Crime scene: borderline case
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Borderline case |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German , Czech |
| Production company |
ORF |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 938 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | March 8, 2015 |
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| Director | Rupert Henning |
| script | Rupert Henning |
| production | Helmut Grasser |
| music | Kyrre Kvam |
| camera | Josef Mittendorfer |
| cut | Britta Nahler |
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Grenzfall is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was first broadcast on March 8, 2015. It is the 938th episode in the series, the 35th case of the Austrian investigator Moritz Eisner and the eleventh case of the Eisner / Fellner investigative team. The plot of the episode is based on a real case.
action
In the 1960s a young man disappeared on the border with Czechoslovakia : he did not come back from fishing with a friend. Decades later, journalist Max Ryba rolls up the story again - the missing person was his father. The reason for this is the death of Ryba's mother, the wife of the person who disappeared in 1968.
At the same time, the body of 45-year-old Czech Jiří Radok, who apparently had an accident while kayaking , is being recovered from the Thaya , the border river to what was then Czechoslovakia. While investigating Radok's death, the investigative team met Eisner and Fellner Max Ryba and they encountered parallels to his private investigations: the dead kayaker Jiří Radok was apparently murdered and was not an accident victim; he worked for the Czech secret service, as did his father Jaroslav Radok earlier. In consultation with the Czech authorities, it turns out that this at the time of those events enforcement officer was from three agents in the area, of which only the code names are recorded.
At the same time during Stone Age excavations on the banks of the Thaya , an employee finds a projectile from a Czechoslovak orderly weapon next to a buried dead dog. In the course of the case it turns out that this dead dog was buried by chance at the archaeological site and was then a loyal companion of Max Ryba's father, who had disappeared. Furthermore, Fritz Gassinger, a friend of Ryba's father, who was with this fishing that night in 1968, is very mysterious. Finally, Max Ryba finds crumpled papers on which Fritz Gassinger wants to confess something to him.
The puzzle is put together when Bibi Fellner rescues Fritz Gassinger, on whom a murder attempt is carried out by a combat swimmer , from death in the Thaya at the last moment. The combat swimmer is shot by Eisner. They find out that the family of the current eco-entrepreneur and member of the National Council, Josef Karger, planned to kill Gassinger: The reason for this was that neither the investigators nor Max Ryba were supposed to uncover the secret of the mysterious night in 1968, which the last living witness Fritz Gassinger did also had to be silenced.
Max Ryba's missing father, Fritz Gassinger and Josef Karger worked as informers hired by the Czech secret service in the 1960s. Ryba's father was finally killed by the Czech border troops because he refused to continue working for the secret service. The code names from Jaroslav Radok's files can now be assigned to these three people.
Jiří Radok blackmailed the respected Karger family with the knowledge of the treason at the time, which he had from his father's secret service files. Dani Karger, Josef Karger's wife, had therefore charged her nephew, a former elite soldier of the Jagdkommando , with the murder of the extortionist - disguised as a kayak accident. When it became foreseeable that Fritz Gassinger would not be able to withstand the pressure from the police investigations and Max Ryba's investigations and that he could reveal the common dark past of the three friends as spies, the hit man from Dani Karger was also put on him. However, this failed due to the intervention of Eisner and Fellner.
background
The film was shot from June 12, 2014 to July 11, 2014 in the Waldviertel, among others at locations in the Thayatal near Hardegg , Kollmitzgraben and Raabs .
The radio journalist Ernst Weber researched the history of Walter Wawra junior from Rabensburg an der Thaya. Under the title "Death on the Border" he put the story of the missing fishermen on ORF radio Ö1 in the series "Hörbilder". A documentary about the fate of Walter Wawra's father was produced for Czech television, on which the plot of the crime scene episode is based. Harald Krassnitzer, the main actor of the team of investigators, heard the radio report and tried to put it into film.
In the episode Grenzfall , Operation Grenzstein in the border area with Austria is discussed, even though it is historically incorrectly embedded in the time of the Prague Spring .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Grenzfall on March 8, 2015 was seen by 9.59 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.9% for Das Erste .
Reviews
“This wonderful Viennese language music ! A round of stubby sentences that is lively and yet threatening fits in well with the extraordinarily opulent score by Kyrre Kvam, who composed his own, often lively music for many scenes. It also carries the viewer through the logic holes in this excavation 'crime scene', which is sometimes very casually shoveled together. "
“Eisner and Fellner are no longer grumbling, they are talking about the funk, something incidental has been lost. Once you know what you can do, you ride it to death. In this episode, practically every minor character is painted so lovingly that in total it comes across as a number revue. Everyone is a little owl. [...] So many ideas. But, as always, the same applies here: overfeeding is prohibited. "
Web links
- Borderline case in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Grenzfall on the ARD website
- Borderline case in the crime scene fundus
- Borderline case at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Jonas Jansen: Thaya River of Death? Vienna crime scene "borderline case" in a reality check. In: FAZ.NET-Tatortsicherung. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 8, 2015, accessed on January 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Crime scene: borderline case at crew united
- ^ Announcement from the Thayatal National Park , accessed on March 26, 2015
- ↑ Stern : "Tatort" review: Forgetting the story for all the pecking , Sophie Albers Ben Chamo, March 8, 2015
- ↑ Image : “Tatort” inspector | Was there really a false Czech border? , Nicole Richter, Lena Kappei, March 8, 2015
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime Check: Sunday, March 8th, 2015.quotemeter.de , March 9th, 2015, accessed on March 9th, 2015 .
- ↑ Christian Buß: Vienna "Tatort" with Eisner and Fellner. Like from a children's book, these cops! Spiegel Online, March 6, 2015, accessed on March 6, 2015 : "A" crime scene "with a weak story and famous dialogues."
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Every human being is an owl. In: Media. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 8, 2015, accessed on March 8, 2015 .
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