Crime scene: five minutes of heaven

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Five minutes of heaven
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Südwestrundfunk
with Zieglerfilm
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 981 ( List )
First broadcast March 28, 2016 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Katrin Gebbe
script Thomas Wendrich
production Marc Müller-Kaldenberg
music Johannes Lehniger
camera Matthias Bolliger
cut Monika Schindler
occupation

Five Minutes of Heaven is a television film from the crime series Tatort . Heike Makatsch can be seen in the 981st episode of the Tatort series in her first case as Chief Inspector Ellen Berlinger. The film, produced by SWR and Zieglerfilm and directed by Katrin Gebbe , was shown for the first time on the television program Das Erste on Easter Monday, March 28, 2016.

action

Chief Inspector Ellen Berlinger worked for the Federal Criminal Police Office in England for 15 years . Now she is returning to her hometown Freiburg , where she had left her 16-year-old daughter after the birth with her now demented mother.

She is charged with clarifying the circumstances of the death of Holger Kunath, an employee of the local job center. He was found at his desk in the morning hours, strangled with a cable tie. The suicide note displayed on Kunath's monitor suggests a suicide . However, Berlinger suspects outside influence, because the victim was exposed to a lot of hostility due to work. When someone else's fingerprints are found on the cable tie, the suspicion that Kunath could not have killed himself is confirmed. Lately, the single mother Cornelia Mai in particular has had major problems with Kunath, who apparently had delayed paying the rent provided by the welfare recipient's office for so long that Mai threatened to give up the apartment. Cornelia Mai's daughter Melinda continues to suffer from the poverty that befell the family after her father's accidental death. Because of her poor living conditions, Melinda is bullied more than once by her friends.

As the commissioner finds out, Cornelia Mai had an intimate relationship with Kunath, which makes the reluctance to pay rent even less plausible. Kunath could possibly be blackmailed through the relationship with a customer, which the construction investor and homeowner Rüdiger Fest used for his goals of terminating tenants in case of non-payment.

In addition to the maize, the Winterer family also lived in the house until recently. However, due to repeated indecision on the part of the father Armin Winterer, the benefits for the family according to Hartz IV were suspended. The family now lives on the outskirts of the city, where Armin Winterer runs a sanctuary for animals. Dissatisfaction with this social decline could have led his daughter Ruth to an act of revenge. Commissioner Berlinger learns that Ruth recently strangled her sister's favorite rabbit with a zip tie.

Before the commissioner can seriously investigate this lead, Cornelia Mai commits suicide by throwing herself out of the window of her apartment. Her daughter Melinda then confesses to killing Kunath after catching him having oral sex with her mother. She hated Kunath and felt her mother's relationship with him betrayed her father. After the crime, the mother and daughter tried to make the murder look like suicide.

A payment from Rüdiger Fest can be secured in Kunath's records, whereupon he can be prosecuted for bribery.

In her private life, Ellen Berlinger has great problems improving her relationship with her mother. Her sudden appearance confused her mother, who was slowly becoming demented, even more; she is extremely negative about her daughter. The commissioner, however, can approach her daughter Niina carefully. Niina's joy in finally getting to know her mother outweighs the negative aspects.

production

Production notes

The episode was shot in Freiburg im Breisgau and the surrounding area on 24 days from September 8th to October 8th, 2015 as a one-time planned event crime scene with Heike Makatsch . 25 actors and 150 extras were used. Rooms in the former Praktiker building in the Haid industrial park, which has been vacant since the end of 2013, were chosen as the backdrop for the police station . From September 7, 2015, the film was shot on Franz-Liszt-Strasse, where the dementia-sick mother of Chief Inspector Berlinger lives in the film. During the school holidays on September 11, 2015, the Rotteck-Gymnasium was filmed with 30 pupils as extras in the schoolyard and in the bicycle cellar. On September 14, 2015, the film was shot in the cell block of the Freiburg-Süd police station, where three police officers appeared in front of the camera as extras. Outside photos were taken of the police station on Heinrich-von-Stephan-Straße. On September 15, 2015, recordings were made in a private house on Harriet-Straub-Strasse in Vauban , which in the film represents the house of the victim's family, as well as on the roof terrace. In the Green City Hotel Vauban on Paula-Modersohn-Platz, scenes were recorded on September 16, 2015 in a suite in which Chief Inspector Berlinger lives, and scenes of arrival and departure were filmed in front of the hotel. Between September 14th and 25th, 2015, the scenery for the job center and the place where the body was found was prepared on Bismarckallee in the former building of the Dresdner Bank. In fact, film recordings were made here on one day of shooting. Recordings that take place in the house occupied by André Benndorff in the role of Mr. Kurani were recorded at three different locations in the city, including Rennerstraße 20/22, where the location was flooded for interior shots. The location of the cellar belonging to the apartment in the film is located at Adlerstrasse 9. Exterior shots of Kurani's apartment were recorded at Hildastrasse 52. Driving recordings were recorded on Lehener Strasse, Eschholzstrasse, Günterstalstrasse, Leopoldring, Schützenallee tunnel, B31 (feeder center) and Habsburger Strasse. Further photos were taken at the Ganter Brewery and a nearby photo studio, where the scenery was prepared for a sex scene with Anna-Lena Klenke in the role of Harriett Wiesler. In addition, the Stühlingerbrücke and the Stühlinger Kirchplatz were shot.

The episode was supported by MFG film funding as a "Green Shooting" pilot project. The aim of the scientifically supported initiative is to establish and expand resource-saving production methods. According to the production company, the film was produced in a climate-neutral manner .

For the Freiburg crime scene, Volker Gaus, an actor from Freiburg, was in front of the camera. His colleague Holger Kunkel has been a regular member of the ensemble since 2012 on the stage of the Freiburg Theater .

Matthias Bolliger was also responsible for the camera work on the episode Zorn Gottes , which had been broadcast a week earlier .

background

Heike Makatsch was involved in the development of the script over several years. She lived - like the role played by Commissioner Ellen Berlinger - in London. Makatsch was pregnant while filming Five Minutes of Heaven and had her third child in 2015.

The film title Five Minutes Heaven picks up on a game known among young people since around 1995, called the “Passout Game” or “Biokiffen” , in which, after hyperventilation, compression of the chest induces a state of intoxication accompanied by brief fainting, which triggers epileptic seizures and cerebral haemorrhage can lead to death.

Publication, another episode

Before it was first broadcast, the film was shown at the German TV Crime Festival as part of the awarding of the German TV Crime Prize in Wiesbaden in mid-March 2016 and in the studio of Südwestrundfunk in Freiburg on March 21, 2016. The first broadcast was shown on March 28, 2016 by the Badische Zeitung in Freiburg in Cinemaxx in front of 250 viewers.

The first Black Forest crime scene around the investigator duo Tobler and Berg was also staged in Freiburg in 2016. At the end of 2015 it was announced that the SWR was planning another crime scene with Makatsch. The final decision on the production of a second episode should be made in 2016. In such an episode, according to the SWR, the investigations should lead Makatsch to another location in the broadcast area. A further episode can be expected in 2017 at the earliest. Makatsch did not rule out being available for another Tatort shoot. Manfred Hattendorn, head of the film and planning department at Südwestrundfunk in Baden-Baden, emphasized: "We are interested in a sequel."

In the meantime, another Tatort with Makatsch as Ellen Berlinger has been created under the title Zeit der Fösche , which is no longer set in Freiburg, but in Mainz and was broadcast on Easter Monday, April 2, 2018, in the program Das Erste.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Fünf Minuten Himmel on March 28, 2016 was seen by 7.99 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.3% for Das Erste . In the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers , 2.31 million viewers and a market share of 18.2% were achieved. In the opinion of the dpa, these values ​​represent a “good, but by no means outstanding debut” despite first place in the daily comparison.

In Austria 531,000 viewers were reached and thus an average reach of 7% and a market share of 18% were achieved.

In Switzerland, 455,000 viewers over the age of three watched the first broadcast of the episode, giving it a market share of 24.5%. The group of 15 to 59-year-old viewers counted 263,000 viewers and measured a market share of 22.9%.

Reviews

Heike Makatsch as "a closed, differentiated heroine is reflected in a brittle staging without the aesthetic of courtesy," says Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv happily . The script, on the other hand, is “a mishmash of Whodunit, wild art film metaphors and desolate social drama”, which contains “a lot of plot, far too many characters” and thus appears “dramaturgically diffuse”. The action is staged by "the idiosyncratic Arthaus director" Katrin Gebbe "pleasantly anti-psychological". In the following there are some "SWR-typical foreign shame situations" that are "reminiscent of the Striesow" crime scenes " ". In summary, Tittelbach awarded 3.5 out of 6 possible points.

The editorial team of TV Spielfilm is of the opinion that the episode is "a bit thick, but heavily filmed". A production can be seen "which radically contradicts the common cliché of the eco-philistine paradise in Breisgau". The director Katrin Gebbe “finds images that stick”. TV Spielfilm awarded the best of three possible ratings.

Detlef Hartlap from prisma sums up, "House and apartment speculation" and "Children and sex games" represent two central themes, in which the viewer is "immersed, not very sensitive, more with the fist in the neck". The main actress Makatsch can be seen as she “unravels difficult Indian-like traces, that has style”. He judges that 'Five Minutes of Heaven' is “a film that arouses little curiosity about its location, Freiburg, is often very thick and yet is played well and is moderately exciting”.

Lars-Christian Daniels von Filmstarts found the episode, which "fell through with no sound from the TV viewers" , as mixed.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Westfälische Nachrichten : Schmidt investigates in the Black Forest: TV entertainers are among the new "Tatort" trio of Südwestrundfunk / headquarters in Freiburg , media, pd / dpa / Petra Noppeney, December 9, 2015
  2. ↑ Crime scene: Five minutes of heaven at crew united
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Badische Zeitung : “Tatort” in Freiburg: Where was it filmed? , accessed March 20, 2016
  4. ↑ a b c d SWR2 : Shooting with Heike Makatsch for a crime scene - special: "Five minutes of heaven" ( memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Kultur aktuell, 3:38 min., September 25, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ardmediathek.de
  5. ↑ a b Ziegler film : Tatort: ​​Five Minutes of Heaven ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Productions, 2015, accessed March 21, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / baden.ziegler-film.com
  6. ↑ cf. Film credits
  7. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : “From the good second row”: Holger Kunkel plays in the new “Tatort” from Freiburg , Medien, dpa , March 17, 2016
  8. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : As a loner on the move: Heike Makatsch plays in the test "Tatort" from Freiburg a detective who is difficult to understand , media, March 25, 2016
  9. ↑ RP Online : "Tatort: ​​Five minutes in heaven" - Heike Makatsch is pregnant in Freiburg , Freiburg, Leslie Brook, March 28, 2016
  10. ↑ a b c tittelbach.tv : “Tatort - Five Minutes Heaven” series , Rainer Tittelbach, February 25, 2016
  11. ↑ SWR : Press kit , accessed on March 20, 2016
  12. ↑ Five minutes of heaven at Tatort-Fans.de
  13. ↑ a b c prisma : Five minutes in heaven , Easter Monday at the "Tatort", Detlef Hartlap , March 26, 2016 - April 1, 2016, No. 12/2016, p. 23
  14. ↑ SWR : Tatort - Five Minutes of Heaven , February 26, 2016
  15. ↑ Badische Zeitung : BZ-Hautnah: The BZ invites you to a public viewing of the crime scene in the Cinemaxx , Freiburg, bz, March 20, 2016
  16. ↑ a b c Westfälische Nachrichten : Another crime scene with Makatsch , Medien, dpa , December 15, 2015
  17. ^ A b Westfälische Nachrichten : To be continued - maybe: Südwestrundfunk is thinking about another "crime scene" with Heike Makatsch , media, dpa , March 30, 2016
  18. ^ Badische Zeitung : ARD-Krimi: No second "Tatort" with Heike Makatsch from Freiburg , fz / lex, December 8, 2015
  19. ↑ a b Meedia : Total / 14 to 49 years , Top 20: the TV ratings for Monday, March 28, 2016, accessed on March 29, 2016.
  20. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Good debut in "Tatort" , media / quotas, dpa , March 30, 2016
  21. ↑ Medienforschung ORF , data from Monday, March 28, 2016
  22. ↑ a b Swiss radio and television : SRF 1 - March 28, 2016 ( memento of the original from March 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), Mediapulse TV panel - German-speaking Switzerland, Overnight, people three years and older, accessed on March 29, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.srf.ch
  23. ↑ a b TV feature film : Tatort: ​​Five minutes of heaven , accessed on March 22, 2016
  24. ↑ Filmstarts : Filmkritik , Lars-Christian Daniels, accessed on April 10, 2016
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