Crime scene: Passion
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | passion |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
ORF |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 448 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | November 17, 1999 on ORF 2 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ilse Hofmann |
| script | Felix Mitterer |
| production | Ingrid Haunold |
| music | Frank Wulff , Stefan Wulff (see below Ougenweide ) |
| camera | Martin Stingl |
| cut | Carolyn Haag |
| occupation | |
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Passion is a television film that was originally produced as an offshoot of the crime series Tatort and was reintegrated into this television series six months later in Germany.
action
The Vienna chief inspector Moritz Eisner is on vacation in Mieming , Tyrol . In the evening he notices the performers of the local Passion Play in the bar of his hotel , including the owner and mayor Alois Egger and his sons Hubert and Christian. The next morning Eisner finds the Jesus actor Hubert dead on the cross while hiking on the stage of the game . The still inexperienced chief inspector Roxane Aschenwald, who herself comes from this village, but is divorced in strife, gets the case.
The dead man's lover, the actress who played Maria Magdalena , found important evidence by chance, but was therefore also murdered. Eisner and Aschenwald discover in the course of the investigation that several villagers, whose farms are on the slopes of the adjacent mountain, either died mysteriously or want to emigrate. The decisive men in the village, Mayor Egger, the doctor and the sawmill owner, want to get this part of the village empty. They will stop at nothing, including inciting the murder of their own son, who wanted to bring everything to the public. Egger's son and the son of the sawmill owner confess the murders, but Eisner and Aschenwald continue to investigate that an American mining company wants to buy the whole mountain for the extraction of tungsten and has promised several million dollars for it. After the plans were thus destroyed, Egger blew himself up together with the mine. Roxane Aschenwald can reconcile with her father.
background
The film Passion “… is a grippingly staged homeland thriller” (tatort-fundus.de) , starring Harald Krassnitzer, Sophie Rois, Dietmar Schönherr, Simon Schwarz, Nina Proll, Rudolf Wessely and Reinhard Simonischek in supporting roles - Michael Rast , Monika Schletterer-Falbesoner - is top-class. The film was originally planned as a committed home film with the loan from Moritz Eisner from the ORF crime scene , who is on vacation in Tyrol and slides into a murder case there; therefore the rest of the Vienna Tatort team is not there either. Accordingly, the film was not shown with the usual Tatort opening credits. Because of its success in Austria, Bavaria Film bought the rights to this film and offered it to the ARD subsidiary Degeto , which broadcast the film in Germany on July 30, 2000 as a crime scene .
The hotel in which Eisner lived during his stay in Mieming is called Hotel Römisch-Deutscher Kaiser in the film. The hotel is now called Hotel Kaysers Tirolresort and is located in Rollerweg 334 in the Barwies district in Mieming.
reception
Audience ratings
The German premiere of Passion on July 30, 2000 was seen by 6.71 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.0% for Das Erste .
criticism
While the premiere in Austria was without major protests, the churches in Germany turned against the film. The criticism from the press, on the other hand, was good to euphoric:
“There is no better publicity for entertainment of all kinds than officially announced criticism by the Catholic Church. In this respect, the crime scene 'Passion' will draw from the nimbus that the German Bishops' Conference had given it the predicate 'tasteless' in advance. Reason: strangers murder the Jesus actor in the passion play of a Tyrolean mountain village by nailing him to the cross. (...) But the plot that screenwriter Felix Mitterer has come up with is not really suitable for a functioning crime thriller. And the few sentences that come slowly from the mouths of many good actors (including Dietmar Schönherr) are too reminiscent of Austrian stage dramas like Thomas Bernhard, which are characterized by healthy self-hatred. "
“The Christian Media Association KEP (Conference of Evangelical Publicists) called for the 'Tatort' crime story to be discontinued. The spokesman for the German Bishops' Conference, Rudolf Hammerschmidt, spoke of a 'lack of taste'. 'I use religious elements and motifs rather than mirrors to tell something about the social reality in a village community,' countered screenwriter Felix Mitterer. The respected Austrian writer is a specialist in modern homeland stories, in which he likes to tear apart the idyll of a harmonious village society with relish sarcasm. The fact is that the sometimes hearty imagery of this Alpine 'crime scene' is not an end in itself, but rather a dramaturgically logical necessity. The multi-layered, atmospherically dense alpine thriller, staged by crime thriller Ilse Hofmann, grants a merciless glimpse into a closed society in which an abyss of greed, jealousy, obsession and hubris is hidden behind the mask of carefully cultivated village tradition. "
“Early 'Tatort' highlight from Ösi-Land with Harald Krassnitzer and Sophie Rois as Commissioner Roxane Aschenwald. The Jesus actor from a Tyrolean amateur theater group is really (!) Nailed to the cross. Ten years ago the tabloid press ran amok over the blasphemy accusation of this ambiguous dialect crime novel. "
"The corpse-rich and exquisitely cast dialect thriller tells its story with macabre, ambiguous humor."
“'Tastelessness', 'blasphemy' - seldom before has a 'crime scene' been heavily attacked by the churches in particular before it was broadcast, like tomorrow's episode 'Passion'. The reason for the criticism from the German Bishops' Conference, among others, is a central scene: the murder victim, who plays Jesus in the Passion Play, which takes place every eight years, is crucified. The Tyrolean author Felix Mitterer had moved the location of the ORF crime scene to the middle of his homeland, and the film was shot on the Mieminger Plateau, where 'Der Bergdoktor' was once made. "
Web links
- Passion in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the action of Passion on the ARD website
- Passion for the crime scene fund
- Passion at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The good old grandma TATORT and her grandchildren ... (Tirol-TATORTe were not TATORTe at first) . tatort-fundus.de. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
- ↑ Televisionen: Crucifixions and other curiosities , Spiegel Online, July 24, 2000, accessed April 5, 2012.
- ↑ Chasms in the Alps , Welt-Online on July 29, 2000, accessed on April 5, 2012.
- ↑ tittelbach.tv: "Tatort - Passion" series , accessed on December 1, 2014.
- ^ TV feature film , accessed April 5, 2012.
- ↑ Karsten Strauss: "If you feel injured, you have to switch off" , in: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , accessed on December 1, 2014.
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