Crime scene: a family matter
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Family thing |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
ORF |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 666 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | May 20, 2007 on Das Erste , ORF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Roth |
| script | Thomas Roth |
| production | Dieter Pochlatko |
| music | Lothar Scherpe |
| camera | Hans Selikovsky |
| cut | Bernhard Schmid |
| occupation | |
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Family thing is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced for ORF was first broadcast on May 20, 2007. It is the 16th case of the Austrian chief inspector Moritz Eisner, played by Harald Krassnitzer .
action
Special investigator Moritz Eisner gets involved in a police operation on the way to work - a couple apparently died in a double suicide in an apartment in Vienna. Inspector Bernhard Weiler is on site and leads the operation. He is convinced that it is an extended suicide and that there is nothing more to determine. Eisner does not see it that clearly, because the husband apparently shot his wife first and then himself. But since he is in a wheelchair, it is not plausible to Eisner how this should have happened from a technical point of view.
Heidi and Friedel Dachsbacher were members of a singles club. Eisner learns there that the husband was paralyzed after a riding accident. Since he could no longer fulfill his marital “duties” due to the paralysis, he allowed his wife to meet her needs there. So Eisner sets out to find Heidi Dachsbacher's last acquaintance. Unexpectedly he meets Cornelia Stummvoll, the neighbor of the Dachsbachers, in the club. The woman is clearly under pressure and Eisner offers her his help, which she strictly refuses. Eisner researched and it looks like her daughter has been kidnapped from boarding school, which explains the woman's confusion. Before Eisner can continue to work in this direction, there is a new death. The boss of the single club was strangled. Inspector Bernhard Weiler is faced with a puzzle and asks Eisner to take care of the matter. He assumes that he can find the solution to everything through Cornelia Stummvoll, but first of all he has to gain her trust. Knowing that he is from the police, she isolates herself. Eisner lets her understand that he knows about the kidnapping and can help her, but she withdraws again. So Eisner secretly looks around her apartment and finds a reference to Martin Schulteis. However, the latter notices that he is being observed and runs away. The man works in the supermarket, where Cornelia Stummvoll regularly goes shopping. So he knows her very well and was able to prepare the kidnapping well in advance. Eisner suspects that with the murders he only wanted to show Cornelia Stummvoll what he is capable of and what is possible.
After Cornelia Stummvoll finally confides in Eisner, he learns that Martin Schulteis wants to force the woman to kill his mother. He would then have an alibi and, in his opinion, the police would not be able to establish a connection with Stummvoll. With Eisner's intervention, this plan no longer works because Schulteis sees himself recognized. Without further ado, he kills his mother himself. But before he can do anything to the child, Eisner intervenes, and Cornelia Stummvoll, who has joined them, shoots the murderous kidnapper with Eisner's service pistol.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Familiensache on May 20, 2007 was seen by 5.99 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 19.2 percent for Das Erste .
Reviews
“Family drama, child abduction, sexual perversions - the film has so many plans that 90 minutes sometimes doesn't seem to be enough. But that's not bad, because it is exciting from start to finish. It is well staged and has an excellent cast. And it shows that the ARD crime series does not have to be old-fashioned or boring, but can, with the right ingredients, lead to real top-class crime. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave this crime scene the best possible rating (thumbs up) and stated: “It rains a lot, it never gets really light. Thomas Roth, director of the Austrian 'Trautmann' thrillers, among others, relies on the emphatically bleak Atmosphere and distinctive staff like the wonderfully tired hamlet. Which helps the viewer through a rather confusing story, which is then a little overloaded with Moritz Eisner's private problems. "Conclusion:" A bit confused, but beautifully eccentric. "
Web links
- Crime scene: a family affair in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of family matters on the ARD website
- Family thing in the crime scene fund
- Family thing at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: family matter . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2009 (PDF; test number: 120 378 V).
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime Check: Sunday, May 20, 2007.quotemeter.de , May 21, 2007, accessed on July 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Franz Solms-Laubach: Hell, that's the other. Die Welt, May 20, 2007, accessed on July 31, 2016 : "Rating: excellently staged and acted crime scene"
- ↑ TV thriller with the Viennese investigator Eisner. Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 17, 2016.
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