a change that Kren conveyed authentically. Nothing is black and white here, it is the many nuances that make this case so exciting.
Isabella Wallnöfer said in the daily Die Presse that Marvin Kren would stage the border region between Austria and Hungary "as an uninviting setting, inhabited by brittle people, in which the weapon sits almost as loosely as it once did in the Wild West ". The obvious violence would only show the top layer of this community sworn to silence, the horror would lurk beneath the surface and would culminate in a finale in which even Chief Inspector Jandrasits's mouth remains open.
Wilfried Geldner wrote in the Weser Kurier that this country thriller would once again prove "that the Austrians can thrill". Marvin Kren would never direct in a boring way, mother Brigitte Kren played "sometimes maternal, sometimes quick-tempered strict - the grandiose inspector from Eisenstadt".
Heike Hupertz judged in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the crime thriller “convinced with a brilliant staging and an impressive acting performance”. The political scene is only touched upon, but in some scenes one could assume that the Ibiza affair would have been known to the designers. Marvin Kren would have staged a successful film in a harmonious and atmospheric way, his mother Brigitte would have played her role impressively. The camera and music are outstanding and create dense tension towards the end.
Controversy
FPÖ media spokesman Hans-Jörg Jenewein accused the ORF officials of a lack of sensitivity in a press release against the background of four female murders within the first sixteen days of 2019. Jenewein found that the ORF should have considered changing the program in view of the topicality .
Unzensuriert.at wrote about the episode Grenzschutz ( sic ) “the otherwise quite entertaining rural crime series”: “[...] This time, the compulsory fee broadcaster blatantly continued its refugee propaganda, similar to other crime series (Tatort , Soko Danube, etc.). [...] "
Audience rating
In Germany, 4.75 million people saw the film when it was first broadcast on ZDF , with a market share of 15.9 percent.
Awards and nominations (selection)
- Nomination in the category Best Producer TV Film (Klaus Graf)
Web links
- Borderland in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Grenzland at crew united
- Grenzland on the ZDF website
Individual evidence
- ^ Kurier: Siegl leaves Soko Donau - Kren takes over . Article dated February 20, 2018, accessed February 21, 2018.
- ↑ Diagonale 2018: Grenzland . Retrieved March 2, 2018.
- ↑ Three new ORF country thrillers from December 12th on ORF eins . OTS notification dated November 11, 2018, accessed November 11, 2018.
- ↑ tittelbach.tv: "Grenzland" series . Retrieved May 21, 2019.
- ^ ORF Landkrimi: Grenzland . Retrieved April 9, 2019.
- ↑ orf.at: "Grenzland": Hunting in southern Burgenland . Article dated March 16, 2018, accessed March 16, 2018.
- ↑ Brigitte Kren not only makes people laugh in the film . Article dated November 4, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018.
- ^ A new ORF country thriller takes Brigitte Kren and Christoph Krutzler to the "Grenzland" . Retrieved February 21, 2018.
- ^ Graf Filmproduktion GmbH - rural crime thriller Burgenland - Grenzland . Retrieved February 21, 2018.
- ↑ Racism in the film: "Country crime" as an excitement? . Article from December 12, 2018, accessed on January 18, 2019.
- ↑ derStandard.at: ORF "Landkrimi" with Brigitte Kren: Hard on the border . Article from January 15, 2019, accessed on January 15, 2019.
- ↑ diepresse.com: Asylum-seeker crime thriller from Burgenland: "Don't have it with multicultural cuisine" . Article from January 15, 2019, accessed on January 15, 2019.
- ↑ Grenzland - Mon. 20.05. - ZDF: 8.15 p.m. “Grenzland”: A village is chasing an asylum seeker . Article dated April 26, 2019, accessed April 28, 2019.
- ↑ A modern homeland film of the dark kind . Article dated May 20, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019.
- ↑ FPÖ-Jenewein: "ORF is lacking in rural crime sensitivity" . OTS announcement from January 16, 2019, accessed on January 17, 2018.
- ^ ORF country crime thriller: do-gooders propaganda, while migrant violence escalates all around . Retrieved January 17, 2019.
- ↑ "Man Papa!" reports back with the lowest value . Article dated May 21, 2019, accessed May 21, 2019.
- ↑ Quotas: RTL II youth series "We are now" has a disappointing start . Article dated May 21, 2019, accessed May 21, 2019.
- ^ Kurier: The nominations of the ROMY Academy 2019 . Article dated March 26, 2019, accessed March 26, 2019.