Crime scene: From the depths of time

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title From the depths of time
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Avista Film on behalf of Bayerischer Rundfunk
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 884 ( list )
First broadcast October 27, 2013 on Das Erste , ORF 2 , SRF 1
Rod
Director Dominik Graf
script Bernd Sponge
production Alena Rimbach
Herbert Rimbach
Michael Hild
music Sven Rossenbach
Florian van Volxem
camera Alexander Fischerkoesen
cut Susanne Hartmann
occupation

From the depths of time is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced for Bayerischer Rundfunk with the Munich investigator duo Batic and Leitmayr was first broadcast on October 27, 2013 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Dominik Graf staged it, contrary to the style conventions of television thrillers, with a rapid narrative pace, many cuts and dramaturgical omissions. The focus is on the downfall of a wealthy family against the background of building corruption and gentrification .

action

The young architect Florian Holzer is found dead in the excavation of a building pit. He is the son of the former circus princess and today's head of the family Magda Holzer, who reported him missing eight months ago. The inspectors Batic and Leitmayr then investigate the family who lives with the house servants Rosl and Ante in a villa on the banks of the Isar in Pullach . Florian was not Magda Holzer's biological son. She had adopted him during her artistic career and later had her own son, Peter. Both of them then successfully joined a construction company. Peter Holzer states that there were often arguments between them for operational reasons, but otherwise they would have got on well and even shared their lover and former artist Liz Bernard, who now lives with Peter Holzer.

As part of their business activities, the Holzer family is involved in dubious building projects in Munich's Westend . The quarter, which is predominantly inhabited by poor people and immigrants, is to be upgraded with expensive new buildings. During the on-site visit, Leitmayr made the acquaintance of a local resident, Angelina Winkler, who was fighting against the building project in a citizens' initiative. Holzer is therefore not very popular. Leitmayr suspects the perpetrator here or in the context of the corruption incident in which half the city council is involved.

As Florian Holzer was killed with a targeted blow to the larynx and was then obviously robbed, Batic asked around in a game library in Munich's Westend, which is known for its petty criminals. The owner knows his way around this milieu, but refuses to cooperate. When he lends a player money for the machine and he then wins a three-digit sum, Batic has found a grateful informant in him. However, Batic does not get on the trail of the murderer.

Unexpectedly, Peter Holzer goes crazy. He drives his car into the Hem Staufacher's hairdressing shop and then shoots Piet Jansen, Angelina Winkler's friend, who he runs into. When Batic and Leitmayr are called to the scene, they find Jansen injured and Staufacher dead in his apartment. However, he died of an amphetamine overdose a few hours ago. Peter Holzer is to be arrested as an urgent suspect. He is very drunk and holed up in the villa in Pullach. Batic tries to get to him over the balcony, but when Holzer notices him at the window, he shoots himself.

For the investigators, the incident is mysterious and by questioning Magda Holzer and Liz Bernard they try to shed light on the darkness. Magda Holzer states that she often had her hair done by Staufacher, but recently he has been bothering her and her son with calls and demanding a severance payment because the lease for his business has been terminated. She then told her son that he should take care of the matter. When listening to Holzer's answering machine, the investigators get the impression that it is more likely to be blackmail than just a simple compensation claim.

Batic and Leitmayr get in touch with the Croatian Alex Kovacz, who was a regular customer at Staufacher and had often spoken to him about past events in the hairdressing business. As the former caretaker of the Pullach villa, he knows that Magda Holzer officially inherited the villa from SS officer Schwertfeger, for whom her mother had worked as a housemaid, in 1947, but that she and her mother helped with the death of the officer. Since he had to hide at the end of the war, they simply locked him in the basement of the house and let him starve to death. So the commissioners find out that Florian Holzer had learned about the murderous history of the house and he wanted to make the whole thing public. Liz Bernard tried to prevent this, because Magda Holzer wanted her to inherit the villa one day. With the help of the house servant Ante, she wanted to give Florian and Staufacher a lesson , but this went wrong and ended fatally in both cases. When Peter Holzer saw the dead Staufacher lying in his apartment on the day of his rampage , he suspected that the guilt that his family had incurred would tear his whole life off track and that he would be ruined, which drove him to suicide .

background

The script uses elements from the short story The Downfall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe . The stage name of Magda Holzer refers to the real Calamity Jane (German catastrophe Jane ), an American Wild West personality in the late nineteenth century who appeared as a rider and art shooter.

From April 16, 2013 to May 19, 2013 in Munich and the surrounding area under the working title The circus is off was shot from the depth of time . Dominik Graf directed a crime scene for the first time after a break of 18 years . At that time he had staged the highly acclaimed Tatort episode Frau Bu lacht for Bayerischer Rundfunk.

reception

Reviews

Several critics emphasized that the narrative style demands a lot of concentration from the viewer, and “quickly loses out if you are not completely involved.” The acting performances of Meret Becker and Erni Mangold were mentioned.

This crime scene film frees itself from the conventions of television crime, said Claudia Schwartz in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , and is an "aesthetically ambitious television cinema that is not based on audience ratings and cultivates exuberant ideas and surprising punchlines". Sandra Zistl from Focus stated: “What this 'crime scene' succeeds in is unfortunately not a standard of the series: The explosiveness and depth of the subject, which take on historical dimensions, are not trumpeted through meaningful glances or dramatic music, but rather emerge from a puzzle Individual fates and small comments and gestures. "

"Graf [...] is now taking the stylistic devices he has cultivated in recent years to extremes for Schwamm's urban development crime plot: 1970s zooms, hard cuts, discontinuous narration and rapid changes of location demand the viewer's maximum concentration."

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

“An excellently staged, extremely courageous crime scene that sometimes even gets cozy. 'People have to eat,' says Commissioner Batic. But not even this sentence is said that way. "

- Holger Gertz : Süddeutsche Zeitung

Audience rating

The first broadcast of From the Depth of Time on October 27, 2013 was seen by 9.26 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.1% for Das Erste . When repeated on May 20, 2018 - Whit Sunday - the crime scene achieved the best audience rating of the day with 4.29 million viewers and a 15.2% market share.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​From the depths of time at crew united
  2. ↑ From the depths of time. Crime scene fund, accessed on October 22, 2013 .
  3. ↑ a b Holger Gertz: Tangible pace of life. Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 27, 2013, accessed on October 27, 2013 : “The pace at which the story is told is crazy, the viewers are asked a lot. But those who manage to concentrate will be rewarded with a very courageous episode. "
  4. ↑ a b Christian Buß: Munich "Tatort" by Dominik Graf. Under the dirndl is corrupted. In: Culture. Spiegel Online, October 25, 2013, accessed October 25, 2013 .
  5. ↑ a b c Claudia Schwartz: The murderers are among us. In: Feuilleton. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 27, 2013, accessed on May 21, 2018 : "Dominik Graf is directing the new“ Tatort ”in Munich, which puts more emphasis on the pleasure of crime than on flirting with quotas."
  6. ^ A b Sandra Zistl: "Short Trial": Munich- "Tatort". Leitmayr: “Boutique, nice shopping and drinking cappuccino”. In: Culture. Focus, October 25, 2013, accessed October 25, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime Check: Sunday, October 27, 2013.quotemeter.de , October 28, 2013, accessed on May 21, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime check: Sunday, May 20, 2018.quotemeter.de , May 21, 2018, accessed on May 21, 2018 .
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