Crime scene: tree falls

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title tree falls
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company
ORF
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 1110 ( List )
First broadcast November 24, 2019 on ORF , Das Erste , SRF 1
Rod
Director Nikolaus Leytner
script Agnes Pluch
production Klaus Graf
music Matthias Weber
camera Hermann Dunzendorfer
cut Bettina Mazakarini
occupation

Tree falls is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was first broadcast on November 24, 2019 on ORF , in the program Das Erste and on SRF 1 . It is the 1110th episode in the series, the 46th case of the Austrian investigator Moritz Eisner and the 22nd joint case of the Eisner / Fellner team of investigators .

action

In this case, Eisner and Fellner, much to their displeasure, are assigned to the foot of the Grossglockner , where Hubert Tribusser, the junior boss of the timber company of the same name, is missing. His father is an acquaintance of the Viennese police chief and does not want to leave the investigation to the local police station. Finally, Hubert Tribusser's titanium shoulder joint identified by the serial number is found in the boiler of the company's own power plant. In Heiligenblut am Großglockner Eisner meets the local police chief Alois Feining, whom Eisner knows from one of his first murders. Feining, with whom Eisner gets along very well, provides the two Viennese investigators with local insider knowledge.

The murder victim's brother, Klaus Tribusser, brings Fellner and Eisner to the environmental activist Holzer. The Tribussers had a lawsuit against him; However, Holzer protests his innocence. The hotelier Drobnig has not been on good terms with the Tribussers either, since his son died in an industrial accident in their company. In order to avert a lawsuit, Drobnig received financial compensation at the time. Based on the time at which the alarm warning of the boiler was switched off, a possible crime period is determined. Holzer has an entry in the criminal record for assault, and he was observed by his neighbor at the time of the crime when he was leaving the house. He claims to have spent the whole night with a married man.

When looking for the perpetrator and the motive, the investigators find out that the deceased took money from the company's coffers and had affairs with Johanna Tribusser, the wife of his brother Klaus, and with his employee, the accountant Margit Prix. Klaus Tribusser is one of the suspects because of his wife's affair, he has no alibi. Drobnig had observed Klaus and Hubert having an argument. Klaus had threatened Hubert to tell her father about the embezzlement of the company funds.

Hubert had booked plane tickets to Mauritius , the tickets were booked for him and Valli Granitzer, who also works for the Tribussers' company. Valli's husband Andi is also one of the suspects. Fellner finds out that Valli Granitzer's mother Maria has a relationship with Alois Feining and that he is thus biased in the case.

As a result, Feining first confesses that Hubert Tribusser had a fatal accident during a police check; Andi Granitzer helped him with the disposal of the body in the power plant. After Eisner does not accept his confession, Fellner brings Maria Granitzer into the room. She immediately admits that she killed Tribusser when he strangled her son Andi. The two got into an argument when Tribusser suddenly wanted to call in a personal loan. Andi and Alois then disposed of the body in the kiln.

production

One of the locations: Heiligenblut am Großglockner

The 22nd joint crime scene case by Eisner and Fellner was filmed from August 21 to September 18, 2018 in Carinthia . The shooting locations were Heiligenblut am Großglockner and the surrounding area as well as Sachsenburg . The film was shot in the Hasslacher sawmill at its Sachsenburg location.

This Tatort episode was produced by Graf Filmproduktion GmbH owned by Carinthian producer Klaus Graf , the production was supported by the Province of Carinthia . Max Vornehm was responsible for the sound, Christine Egger for the production design, Caterina Czepek for the costumes and Monika Puymann and Birgit Hirscher for the make-up.

For screenwriter Agnes Pluch , this was the first film in the Tatort series . Her aim was, among other things, to address how Eisner was at the beginning of his professional career and what ideals he had at the time. Pluch also intended to make viewers aware of illegal logging in Eastern Europe . Nikolaus Leytner staged an ORF crime scene for the second time after Operation Hiob (2010). After Unforgotten (2013), this is another crime scene from Carinthia.

Since the episode was already filmed in 2018, when it was broadcast at the end of 2019, Verena Altenberger, an actress in a supporting role, who is now being investigated as police superintendent " Bessie" Eyckhoff in the Munich police call - a constellation, that is, crime scene or police call commissioners in one of the both rows can be seen in a supporting role, which is otherwise avoided if possible.

music

The following pieces of music are used in the film (composer, title, artist):

reception

Reviews

Tilmann P. Gangloff of tittelbach.tv decided that the film would obey the usual crime scheme. Compared to the rest of Leytner's work, this film seems like a finger exercise. The interaction between Harald Krassnitzer and Karl Fischer as former friends is worth seeing and very amusing. Leytner obviously took the motto of the local police chief, portrayed by Fischer, to at least enjoy the landscape in view of the detours of life.

Jens Szameit gave a similar verdict in the Weser Kurier , who said that the landscape was idyllic and difficult to beat. “No conceivable crane slewing was left out in order to present the mountains and valleys of Carinthia as picturesque as they are without question. Eisner trudges around each other at the foot of the Grossglockner in a mood like a scree avalanche. "It is not one of the most original, but one of the most beautiful of this alpine thriller, as Eisner and Feining" mourn missed chances in life with bottled beer and table football and intone the Rolling Stones, so crooked that the roof beams bend. "

Christian Buß from Spiegel Online described this episode as an “archaic alpine drama” and the tone was pleasantly rustic. The slopes of the area would be measured in beautiful tracking shots and flights, the filmmakers then exposed the human abysses as a chamber play in claustrophobic wood paneling. The alpine drama classically plays through the relationships of dependency between brawls in the bar and pampering hours in the coniferous forest. In the end, it is very annoying that many of the female figures remain weakly outlined; they are almost always dependent on the encouragement and attention of men. This then does not seem archaic according to the genre of mountain drama, but at best anachronistic.

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Baum falls on November 24, 2019 was seen by 9.92 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 28.4% for Das Erste .

The first broadcast was followed by an average of 1,073,000 viewers on ORF , with a market share of 32 percent. According to ORF, this Carinthian crime thriller was in seventh place in the reach ranking of all crime scene episodes since 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

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