Crime scene: the fist
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Fist |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
ORF |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1043 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | January 14, 2018 on ORF , Das Erste , SRF 1 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christopher Schier |
| script | Mischa Zickler |
| production |
Markus Pauser Erich Schindlecker |
| music |
Markus Kienzl Wolfgang Frisch |
| camera | Thomas W. Kiennast |
| cut | Alexandra Loewy |
| occupation | |
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Faust is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was first broadcast on January 14, 2018 on ORF , in the program Das Erste and on SRF 1 . It is the 1043rd episode in the series, the 42nd case of the Austrian investigator Moritz Eisner and the 18th joint case of the Eisner / Fellner investigative team .
action
While viewing the apartment, the realtor finds a man's corpse surrounded by candles. The dead man stands against the wall and is held in position with nails through his wrists, ankles and his chest. The psychologists initially suspect a ritual murder , an orthodox cross becomes visible under black light . No usable DNA traces are found from the perpetrator, and the identity of the victim cannot be clarified at first, as it does not appear in any database, but it has conspicuous tattoos . The autopsy reveals that the man was shot in the chest at close range and was anally penetrated. Only then was he brought into the search situation. So there may also be a sexual offense . After a newspaper announcement, his landlady reports that the dead man is the Serb Matteo Callegari.
Shortly afterwards, a second male corpse is found, the victim was hung on display in a public toilet, and Maria Theresa thalers are found on the victim . In the second case, too, the crime scene is contaminated by numerous traces of DNA, and the identity of the second dead person cannot initially be determined. The police found out from the tooth profile that the victim was the Georgian Davit Nosadze, who had been employed in a nursery near Vienna for four years. His partner, however, hardly knows anything about his past, he was considered inconspicuous, reliable and polite.
Finally, a third murder occurs, this time of a young Ukrainian mother, who was exhibited on the bow of a boat. All three cases were carried out according to a similar pattern: the three corpses were desecrated, put on display in selected places, there are no usable traces of DNA. A white van with a stolen license plate and a person in a white protective suit were seen at all three locations. The victims lived under a false identity in Vienna, initially there is no connection between them.
The clarification of the identity of the victims and the tattoos of the first corpse with a clenched fist as a symbol for revolutionary movements lead to past revolutions in Serbia , the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the Rose Revolution in Georgia . The university professor Nenad Ljubić at the Institute for Contemporary Political History of Southern and Eastern Europe, who specializes in civil rights movements, is a mutual acquaintance of all three victims, he is shown in photos with them.
After initially denying this, Nenad Ljubić confirms the actual identity of the victims. He suspects that Russia is behind the three acts. Eisner, on the other hand, assumes that it was contract killings by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) because the victims wanted to publish a disclosure book. Against this, however, speaks that the CIA would not display the dead in such a way, but would probably make the bodies disappear.
The evaluation of the cell phone numbers that were logged into the respective radio cell at the crime scenes did not initially result in any hits, which is why Eisner and Fellner are convinced that the perpetrator had deliberately switched it off at the time of the crime. Only when the investigators assume that the perpetrator must have already visited the places in advance are there a few hits. One of the possible cell phone numbers leads Eisner and Fellner to Ljubić. When the two of them arrive at Ljubić's, an additional surprise awaits them, because the third victim wasn't Nataliya, but her friend Nalo. In the hope of escaping the murderer, she had spontaneously changed her identity and had not confided in the police. But Ljubić had meanwhile noticed his mistake and was now on the verge of silencing the real Nataliya because the disclosure book would have outed him as a CIA contact, which in turn would have been a certain death sentence for him. In the fight with Nataliya, he is shot when Eisner and Fellner arrive. He dies a little later in the hospital. Nataliya must have helped.
Production and Background
The 18th joint crime scene case by Eisner and Fellner was filmed from March 5 to April 5, 2017 in Vienna . This crime scene episode was produced by e & a film .
Axel Traun was responsible for the sound, Conrad Moritz Reinhardt for the production, Amanda Frühwald for the costumes and Birgit Hirscher and Martha Ruess for the make-up. For director Christopher Schier this was the second film in the Tatort series after Defenseless , and for screenwriter Mischa Zickler it was the first in the series.
The title is given by the clenched fist, which symbolizes the Otpor! is seen as a sign of identification of the democratically oriented youth in Serbia.
In the summer program 2020 for the 50th anniversary of the crime series Tatort , viewers chose the episode from a list of 50 films from the past 25 years as the desired crime scene in week 11 .
reception
Reviews
Volker Bergmeister from tittelbach.tv found that the thriller, brilliantly cast with Mišel Matičević, had shock effects and surprising twists and turns. The Viennese humiliation and the pointed dialogues come up short, however, because the topic is too serious. The thriller has to offer suspense, but the ironic tone of the inspectors is missing. The film wants a little too much and the story is overloaded.
Christian Buß from Spiegel Online said that serial killer thrillers are an over-stimulated genre that shows considerable signs of fatigue. The fact that the filmmakers would deliver the criticism through investigative statements, for example when Major Eisner comments on the serial offender's work as “a little too overloaded”, is a “smart shoot” and wrote: “A film that suffers from overload and this overload itself thematized - very likeable. ”The expansion of serial murder into world politics is therefore very deliberate. The fact that you stick with it anyway is thanks to the charm of the investigators, who with their comment on the serial killer would also provide the comment on the serial killer plot. "So much self-criticism has to be rewarded."
The Süddeutsche Zeitung compared the case with the episode Drei Schlingen (1977), in which a serial killer hung up his victims and laid out clues. This "excellent old episode from 1977" reveals a problem that the crime thriller has to struggle with in the present. This always wants to be more than a crime thriller and overcomes itself in the tendentially overloaded episode. Elevating the story of the serial killer to a political level is overly constructed. Fortunately, according to the Süddeutscher Zeitung, this episode is not being joked around as expected as it was last time, but even this reduction does not make a mediocre episode a good one.
Ursula Scheer ruled in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the Fellner / Eisner team of investigators was “literally being sidelined by the script and direction. Murders staged pompously and pompously are drowned in the swarm of motifs. ”“ The really remarkable thing about this episode, which is crammed with motifs and backgrounds, is how empty it appears. ”
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Die Faust was seen by an average of 10.54 million people in Germany and thus achieved a market share of 28.9 percent for Das Erste . This number of viewers is the highest ever recorded for an Eisner crime scene in Germany.
The first broadcast was followed by an average of 984,000 viewers on ORF , with a market share of 29 percent. The film was thus among the most watched Tatort episodes in Austria since 1999 in tenth place.
Awards and nominations
- 2018: Nomination for the German Camera Prize (Thomas Kiennast) in the television film category
Web links
- Crime scene: The fist in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Die Faust on the ARD website
- The fist at the crime scene fund
- The fist at Tatort-Fans.de
- Crime scene: Die Faust at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: Die Faust on the ARD website . Retrieved December 17, 2017.
- ↑ e & a film: Tatort: Die Faust . Retrieved December 17, 2017.
- ↑ Start of shooting for the latest ORF "Tatort - Die Faust" . OTS bulletin of March 8, 2017, accessed December 17, 2017.
- ^ Crime scene: Die Faust at crew united
- ↑ a b Volker Bergmeister: "Tatort - Die Faust" series at tittelbach.tv , accessed on December 27, 2017.
- ↑ FAZ: Did the CIA control upheavals in Eastern Europe? . Article from January 14, 2018, accessed on January 20, 2018.
- ↑ The last winner has been determined! In: daserste.de. Retrieved August 28, 2020 .
- ↑ "Tatort" -Voting: This is the last wish thriller on Sunday. In: rnd.de. August 28, 2020, accessed August 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Christian Buß: Bloody "crime scene" from Vienna. Backbreaking serial killer job. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , January 12, 2018, accessed on January 12, 2018 : "7 out of 10 points"
- ^ "Tatort" from Vienna: Mediocrity despite crucifix . Article from January 12, 2018, accessed on January 13, 2018.
- ↑ Ursula Scheer: One Wiener Schnitzel with bland, please. www.faz.net, January 14, 2018, accessed January 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime check: Sunday, January 14, 2018.quotemeter.de , January 18, 2018, accessed on January 19, 2018 .
- ↑ derstandard.at: "Die Faust" was the most-viewed Krassnitzer "crime scene" in Germany so far
- ↑ derStandard.at: Most viewed Austrian "crime scenes" since 1999: "Faust" in tenth place . Article from January 18, 2018, accessed on January 18, 2018.
- ↑ 27 nominations for the German Camera Prize 2018 . Article dated April 6, 2018, accessed April 7, 2018.
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