Crime scene: forest lust
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Forest lust |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1050 ( List ) |
| German-language first broadcast |
March 4, 2018 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Axel Ranisch |
| script | Sönke Andresen |
| music | Martina Eisenreich |
| camera | Stefan Sommer |
| cut | Susanne Heller |
| occupation | |
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Waldlust is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The paper produced by the SWR was on March 4, 2018 First aired. In this 1050th crime scene episode, Ludwigshafen commissioner Lena Odenthal determines her 67th case.
action
Lena Odenthal and her colleagues Johanna Stern, Peter Becker and Edith Keller attend an advanced training event in the Black Forest at the weekend . The coaching seminar with the psychologist Simon Fröhlich takes place in the remote and shabby Hotel Lorenzhof. In addition to the taciturn hotelier Bert Lorenz, his niece Dorothee and the aged actress Lilo Viadot live in the hotel. Lorenz was imprisoned for 15 years for the murder of his sister-in-law Waltraud. His brother Heinrich, Waltraud's husband, has disappeared since then. Waltraud's and Heinrich's daughter Dorothee, who has autoaggressive tendencies, has been in psychiatric treatment for years, including from Fröhlich, with whom she is having an affair, which Fröhlich initially hides from his seminar group.
A human finger bone is found in the vegetables at dinner. Soon more bones and evidence of a long-ago crime emerge. Odenthal calls all three residents of the house together. Dorothee accuses the Viadot of having once killed her mother, whose bones it is said to be. However, she cannot prove this. The bones are handed over to the local police officers, the married couple Elli and Jörn Brunner, for examination, who discover that someone has opened Waltraud's grave and apparently removed bones.
In the morning Fröhlich confessed to his seminar group that the seminar had been discussed with Dorothee and that the income was supposed to cover his tax debts, whereupon the seminar was broken off. Dorothee cannot be found and, according to Lorenz, allegedly drove into town. When Stern tries to pack her things, she is knocked down and her cell phone, which she used to photograph evidence, is stolen. Odenthal finds Dorothee hanged in her room. Becker finds evidence that Dorothee could have been murdered. Fröhlich and Lorenz are urgently suspect. The seminar group then happily leaves the hotel and flees in his van. On the way he is stopped by Elli Brunner. A little later he drags himself back to the hotel with a knife in his back and dies before Odenthal can question him about the incident.
In the end it turns out that Elli has knocked down Brunner Stern, stole the cell phone and killed Dorothee and Fröhlich. She wanted to cover her husband, who murdered Waltraud and Heinrich at the time and who credibly cast suspicion on Heinrich's brother. Jörn Brunner had a sexual relationship with Heinrich at the time. When the latter wanted to end their relationship and Waltraud Lorenz happened to join them, he had killed them both out of anger and fear. He shows Odenthal and her colleagues the place in the forest where he buried Heinrich. When Lorenz hears who is responsible for his innocent imprisonment, he grabs Elli Brunner's weapon, first kills her and then her husband, and is then gunned down by Odenthal. Lorenz is arrested and has to answer again for murder.
background
The film was shot from January 24, 2017 to February 19, 2017 in Lossburg . Director Axel Ranisch showed the new crime scene for the first time at the 51st Hof International Film Festival .
As in the 2017 Tatort: Babbeldasch , also staged by Axel Ranisch, the film's dialogues are improvised . Ranisch shot the independent film Big Girls with guest actors Heiko Pinkowski, Ruth Bickelhaupt and Peter Trabner in 2011 , also with improvised dialogues. Ruth Bickelhaupt (* 1921) is the director's grandmother.
reception
Reviews
“There were [at the Hofer Filmtage 2017] bright spots in the muddle of German production, including the latest Axel Ranisch, whose humor (lovingly childish) and production method (improvised dialogues) the television managers are still not used to. [...] his new film 'Waldlust' takes the crime scene commissioner Lena Odenthal's deconstruction even further than Ranisch's ' Babbeldasch ': This time the brave investigators end up in an eerie old house, populated with Edgar Wallace characters, and the staff is decimated like in Agatha Christie's ' Ten Little Negroes '. "
“Spontaneity and flashbacks, improvisation and composition - that is a paradoxical narrative arrangement. [...] What may have been thought of as a productive contradiction kills the already badly battered film characters. Trapped in the snow, buried under strings: this motivational seminar backfired. "
The film service rated the film with one of five possible stars and rated it as a "crime thriller that imparts improvised access to a rigid concept and sometimes overwhelmed actors." The "absurd plot with horror movie quotes" also leads to failure of the film.
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Waldlust on March 4, 2018 was seen by 8.23 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.4% for Das Erste .
Awards
- 2018: German Film Music Award in the Best Music in Film category
Web links
- Crime scene: Waldlust in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot by Waldlust on the ARD website
- Forest lust at the crime scene fund
- Waldlust at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crime scene: Waldlust at crew united
- ↑ a b Hanns-Georg Rodek : Is Hof now making cinema history? In: Culture. Die Welt , October 30, 2017, accessed on February 12, 2018 : “It is the 51st film festival. Time for a relentless stocktaking of German cinema. "
- ↑ Biography on the film homepage dickemaedchen.com . Retrieved July 10, 2017
- ↑ Christian Buß: Group therapy in the Odenthal "crime scene". This place is horror. In: Culture. Spiegel Online, March 2, 2018, accessed on March 2, 2018 : "4 out of 10 points"
- ↑ Crime scene - Waldlust. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Sunday, March 4th, 2018.quotemeter.de , March 5th, 2018, accessed on March 5th, 2018 .
- ↑ German film music award for "Tatort" and "Spreewaldkrimi" ( memento of the original from October 27, 2018 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. . Article dated October 26, 2018, accessed October 27, 2018.
- ↑ Woman power at the German Film Music Prize . Article dated October 26, 2018, accessed October 27, 2018.
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