Crime scene: granite
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | granite |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Satel movie |
| length | 86 minutes |
| classification | Episode 715 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 21, 2008 on Das Erste , ORF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fabian Eder |
| script | Felix Mitterer |
| production |
Heinrich Ambrosch , Michaela Rathbauer |
| music |
Matthias Pflug , Daniel Huber |
| camera | Fabian Eder |
| cut | Ulrike Pahl |
| occupation | |
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Granit is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced for ORF was first broadcast on December 21, 2008. It is the 19th case of the Austrian chief inspector Moritz Eisner , played by Harald Krassnitzer .
This 715th episode in the crime scene series is about a murder and a family feud in which Eisner almost reaches his limits and the investigation is made more difficult by a television team that is always present.
action
Helmut Pechtl is found strangled in his car in the Tyrolean mountains. Franz Pfurtscheller, the investigating inspector learns from Pechtl's wife that the mountain farmer Erich Gufler deeply hated her husband. He also has a dispute with his brother Heinz because he had to go bankrupt and now his brother has bought the farm at auction. However, the wealthy Pechtl bought the associated quarry. The fratricidal dispute is so massive that even television is interested in this case. The popular presenter Agnes Aichinger, who, as the little man's lawyer, denounces grievances across the country, has announced that she will report on the dispute in her program and is now going to Tyrol. On the way there she meets Moritz Eisner, who is also heading in her direction to investigate the murder case. At the point where the dead man was found, Eisner discovers grains of grain in the snow. This prompts him to go to the Gufler brothers' farm with Inspector Pfurtscheller. Erich Gufler admits that he doesn't like Pechtl because he “stole” his quarry from him. But his brother Heinz was also betrayed by Pechtl. He had promised Heinz Gufler a share in the quarry if he would help a little so that his brother would get into financial difficulties and he could buy the quarry from him. When the time came, however, Pechtl took over the quarry alone without Heinz Gufler. Eisner's investigations reveal that Heinz Gufler may have been at the scene at the time of the crime.
The TV team interviews Norbert Leimgruber, the branch manager of the bank, who canceled Erich Gufler's loans, but granted brother Heinz a loan to buy the farm. Eisner is also present and learns that the Guflers have a third brother, Walter. As the first-born, he should have taken over the father's farm according to mountain farming tradition. But since he is not a farmer, but a teacher, he has not inherited the inheritance. Nevertheless, he is moved that after 300 years of family ownership, the farm is now in danger of breaking up. That is why he asked Erich to turn to television, which Heinz again does not like at all. Especially since he knows Agnes Aichinger from an older story in which she was to blame for an innocent man being driven to his death by her false TV research.
The autopsy of the deceased shows that the traces of his strangulation match a red cord , such as is used to align floor slabs or stone paving in Pechtl's company, where Heinz Gufler also works. This is another piece of evidence that points to him as the perpetrator. However, Eisner is skeptical and continues to investigate. Erich is now in danger of losing his nerve, he'd rather blow up the yard than give it up. These dramatic scenes are more than fine with the television team that is back on site. Nevertheless, the family has to leave the farm because Heinz has obtained an eviction order from the court.
In the evening Eisner was sitting in a bar with the attractive Agnes Aichinger when she was called by an informant who wanted to meet her, but lured her into a trap. She breaks into the ice on a frozen lake, where she is saved by Eisner. In the hospital he happened to meet Ms. Pechtl, who was worried about Norbert Leimgruber, who was admitted with a heart attack. Without being asked, she admits that she has a relationship with Norbert Leimgruber. This explains the strict handling of the bank with Erich Gufler when he fell into arrears with his liabilities. But contrary to all assumptions that Heinz Gufler, although he had a motive, was near the crime scene at the time of the crime and the murder weapon (cord) was also to be found in his surroundings, Eisner suddenly found spelled grains on the ground again . And so Erich Gufler's eldest son Peter comes out as the perpetrator. Pechtl met him by chance on the way to the farm in the snowstorm and took him with him in his car. Then Peter strangled him. Everyone has been fighting over the farm since his grandfather died, but one day it should have belonged to him.
At the end of the day, Heinz hands over the keys to the farm to his brother Erich.
background
The shooting took place under the working title Hart wie Granit and took place from February to April 2007 in Innsbruck , Vienna , Matrei , Steinach am Brenner and in the Tyrolean Wipptal . The television premiere ran a year and a half later, just before Christmas in the first.
reception
Audience ratings
Granit was first broadcast on December 21, 2008. It was seen by 6.21 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 17.30 percent for Das Erste .
Reviews
"Bitter drama, well played," said the critics of TV Spielfilm .
Beate Strobel at focus.de felt that at this crime scene “even Inka Bause would lose her laughter” and that this case “is not an advertisement for the Austrian mountain farming world, but for the brand 'Tatort'” [it is] finally once again it is “as it should be: a clever, idiosyncratic story that describes a mountain farming world beyond the Hansi-Hinterseer hypocrisy. Kitzbühel was never further away: the chickens live here in the hallway, the cattle are blessed at Christmas, everyday life is gray, barren and cold as bare rock. Everyone lives, loves and hates here for themselves and within; only reluctantly does the tightly woven network of relationships allow the viewer some perspective. The only thing that is certain is that nothing is as it appears at first glance. In addition, there are great (supporting) actors who convincingly sound out human abysses between alpine peaks. An Austrian Christmas story that describes the family as an earthly form of hell. "
Tilmann P. Gangloff also came to a similar conclusion at tittelbach.tv and praised the fact that the "ORF tried not to sell this homeland film crime thriller as a melodrama with an Alpine panorama". So “history has its charm, even if it is sometimes of an exotic nature; the farmer brothers, for example, maintain a highly monosyllabic way of communicating and only answer the inspector's questions with "yes" and "na" (no). "
Web links
- Granite in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Granit on the ARD website
- Granite at the crime scene fund
- Granite at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Production at Internet Movie Database , accessed December 23, 2013.
- ↑ a b Filming locations and quotas at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on December 23, 2013.
- ^ Short review , on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 23, 2013.
- ↑ Beate Strobel “Tatort” review on focus.de, accessed on December 23, 2013.
- ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff If you have brothers like this, you don't need enemies on tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 23, 2013.
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