Crime scene: The sleeping beauty
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The sleeping beauty |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
ORF |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 599 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | May 29, 2005 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dieter Berner |
| script | Dieter Berner |
| production |
Dieter Pochlatko Alexander Vedernjak |
| music |
Mark Chaet Sergei Svezhinsky |
| camera | Carl Finkbeiner |
| cut | Britta Nahler |
| occupation | |
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The Sleeping Beauty is a television thriller from the Tatort crime series . The by ORF and epo-film contribution was produced on 29 May 2005 at the First sent for the first time. It is the 12th case of the Viennese chief inspector Moritz Eisner , alias Harald Krassnitzer , who this time plays in the artistic milieu. The murder of a young musician and the theft of a valuable Stradivarius must be investigated.
action
Karin Landauer is a music professor and organizes a violin competition for young artists on her property. One of the musicians is very fond of her, which his brother-in-law, who is also present, displeases; this punishes him publicly. Nevertheless, both of them embark on an erotic adventure. While she is briefly leaving the bedroom, someone breaks into the house and suddenly shoots the person lying in bed. In a panic, Karin Landauer, who heard the gunshots, flees the window and is hit by a car on the street. Johnny was fatally shot. When Eisner arrives at the scene of the crime, his superior Rauter is already present and does not rule out that the murder has a political background, since the dead man was a gypsy and it seems like an execution to him.
Unexpectedly, a 15-year-old girl appears and confronts Eisner with the fact that he is her father. He lets Claudia live in his apartment and starts talking to her. She assumes that she can live with him from now on and also wants to start an apprenticeship. Eisner agrees, but first sends her back to her mother to finish school there.
Leopold Landauer is an internationally recognized violin virtuoso who has just returned from a concert tour. His wife's affair hits him unexpectedly, but the theft of the 300-year-old Stradivarius , the “sleeping beauty” that belongs to his wife, weighs more heavily . While Landauer drives straight back to a studio appointment, Eisner interrogates his wife in the hospital. She can only remember a few details of the evening and is also horrified when she learns that her Stradivarius has been stolen. Eisner's new assistant, Alexander Lohmann, is interrogating the music students who were guests at Karin Landauer's party. You remember the quarrel between Johnny and Harry Horvarth and that the latter said to Johnny: "I'll kill you." Since according to old laws the gypsy brother has to stand up for the honor of his sister, Eisner considers him suspicious. When he wants to question Harry and the dead man's brother, they escape unnoticed, so that a search for them has to be made.
While Landauer reproaches his wife for letting “these people” into her house - “of all gypsies” - the dead man's brother calls him that evening. Worried, he informs him that he has the "sleeping beauty". He had taken her as a precaution so that nothing would happen to her with the many people in his wife's house. You agree that he will deposit the violin in a locker and send the key anonymously to Landauer. When he opens the locker, however, the violin case is empty. Eisner suspects Mischa Lakatos, the dead man's brother, and this time he manages to arrest him. Lakatos assures that he returned the violin and chose the detour via the locker because Landauer wanted it that way. He is now negotiating with a middleman about the sale and announces to him that "the beautiful" is safe.
While Landauer is constantly giving concerts and is hardly at home, his wife suspects that he is cheating on her. She follows him, but cannot make the trip because of her Parkinson's disease . When she calls her husband to pick her up, he is in bed with his girlfriend Yasmin. The next morning, Karin Landauer was found shot dead in the car, the pistol still in hand. There is a farewell letter in the form of a will , according to which she bequeathed everything to Mischa Lakatos and he should play on her Stradivarius if she is found. Eisner doubts it was a suicide and investigates her husband. There are tire tracks that may lead to an old Mercedes that was seen in the immediate vicinity of her house with Karin Landauer the evening after the accident. Landauer's girlfriend is identified as the keeper. While both want to check in at the airport, they can be arrested. Landauer also has the Stradivarius in his violin case. During the interrogation, Yasmin admits that she wanted to kill Karin Landauer on the evening of the concert so that her boyfriend would finally be free for her. After hearing the call that night, she drove to meet Karin Landauer and had now completed her project.
background
The shooting took place in cooperation with the RBB in Vienna , Riegersburg , at Schloss Kornberg and in Feldbach in Styria .
reception
Audience ratings
6.33 million viewers saw the episode The Sleeping Beauty in Germany when it was first broadcast on May 29, 2005, which corresponded to a market share of 21.20%. In the Tatortblog the episode reached 458th place out of a possible 905.
Reviews
Stefanie Rufle at moviesection.de finds words of praise for this "grotesque murder case [...] which fits this grumpy and often unintentionally funny investigator." She describes the sudden appearance of Eisner's daughter as a "special treat". Because "the surprising news of the unexpected fatherhood [...] really [puts you in the mood] and [makes you smile] again and again" and it makes the police officers "thoroughly sympathetic". She praises the acting performances of Harald Krassnitzer, who "acts skillfully" and Suzanne von Borsody, who convinces as a "capricious professor".
Furthermore, she writes on the subject of the film: “They speak of“ gypsies ”who are imagined to be living in a caravan and stealing through the area. Needless to say, some of these prejudices are properly dispelled here. The solution to this case is not necessarily particularly surprising, but nevertheless convinces with a coherent and logical staging. 'The Sleeping Beauty' is a successful and round 'Tatort' from Vienna, which especially scores with its all too human nuances and authentic characters. "
Web links
- The Sleeping Beauty in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of The Sleeping Beauty on the ARD website
- The sleeping beauty in the crime scene fund
- The sleeping beauty at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Production details from the Internet Movie Database , accessed December 12, 2013.
- ↑ a b Location and audience rating on fundus.de, accessed on December 12, 2013.
- ↑ Filming locations from the Internet Movie Database , accessed December 12, 2013.
- ↑ Tatort ranking on tatort-blog.de, accessed on December 12, 2013.
- ↑ Stefanie Rufle Stefanie Rufle: Tatort - The sleeping beauty (TV). (No longer available online.) In: Moviesection. Archived from the original on August 2, 2014 ; accessed on July 27, 2019 .
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