Crime scene: the music dies last
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The music dies last |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German or German |
| Production company |
SRF and Turnus Film AG |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1063 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 5, 2018 on SRF 1 and Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dani Levy |
| script | Dani Levy, Stefan Brunner, Lorenz Langenegger |
| music | Niki Reiser |
| camera | Filip Zumbrunn |
| cut | - |
| occupation | |
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The music dies last is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The fourteenth joint case of the Swiss Tatort team Flückiger and Ritschard from Lucerne was broadcast on SRF 1 , Erste and ORF 2 on August 5, 2018 .
Roles and plot
Walter Loving
As a wealthy entrepreneur and patron, Loving is organizing a benefit concert in the Culture and Congress Center Lucerne (KKL), accompanied by Palestinian demonstrators. A ticket costs 10,000 Swiss francs. The musicians are the Argentine "Jewish Chamber Orchestra". In his first appearance he shows himself as a cranky patriarch who rebukes his grown son in public like a child. His wife Alice Loving-Orelli, from whom he is separated, can only pass the strict security through an embarrassing appearance. In their presence and in public, he proposes marriage to his younger chief lawyer Jelena Princip, who lets slip the ring on, but only gives a contradicting “yes”.
Walter Loving had saved Jews from the Nazis as a smuggler for large sums of money . There are signs of a conflict with the siblings Miriam and Vincent Goldstein, pianist and clarinetist of the democratically organized orchestra. That had decided that Miriam Goldstein should recite a poem which addresses the fact that her grandparents had paid Walter Loving money, but could not be saved by him. Walter Loving had fought off claims of the siblings' mother's claims for the money with all his might because he had often profited from failed promises of rescue. Now the Loving couple want to prevent the poem from being performed.
Walter Loving develops from a patriarch to a character who is aware of the fate of every person he has dealt with, who is not afraid to face his adversaries personally, and who in his final appearance is disarming Openness can encounter.
Miriam Goldstein
Goldstein receives anonymous death threats on her phone in case she recites the poem. She should see what happens to her brother, who shortly afterwards is damaged by an E 605 contact poison on his clarinet, but survives. She turns on the police. In a childhood memory, she also sees the corpse of her mother, who died of a gunshot wound in the jungle ahead of a court case against Walter Loving. Encouraged by the orchestra, she reads the text in which the names of people are listed who paid Loving money but perished before being saved. At the end, however, she mentions that most of the donors were saved by him.
Jelena Princip
Princip was the Goldsteins' legal advisor, and because she was defeated, Loving employed her. As chief lawyer, she whipped up Loving's business. She is now the fiancée of Walter Loving and the lover of the son Franky Loving, from whom she is said to be expecting a child. She publicly rejects Franky after he learns of the pregnancy. She supports the poetry campaign by the Goldstein siblings. She is also poisoned by contact poison on a champagne glass. She dies because of it.
Franky Loving
Franky Loving appears as the narrator who basks in his role as a VIP. Very early on he tells details about the background to the murder, but also about the crime scene as a crime thriller. Is he a role or a narrator? In the end, he confesses to the murders, is arrested, escapes and kills himself and his father by kissing the poison.
music
The orchestra plays works by Erwin Schulhoff , Viktor Ullmann , Marcel Tyberg and Gideon Klein .
background
The episode The Music That Dies Last plays in real time. The episode begins with a quote from Victor Hugo : "Music expresses something that cannot be said and about which it is impossible to remain silent". Contrary to other reports, however, it is not the first episode of the Tatort series in real time, this is the episode Knocked Out from 2006. However, The Music Dies is the first one-shot production last .
Classical theatrical means are used in several scenes when Franky Loving addresses the audience directly and thus “ breaks through the fourth wall ”.
The outstanding feature, however, is that the episode as a one-shot , ie in a single uncut adjustment was recorded.
Shooting began on July 11, 2017 and ended on July 16, 2017. The four days of shooting, in which the Lucerne Culture and Congress Center (KKL) and the nearby Lucerne train station were used, were followed by four weeks of intensive rehearsals such as ahead of a theatrical performance, in which all actors, as well as the camera and often the sound, were always present. Since the entire plot takes place in real time, the crime scene was filmed in a single, 90-minute camera shot. For reasons of quality, two scenes in the Swiss version were replaced by the German version.
Cinematographer Filip Zumbrunn, who trained his forearms to be able to hold the camera for more than 90 minutes in preparation for the shooting, followed the actors through the KKL and had to make sure that he did not even take a 360-degree shot in a mirrored toilet is visible. Two takes were shot in Standard German and two in Swiss German. The High German version was broadcast by ARD and ORF, while the Swiss German version was shown on SRF. Both versions broadcast at the same time differ in nuances.
According to the Luzerner Zeitung , August 5, 2018 was chosen as the date for the first broadcast, as the episode was thematically a good fit for the Lucerne Festival , which began the following week. The picture reported that the producing broadcaster had put the broadcast of the episode up for discussion, which the SRF denied.
reception
Reviews
“The camera is the star. She flies back and forth between the characters, she rushes from the lobby of the Culture and Congress Center Lucerne into the backstage area, from the stage to the toilet. She storms out of the building into the street, pushes herself into a car, jumps out again and hangs on a bicycle. The actors are more like extras in this athletic act of unleashing. [...] Despite all the small flaws: large "Tatort" cinema. "
“It's a lot of little ideas that carry you through this theatrical crime scene, and the basic rush between stage and backstage, between poison and antidote, develops its own pull. [...] So "The music dies last" is in terms of content and staging well above the usual level of the Swiss episodes, but is dragged down by the flat, expected contributions and rancid grumbling of the investigative couple Flückiger / Ritschard. "
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Die Musik dies last on August 5, 2018 was seen by 4.79 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 17.5%.
In Austria 382,000 viewers were reached and thus an average reach of 5% and a market share of 15% were achieved.
In Switzerland, 440,000 viewers over the age of three watched the first broadcast of the episode, giving it a market share of 33.2%. In the group of 15- to 59-year-old viewers, 217,000 viewers were counted and a market share of 30.0% was measured.
Awards
- Television film award from the German Academy of Performing Arts , special directing award to Dani Levy
- 45th Prix Walo in the TV Production category
Web links
- Crime scene: The music dies last in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Die Musik dies last on the ARD website
- The music dies last at the crime scene fund
- The music dies last at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Augsburger Allgemeine: Press comments on the crime scene: "The music dies last" . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . ( augsburger-allgemeine.de [accessed on August 14, 2018]).
- ↑ a b c Deutschlandfunk Kultur : “The music dies last”: The first “crime scene” in real time , Delia Mayer in conversation with Ute Welty, 4th August 2018.
- ↑ a b c Berliner Morgenpost : ARD-Krimi: This is revealed by the slot on the Swiss “Tatort” , Berlin, August 2, 2018.
- ↑ Die Welt : Composers in the concentration camp: The real horror behind Dani Levy's new “Tatort” , Kultur, Elmar Krekeler, August 4, 2018.
- ↑ quotenmeter.de : The Critics: "Tatort - The music dies last" , Julian Miller, August 4, 2018.
- ↑ a b Tatort: Music last died at crew united
- ↑ Swiss radio and television : New Swiss «Tatort - The music plays last» , srf.ch, accessed on August 3, 2018.
- ↑ a b c Watson : Shot in one take - director Levy on the Swiss “Tatort” without cosmetic surgery , Simone Meier , August 5, 2018.
- ↑ Tatort editorial team: Clear the stage for ... Facebook, August 5, 2018, accessed on October 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk : “The music dies last”: 88 minutes going crazy - Why the new crime scene is so special , mdr Kultur, August 3, 2018.
- ↑ a b Christian Buß: Grandiose "Tatort" season opener. There can only be one. Spiegel Online, August 3, 2018, accessed on August 3, 2018 : "Rating: 9 out of 10 points"
- ↑ Image : Too bad to send? - Crisis surrounding the Swiss “crime scene” , July 15, 2018.
- ↑ Holger Gertz: This “crime scene” develops its own pull. Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 3, 2018, accessed on August 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime-Check: Sunday, August 5th, 2018.quotemeter.de , August 6th, 2018, accessed on August 6th, 2018 : "The first broadcast [...] disappointed in the first."
- ↑ Medienforschung ORF , data from Sunday, August 4, 2018.
- ↑ a b Swiss radio and television : SRF 1 - August 4, 2018 , Mediapulse television panel - German-speaking Switzerland, overnight, people three years and older, accessed on August 14, 2018.
- ^ Reason for the special prize for directing 2018. Baden-Baden TV Film Festival, accessed on December 1, 2018 .
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