Steirerkreuz
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| Original title | Steirerkreuz | ||
| Country of production | Austria | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Publishing year | 2019 | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
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| Director | Wolfgang Murnberger | ||
| script | Wolfgang Murnberger, Maria Murnberger |
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| production | Helmut Grasser | ||
| music | Roman Kariolou | ||
| camera | Peter von Haller | ||
| cut | Karin Hartusch | ||
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Steirerkreuz is an Austrian television film from the Landkrimi film series from 2019 by Wolfgang Murnberger . The film was broadcast for the first time on December 3, 2019 on ORF and on December 12, 2019 on ARD . The film is a sequel to Steirerblut (2014) and Steirerkind (2018), the plot is based on the fourth novel by Claudia Rossbacher .
action
In their third case, Sandra Mohr and her superior Sascha Bergmann are called to Veitsch by the LKA Graz , where Walter Fürst was found strangled in bed by his son Clemens. At the scene of the crime there is a hair and with it the DNA of another unknown person. Mohr and Bergmann receive support in their investigations from post commander Ferdinand "Ferdl" Franz.
The victim was a member of a wealthy family that owned a large wood processing company. The head of the family is Pauline Fürst. She and her second son Hermann suspect Veit Schindler of having murdered Walter. Schindler was an employee of the Fürst family and head of the sawmill and had recently been released from prison. He had been convicted of raping Hermann's wife Magdalena. Walter was a key witness at the time, and Schindler was convicted on the basis of his testimony, although he always protested his innocence.
Anna Fürst, daughter of Hermann and Magdalena, became a partner in the company on her 18th birthday, Walter Fürst wanted the same for his son Clemens. Walter's mother Pauline was against it. In her opinion, he doesn't have what it takes to run the company. Clemens also tells the investigators about his father's homosexuality.
Veit Schindler meets Anna at the observation tower in the form of a wooden cross, which the Fürst family has dedicated to. Schindler tells her his view of the events at the time, of his affair with her mother Magdalena, her pregnancy from him and her later false testimony against him. He wants to prove his affair with Magdalena by means of a handwritten message from Magdalena to him.
Soon afterwards, Veit Schindler is found seriously injured in his hut, where he succumbs to his injuries. Schindler was killed with a sawed-off shotgun. The investigations reveal that Veit Schindler and Walter Fürst were in the Paradies nightclub at the same time on the night of the murder, but Schindler stated shortly before his death that he did not kill Fürst.
Mohr sends Daniel Bergmann to Club Paradies to organize the DNA of the male prostitute Amanda. A DNA comparison shows that the DNA of Walter Fürst's room is identical to that of Amanda. He admits to having unintentionally strangled Walter in the course of sexual acts.
The Fürst family claims to have been eating together at the time of the murder of Veit Schindler. The gardener of the Fürst family, Zlatko Holzer, on the other hand, has no alibi. He was seen hiding the murder weapon and is arrested for the murder of Schindler after the shoeprints from the crime scene match his. Mohr suspects Pauline Fürst of instigating Zlatko Holzer to act. Holzer confesses to having received money from Pauline Fürst for the murder of Schindler, but only part of the amount agreed before the act.
Magdalena Fürst finally confesses to her daughter that she had an affair with Schindler, also that she was pregnant by him and Anna is also his daughter after Hermann Fürst was unable to conceive.
production
The shooting took place from October 16 to November 13, 2018, and the shooting took place in Styria . Filming locations were among others Neuberg an der Mürz , St. Barbara im Mürz valley and Mariazell . The film was produced by Allegro Film , with Austrian broadcasting and ARD ( Degeto Film ) involved, and the production was supported by the Austrian TV Fund and Cinestyria Film Commission and Funds . Martina List was responsible for the costume design, Maria Gruber for the equipment, Heinz Ebner for the sound and Helene Lang and Michaela Sommer for the make-up.
reception
Reviews
In the Weser Kurier , Hans Czerny found that Wolfgang Murnberger would take a dip in the clichés of homeland crime in this film, as he did in the forerunners Steirerblut and Steirerkind , and would otherwise rely entirely on his friendly police couple, played by Miriam Stein and Hary Prinz. However, the humor all too often falls below the belt, the erotic verbal abuse between the inspectors does not always work and sometimes ends in jokes.
Karin Schütze wrote in the Upper Austrian News that the rural crime thriller would turn the tables of MeToo. In his adaptation of the novel, Murnberger set the punch lines accurately and also likes to hit something rough - or truly human.
Wolfgang Platzeck described the film in the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung as "exciting, sexy - and often bitterly angry". The investigators were "stuck in a small world, which on the one hand is characterized by an archaic godliness, in which on the other hand arch-Catholicism and bigotry go hand in hand."
Audience rating
The first broadcast on ORF on December 3, 2019 was followed by up to 809,000 and an average of 768,000 viewers, the market share was 27 percent and 24 percent for 12- to 49-year-olds.
In Germany, 4.5 million people saw the film when it was first broadcast, with a market share of 15 percent.
Web links
- Steirerkreuz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Steirerkreuz at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ ORF land Crime: (x15) Styrian Cross. In: Wishlist.de . Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Final spurt for the “Steirerkreuz” filming. November 11, 2018, accessed October 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Steirerkreuz at crew united . Retrieved October 29, 2019.
- ↑ Stein, Prinz, Reinsperger and Rubey determine in two new ORF country crime stories. In: ORF.at . Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Allegrofilm: Steirerkreuz . Retrieved October 29, 2019.
- ^ Hans Czerny: Country thriller with a regular table mentality. In: Weser Courier . November 15, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Karin Schütze: Country thriller in the Steirerland. In: Upper Austrian news . December 4, 2019, accessed December 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Platzeck: Third Alpine Crime: Investigations in the Shadow of the Cross. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . December 12, 2019, accessed December 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Successful start to the ORF crime series from town and country. December 4, 2019, accessed December 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Audience ratings: Average rating for the last “Neo Magazin Royale”. In: Westfälische Nachrichten . December 13, 2019, accessed December 13, 2019 .