Crime scene: Thanksgiving e. V.
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Thanksgiving e. V. |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Studio Hamburg film production on behalf of the NDR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 693 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | March 30, 2008 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Angelina Maccarone |
| script | Angelina Maccarone Idea: Maria Furtwängler |
| production | Kerstin Ramcke |
| music |
Hartmut Ewert Jakob Hansonis |
| camera | Hans Fromm |
| cut |
Bettina Böhler Lars Pienkoß |
| occupation | |
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Thanksgiving e. V. is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and broadcast for the first time on March 30, 2008. It is the crime scene episode 693. For Chief Detective Charlotte Lindholm , alias Maria Furtwängler , it is her 12th case.
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Chief Detective Charlotte Lindholm from the LKA Hannover is on maternity leave . She feels under-challenged and asks her boss, Stefan Bitomsky, to give her half a job. Bitomsky says how she imagines it, whether she would then take care of the “half corpses” and refuses. In order to keep herself mentally fit, Charlotte begins to deal intensively with brain research and develops a special interest in the field of human memory. Your loyal friend and roommate Martin Felser, a successful crime writer, has a garden plot in the garden association Erntedank e. V., and Charlotte accompanies him there with her five-month-old son David. When they arrive there, Albrecht Leimen’s body is being placed in a zinc coffin. Charlotte's interest is suddenly aroused. When she wants to borrow a parasol, the conversation between two women from the club, which she only overhears in bits, strikes her as strange. When she asks questions, she is readily answered first. Since it's Halloween time , Charlotte's apartment is too loud at night, so she takes David and takes refuge in the house in the allotment garden . In the process, she makes an interesting discovery: the garden in which Albrecht Leimen collapsed while he was cutting the hedge is being dug up in the light of several flashlights. Charlotte manages to get hold of a bone, which she has examined in the forensic laboratory. It turns out that it is actually a human bone. Forensic doctor Edgar Strelow, who is representing a colleague, also informs Charlotte that Albrecht Leimen died of natural causes - a heart attack . Charlotte notes, with a slight amusement, that Edgar is not indifferent to her. He later gave her a CD with songs she recorded herself, including the title You're Beautiful .
Charlotte Helga Reimann from the allotment garden association seems particularly strange. Martin says that she always has to suspect something everywhere, even behind a harmless old woman, to which Charlotte replies that the neighbor from Rosemary's baby first appeared quite harmless. Charlotte assumes that the skeletonized corpse is Helmut Zacher. Zacher owned the garden in which she found the bone. As the members of the gardening association unanimously told her, he had emigrated to Canada many years ago . She is looking for a conversation with Renate Zacher, the wife of the alleged emigrant, who only helps her to a limited extent. Renate Zacher confirms that Helmut Zacher was morbidly jealous, made her life hell and that Renate was very afraid that he would take his son Moritz to Canada. The allotment gardeners had already said the same to Charlotte. At the beginning of the conversation, Renate Zacher's son Moritz is also present, but his mother sends him away.
Meanwhile, Charlotte's boss Bitomsky has put Mrs. Schmidt-Rohrbach at the side, with whom she is supposed to investigate. The colleague is quite hostile and mare-biting towards Charlotte. Charlotte herself wants her incognito, she pretended to be a psychologist in the allotment garden association , initially not revealing it and continuing to investigate undercover. The commissioner tries to get close to Andrea Klose-Sander, who seems very scared and intimidated to her. Charlotte suspects that she can best get the hunted-looking, unstable woman to talk about what connects the members of the Thanksgiving Association or what they are so eager to cover up.
In the meantime, it turned out that it was actually the body of Helmut Zacher after further skeletal parts were excavated in the parcel in question by Charlotte and Edgar Strelow. The victim's teeth were professionally removed, which would have allowed the body to be identified more quickly. The dead Albrecht Leimen was a dentist, so he knew about the uniqueness of a tooth profile .
At a rehearsal for the upcoming harvest festival , in which Charlotte wants to participate, she tries to speak to Andrea Klose-Sanders, which her husband Jürgen knows how to prevent skillfully. After the party is over, Andrea approaches Charlotte herself and wants to reveal himself to her, but this is destroyed by a phone call from Martin who urgently calls her to her son David. The women arrange to meet for the next morning. When Charlotte arrives at the garden club early the next morning, she sees to her dismay that Andrea is impaled on one of her oversized sculptures . The pack of garden neighbors stands in front of the fence and gazes. Charlotte gives up her incognito and is now officially investigating.
As it turns out, Albrecht Leimen has put a savings book for 200,000 DM on Moritz Zacher. The money comes from a joint lottery win, which the garden neighbors had won as a lottery community . On the note was the name of Helmut Zacher, who suddenly, as it turned out later, no longer wanted to share. Charlotte gets Moritz to recall the situation he experienced as a child. She tries to create a situation similar to that of Moritz's childhood and has the Hildegard Knef song For me, it should rain red roses, played again and again, to support her. Moritz actually remembers, but hesitated to tell the inspector what deeply disturbed him at the time.
After the community of allotment gardeners wanted to blame the dead Albrecht Leimen, Charlotte wanted to re-enact the case with everyone involved, encouraged by studying how human memory works. When recapitulating what happened, it turns out that Zacher's wife Regina had the spade in her hand after her husband fell, so she took it back, but then dropped it in horror and fled. Helga Reimann had taken the shovel and killed Helmut Zacher, who was lying defenseless on the ground. “Somebody had to do it,” she says and is also outraged that Regina simply left her child behind in the gardening association. It was also she who annoyed Andrea Klose-Sander, who was nervous anyway and extremely scared, using a Halloween mask so that she slipped off her ladder and impaled herself on one of her huge sculptures. She then watched her die without pity. In her defense, Helga Reimann argues that she was not to blame for Andrea's death, she just scared her.
Background notes
The shooting took place from October 5 to November 16, 2007 in Hanover and the surrounding area, with a break from October 19 to November 1. The idea for this crime scene episode came from Maria Furtwängler herself. The actress did not want to leave her character Charlotte Lindholm completely unemployed even on maternity leave and came up with the idea of an undercover assignment. The actress Kathrin Ackermann , who plays Charlotte's mother in the film, is actually Maria Furtwängler's mother in real life. Kathrin Ackermann joined the Lower Saxony team in 2003 as a result of Hexentanz , where her daughter investigated her second case.
Renate Becker, who plays one of the suspects, is the daughter of Helma Seitz . For many years Helma Seitz was the " little deer " in the ZDF hit series Der Kommissar at Erik Ode's side . In the film it looks like it is an allotment garden association, but the episode was shot in four different allotment garden colonies.
Hans Fromm , who is responsible for the camerawork in this episode, has won several awards for his work as a cameraman.
Since psychology and also human memory play a major role in this crime scene episode, Maria Furtwängler spoke to her friend, neuroscientist Ernst Pöppel, about the subjectivity of remembering. A person's memory of certain situations can be essentially similar but differ considerably in detail, since personal sensitivities have a great influence on our memory.
Hannes Nygaard , who lives on the North Frisian peninsula Nordstrand , likes to write crime novels with a regional reference . He took on this crime scene and wrote the crime scene crime novel Erntedank (without e.V.) based on the script by Angelina Maccarone.
reception
Audience ratings
This Tatort episode achieved a new high ratings for the series in 2008, with 9.07 million viewers. The market share was 26 percent.
criticism
Kino.de's verdict was very positive. The result was “a very entertaining crime thriller, which incidentally is based on an idea by Maria Furtwängler.” The review read as follows: “That this 'crime scene' is not an ordinary film, The equipment already makes clear: For a Sunday thriller in which the muted colors otherwise dominate, 'Erntedank eV' is record-breaking colorful; even the dreary LKA offices shine in all colors. But the most beautiful are the high-spirited details when Maccarone stages harmless moments - a cockroach crawling towards the baby - with the means of the horror film. "
TV Spielfilm judged: "With subtle humor and finely designed pictures, director Angelina Maccarone makes this biotope look like a 'Twin Peaks' branch."
The reception by the Weser Kurier was cautious, they spoke of a not particularly exciting crime fiction: "When it was first broadcast in March 2008, around nine million viewers made the not particularly exciting crime fiction with garden gnome flair one of the most watched TV films of the year."
Web links
- Crime scene: Thanksgiving e. V. in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Crime scene: Thanksgiving e. V. in the online film database
- Crime scene: Thanksgiving e. V. at the crime scene fund
- Crime scene: Thanksgiving e. V. In: DasErste
- Trailer Tatort episode 693 Erntedank e. V.
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: Erntedank eV shooting at filmportal.de
- ↑ a b c d Tatort Erntedank eV - Idea Maria Furtwängler and further background at tatort-fundus.de
- ↑ Press kit for the film with further information (PDF; 4.7 MB)
- ^ Detective novel Erntedank by Hannes Nygaard
- ^ Tatort: Erntedank eV media / TV ratings at focus.de
- ^ Tatort: Erntedank eV at kino.de
- ^ Tatort: Erntedank eV at TV Spielfilm.de
- ^ Tatort: Erntedank eV ( Memento from February 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Weser Kurier, July 18, 2010
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