Crime scene: home front
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Home front |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 789 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | January 23, 2011 on Das Erste , ORF 2 , SF 1 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jochen Alexander Freydank |
| script |
Christiane Hütter , Christian Heider ; Processing: Uwe Wilhelm |
| production | Martin Hofmann |
| music |
Ingo Ludwig Frenzel , Lars Löhn |
| camera | Wolf Siegelmann |
| cut | Philipp Schmitt |
| occupation | |
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Heimatfront is a television film from the Tatort series produced by Saarland Radio . The TV premiere was on January 23, 2011. The world premiere took place as a preview on January 21, 2011 as part of the Max Ophüls Prize film festival in Saarbrücken .
action
The young artist Viktoria Schneider is shot at video recordings for her anti-war performance in a factory hall from around 400 meters away. She worked as a typist for the psychologist Dr. Bergmann employed and had illegally incorporated video recordings of therapy sessions with four paratroopers severely traumatized during the Afghanistan mission into their project. The soldiers concerned Weitershagen, Böcking, Leroux and Milbrandt come under suspicion. Since an allegedly stolen on him Milbrandt sniper rifle is approved, Kappl and Deininger arrest him provisionally, but must release him again. The four suspects exonerate each other with identical alibis . The Afghanistan veterans struggle with their past in different ways and are trying to gain a new foothold in society after the imminent departure from the Bundeswehr , which is proving difficult.
Movement comes when forensic scientist Horst Jordan finds an email from which it emerges that Viktoria Schneider had a secret relationship with Ingo Böcking, the youngest of the four soldiers, and was therefore threatened by her friend Markus Schwarz. Therefore the militant pacifist Schwarz, who openly insults the Afghanistan veterans as "Bundeswehr pigs", is suspected of murder. But his statement that Viktoria Schneider turned away from the soldier and returned to Schwarz is confirmed by Lars Leroux. The comrades knew about Böcking's relationship with the murder victim. Böcking evades questioning and flees with his comrade Weitershagen. Leroux, who lost a leg in the war, shows himself to be cooperative again and gives the commissioners the information about a hut where the wanted may have hidden. Kappl and Deininger meet Böcking there. He admits that he stole the gun from Milbrandt and thus committed the murder of Viktoria Schneider out of disappointed love. Weitershagen appears, threatens Kappl and Deininger with the precision rifle and orders Böcking to flee with him. Since the scene has now been surrounded by a special police force, Böcking tries unsuccessfully to get his comrade to give up. While trying to kill Kappl, Weitershagen is shot by a sniper from the SEK in emergency aid, and Böcking is arrested.
background
Home Front is Jochen Alexander Freydank's first directorial work in the field of full-length (television) film. Gregor Weber , who had worked in Freydanks with an Oscar- winning short film Spielzeugland , put the director in touch with the Tatort editorial team at Saarland Broadcasting. The shooting took place in April 2010 on 21 days in Saarland. The Bundeswehr had refused requested support.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Heimatfront on January 23, 2011 was seen by a total of 8.58 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.4% for Das Erste ; 3.16 million viewers and a market share of 19.3% were achieved in the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers .
criticism
“A nasty story that intensifies its topic for the sake of suspense, but never overly simplifies it. The chemistry between the inspectors finally gets going in their sixth case, their opponents are well cast, the tight narrative dispenses with senseless side skirmishes: the most convincing Saarbrücken "crime scene" so far. "
“Maximilian Brückner and Gregor Weber are terrific actors who like to (thank you) not comment on the investigation in this episode, but prefer to mumble out dust-dry bugs. It is a great pleasure to watch them [...] also because of a great ensemble performance, a feat has succeeded: The film is often funny, and yet it moves. So this off-crime scene about war trauma has become a lesson: With such an important topic, not much can be explained on entertainment television, instead one has to mumble with care. "
“An exciting thriller on an explosive topic: […] This time, too, the chief inspectors Kappl (Maximilian Brückner) and Deininger (Gregor Weber) have a tough nut to crack. You are again faced with the question: Did victims become perpetrators? [...] Oscar winner Jochen Alexander Freydank (“Toy Land”) implements the whole thing carefully and, if necessary, fast-paced and, above all, exciting. He can rely on a whole squad of outstanding young actors: Friedrich Mühe, Martin Kiefer, Ludwig Trepte, Constantin von Jascheroff and Robert Gwisdek. Incidentally, Manuel Andrack is making his "Tatort" debut here as a pub host. "
“The 'Tatort: Home Front' impressively shows that not all evil is over when the soldiers have returned to the land of the good. [...] This bitterness of those returning home is nicely told. And the investigative work of the 'Tatort' duo is extraordinarily precise. The Bavarian Maximilian Brückner never had such a convincing, so sober and yet so touching script in his Saarbrücken assignment abroad. "
“It couldn't be more current. [...] The home front takes a noticeable amount of time to show the processes within the Bundeswehr and the psychological problems of those returning home. An 'anti-war film' is how the director sees the film he helped develop. [...] everything is superbly filmed by cameraman Wolf Siegelmann, with long drives and rapid zooms, bold shots from a bird's eye view, which convey a diffuse feeling of threat, as if there was a sniper at work above our heads. "
“Sometimes it is possible to take up a topic that is current, relevant and interesting, and if you are very lucky, an interesting criminal case arises around this topic, which is exciting and broadens the viewer's horizons. With the crime scene “Heimatfront”, which the ARD broadcasts on Sunday, the Saarländischer Rundfunk achieved something very rare, and thanks go to the very talented Berlin director Jochen Alexander Freydank. [...] The film does not judge and the commissioners only do their job, investigate and are fundamentally dissatisfied with what the war is doing to people. Freydank's film forces one to grapple with how society treats its soldiers. Well played and well photographed. "
“The Saarland crime scene 'home front' shows returnees from Afghanistan with shock-conscious images. [...] Instead of attaching the trauma of a war effort to one person, too many sub-topics are touched on; the focus sometimes shifts. For the SR 'crime scene', which was completely insignificant until recently, the episode is nevertheless a step in the right direction: The new grimness also suits the two investigators well. "
“Anyone who has seen Freydank's Saarbrücker“ Tatort ”will not doubt that some good things can still be expected from this man. [...] The camera is close, the cuts are good, so is the music, the dialogues are much more than just explanations. With "Home Front", the "Tatort" ends its dry spell in the new year. "
literature
- Fabian Tietke: Tatort on war course - The ARD Sunday crime fiction worries about "our boys" at the front. In: AK - analysis and criticism: 558/2011.
Web links
- Crime scene: Home Front in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Home front picture gallery on daserste.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 32nd Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis 2011 ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on sr-online.de, accessed February 27, 2011.
- ↑ Interview with director Jochen A. Freydank on tatort-fundus.de, accessed February 26, 2012.
- ↑ "The scenes are pretty tough" Deutschlandradio Kultur from January 23, 2011, accessed February 26, 2012.
- ↑ quotemeter.de : «Tatort» wins the Sunday evening , accessed on February 29, 2012.
- ↑ tvspielfilm The war in Afghanistan arrives in the peaceful Saarland , in: tvspielfilm from January 23, 2011, accessed February 26, 2012.
- ↑ Alexander Gorkow: Trocken , in: Süddeutsche from January 23, 2011, accessed May 5, 2012.
- ↑ Thomas Reinhardt : "» Home Front «" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on: Saarbrücker Zeitung of January 20, 2011, accessed May 5, 2012.
- ↑ Josef Seitz: The Taliban are killing the Christ Child , on: Focus Online from January 24, 2011, accessed February 26, 2012.
- ↑ Christina Tilmann: "The war in Afghanistan must not become everyday life" , in: Zeit Online , accessed February 26, 2012.
- ↑ Torsten Thissen: Men in a pathetic condition , in die welt from January 23, 2011, accessed May 5, 2012.
- ↑ Christian Buß : Saarbrücken-Tatort: Boxing against the past , in the daily newspaper of January 23, 2011, accessed February 26, 2012.
- ↑ noz Nah dran , in Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung of January 23, 2011, accessed October 15, 2015.
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