Pregau - No way back

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Television broadcast
German title Murderous valley - Pregau
Original title Pregau - No way back
Country of production Austria , Germany
original language German
year 2016
Production
company
Mona movie
length 4 × 90 minutes
Episodes 4 in 1 season
genre Thriller
Director Nils Willbrandt
script Nils Willbrandt
production Thomas Hroch ,
Gerald Podgornig
music Stefan Will , Marco Dreckkötter
camera Peter Nix
First broadcast September 26, 2016 on ORF eins
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Pregau - No way back (in Germany: Mörderisches Tal - Pregau ) is the title of a four-part Austro-German miniseries that was produced by ORF and ARD and was first seen on television in late September and early October 2016.

Episode overview

No. Episode title First broadcast
Austria (ORF)
Spectators
Austria
First broadcast in
Germany (ARD)
Viewers
Germany
1 The mistake 26th September 2016 839,000 December 25, 2016 2.79 million
2 The lies September 27, 2016 700,000 December 26, 2016 2.97 million
3 The blackmail September 30, 2016 469,000 December 27, 2016 3.01 million
4th The big day 4th October 2016 651,000 December 28, 2016 2.75 million

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Episode 1: The Bug

The film is set in Pregau, a fictional small town in Upper Styria . Here Hannes Bucher, who comes from Germany, is on duty as a police officer . Years ago he married into the Hartmann family clan, which dominates Pregau and is hostile to the Hölzls, but then lived in Salzburg with his wife Maria and his mentally ill daughter Sandra . Although he adores both of them, the marriage crumbles. Only a few months earlier did the family settle in Pregau, where Hannes got a job in the local police station through the protection of the clan, which secretly despises him, after he felt bullied at the previous position.

On the night of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Hartmann company, Hannes catches his underage niece Rosa and her friend Gregor Hölzl drunk and driving too fast in Gregor's sports car without a license. Since the Hartmanns and the Hölzls are enemies, the situation for Rosa is doubly problematic. So that Hannes refrains from filing a complaint, Rosa seduces her uncle into oral sex. Both Gregor and, in part, Max Dirrmeyer, who lives in seclusion, notice this. Hannes obliges the angry Gregor that only he should drive the car and lets them both drive on.

In the morning Hannes is called to an accident. It is Gregor's sports car that crashed the night before. Rosa, who was behind the wheel again, is dead. Gregor survived the accident but is in a coma. Rosa's half-brother Sebastian, who is more than just brotherly love with his dead sister, tries to uncover the background of her death, and the more Hannes tries to cover up everything, the more he comes under pressure.

Episode 2: The Lies

Hannes' wife Maria starts a relationship with her nephew Lukas and they spend one night in the night club Eva . Meanwhile, the whole family is still desperately looking for Sebastian, who has suddenly disappeared.

The Hartmann family, who run a forwarding company, are fighting against the sale of the community's own animal carcass recycling facility to Gregor Hölzl, Sr., because they fear for their forwarding orders. Deputy Mayor Feichtinger, who has to decide on the sale, and Dana, an employee of the nightclub, get involved in a one-night stand in the nightclub. This secretly also belongs to the Hartmanns and the rooms are monitored by video. Elias Hartmann uses photos of the night to blackmail Feichtinger. On another level, the family has been trying for years to prevent the construction of a bypass road in order to increase the value of their real estate in the industrial park. Since the pastor of the city is committed to the street, the parish no longer receives any donations from the Hartmanns, which makes it suffer very much.

For Hannes Sebastian, about whom it is known that he has already been in the hospital because of mental problems, is a ticking time bomb, as he is making progress with his research into the night of the accident by torturing Max in his house until Max finally reveals his observations. Sebastian drives Max's deregistered car to the nightclub where Hannes is investigating. Brothel landlord Anton escapes with the prostitutes and Hannes only meets one girl: Dana, who is imprisoned after trying to escape. When Sebastian shortly afterwards found Hannes alone in the brothel and threatened with a samurai sword , Hannes shot him in self-defense. Afraid that this would destroy his life completely, Hannes drives off with the body in the trunk of Max's car.

Episode 3: The Blackmail

On the way to Max, Hannes is stopped by his boss Ferdinand Oswald and can only explain his actions with difficulty. The corpse in the trunk remains undetected. After Max was persuaded by him, Hannes wanted to give up, but suddenly he wanted to help him with the removal of the corpse for a hush money of 50,000 euros. Hannes calls in sick and buries Sebastian in the cemetery that night, although he is surprised and supported by Dana. The next day, Hannes can only raise € 20,000 for Max by selling his almost new car.

Dana tells Hannes that Elias is involved in the business of the brothel. Hannes hides Dana in an abandoned forest hut and gets her savings from the night club. The mentally ailing sister of Maria, Edith, visits Pastor Stöckl - officially because of the burial preparations - and tries to dissuade him from his commitment to the bypass road on behalf of the family and finally seduces him.

Hannes colleague Matthias Hecker comes across clues against them. He realizes that the key to the accident must be the place at Max's house, where Hannes presumably stopped Rosa and Gregor. After interviewing Max, he can figure it all out and asks Oswald to request a saliva sample from Hannes .

In parallel to this case, a mysterious shooter is being investigated who is shooting at trucks on the nearby motorway. Inspector Manuel Brandstetter, who was also born in Germany and was treated disparagingly by his colleagues, developed the theory of a planned rampage . He stumbles upon Max's brother Tom Dirrmeyer through a lost ski cap. This lives, hostile by the neighbors, in a workers' settlement. When questioned in his apartment, the suspicion is confirmed. After the arrival of Hannes, who was called by Manuel for help, the situation escalates and Tom shoots Manuel.

Episode 4: The Big Day

Since Tom knows about all of Hannes' offenses, Manuel's murder is also covered up. Max buries him next to Sebastian in the cemetery. Tom has hoarded tons of explosives in a cave and is waiting for the "big day" when he can do something with it.

Hannes returns to the police station as if nothing had happened. He is called to a boarding house, where the pimp Anton, who has fled the club, rioted and arrested him. From this he learns that the Hartmann family runs the brothel. He also now knows that Johann and Elias Hartmann had Rosa followed that night and thus immediately found out about the accident, but gave instructions not to do anything to save Gregor.

Hannes informs his wife of this atrocity. The shocked Maria has now decided to leave her husband and child. Gregor wakes up in the hospital; although he cannot speak, he can write a statement that his father brings to Oswald. But this also first informs the Hartmanns. He announced that he would have to take a saliva sample from Hannes the next day at the latest.

He drives with his daughter Sandra to Dana in the hunting lodge and spends the night there. The next morning Maria visits him with Gregor's testimony in the inspection and confronts him. However, the family also wants to fake the DNA test. Hannes agrees, but wants one million euros in compensation for Sandra.

During the subsequent funeral of Rosa, Hannes goes to the brothel and finds compromising pictures of Maria and Lukas there. At the funeral feast , Maria learns about her family's girl trafficking. First Elias suggests that Hannes be disposed of in the animal body recycling facility, but Johann wants to pay out the million in cash.

Hannes hires his tennis partner, the nurse Günther Prechtl, to hand over the money and tells him the whole story. Out of greed for money, he immediately calls Maria and tells her about the killing of Sebastian. But Hannes learns of the betrayal and knows that he will no longer be let go. He visits Tom and explains to him that the "big day" has now begun.

Günther takes the money to a lawyer and then meets Hannes in the nightclub. This is also expected from the Hartmanns there. He is tied up and interrogated. Until the end he hopes to be able to win Maria back. But she is no longer even interested in Sandra, who has meanwhile set off for Vienna with Dana. Little by little, everyone involved, including the Hölzls and the police officers Oswald and Hecker, arrive at the nightclub. At a telephone command from Hannes, Tom blows it up in a spectacular way. Only Tom, Max, the pastor, Dana and Sandra survive.

Background information

Pregau was shot exclusively in Austria with a budget of 6.3 million euros. The Styrian community of Eisenerz provided the backdrop for Pregau . The film was also shot in Vienna , Lower Austria and in the province of Salzburg . Filming lasted from June to October 2015.

The theme song "Come with me" is sung by Ibadet Ramadani .

Individual evidence

  1. Successful "Pregau" start with up to 839,000 viewers
  2. Primetime check: Sunday, December 25, 2016quotemeter.de , accessed on December 27, 2016
  3. Wrabetz: “Pregau” quotas at “suburban women” level
  4. Primetime check: Monday, Christmas Day 2016 , quotemeter.de , accessed on December 27, 2016
  5. ^ "Pregau" lost 230,000 seers
  6. Primetime check: Tuesday, December 27, 2016quotemeter.de , accessed on December 29, 2016
  7. ^ "Pregau": No way back to the premiere quota, but 651,000 at the end , standard on October 5, 2016
  8. Popular prime time drama: The first one is convincing with “Tell me nothing” , quotemeter.de , accessed on December 29, 2016
  9. monafilm.tv website for the film, accessed on December 27, 2016

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