Tatort: Greetings from Prague
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Warm greetings from Prague |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 503 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | July 7, 2002 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sylvia Hoffman |
| script | Horst friend |
| production |
Hans-Werner Honert Jan Kruse Jordan Stojanov |
| music | Andreas Hoge |
| camera | Jan Malíř |
| cut | Boris Machytka |
| occupation | |
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Hot greetings from Prague is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD , ORF and SRF . The film was produced by MDR under the direction of Sylvia Hoffman and first aired on July 7, 2002. It is the crime scene episode 503. For Chief Detective Bruno Ehrlicher and his colleague Kain , it is their eighth case in which they are investigating from Leipzig .
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The Czech musician Milan Materna is a guest in Leipzig and wants to give a concert there with his legendary “Golden Trumpet from Prague”. He is the son and heir of Pavel Materna, owner of the traditional Prague music house Materna, which produces trumpets by hand. Milan wants to sign a contract with the German entrepreneur Jochen Krause for the production of an exclusive range of instruments. Unexpectedly, Pavel Materna appears in the hotel. He came from Prague to tell his son not to give up the good name of the house for a mass product “Made in Taiwan”. The musician cancels the concert, which annoys Krause massively. Milan's friend Eva Huková is also angry because the trumpeter wants to part with her.
Only a short time later, Krause finds Milan Materna slain in his hotel room. Chief Detective Ehrlicher investigates and learns from Krause that the victim's girlfriend ran out of the hotel in a hurry. The chief detective Kain, who is investigating together with Ehrlicher, tries to find her, but Eva Huková has already left by train for Prague. After Ehrlicher hears from Milan's father that this woman was very interested in a business relationship between Krause and his son, he starts a search for her and asks Major Cerny in the Czech Republic for help. He immediately tries to intercept the wanted person at the station, which he succeeds. Cerny knows Eva Huková personally. When he questions her, she says she left her boyfriend after an argument, but he was still alive and she did not kill him. As a result, she is not arrested.
Commissioner Ehrlicher is going to Prague to follow the matter personally. When questioned again, Eva Huková admits to having thrown a statue at Milan Materna, which explains the fingerprints on the murder weapon. However, she did not strike several times, so that someone must have been in Materna's room after her to take advantage of the situation. More Ehrlich uses the opportunity to be in Prague to pursue old memories privately. After 35 years he hopes to meet again a woman he was in love with at the time. But only her daughter appears, who tells him that her mother unfortunately died two years ago.
Meanwhile, Kain continues investigating in Leipzig and finds out that the entrepreneur Jochen Krause has already had five thousand trumpets produced, as the contract was actually as good as signed. Milan Materna hadn't told his father about it. After the dispute between Materna and his father, Krause feared that the contract could be challenged. In Cain's opinion, this would also give him a reason to get his contractual partner out of the way. With this knowledge and various documents, Cain goes to Ehrlicher in Prague, where Pavel Materna questions his son's signature. Krause, who also went to Prague to attend Milan Materna's funeral, was arrested there after attacking a police officer. Since Ehrlicher also hears Krause, he is ultimately convinced that Krause cannot be the culprit.
When Ehrlicher and Kain bring back the “Golden Trumpet” to Pavel Materna because it is no longer needed as evidence, his workshop manager and likely successor Klaus Mai cleans the instrument with a very special cleaning cloth. Since the fingerprints on the statue with which Milan Materna was killed were wiped off with just such a cloth, the commissioners are certain that they have found the murderer. Mai admits to having killed Milan Materna because after his possible return to his father's company he should not have worked there after Milan's will.
Trivia
At the end of the film, Commissioner Ehrlicher quotes Bert Brecht's Das Lied von der Moldau .
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on July 7, 2002, the episode “ Hot Greetings from Prague” was seen by 6.37 million viewers in Germany, corresponding to a market share of 21.70 percent.
criticism
Jochen Hung criticized this crime scene for the Berliner Zeitung and came to the conclusion: “The case is lagging behind. 'Greetings from Prague' is a solid crime scene. But the portrayal of the golden city of Prague as a mysterious pavement on which honest man chases his memories goes wrong. The stations of the inspector are too clichéd: Vltava, Old Town, Jazzkeller. Prague remains like a stage for the audience. Perhaps that is also due to the fact that all Czech officials and all Prague residents speak to one another in accent-free German. With a little more courage for authenticity and less emphasis on Ehrlicher's character, the director Sylvia Hoffmann would have succeeded in creating a convincing crime thriller, it just remains an ordinary 'crime scene'. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm only gave this crime scene a medium rating and called it “more snore than any previous evening crime”. They said that the title didn't fit the topic in any way and ironicized: "Sorry, but unfortunately nothing is 'hot' here."
Web links
- Crime scene: Hot Greetings from Prague in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Greetings from Prague on the ARD website
- Warm greetings from Prague to the crime scene fund
- Greetings from Prague at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on December 22, 2015.
- ↑ See you again at the Charles Bridge at berliner-zeitung.de, accessed on December 22, 2015.
- ↑ TV thriller with the duo Ehrlicher / Kain. Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 22, 2015.
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