Crime scene: Elvis is alive!
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Elvis lives! |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
ORF |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 504 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | July 11, 2002 on Das Erste , ORF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Sower |
| script | Felix Mitterer |
| production | Michael Wolkenstein |
| music |
Klaus-Peter Sattler , Peter Janda |
| camera | Moritz Gieselmann |
| cut | Ingrid Koller |
| occupation | |
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Elvis lives! is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the 8th case of the Austrian major Moritz Eisner ( Harald Krassnitzer ). The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation produced this contribution, which was first broadcast on July 11, 2002 on First German Television . In this 504th episode of the crime scene series, Moritz Eisners provides administrative assistance to a colleague who has to solve the murder of a poacher.
action
Group inspector Stefanie Gschnitzer takes on her first murder case. It's about the lumberjack and Elvis fan Richard Stecher. He was allegedly shot in self-defense by Hubert Buchberger. Richard and his two brothers are known as notorious poachers. She takes the shooter to the station, but the public prosecutor does not bring charges because there is no evidence for him that contradicts the self-defense thesis. Gschnitzer's objection that a shot in the back of the head does not look like self-defense is not accepted by her superior. But she is not satisfied with it and first seeks the family of the victim. But she is not exactly welcome there and so she leaves without having achieved anything. She would like the Stecher brothers to be observed, as she fears an act of revenge and vigilante justice against Buchberger. As expected, the brothers actually attack Buchberger and even take out the police officer who cannot defend himself on his own. Buchberger is supposed to admit that they literally chased Richy and then shot him cold. Because on August 16, her brother would never poach, since that is the day Elvis died, he is sacred to them.
Stefanie Gschnitzer comes to Buchberger and her colleague's aid and has the Stecher brothers arrested. She calls Eisner, her trainer, and asks him for help with her first case. Without further ado, Renata teaches him some hunting skills and he sets off as a hunting tourist in the Tyrolean town. He meets Mayor Konrad Hopfgartner and Buchberger, who willingly show him the hunt. He should also shoot a buck in Buchberger's company, but the poachers are faster again, because they assume that the game is created by God for everyone, not just for the rich. Full of anger, Buchberger lets the police look for the brothers, but he cannot find them at home. What they don't suspect is that the dead man's father and son were on a poaching tour and not the brothers, who are still in custody. Stefanie Gschnitzer has taken a few days off and is on vacation with the Stechers on the farm. In the process she finds out that Richard Stecher's widow used to be with Buchberger.
When the Buchberger comes home drunk one night, Simon Stecher and his grandson have put the head of the last deer poached into his bed. Panicked, he ran to the mayor and told him that he was getting out and that he could no longer. Then he goes to Simon Stecher, who is mowing an alpine meadow, to confront him. In the dispute, Simon Stecher loses his footing, falls down the slope and dies. Buchberger is now finally desperate and retires to a lonely mountain hut. At the funeral of their father, the Stecher brothers are present under guard. At a suitable moment, however, they can escape and now chase Hubert Buchberger. The mayor immediately organized a search that even included the public prosecutor who came from this small town.
Eisner and Gschnitzer go in search of Buchberger in the direction of the mountain hut. Erwin and Hannes Stecher are already attacking him there, while Hopfgartner and his search party lurk in ambush, because everyone knows Buchberger's favorite hut. He had even told Eisner about it on the high stand. So threatened Buchberger admits that they set a trap for Richard Stecher. He, the mayor, the prosecutor, and a few others from the village. Andrea, the waitress from the bar, who literally followed the attractive Richard, helped them and lured him into a mountain hut. Buchberger chased him out there and was supposed to shoot him on the run. But he couldn't do it, and so the public prosecutor, who was a passionate hunter-tenant and had had poachers in his sights for a long time, took Buchberger's rifle and shot the engraver. Eisner and Gschnitzer, who have just arrived, are just able to prevent a massacre from taking place and arrest everyone involved.
background
In 1982 the case of the East Tyrolean poacher Pius Walder who was shot aroused great public interest. The plot of the crime scene Elvis is alive! is based on this true case.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Elvis is alive! on July 11, 2002 was seen in Germany by a total of 4.47 million viewers and achieved a market share of 17.60% for Das Erste .
criticism
While TV feature film Elvis is alive! Judged as rather bizarre and evil, Stefanie Rufle (at moviesection.de) considers the film to be a “worthy and humorous debut for Gschnitzer”.
“Elvis is alive!” Is a truly melodramatically staged “Tatort”, which looks like a parody of the homeland film genre and, above all, is so entertaining. The only thing left to say is: Elvis is alive! - Roy Black too! "
Web links
- Elvis lives! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Synopsis of the plot of Elvis Lives! on the ARD website
- Elvis lives! at the crime scene fund
- Elvis lives! at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tatort episode 504: Elvis is alive! at tatort-fans.de, accessed on December 5, 2013.
- ↑ Audience rating on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on December 5, 2013.
- ↑ Evil brood under the Tyrolean hat! at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 5, 2013.
- ^ Film review on moviesection.de, accessed on December 5, 2013.
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