Crime scene: The devil from the mountain
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | The devil from the mountain |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
ORF |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 604 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 7, 2005 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Roth |
| script | Felix Mitterer , Thomas Roth |
| production | Klaus Jüptner |
| music | Lothar Scherpe |
| camera | Helmut Pirnat |
| cut | Dagmar Lichius |
| occupation | |
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Der Teufel vom Berg is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by ORF and first broadcast on August 7, 2005. It is about the crime scene episode 604. The detective Moritz Eisner ( Harald Krassnitzer ) has to do in his 13th case with a long ago and a new murder. In order to be able to determine better, he goes incognito to a small village in the Austrian state of Tyrol .
action
The influential entrepreneur Dieter Klose is threatening to close his company headquarters, a glass factory in Austria, if the murder of his pregnant wife Julia, which has not been resolved for almost a year, is not resolved within two weeks. The state of Tyrol would then have 135 fewer jobs. Detective officer Moritz Eisner quartered anonymously in the victim's house by order of his superior. There is a letter from Dieter Klose in which he explains that it is known that the painter Georg Hochreiter, “the devil from the mountain”, is the murderer, but nothing happens. Eisner , who was allergic to wasps , was stung by a wasp on his way to the mountains . Help is approaching in the person of Georg Hochreiter. When Eisner asks him to get an antidote from the glove compartment of his car, Hochreiter takes the opportunity to rummage through Eisner's briefcase. Arriving at Juliet's house, the policeman was working on the Klose investigation file when Erwin Feichtner came by and invited him to dinner on behalf of his mother Marianne. There he learns that Julia Klose had inherited patents from her father that would represent a fortune. Eisner poses as a geography and gymnastics teacher to the locals.
When the policeman went to the village pub the next day, he met Georg Hochreiter there. The guests present put the landlady under pressure, she is not allowed to bring Hochreiter the ordered beer, otherwise they wouldn’t set foot in her pub. Ostentatiously, the painter then burns a 500 euro note in front of her eyes. Later Eisner goes to the lake with the daughter of the Feichtner family, Gabi Feichtner, at their insistence. She tells him interesting things. Suddenly she takes off her bikini top and jumps into the water.
Pfurtscheller, a local police officer, has been assigned to support Eisner. He tells the police officer that all the women in the area are into Georg Hochreiter, nobody knows why. At the fire brigade festival, he made out with almost all women. He also tells him that Hochreiter's wife Andrea and Julia Klose were step-sisters and that Andrea threw herself howling over the corpse. Since Andrea Hochreiter wants to speak to Eisner, he goes there with flowers from Juliet's garden. Andrea Hochreiter says that Julia was a born gardener, but that everything is withering in her hands, so to speak. When Eisner confronts Georg Hochreiter with the statement that everyone would think he was the murderer, the painter was not affected at all. The policeman registers that Andrea Hochreiter is hyperactive and nervous and that her husband is slightly patronizing. She gives him an alibi and goes on to say that he always wanted a child. When she was finally pregnant, Julia and her had a traffic accident in the car and lost their child.
Some time later, Gabi Feichtner and Eisner have sex. When he wants to take her home afterwards, she only says that she has her bike with her anyway and that she can do it on her own. On the way she meets Georg Hochreiter, who again claims to have killed Julia. She allows Georg to take sexy pictures of her and dances to rock music. His hut can be seen in the background, with the word MÖRDER written in red in large letters. Standing behind a tree, the young Erwin Feichtner watches the goings-on between them.
Eisner pursues his theory that Dieter Klose himself killed his wife because the child she was expecting was not his. He finds a poem in which Julia Klose recorded her husband's preferences. She titled it with The Black Cloth and describes his sexual preferences, which he had already expected of his two ex-wives. Black cloth over the eyes, tightening the air until almost fainting and at that moment, when the woman is fighting for her life, so to speak, he “comes”. Eisner's superior wants him to continue investigating in other directions. He now reveals himself to Erwin Feichtner as a police officer. Eisner tells Andrea Hochreiter that they arrested Klose as her sister's murderer and wants to know if that doesn't surprise her. She just thinks she's no longer surprised. When he wants to know how she can stand it with her husband, she replies sibyllinically that he can stand it with her. It turns out that Klose was in a brothel in Munich at the time of the crime and proceeded there in the same way as described by his wife Julia. Eisner should apologize to Klose on instructions from his superior.
When Gabi Feichtner's body is found, Eisner has to confess to his colleague Pfurtscheller that he slept with the young woman two days ago. Since he foresees that the anger of the population will now be directed even more against Georg Hochreiter, he wants him to receive personal protection . In the meantime, however, the villagers have already teamed up to practice lynching on the painter. They beat him up and are determined to hang him up. His wife Andrea desperately tries to get help after repeatedly trying to get in the way of the angry crowd. A branch cut by Eisner with wise foresight breaks when the Hochreiter pack ties it up. When Eisner and Pfurtscheller appear, the crowd dissolves and one after the other disappears. Andrea Hochreiter tells Eisner that he should take a look at young Erwin from Feichtnerhof and that Georg is Erwin's biological father. There he meets Marianne Feichtner, who wants to know whether he has her daughter's murderer. When he says he's afraid, yes, she starts crying. He gives the desperate mother to understand that Erwin is sick and needs help. Georg Hochreiter must love him very much because he protected him. In Erwin's hiding place, which his mother showed him, Eisner finds revealing pictures, the window is open. The policeman finds Erwin in a stable, who has hanged himself. He killed his sister Gabi because she had seen his secret room and he was afraid that she would tell Eisner everything. He killed Julia Klose because she had turned him away.
Production notes and background
After the Tatort episode The Millennium Murderer , it is the second time that the Austrian Thomas Roth has staged an ORF episode of the German crime series Tatort with Harald Krassnitzer as Major Eisner. The crime scenes family matter and death followed later . The film was shot from July 5 to August 6, 2004 in the Austrian municipality of Wildschönau in the Kufstein district in Tyrol . The film features the song Stand Here With Me by the American rock band Creed . At the beginning of the film you can hear excerpts from Johannes Brahms' duet Die Meere, op. 20 No. 3 , text by Johann Gottfried Herder , recording with Edita Gruberová and Vesselina Kasarova (CD: Wir Schwestern Zwei, Wir Schönen ).
reception
criticism
TV Spielfilm gave the film a medium rating (thumbs straight) and wrote: “The best cast characters (including Susanne Lothar and Robert Stadlober) do too many things that nobody can understand. Good as hell? Nope, tough and over-engineered ”.
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv said in his review that there are “bizarre tangled relationships”, “which the viewer might as little decipher as the dialogues that are not always easy to understand, but which contribute greatly to the atmosphere of the film”. Ulrich Tukur played the title 'Teufel vom Berg' “in the usual ambiguous way.” Susanne Lothar gave “a small but fine idea of her skills.” Robert Stadlober's performance in a supporting role “will be remembered”: “Everyone observes everyone . Massive, taciturn villagers and emotionally exaggerated 'strangers' make this alpine thriller a delight for the eye. Not only is the language difficult to understand. But the Krassnitzer 'Tatort' atmosphere & a superb cast. "
The TV magazine prisma also praised the “atmospherically tightly captured local color and the prominent cast” and went on to judge: “The screenplay by the Tyrolean playwright and author Felix Mitterer ('Krambambuli', 'Andreas Hofer') builds up a complex network of social relationships, but the tension largely falls by the wayside. "
The television magazine TV Today conceded that the "Tatort" episode Der Teufel vom Berg had "top-class cast", but found that the TV thriller from Austria was otherwise "largely tension-free".
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on August 7, 2005, Der Teufel vom Berg had 7.71 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 23.40%.
Web links
- Crime scene: The devil from the mountain in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Der Teufel vom Berg in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of Der Teufel vom Berg on the ARD website
- The devil from the mountain at the crime scene fund
- The devil from the mountain at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: Der Teufel vom Berg on express.de. © prism. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
- ^ Tatort: Der Teufel vom Berg at crew–united.com. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
- ^ Tatort: Der Teufel vom Berg Film review at kino.de. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
- ↑ Crime scene: Der Teufel vom Berg (ORF) - Brahms week with Soprano II ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at sopranisse.de. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
- ^ Tatort: Der Teufel vom Berg on TV Spielfilm (with pictures of the film). Retrieved May 11, 2013.
- ↑ series "Tatort - The Devil from the mountain" Rainer Tittelbach, tittelbach.tv. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
- ^ Tatort: Der Teufel vom Berg at prisma.de. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
- ^ Tatort: Der Teufel vom Berg at tvtoday.de. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
- ↑ Crime scene: Der Teufel vom Berg data result. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
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