Heart and soul. A rifting thriller
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| Original title | Heart and soul. A rifting thriller |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Lars Monday |
| script | Alex Buresch |
| production | Alban Rehnitz |
| music | Dieter Schleip |
| camera | Stefan Ciupek |
| cut | Marc Schubert |
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Heart and soul. A Kluftingerkrimi is a television comedy produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk from 2016 . The film belongs to the BR's homeland crime series and is another case by Commissioner Kluftinger . The literary film adaptation is based on the novel of the same name by Volker Klüpfel and Michael Kobr . Directed by Lars Monday .
action
Chief Inspector Kluftinger has private worries because his father has to go to a clinic because of a heart disease. He himself is advised to have himself checked by the doctor, since such diseases are often hereditary. That gives Kluftinger food for thought and he undergoes some tests in the Oberstaufen clinic. Ultimately, however, only a displaced vertebra is to blame for various ailments of the commissioner.
Professionally, too, Kluftinger and his colleagues have to deal with a human heart that was found at “Teufelssee”. The associated body is only discovered days later. This is Dr. Steiner from the Oberstaufen clinic. This opens up a series of murders for the criminal police, because the day before the insurance broker Hübner was found brutally beaten and his heart was cut out too. This was macabre in the dead man's refrigerator. In the apartment, Kluftinger finds the piece of a tube that is used in shooting galleries at the fair. This in turn brings the connection to the murder of a taxi driver, which was actually considered solved because the perpetrator was caught and already imprisoned. Strikingly, the victim died from a shot in the heart that was recently transplanted, and Maier researched that the perpetrator had worked in a shooting gallery on the fairground. For Kluftinger, this looks like a contract killing.
In Dr. Steiner's heart, which was found in the lake, the forensic doctor can detect residues of a heart drug that has not yet been approved and which, according to his research, is currently only being used in the clinic in Oberstaufen in its test phase. As Kluftinger found out, Steiner had administered the drug to far more patients than it was on an official list. Since Kluftinger's father is one of this extended group of patients, this worries him, which prompts him to doggedly solve the case of the ominous series of murders. Soon there is another victim whose heart was cut out, this time an official from the public order office. Here a camel hair is found at the crime scene, which Maier hopes to find a trace of the perpetrators. Due to an oil stain in front of the house of the killed insurance broker, Kluftinger manages to locate a van that belongs to a shooting gallery owner.
After being mistaken for the murderer for a short time, he is relieved by the fact that he sold the van weeks ago to the Burlitzers, a pair of siblings who took over the carousel operation from their parents who died shortly after each other and which has not been able to cope with it since. Kluftinger also learns that the cause of the company valley trip was an accident in which a child was injured on the carousel for whom the insurance had not paid. A year earlier they had to give up a traditional showman place because a citizen had complained to the public order office. The mother died due to hesitant treatment at the Oberstaufen Clinic under Dr. Steiner's responsibility. As it turned out later, the taxi driver had the heart transplant that was actually intended for Ms. Burlitzer. It is clear to the inspector that Jessica and Roger Burlitz are on a vengeance campaign. Since the siblings are not found in their apartment, they are searched for. Kluftinger fears that the revenge trip is not over yet. He therefore believes the citizen who reported the matter at the time was in great danger. As Sandy Henske researched, this was her colleague Richard Maier. Kluftinger and Roland Hefele are now trying desperately to find Maier because he has not returned from his “camel search”. Kluftinger tries in a neighboring village and actually finds his colleague, but he is overwhelmed and kidnapped by the Burlitzers. Jessica Burlitzer is determined to kill both of them now. Kluftinger and Maier are brought to the fairground, where they luckily manage to escape and the killer couple can be arrested.
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 often meets and who is married to the best friend of Kluftinger's wife Erika. Nonetheless, the men siege.
The shooting of Herzblut. A Kluftinger thriller took place from October to December 2015 in Memmingen and the surrounding area. The former secondary school on Buxacher Strasse served as police headquarters.
reception
Audience rating
The television premiere of Herzblut. A rogue crime thriller was seen by a total of 3.99 million viewers in Germany on November 24, 2016 and achieved a market share of 12.6 percent.
criticism
For the Frankfurter Allgemeine , Michael Hanfeld assessed the regional criticism of the last Kluftinger: “Spectacular” this time would be “nothing, but also not cheerfully kitsch”, and “the comedy created by Kobr and Klüpfel in their novel […] would even be something withdrawn, and the figures all appear a size smaller in terms of weirdness. "
Volker Bergmeister from tittelbach.tv rated this thriller overall as a “respectable piece” in which the dialects were also used “carefully but harmoniously”. The film offers “an abysmal story, a lot of situation comedy” and a “successful game with the characters and their little skirmishes.” The character of the inspector Kluftinger stands “in the tradition of the quirky, clumsy-looking, but instinctive and with a sharp eye acting investigator, in a row with Miss Marple, the bull from Tölz or Columbo. ”The film offers partly“ surreal scenes in which the whole range of the figure comes into play. ”“ The Allgäu with its magnificent landscape In this episode something moves into the background. The dark story also dominates the look. "
Web links
- Heart and soul. A Kluftinger crime in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Heart and soul. A Kluftinger thriller at fernsehserien.de
- Heart and soul. A riot thriller at crew-united.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for heart blood. A rifting thriller . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Thanksgiving. An Allgäu crime thriller at br.de, accessed on December 30, 2016.
- ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: In Production: Two New Cases for Commissioner Kluftinger | BR.de. In: www.br.de. October 6, 2015, accessed April 22, 2016 .
- ^ A b Volker Bergmeister: Knaup, Buresch, Kaufmann. Watertight story in constant smirk mode Film review and audience rating at tittelbach.tv , accessed on December 30, 2016.
- ↑ He thinks he won't be doing it much longer at faz.net, accessed February 9, 2017.