Crime scene: faith, love, death
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Faith, love, death |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
ORF |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 769 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 29, 2010 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michi Riebl |
| script | Lukas Sturm |
| production | Helmut Grasser |
| music | Matthias Weber |
| camera | Josef Mittendorfer |
| cut | Andreas Kopriva |
| occupation | |
as well as Ian Towers , Wilhelm Iben , Max Meyr , Geza Terner , Iris Reyer , Willy Höller , Ada Sedlak , Boris Popovič , Peter Muhr | |
Faith, Love, Death is a TV film from the Tatort crime series . It is the 23rd case of the Vienna chief inspector Moritz Eisner , played by Harald Krassnitzer . The by ORF contribution was produced on 29 August 2010 at the First sent for the first time. Eisner is investigating a murder case that is obviously related to the work of a sect that not only sneaks into the trust of the public prosecutor, but also does not stop at Eisner's daughter.
action
A man is injured in a hit-and-run car accident on a country road. While investigating the accident and looking for witnesses, the head of the accident department, Karl Bindmayer, looks around a house. There he finds the 23-year-old student Anna Kaber murdered lying on the ground. He calls Eisner to the crime scene. The dead woman wears a conspicuous necklace and it looks as if she was locked in the house that is still under construction. This would indicate a kidnapping, but the parents are not wealthy. Eisner learns from them that Anna had joined a sect. As a result, she broke away from them and moved into a commune of the sect. This organization called "Epitarsis" operates internationally and is led by Katharina Leupold in a cool and decisive manner.
Eisner visits the woman and learns that she has already been informed about Anna's death by her father. He questions the individual members of the “religious community” and hears that Anna had been missing for ten days. The alleged willingness to cooperate on the part of the members of the organization is only a delaying and concealing tactic, so that Eisner is standing still and getting stuck in his investigation. In addition, Katharina Leupold immediately complained to the police chief, Ernst Rauter, about Eisner's allegedly rude behavior.
The house where Anna was found belongs to her father. When Eisner approaches him, it turns out that the father wanted to bring his daughter to safety there from the sect. He was able to convince her to speak voluntarily with Maria Levin, who with her “Working Group on Sects and Cults” is dedicated to the fight against such organizations. She wanted to persuade Anna to leave the group with psychologically sound discussions.
Meanwhile, members of the "Epitarsis" contact Eisner's daughter and lure her to their headquarters. When Anna's father hanged himself out of guilt, this is the sign for Eisner to take massive action against "epitarsis". He turns up to a house search of the "religious community", but is stopped abruptly, because the police chief photos of Claudia's visit to "Epitarsis" were leaked. It all looks like a private campaign of revenge. Eisner is pissed off and angry at the same time how cleverly the threads were spun in the background to torpedo his work.
Maria Levin looks at the videos she made of Anna's conversations in front of the camera and discovers a clue to the perpetrator. She wants to send the tape to Eisner, but the killer is faster: Mrs. Levin, like Anna before, is strangled. Your last call on your cell phone leads to the shared apartment of the “Epitarsis” members.
Eisner looks around there and finds a photo of Sophie, Maria Levin's daughter, who has broken away from her mother for years. He can track her down and arrest her. She admits both murders because she - absolutely under the influence of sects - wanted to save the community from a great misfortune. Both Anna and her mother wanted to betray the organization and she couldn't let that happen.
background
The shooting took place in cooperation with Allegro Film in Vienna and Lower Austria .
reception
Audience ratings
8.11 million viewers saw the episode Glaube, Liebe, Tod in Germany when it was first broadcast on August 29, 2010, which corresponded to a market share of 23.40%. The episode reached 422 out of a possible 906 on the Tatortblog.
Reviews
Carsten Heidböhmer from Stern.de writes about this crime scene: it is “an exciting crime thriller, but with small weaknesses.” Heidböhmer finds words of praise for the production. “On the visual level, the film cleverly plays with the contrast between the cool glass architecture of the sect headquarters, which is purely success-oriented, and the cozy old building where Moritz Eisner lives with his daughter.” In addition, this crime scene “cleverly demonstrates the perfidious mechanisms that such psycho sects use Catch people, make them compliant and suppress them. "
Also positive criticism comes from faz.net. Oliver Junge writes about this “great crime scene from Vienna” that Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) “is the right person for this case, due to his withdrawn manner and soothing seriousness among all“ Tatort ” luminaries . The diminution of the series does not seem to have penetrated to Vienna: You don't have to endure a minute of silly slapstick in this excellent episode. ”The critic also feels very beneficial that there is no action-packed“ car chase that depends on the logic, but [ the film] [draws] its strength from a concentrated slowness: all of this [is] more than unusual in the German-language television crime genre. "
“Moritz Eisner once again fighting against dark elements. But as much as the sect gurus irritate the Ösi-Kommissar, as much as they drive him to the edge of desperation - “Faith, love, death” is never too loud, but retains its concentrated Krassnitzer-like brooding-thriller touch. Successful crime drama in the footsteps of Scientology. "
Christian Sieben at rp-online.de sees this crime scene as less positive. He sees it as "90 minutes of thriller that run according to the scheme F that in the meantime one suspects a genre parody." The finale is not too unexpected for him, because "that in the end a deluded" Epitarsis "disciple of the murderess surprised no one. And of course Eisner couldn't put the ice-cold sect boss behind bars. That was to be expected. ”“ It is obvious that one cannot expect the analytical level of a crime novel, for example, of the Scientology drama "Until nothing remains". A "crime scene" should nevertheless be more surprising, more gripping. The main actors actually bring everything with them. Harald Krassnitzer and Sarah Tkotsch play a credible and lovable father-daughter relationship with a difference. And Commissioner Eisner is always allowed to say cool things. "I'm a civil servant, ka savior," he whispered to the murderer at the end. Quiet Eisner coolness. We can only hope that the next case of the special investigator will be a little more imaginative. "
Web links
- Faith, Love and Death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of faith, love, death on the ARD website
- Faith, love, death in the crime scene fund
- Faith, love, death at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Production details from the Internet Movie Database , accessed March 26, 2014.
- ↑ Faith, Love, Death ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the ARD website, accessed on March 26, 2014.
- ^ Location on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on December 19, 2013.
- ↑ Audience rating on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on December 19, 2013.
- ↑ scene rankings on tatort-blog.de, accessed December 19, 2013.
- ↑ Carsten Heidböhmer film review on stern.de, accessed on December 19, 2013.
- ↑ Oliver Junge Filmkritik on faz.net, accessed on December 19, 2013.
- ^ Film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 19, 2013.
- ^ Christian Sieben: Film review on rp-online.de, accessed on December 19, 2013.
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