Crime scene: Happy Easter, falcon
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Happy Easter, falcon |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Northern German Radio |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 942 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | April 6, 2015 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Stiller |
| script | Thomas Stiller |
| production | Dagmar Rosenbauer |
| music | Fabian Römer |
| camera | Marc Liesendahl |
| cut | Simone Sugg-Hofmann |
| occupation | |
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Happy Easter, Falke is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and was first broadcast on April 6, 2015. It is the 942nd episode in the series and the fifth case of Chief Inspector Thorsten Falke and Inspector Katharina Lorenz .
In this crime scene, Lorenz becomes the victim of a hostage-taking, which only serves to disguise a contract killing.
action
The plot begins with shooting training by the activist group "Bad Easter Bunnies" in a hiding place. The authoritarian Frank leads the group and makes fun of some members who have problems with real guns. However, these do not have the character to assert themselves against Frank. While Thorsten Falke is working at the police station on Easter evenings, his colleague Katharina Lorenz accompanies a friend, Sönke Sauer, to a charity event in Hamburg that is being held to help refugees. The event is attacked by the "Bad Easter Bunnies" during Sauer's speech, the 63 guests and 8 employees are taken hostage at gunpoint . Although all cell phones are collected, Lorenz succeeds with the plausible explanation that she has none with her to keep hers. She calls Falke and lets him overhear for a while without a word. Falke then tries to locate the cell phone, but does not succeed.
One of the hostage-takers, Frank, announces that he will kill a hostage in the next few minutes and is looking for a "volunteer". Apparently by chance he decides in favor of Holger Schmidt and shoots him. The other hostage-takers protest indignantly that only a mock execution , but no murder, had been agreed. A short time later, another hostage-taker shoots a dancer when she emerges from a gigantic Easter egg for her planned performance. But the hostage-taker is extremely shocked by his unwanted reaction. Frank takes command and orders that the remaining 70 hostages split up among the 5 hostage-takers and go to the offices above the event room. Each hostage taker supervises a group of 14 hostages in an office.
Previous actions by the "Bad Easter Bunnies" had always been carried out without the use of guns and only with paint bags. Every Easter, the group criticizes the participants of charity events as hypocrites, because they believe they should do much more than just enjoy themselves. The actions are transmitted directly to the Internet via live streaming . Axel, a former member of the “Bad Easter Bunnies”, followed the troop's latest action live on the screen that evening and was dismayed by the murder committed.
Falke remembers the "Bad Easter Bunnies" and orders Axel, with whom he is friends, to come to the station immediately. Axel explains that he got off because of Frank, who was new to the force and was determined to use real weapons to send a more drastic signal. Falke suspects that Frank is pursuing his own goals and using the "Bad Easter Bunnies" as a cover.
Lorenz tries to write a text message to Falke, but is caught by Steffen, the hostage-taker responsible for her group, who immediately takes her cell phone from her, but still does not reveal her. Because of Frank's action, which he had not discussed with the others in the group, they have become suspicious of him. Without his group noticing, Frank receives a call from his client. He asks about the situation and gives him further instructions. Obviously it is a contract killing and to enable Frank to withdraw, the client informs the police by emergency call. So he wants to have a uniform of the SEK deposited for Frank through a mole , which should enable him to escape.
When the police received the emergency call, Falke drove to the scene of the crime with Axel and ordered the mobile task force after he realized that this was the location of the hostage-taking. There, Lorenz tries to explain to Steffen how the hostage-taking will end and can persuade him to work together. He gives her the cell phone back, which enables Lorenz to inform Falke of the situation from inside the building. It can also clarify the identity of the dead. It's Holger Schmidt. Falke finds out that Schmidt worked as an engineer in the defense industry and wanted to file a lawsuit against his company for falsified reports. This lawsuit could have caused the company a significant loss.
Frank receives a phone call about the presence of a policewoman in the hostage group and is assigned to find and kill them. Lorenz, however, can flee and hide. A short time later, the SEK storms the building and kills all the hostage-takers while freeing the guests except Frank, who had separated himself and is unsuccessfully looking for the uniform. The client had also lured Frank into a trap: at the alleged hiding place, Frank is expecting a stranger in SEK uniform who shoots him and makes the act look like a suicide. He takes Frank's cell phone and doesn't notice that Lorenz has been watching him from hiding. When he was on the phone a short time later, she wanted to catch the killer, who immediately aimed at Lorenz and was shot by Falke after he got around to it. In Holger Schmidt's apartment, a colleague of Falkes discovered that strangers broke into his safe and stole all evidence.
background
The film was shot from January 28 to February 26, 2014 in Hamburg and the surrounding area.
At the Oldenburg International Film Festival , Happy Easter, Falcon was shown as a world premiere on September 13, 2014 in the international series and was shown as a preview in the Oldenburg prison the day before .
The music tracks Bombtrack by Rage Against the Machine and Kashmir by Led Zeppelin were used as film music .
The plot of the episode bears a certain similarity to the crime scene episode Wedding Night from 2012. The Bad Easter Bunnies masquerade has been compared to the film Donnie Darko in multiple print and online media . The leader of the Bad Easter Bunnies is called Frank, just like the rabbit from Donnie Darko. Steffen, Nico, Joachim and Rainer from the Bad Easter Bunnies listen to the code names Ernie, Bert, Grobi and Bibo from Sesame Street .
The audio description for the film was created by Degeto Film and the Münster subtitle workshop. The image descriptions are spoken by Manne Spitzer.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Happy Easter, Falke on April 6, 2015 was seen by 8.49 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.8% for Das Erste .
Reviews
“The fact that the current falcon 'crime scene' is so smeared may also be due to the special circumstances. Ordered as an event 'crime scene' for the holidays, it should shine particularly well; the ARD subsidiary Degeto injected money. [...] The episode 'Happy Easter, Falke' [...] looks like an inflated B-movie with a strange message. Crappy Easter. "
“It's an event thriller, of course, it's not as silly as the event thriller from the Saarland at Christmas . But the whole thing seems drawn to the rabbit ears. "
Web links
- Happy Easter, Falke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Happy Easter, Falke on the ARD website
- Happy Easter, falcon at the crime scene fund
- Happy Easter, falcon at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crime scene: Happy Easter, falcon at crew united
- ↑ Happy Easter, falcon. (No longer available online.) In: Programm 2014. Internationales Filmfest Oldenburg, archived from the original on September 5, 2014 ; Retrieved April 6, 2015 . 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.
- ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse : Tatort: "Happy Easter, Falcon" - pathetic imitation , TV review, Ulrich Feld, April 7, 2015
- ↑ Die Zeit : “Tatort” critics mirror: My name is Hase , Christian Buß, Lars-Christian Daniels, Markus Ehrenberg, Kirstin Lopau, April 6, 2015
- ↑ Filmstarts : Filmkritik , Lars-Christian Daniels, accessed on April 7, 2015
- ↑ Crime scene: Happy Easter, falcon in the audio film database of Hörfilm e. V.
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime check: Monday, April 6, 2015.quotemeter.de , April 7, 2015, accessed on April 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Christian Buß: Easter "Tatort" with Wotan Wilke Möhring. The great rabbit terror. Spiegel Online, April 3, 2015, accessed on April 5, 2015 : “Probably slurping too many rum eggs: Five Easter bunnies hitting each other storm a charity gala - and the falcon“ Tatort ”comes as an inflated B-movie. "
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Wolves in rabbit fur. In: Media. Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 3, 2015, accessed on April 6, 2015 .
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