Crime scene: the village

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	The village
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production ; company	MR
length	88 minutes
classification	Episode 819 ( List )
First broadcast	December 4th, 2011 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Justus von Dohnányi
script	Daniel Nocke
production	Ulrich Dautel
music	Stefan Will
camera	Carl-Friedrich Koschnick
cut	Ulrike Hano
occupation
	Ulrich Tukur : Chief Detective Felix Murot; Barbara Philipp : Magda Wächter; Thomas Thieme : Bemering; Claudia Michelsen : Dr. Herkenrath; Devid Striesow : Gernot Ulm; Tobias Langhoff : Dietrich; Markus Hering : Commissioner Karsten Streuer; Sylvester Groth : Coroner; Antoine Monot, Jr .: Peter; Alice Kessler : Mother Bemering; Ellen Kessler : Mother Bemering; Matthias Scheuring : Thorsten Passig; Jürgen Rißmann : Locksmith Bölk; Annette Paulmann : Moni; Lina Beckmann; Nils Kahnwald : Holger; Bettina Hoppe; Djana Grilc;

The Village is a television film from the crime series Tatort . Justus von Dohnányi's film is the second case of the Wiesbaden LKA investigator Felix Murot. The report produced by Hessischer Rundfunk was first broadcast on December 4, 2011 on Das Erste .

action

LKA chief inspector Felix Murot is called to a small village in the Taunus by Inspector Streuer, a former colleague , to help him investigate a murder case. Once there, however, it turns out that the perpetrator, Thorsten Passig, committed suicide and announced this in a suicide note.

The case seems to have been resolved, but Murot suffers from the effects of a brain tumor and therefore does not return to the Presidium in Wiesbaden immediately. Instead, he tries to get a room in the local inn, but fails because the villagers refuse to treat strangers. He is also haunted by temporary hallucinations . Therefore, he later doubts his perception when Passig, who was believed to be dead, walks past him. While Murot continues his investigation, however, his suspicion that something is wrong is confirmed because the body of the alleged suicide has gone missing. Gernot Ulm, Inspector Streuer's assistant, had her sent to Munich, but she never got there. After interviewing the victim's widow, Passig's motive for murder appears very dubious.

Murot befriends the village magnate Bemering, who considers him a cultured like-minded person and invites him to his castle. There Murot Bemering's mother and the attractive doctor Dr. Know Herkenrath. Again he suffers a hallucination in which Bemering's mother doubles as the Kessler twins and begins to dance. During the night, he secretly flips through the family's photo albums, but is caught doing it. The next morning Bemering offers him a collaboration and the services of the local police officer Gernot Ulm.

Murot later looks for Dr. Herkenrath, who examines him because of his dizziness and discovers his tumor. Your little village practice turns out to be a well-equipped clinic and a trap for the chief inspector. He is immobilized with medication and an employee of Bemering prevents any contact with the outside world from that moment on. Passig, who is also being held in the clinic, does not want to cooperate with him. A villager who tries to help Murot dies violently. However, the chief inspector succeeds in sending a call for help to his colleague Magda Wächter on a strange cell phone.

In another conversation with Bemering, he reveals that he has been trafficking organs for years and that these organs are then transplanted to people who, in his opinion, are more valuable than others. In the same way, he secured the support of Gernot Ulm, whose son depends on an organ donation. When Murot condemns him for this, his death sentence seems sealed. He is stunned again, and Dr. Herkenrath claims to Magda Wächter, who rushed over to the call for help, that he died of his brain tumor. However, Murot was able to exchange the medication beforehand and gives his colleague a signal, who then alerts the police. Bemering and Dr. Herkenrath are arrested.

background

Location: Kransberg Castle

The shooting of Das Dorf took place from March 8, 2011 to April 14, 2011 in Frankfurt and the surrounding area under the working title Murot in Treatment . The scenes in the eponymous village were filmed in Kransberg or Kransberg Castle and on the Eschbacher cliffs .

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Das Dorf on December 4, 2011 was seen by 6.82 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 18.1 percent for Das Erste ; In the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers , 2.20 million viewers and a market share of 13.8 percent were achieved.

In Austria, 530,000 viewers and a 17 percent market share were achieved.

criticism

Hardly any other episode of the crime scene has received such a contrasting echo in the criticism than Das Dorf:

“LKA man Murot gets into a horror village - and his life is in great danger. This “crime scene” is a pleasure object for film fans. The latent fear conjures up a playground of Kafkaesque threat. Dr. Mabuse and Edgar Wallace greet them in black and white from the crypt. Tukur shines in a film noir & musical ambience - and Claudia Michelsen as a sadistic village doctor comes with the syringe. This "crime scene" has fallen out of space, time and crime fiction convention. An intellectual fun, a cinematic pleasure, a critic film. Hopefully not only! In any case, a TV piece that will be remembered for a long time. "

- Rainer Tittelbach : tittelbach.tv

“It is not worth listing other inconsistencies. In view of the outrageous course of events, it quickly becomes clear that the director Justus von Dohnányi, under the guise of the “crime scene”, is dealing with something completely different: a slightly surreal and rather bizarre comedy full of ironic allusions to the black and white crime novels of the fifties Years. [...] Everyone involved in the film team should have had a lot of fun during the shooting in the Taunus town of Usingen a few months ago. After they had finished, Ulrich Tukur promised us viewers "the weirdest 'crime scene' you have ever seen" in an interview. Justus von Dohnányi's film is always weird, but not a "crime scene". "

- Jochen Hieber : FAZ.net

“The episode 'Das Dorf' (book: Daniel Nocke), the second 'Tatort' with Tukur as Murot, definitely turned out to be a crash in one respect: A crime thriller whose plot is developed from the perspective of a perceptive investigator Plot is completely subordinated to the song and dance of its main character, can of course not work. The references to the rustic German horror cinema are not very far above the level of 'Neues vom Wixxer', the very rough Wallace homage pushed by Oliver Kalkofe and Oliver Welke. Surprisingly, when you watch this "crime scene" thriller, this finding is completely irrelevant at some point - at least if you are ready to get involved in the ego ballet Tukurs: As a grotesque review of a man who from the tumor in his [sic] head to a dance between If madness and reality are driven, the film unfolds an elegant, insane force. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

“This thriller shows with every pore that it is no ordinary 'crime scene': In 'Das Dorf', great actors and the handwriting of the idiosyncratic new director Dohnány blend into a morbid total work of art. Stefan Will's music supports the horror factor. A lonely double bass slowly mixes with rhythmic violins. A piano repeatedly raises questions in small disturbing motifs. You can forgive the "crime scene" for the motivated villagers and the predictable plot. Please, please, more of it. "

- Ina Linden : stern.de

“Sometimes clothes, sometimes revue, sometimes cabaret, sometimes musical, sometimes ghost train. Sometimes " The Big Lebowsky " is intoxicated with drugs, sometimes " The Cell " without Jennifer Lopez. The actual crime story revolved around the subject of illegal organ donation, which was completely lost in the irritating flood of images. Was that good or bad? Ingenious or wrong? It was strange, that's for sure. The main actor should enjoy it. The last words in the last scene were perhaps the motto of the film: "Oh, nonsense! For good!" Grinned Ulrich Tukur. So much for the topic: serious. "

- Christian Sieben : Rheinische Post

Awards

The crime scene Das Dorf was nominated for the 2012 Grimme Prize . Lead actor Ulrich Tukur was nominated for the Hessian TV Prize 2011 for his performance in Das Dorf .