Traces of Evil: Magic Mountain

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Episode in the Traces of Evil series
Original title Magic Mountain
Country of production Germany , Austria
original language German
Production
company		 Josef Aichholzer film production
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 3 ( list )
First broadcast December 4, 2013 on ORF2
German-language
first broadcast		 January 13, 2014 on ZDF
Rod
Director Andreas Prochaska
script Martin Ambrosch
production Josef Aichholzer
music Matthias Weber
camera David Slama
Robert Stopfer
cut Alarich Lenz
occupation
chronology

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avenging angel

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shame

Zauberberg is a German-Austrian television film from 2013 and the third installment in the crime series Traces of Evil with Heino Ferch in the lead role. Directed by Andreas Prochaska . Martin Ambrosch wrote the script .

action

The kidnapping of six-year-old Aline Staller in the holiday resort of Semmering is blamed on Max Rieger, who has previously been convicted of mental illness. Based on Brock's assessment, the man was not taken into preventive detention at the time, so Rieger only wants to talk to Brock as a confidant. Brock has to go from Vienna to Lower Austria. After his initial assessment, Brock can see no signs of a new flare-up and tries to convince the police officers that they may not have found the real culprit. Rieger suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Under this influence he pushed a child into a bus about 10 years ago because he is afraid of children and feels threatened by them. It is therefore very unlikely for the psychiatrist that Rieger willingly approach a child and kidnap him from a room. Nevertheless, he could be wrong, and since Rieger is mentally ill, it will be difficult to question him. Rieger had only been able to remember it after three years when he had acted at the time. In the case of Aline, however, time is of the essence - if she is still alive.

The next day, Aline's mother is threatened by Monika Kramer, who is then arrested. Brock knows Kramer from the clinic where Rieger was last treated and now learns that she lost her little daughter in a car accident a year ago. Karin Staller was the treating doctor and had to tell Kramer about her daughter's brain death. Shortly afterwards, Ms. Kramer was asked for her consent to release her child as an organ donor. In shock, she said yes and regrets it today, so she wanted to contact Dr. Revenge Staller. The police had now only taken her into custody for assault, but Brock fears that she may have kidnapped the child in revenge. She initially refuses to be questioned in this regard. Upon closer research and taking into account all the knowledge about those involved, Brock finds out that Kramer had a relationship with Rieger and that he is likely to be the father of her daughter. When asked, Monika Kramer confirms his suspicion, but refuses to give any indication of Aline's whereabouts. Brock puts himself in the shoes of this woman and is convinced that she hid Alina in Rieger's house after it had already been searched by the police and afterwards became a very safe hiding place because no one would look there again. Aline can actually be found there after almost 48 hours.

"All children love their parents - they can't help it."

- Dr. Robert Brock : Traces of Evil - Magic Mountain

background

Was filmed Magic Mountain from 1 to 30 October 2012 in Vienna and the surrounding area, but also in the region Semmering; so the hospital admissions took place in the LKH Mürzzuschlag. The television premiere took place on December 4, 2013 on ORF2 and in Germany on January 13, 2014 on ZDF .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Zauberberg on January 13, 2014 on ZDF reached 6.20 million viewers and a market share of 18.5 percent.

Reviews

At the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Jochen Hieber wrote: “It's not just the guesthouse that Richard Brock rented to take part in the search for the kidnapped Aline that looks shabby. The interrogation room of the Semmering police station, the farm of the main suspect and the mom and pop shop off the main street are also shabby. A decisive quality of the film, however, is that, despite all the desolation it is about, it is increasingly gaining in brilliance, developing an inner luminosity, as it were. "

Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv wrote appreciatively: “The criminal psychologist Richard Brock is a seeker, a doubter, sometimes a desperate man - and he is on the trail of a series of murders in Vienna. 'Traces of Evil' is a classic (psychological) crime thriller - the characters are clearly drawn, the plot is straightforward, and the suspense is archetypal. Exceptional genre filmmaker Andreas Prochaska reconciles action and psychology, meaning and effect, head and gut. Heino Ferch really strong again. David Slama's camera is also exceptional. Three 'Romys' for the film! "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best rating without comment (thumbs up).

In Quotenmeter.de ruled Sidney Schering: "The power of traces of evil-Magic Mountain is based [...] on the one hand to the complex performances as well as multi-faceted background stories of the victims and perpetrators, and secondly on such a direct, no-frills game supportive staging. No chases, no heated discussions that are shown in an exaggeratedly kinetic manner. Instead, the camera captures the expressive faces of the actors in dimly lit, authentic-looking rooms and the barren, realistic surroundings, lets details speak volumes and suspense emerges through deceleration. The TV crime novels of the year will have a hard time measuring themselves against this achievement! "

Katharina Riehl from the Süddeutsche Zeitung said: “While the first two parts of Traces of Evil were psychologically knitted with very fine needles, 'Zauberberg' is more of a mental fretwork. In any case, the trauma and phobias are extremely tangible. And then in the end it takes a real Ferch to find the child in the basement: a hero. But an unfortunate one. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zauberberg at crew united . Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  2. ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach: Ferch, Proll, Andreas Prochaska. An obsessively reduced personality identified! , accessed on Tittelbach.tv on January 23, 2019.
  3. ↑ Jochen Hieber: Sigmund Freud has a new governor in Vienna at faz.de, accessed on February 28, 2019.
  4. ↑ Traces of Evil - The Interrogation Film Review at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on January 23, 2019.
  5. ↑ Sidney Schering: criticism at Quotenmeter.de , accessed on February 28 of 2019.
  6. ↑ Katharina Riehl: Unhappy hero at sueddeutsche.de , accessed on February 28, 2019.