Crime scene: The hard core

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The hard core
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 W&B Television
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 1103 ( List )
First broadcast September 22, 2019 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Helena Hufnagel
script Sebastian Kutscher ,
Deniz Yildiz
Dialogues: Murmel Clausen ,
Andreas Pflüger
production Nanni heirs
music Tobias Kuhn ,
Markus Perner
camera Aline László
cut Ollie Lanvermann
occupation

The hard core is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The paper produced by the MDR was on September 22, 2019 First aired. In this 1103rd Tatort episode, the Weimar Commissioners Lessing and Dorn investigate their ninth case and convinced with a strong quota.

action

According to investigations by Weimar Commissioners Kira Dorn and Lessing, the junkyard owner Harald Knopp has to answer in court for the murder of an art collector, which he is said to have committed 15 years ago. Lessing had taken on the old unsolved case and had come across Knopp as the perpetrator based on DNA traces at the crime scene. Surprisingly, the defendant now presents the murdered woman's nephew, Rainer Falk, as an exonerating witness and is acquitted. Lessing is disappointed and of the opinion that a wrong judgment has been made here. He received an anonymous phone call that same day; Lessing is lured to the junkyard, where he finds Knopp shot.

After the first laboratory results are available, it is clear that Lessing's service weapon is the murder weapon. An internal investigation is immediately initiated against him and Lessing is arrested on an urgent basis. Special investigator Eva Kern takes over the case and leaves no doubt that she thinks Lessing is guilty of having committed vigilante justice against Knopp.

Although withdrawn from the case, Dorn continues to investigate to exonerate Lessing. She considers Eva Kern's tough approach to be a belated revenge, because she did not get the head of the department at the time, but her colleague Kurt Stich. Dorn seeks out Knopp's widow, who left her husband a few weeks ago after the murder charges were brought against him. She reports that her husband wanted her to come back to him. But she couldn't forgive him for being a criminal. After he gave her a small statue that she believed came from the burglary at the art dealer, she was convinced of her husband's guilt. Since this statue has disappeared, Dorn suspects that the murderer was interested in this valuable object, that Knopp bought Falk's false statement and that the statue was the payment for it. She observes Rainer Falk and follows him to Knopp's junkyard. In doing so, she witnesses how Falk Knopp's wife is threatened, who also hangs around the junkyard at night. Dorn is able to overpower Falk and is convinced that he killed Knopp because of the statue. The question remains, however, of how he could get Lessing's service weapon.

When Kern found out that Dorn was going it alone in the junkyard, she immediately suspended the commissioner. In addition, she has the hospital monitored, in which Falk had to be admitted. She fears that despite the suspension, Dorn will not be stopped from persuading Falk to make a confession. But Kira Dorn first takes care of Knopp's widow to find out from her what she wanted in the junkyard. She learns that Birte Knopp was also looking for the statue, but not to own it, but to destroy it. She blames the depicted Indian god of calamity for all the misfortunes that have befallen her and her husband for 15 years: she has had three miscarriages, accidents at the junkyard time and again and even her dog died in the process, friends had turned away from them, as did Knopp's brother Georg, because Harald had forgotten to hand in the common lottery ticket and so he was denied the profit.

Eva Kern meanwhile concentrates on Lessing and his movement patterns on the evening of the crime. Since his service weapon was in the bureau's locker, he should have got it there in order to use it. Suddenly Dorn also comes into their focus, which is too much for their superior Kurt Stich. He helps the two of them to escape so that she has to bring the case to an end and finally give Kern some peace. But now she has nothing else to do than deploy all available police forces to the fugitives. Lupo is upset because he wanted to go to the cinema with his new girlfriend and now has to work overtime. Unexpectedly, however, his Aurelie is already sitting in his car and so he simply takes her with him to his mission. It turns out differently than Eva Kern expected, because Lupo is called by Dorn because she suspects that the statue is still in the junkyard and that Birte Knopp has not yet destroyed it.

Dorn and Lessing have since found out that Knopp absolutely wanted to keep the statue and therefore had to get rid of Falk. To this end, he had allied himself with his brother Georg, to whom he had promised a share of the proceeds from the statue. He should see to it that Falk and Lessing would be withdrawn from circulation. But Georg sent his wife Hannah, who instead of Falk switched off her brother-in-law Knopp in order to own the statue alone. So that she could blame Lessing for the murder, she had made friends with Lupo as Aurelie beforehand and briefly stole the key to the lockers from him.

In the meantime, Lupo has arrived at the junkyard and discovers the statue in the scrap press. Kern and Stich also arrive and the special investigator is now convinced that Lupo is the murderer, since he had access to Lessing's weapon and now obviously wants to get the statue. Before she can put her ideas together, Aurelie , alias Hannah Knopp, appears and forces all three to get into the press, which she then accidentally turns on. After Lessing and Dorn join them and Lessing takes care of Hannah, Dorn succeeds in switching off the press again in good time. Hannah Knopp is arrested and Eva Kern now declares that she never doubted Lessing's innocence. Since she suspected someone from the agency, she had to "make" everything as credible as possible.

background

The film was shot from August 28, 2018 to September 26, 2018 in Weimar and the surrounding area. The recording of Kira Dorn and Lessing's escape trip was made in parts on the city ring on Fuldaer Straße.

As usual for the Weimar crime scene, literary classics are also cited in this episode, but borrowings from popular culture are also taken.

  • In response to Dorn's suggestion that Lupo had a girlfriend, Lessing responded with a similar quote from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from conversations with Johann Peter Eckermann on February 18, 1829: "The highest thing a person can achieve is astonishment." Special investigator Kern also drinks from a cup bearing Goethe's likeness. Lessing later confronts the suspect Georg Knopp with the status of the investigation and again quotes Goethe with the four-line poem: “Nothing is good for impatience, even less for remorse. The former increases the guilt, and the latter creates new ones. "
  • Arthur Miller's work Death of a Salesman had to see Lupo alone in the theater because his new girlfriend couldn't come with him, and he criticized the name of the play with the words: “What kind of title is that? You know right away how it will turn out. "
  • Kira Dorn accuses Lessing of thinking too logically and quotes Anatole France : “It is human nature to think sensibly and act illogically. “Later, on their escape journey together, she says: “ So, Lessing, now we really are Thelma and Louise . But I would like a different ending. ” Thereupon Lessing replies: “ We can orient ourselves to Bonnie and Clyde . ”
  • Lessing quotes (in minute 71) when Georg Knopp was questioned Goethe when he saw a book of this classic lying with him: “Nothing is good for impatience, even less remorse. The former increases the guilt, and the latter creates new ones. "

Nina Proll told the Bild newspaper that she had asked too little fee for her eponymous role . “The producers at the public broadcasters like to complain that they have to save. But in retrospect I heard that there might have been a bit more. "

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack uses titles from popular music several times.

My Heart Will Go On (1997) by Celine Dion from the soundtrack of the film Titanic is used as background music for the theater performance. Black Honey (2018) by Madonna can be heardon the trip Kira Dorn to the Weltladen “Signs of the Times” by Mrs. Knopp. During the inspection of the video surveillance from the stairwell of the police headquarters by police chief Kurt Stich and special investigator Eva Kern, Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby (2012) by Cigarettes After Sex is playing . After Kira Dorn handed in her badge and weapon at the junkyard, Daughter's Burn it down (2017)can be heard. The scene showing Kira Dorn sticking candles in her child's birthday cake is accompanied by the title Between The Bars (1997) by Elliott Smith .

In addition, the following music tracks were used:

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Die harte Kern on September 22, 2019 was seen by 8.53 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.5% for Das Erste . The episode was the most watched fictional program in September 2019. Only the soccer games "Germany vs. Netherlands" and "Germany vs. Northern Ireland" got more viewers on. The episode was the broadest broadcast of the day in Germany, with 4.99 million more viewers tune in than the runner-up program Fluss des Lebens: Yukon - Ruf der Wildnis broadcast by ZDF .

Reviews

Odds meter judged: In this crime scene “Hufnagel's staging hand repeatedly shines through. Be it her talent to breathe a rough, romantic atmosphere into a junkyard, be it the atmospheric night scenes or the visually appealing, nuanced color spectrum in which camerawoman Aline Laszlo dips the lion's share of the scenes. "

The editorial staff of Stern judged "you are completely picked up on the emotional level and you feel with Dorn, who presents itself in an unusually vulnerable way - not without knocking out her usual ingenious slogans again in the next second."

The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote in its review “A couple against the rest of the world” that the episode is bizarre, “but much less cranked than usual. It is also not so full of whims. You can let that work on you and even find it good. "

The dpa wrote that the episode was "again for weird crime fun". "Although this plot is not lacking in bizarre peculiarities, the story, which is partly told in flashbacks, has a different, somewhat more serious key," it continues. This “most emotional of all previous Weimar cases”, as director Helena Hufnagel emphasizes, relies “on feeling”, unlike previous episodes, which came along with “grotesque slapstick”, “which has so far ensured good ratings, but also very divided opinions among the audience ".

Tittelbach.TV wrote: "The crux of the matter is the script with its unoriginal plot with no flow and no joke". “At least the young director Helena Hufnagel ( one time please everything ) tries a lot to give the messed up story cinematic atmosphere; the soundtrack is excellent "

The FAZ wrote: "The direction by Helena Hufnagel bravely dynamizes the deadness of the plot through quick cuts and moving scenes, so that a road movie impression that fits the junkyard teleology (and is free of cabs) develops."

The editors of TV Today judged that the episode was "amusing, but Weimar had more flair". “The aphorism thrower from Weimar used to be better oiled, but it 's enough for 87 minutes of entertaining quotes from Balzac to Anatole France . The rest of the story is about a statue that arouses desire, on the level of the previous evening's crime series. ”The episode received two out of three possible points.

Laura Jespers from the Westfälische Nachrichten saw "a few strange moments" in an episode that "stayed true to its well-known concept" but still "didn't really want to pick up speed". "The investigations got into the background with the episode that was too bizarre and endeavored to be emotionally designed" and "so the thriller actually only lived from the two protagonists".

At Spiegel Online , Christian Buß said: “We can quote dialogues from this Weimar 'crime scene' - but with the best will in the world we cannot reconstruct the plot. In addition to scrap presses and scrap theaters, we believe we can remember, necromancy and Indian statues also play a role. It's a big mess. [...] The whole episode seems tragically stumbled, the few punch lines in it are consistently botched. As if the actors had given up all hopes while reading the script. "

Web links

Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ a b c Stuttgarter Nachrichten : Tatort criticism: "The hard core" from Weimar - Goethe versus Thelma & Louise , Culture, Gunther Reinhardt, September 22, 2019
  5. ↑ Basler Zeitung : Scrap garnished with a corpse , Matthias Lerf, September 22, 2019
  6. ↑ a b Westfälische Nachrichten : Not enough fee required? , Media, people, dpa , September 24, 2019
  7. ↑ Der Wahlberliner: Die Harte Kern - Tatort 1103 #Crimetime Preview #Tatort #Lessing #Dorn #Weimar #MDR #Kern #hart , Crimetime, Tatort-Preview & Teamseite, Thomas Hocke, September 22, 2019
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  9. ↑ Jens Schröder: TV Month September: “Die Höhle der Löwen” pushes Vox to the best monthly market share for two and a half years ›Meedia. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Every fourth person saw the "crime scene" , media, quotas, dpa , September 24, 2019
  11. ^ «Tatort - Die hard core»: State of emergency for the Weimar «Tatort». September 21, 2019, accessed on April 7, 2020 (German).
  12. ↑ This is what the new Weimar crime thriller has to offer. September 20, 2019, accessed April 7, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Claudia Tieschky: A couple against the rest of the world. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  14. ^ A b c Westfälische Nachrichten : "This time with feeling - investigators on the run in Weimar 'Tatort'", media, dpa , September 21, 2019
  15. ^ Tatort - Die hard core - review of the film at Tittelbach.tv. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Oliver Junge: "Tatort" from Weimar: Death in the scrap . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed April 5, 2020]).
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  18. ↑ a b Westfälische Nachrichten : Efforted emotional - Tatort: ​​Die harte Kern (ARD) , media, seen, Laura Jespers, 23 September 2019
  19. ^ Christian Buß: "Tatort" mishap from Thuringia. Undignified in Weimar. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , September 20, 2019, accessed on September 21, 2019 : "2 out of 10 points"
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