Midsummer Night's Murder
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| Original title | Midsummer Night's Murder | ||
| Country of production | Austria | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Publishing year | 2016 | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
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| Director | Harald Sicherheitsitz | ||
| script | Felix Mitterer | ||
| production | Josef Aichholzer | ||
| music | Lothar Scherpe | ||
| camera | Helmut Pirnat | ||
| cut | Paul-Michael Sedlacek | ||
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Midsummer Night's Murder is an Austrian television film from the country crime film series from 2016 by Harald Sicherheitsitz with Katharina Straßer and Gregor Bloéb in the leading roles. Felix Mitterer wrote the script . The film was first broadcast on ORF on December 8, 2016. The first broadcast on ZDF is planned for summer 2019.
action
The old dairymaid Adelheid Falkner lays tarot cards on a high alpine pasture in Tyrol , these represent death . Some time later, a young woman with a wreath of alpine flowers on her head is found lying in front of her, with grave candles burning around her. When the police arrive at the site, however, the body has disappeared without a trace. The dead woman is Monika Löffelhart, a German tourist. Before her death, she gave the organist Florian Falkner 10,000 euros as a donation for the construction of an organ tower he had planned.
As a bar pianist and organist, Florian made an impression on the female guests, his girlfriend, the hotel employee Regina Tiefenbrunner, was jealous every time he was able to win the heart of a tourist and is therefore one of the suspects. Just like Monika's husband Elmar, an investment fraud, who was just as unsatisfied with their flirting, spied on the two of them and wanted his money back from Monika. Elmar suspects Florian of having murdered Monika and of having hacked her money.
Major Claudia Wegscheider from the State Criminal Police Office in Innsbruck is supposed to clarify the case together with the local police officer Franz and the post commander Fritz Haspinger. They find three million euros in Elmar Löffelhart's trunk. Wegscheider initially suspects that Elmar Löffelhart did not want to share the money with his wife and that he had therefore murdered his wife. Elmar Löffelhart states that three million each were earmarked for him and three million for his wife. Wegscheider later suspects Florian Falkner of having killed Monikaaken on behalf of her husband and of having received half of the money originally intended for her.
Wegscheider notes that the money from Kothgasser, the branch manager of the bank where the Spoonharts had deposited their money in the safe deposit box, was replaced by counterfeit money. He claims that he not only speculated the six million from the Spoonharts, but also a total of 150 million euros. At the place where the body was found, traces of Elmar Löffelhart shoes can be found. He admits he was there the night she was murdered, but did not kill her. He followed and observed Florian Falkner and Monika Löffelhart, but was knocked down and only regained consciousness the next day.
Elmar Löffelhart finally finds his wife alive on a lonely mountain pasture, where he dies after Isidor Falkner is shot. In a flashback it is shown that Monika's death was only faked by the falconers to enable Monika to go into hiding and escape from her husband.
Production and Background
The shooting took place from June 15 to July 13, 2016, and the shooting took place in Tyrol . Shooting locations in the Steinach am Brenner / Wipptal area included Mühlbachl , Obernberg am Brenner , Trins , Vals and Neustift in the Stubai Valley .
The film was produced by Josef Aichholzer Filmproduktion , the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation was involved , and the production was supported by the TV Fund Austria and Cine Tirol . Caterina Czepek was responsible for the costume design, Verena Wagner for the production design, Michaela Payer for the makeup and Max Vornehm and Torsten Heinemann for the tone.
After Tatort: Tree of Redemption (2008), this was another collaboration between director Harald Sicherheitsitz and author Felix Mitterer . Felix Mitterer's fictional plot is based on the true story of the organist Anton Wille. Wille has been an organist in the pilgrimage town of Kaltenbrunn for over 30 years , he would like to build a tower for the 5000 organ pipes that he has made himself over the past decades so that the wind can blow into them and elicit a melody that has never been heard.
reception
In Austria, 685,000 viewers followed the film when it was first broadcast on ORF.
Isabella Wallnöfer found in the daily newspaper Die Presse that Mitterer's alpine crime comedy was a biotope of characters that were drawn as unnaturally bright as the colors on the Tyrolean Alm in this film would shine. Harald Sicheritz would have staged the case with a great sense of alpine retro charm.
Web links
- Midsummer Night's murder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summer night murder at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ ZDF has secured four new ORF country thrillers for 2019 . Article dated December 18, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018.
- ↑ Mitterer and Sicherheitsitz turn a “Midsummer Night's Murder” into a Tyrolean country thriller . Accessed on October 14, 2018.
- ↑ a b Summer night murder at crew united . Retrieved October 14, 2018.
- ↑ "Midsummer Night's Murder" in Tyrolean ORF country crime thriller . Article dated July 12, 2016, accessed October 14, 2018.
- ↑ a b diepresse.com: ORF: Maps, crosses and bright colors on the Tiroler Alm . Article dated December 6, 2016, accessed October 14, 2018.
- ↑ derStandard.at: Schalko's country thriller only saw 673,000 . Article dated December 30, 2016, accessed October 14, 2018.