Crime scene: Free Land

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Free country
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 1061 ( List )
German-language
first broadcast		 June 3, 2018 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Andreas Kleinert
script Holger Joos
production Jakob Claussen
Ulrike Putz
music Daniel Kaiser
camera Johann Feindt
cut Vera van Appeldorn
occupation

Free Land is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk is the 1061st Tatort episode and was broadcast on June 3, 2018 in the program Das Erste . The Munich investigator duo Batic and Leitmayr is investigating in its 78th case.

action

In Munich, Johanna Berg finds her adult son Florian in the bathtub with his wrists cut open. He was a member and accountant of the "Freiländer", a group close to the Reich Citizens' Movement that lives on an old farm in eastern Lower Bavaria on the Czech border. Batic and Leitmayr investigate that the case is initially assessed as murder due to a lack of instrument. After several days of questioning the inaccessible "open country" and the resigned-looking police on site, it turns out that Ludwig, the head of the free country, had speculated on the common founding capital of the group and the founding myth of the group, namely to live on their own land, not at all true, but rent has to be paid. Ludwig had kept this from the group, but Florian had found it out, which he couldn't get over and therefore died by suicide. At the same time, Hammermann found out in Munich that Florian's mother had simply disappeared the knife so that it should look like murder, because she blamed the “free country” group for the death of her son and wanted to incriminate them. Lene, a woman in the free country group, calls on Ludwig to sacrifice himself as a punishment for betraying the group. He runs towards the police with a raised gun and is shot by them.

Real role models

The charismatic sect leader Schneider has his role model in Peter Fitzek , who at the beginning of the "Reichsbürger" apparently yelling at a civil servant his role model in Moustapha Selim Sürmeli , who was awarded compensation by the European Court of Human Rights . Sürmeli presented the recordings as he z. B. yells at employees of the Federal Constitutional Court on various video platforms. When the two commissioners were filmed by three supporters of the Reich Citizens' Movement, this alludes on the one hand to the actions of the so-called Reich Citizens to put film recordings on the Internet without the consent of the filmed people, on the other hand one of the three says at the end: “It's chic now to Geneva! “, Which alludes to the" International Common Law Court of Justice of Vienna (ICCJV) "installed there in Vienna, which has since been relocated to Geneva (in self-portrayal, because of the UN) as the" Global Common Law Courts (GCLC) " . However, he was never based there, which is not necessarily known to the followers. The Schneider's "Suicide by Cop" alludes to the shootout that Adrian causing himself fought with the SEK in August 2016. This is mixed up with elements from the story of the police murderer Wolfgang Plan in Georgensgmünd.

background

The film was shot in Munich from June 19, 2017 to July 19, 2017.

reception

Reviews

Christian Buß from Spiegel Online judged: “The Reichsbürger episode is now - despite the difficult topic - largely characterized by a relaxed amusement. Far from Munich, Batic and Leitmayr are confronted with a sunny, scorching parallel world that has nothing to do with the usual clichés of Dark Germany. [...] This 'crime scene' also shows that: a tired state and a democracy that threatens to sink into a permanent siesta. "

At the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Katharina Riehl wrote: “At the end of this mixed experimental crime scene season with zombies from Frankfurt and improvisation in Ludwigshafen, there is a classic, a crime thriller from Munich with Batic and Leitmayr, the elder statesmen among the German commissioners: completely free of experiments, rather a bit predictable, but not inedible. "

Ulrich Feld from the Frankfurter Neue Presse wrote: “The game with different shades of gray, with which the screenwriter Holger Joos already made" The Selling Smile "- also with Leitmayr and Batic - a hit, also works remarkably well here. In addition, there is a laconic sense of humor, which contrasts perfectly with the seriousness of the subject. Not only through the dialogues: Director Andreas Kleinert and Johann Feindt behind the camera have tickled out incredibly attractive images and sounds from the rural area with its lonely village. "

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Free Land on June 3, 2018 was seen by 7.65 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.2% for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://wiki.sonnenstaatland.com/wiki/Mustafa_Selim_S%C3%BCrmeli
  2. ↑ https://wiki.sonnenstaatland.com/wiki/International_Common_Law_Court_of_Justice
  3. ^ Defense and public prosecutor's office appeal against "Reichsbürger" judgment ( memento from July 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), br.de from February 14, 2018
  4. ^ Scene of the crime: Free land at crew united
  5. ↑ Christian Buß: Munich "crime scene" about right-wing dropouts. Here the imperial citizen relaxes. In: Culture. Spiegel Online, June 1, 2018, accessed on June 1, 2018 : "Rating: 8 out of 10 points"
  6. ↑ Katharina Riehl: back light. In: Tatort column. Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 1, 2018, accessed on June 1, 2018 : "Last" crime scene "before the summer break: This time Batic and Leitmayr are investigating outside the S-Bahn area. Up-to-date, experiment-free, good.
  7. ↑ Ulrich Feld: "Free Land": "Tatort" - full hit from Munich at fnp.de, accessed on August 12, 2018.
  8. ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime Check: Sunday, June 3, 2018.quotemeter.de , June 4, 2018, accessed on June 4, 2018 .
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