Crime scene: Born in pain
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Born in pain |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 920 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 12, 2014 on Das Erste , ORF 2 , SRF 1 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Florian Schwarz |
| script | Michael Proehl |
| production |
Liane Jessen Jörg Himstedt |
| music | Frankfurt Radio Symphony |
| camera | Philipp Sichler |
| cut | Stefan Blue |
| occupation | |
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Born in Pain is a TV film with investigator Felix Murot from the crime series Tatort . The writer wrote Michael Proehl , Florian Schwarz directed. The report, produced by Hessischer Rundfunk , was shown at film festivals before it was first broadcast on October 12, 2014 and received numerous awards. The film is also known as the crime scene with the most deaths.
Plot overview
The beginning of the plot quotes the opening scene of the Spaghetti Western Spiel mir das Lied von Tod : Three armed men stand on the platform of a lonely suburban train station. When the man they are waiting for with evidently hostile intentions gets off a train, they are shot. On the surveillance video, the police saw that it was not the newcomer who shot. This is the former police cadets Richard Harloff, best friend 30 years ago the local LKA - Main Commissioner Murot, who was then the same with him woman in a open threesomes loved. Harloff was dismissed from the police force for a drug offense and went with the woman to Bolivia, where he became a powerful drug baron.
At the instigation of Harloff and with the participation of his supposed son David, a sniper who also shot the men at the train station, further murders occur. Through this Harloff can not only take revenge on an old enemy, but also take over his criminal organization; however, nothing can be proven to him.
Meanwhile, Murot tries to stop the series of murders and has to realize that it is a large-scale act of revenge by the mentally ill Harloff against him personally. In the course of this, around 50 people died, most of them in a mass shooting between his gangsters and a special police unit, instigated by Harloff for its own sake.
It turns out that Harloff wants to get the superintendent to kill David. This is in fact Murot's son, whose mother died when he was born. This made Harloff go insane, he only brought up David in order to turn him on to his biological father at some point. David and Harloff are killed, but Murot hides whose son David was.
action
A man arrives at Wiesbaden-Erbenheim train station and is received by three young men. They obviously want to kill him, but before they can draw their weapons, all three are shot by an unknown person. The man who was supposed to die leaves the station unmoved. When Chief Inspector Murot arrives at the scene, he recognizes the three sons of the workshop owner and gang boss Bosco in the corpses. The act had been planned meticulously, the station master had been incapacitated by an injection, the surveillance cameras were switched off except for a few sequences of the platform cameras . The video shows that it was not the man, but a shooter who is not in the picture who shot the Bosco brothers. Bosco does not seem very surprised when Murot brings him the news of his death. He denies having sent his sons to the train station.
When a still image from the surveillance video is enlarged, Murot recognizes Richard Harloff, his former best friend from the police school , with whom he and his childhood sweetheart Mariella lived in a kind of ménage à trois . One of the recurring symbols of this series of crime scenes, the skull and crossbones traditionally associated with disaster , is worn by Mariella as a tattoo; in a love scene of the three he symbolically comes to life. The friendship ended when Harloff embezzled a large amount of marijuana . He then emigrated to Bolivia with their childhood sweetheart, where he became a drug baron . As expected by Harloff, Murot can locate the hotel where he is staying. Harloff is clueless and claims that he has given up the drug business and is cooperating with the authorities in the fight against drugs. When Murot wants to take him away anyway, he reacts calmly and shows his old friend his diplomatic passport . Harloff asks Murot for a longer conversation, in which he tells him that he had suppressed marijuana at the time to help the sick mother of her friend Mariella in Bolivia. After he was expelled from the police school, he went with her to her home country. There they cared for the mother until her death, a year later the friend died giving birth to their son David, whom Harloff then raised alone. Indirectly, he admits that he had something to do with the dead at the train station. In parting, Harloff tells Murot that the past still connects them despite the long time that has passed since then.
David, who acted as an unscrupulous killer in South America , traveled from there via France to Germany; Murot, however, still suspects him to be in France. Richard Harloff, meanwhile, turns up at Bosco and presents him with fake purchase contracts, according to which Bosco sold his workshop to Harloff and in return bought a property in Bolivia. Then he has Bosco killed and his body removed by Bosco's people. Murot visits Brüggemann, a former trainer of his and Harloff, in the hospital and asks him about him. Brüggemann says that the police student René Hendry informed the school management about Harloff's connection with the disappearance of drugs. Harloff was then followed and led the drug investigators to two young dealers. They made a deal with the public prosecutor and went unpunished by delivering their boss and Harloff to the knife as the perpetrators. One of the two dealers was Bosco, the other Franz Oswald, who now works as an arms dealer .
Murot looks for Oswald, but he is not afraid of Harloff. Shortly after Murot has left his office, Harloff contacts him. Murot seeks out David Harloff, whom the police have now been able to locate. He tells him about the three-way relationship with his two parents. Richard Harloff hears and sees the conversation on cameras, which neither of the two knows. David Harloff is clueless about his father's plans. After the conversation, David meets his father, who is planning a robbery on the casino , and asks him why he never told him about Murot and the love triangle, but Richard only says that he wanted to avoid giving the wrong impression about his mother. Father and son go to a meeting with Oswald, from whom they want to buy the weapons for the robbery. Oswald has secured himself from Harloff with the bodyguards of a Russian business partner, who promises him that he will not harm him. After the arms deal was over, however, he revealed to Oswald that he had informed his Russian business partner that Oswald had botched a business ten years ago, as a result of which the Russian's favorite nephew was killed in a shootout. The Russian bodyguards then kill Oswald, while Harloff looks on indifferently.
Meanwhile, Murot's colleague Wächter informs Murot that René Hendry, who switched to the Paris police after completing his training, has been missing there for five days. The Harloffs were there at the time. When Murot meets Harloff again, he explains to him that he, Murot, is to blame for everything and that he must recognize his guilt. Then Harloff would end his game. The next day, Harloff meets with a young colleague from Murot, whom Murot wanted to put on him. He reveals to her that he wanted Murot to fall in love with her and then kill her so that Murot could feel the pain. Harloff kills her and slips photos of his men from the preparations for the robbery so that the police can find them on her. The plan works and the officials have the casino monitored because they believe that their young colleague has found out about the preparations. Wächter informs Murot that his French colleagues found Hendry dead in the basement of his house, that he had been tortured and bled to death. On the cellar wall, a saying was written in Hendry's blood that Murot Harloff had raised with at the time. Harloff prepares his people for the next day's robbery; he gives people a remedy, supposedly a herbal remedy to calm down and raise awareness. Donny, called Caliban , the former right hand man of Bosco, realizes that the drug is stimulating drugs; obviously Harloff wants to turn people into drugged berserks . He tells Harloff that he doesn't want to raid the casino, but rather to provoke a massacre with the police. Harloff offers him money, then tells him over a glass of wine that David is not his son, but Murot's. Because his girlfriend died while giving birth to Murot's son, Murot should kill in order to live. He wants to punish Murot and make him suffer. Harloff then kills the man so that he can take the knowledge of his motives with him to the grave.
Wächter observes the preparations and the departure of Harloff's people to the casino in front of Harloff's workshop, but is then captured by Harloff. The official Werner, who is watching the workshop, is shot by Harloff. Then he calls Murot from Wächter's smartphone and announces that he is going to shoot Wächter, but David intervenes. Harloff told by radio his drugged people that they in an ambush be advised and they should open fire. He steers a group to the emergency vehicle in which Murot is sitting. Then he disrupts the transmission in Murot's car, so that Murot and his colleagues do not notice what is happening outside. A bloody shootout ensues in which Murot also has to intervene and kill gangsters. What remains is a battlefield in front of the casino where four police officers and 36 Harloff's people were killed. Three other people are so badly injured that they will probably die. Harloff explains to David that Murot will be arriving at the workshop shortly and instructs him to shoot Murot. Harloff has prepared a video message for Murot, Wächter concludes that not Murot should be killed, but David. She further concludes that he is not David's father, but Murot, which Harloff admits. He only raised David so that Murot would kill him. He explains that he wanted to kill David right after he was born, after his girlfriend died. It was immediately clear to him that the child was Murot's and he wanted to kill it at the first cry for love or food. However, the child did not scream, so he developed his long-term revenge plan.
David overhears this confession and strangles Harloff after first trying to shoot him. But Harloff had his gun loaded with blank cartridges to make sure that David would be shot by Murot. David goes out to be shot by Murot, who has just arrived. Wächter can't stop him, but he can call Murot at the last second to tell him not to return David's shots under any circumstances. Murot immediately realizes that David is not aiming at him but only at his bulletproof vest , as David is a very good shot. He can get David to hand over the weapon to him, but David draws his second weapon, so that the colleagues who have arrived kill David. Guardian, who witnessed David's death, destroys evidence of Murot's paternity to protect Murot from Harloff's post-mortem revenge.
At the end, gang boss Bosco appears again in a kind of epilogue and makes a lyrical plea against revenge. With the request that instead of remembering the dead and always looking for the truth in the heart, he stands on a staircase on which all the people killed in the plot are gathered.
background
The author of the script, Michael Proehl, designed the crime scene with Ulrich Tukur in the role of LKA investigator Felix Murot, based on the model of a drama by William Shakespeare . In the tradition of Shakespeare, Proehl stands with the complex, classically intricate, but logically stringent and exciting story of revenge, which reaches far into the past of Chief Inspector Murot, as well as through the use of dramatic means, such as the direct address of the audience by one of the characters .
In terms of style and content, the film refers to classic films, for example in the train station scene at the beginning of Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western Play Me a Song of Death and Truffaut's Jules et Jim . The accumulation of the dead makes reference to the dramas of Shakespeare as well as to the bloody and loss-making conflicts in spaghetti westerns and in Quentin Tarantino's films . The number of deaths in the crime thriller was often given as 47 before it was broadcast. According to an editor, an actor named this value in advance at a press screening; However, the corpses were not counted by the creators themselves and the record achieved for the crime scene series was not sought. After the broadcast, the press named numbers between 49 and 54 bodies.
The film also contains motifs from the play The Visit of the Old Lady by Friedrich Dürrenmatt , which takes up the story of a person who emigrates because of an injustice, finds wealth abroad and returns to pursue a plan of revenge forged over the decades.
In addition to classic style elements of the theater, the film uses cinematographic style means such as colored Freeze frames that hardly find in Germany use and primarily through action and kung fu films of the 1970s are known and today by directors such as Quentin Tarantino or Zack Snyder be used .
The director was Florian Schwarz , who is a close friend of Michael Proehl and who worked closely with him on the development of the film.
The shooting of the station scene took place in June 2013 at the Bad Nauheim -Nord station on the former Butzbach-Licher railway . The scenes of the car workshop were filmed on the site of a former construction company in Sontraer Strasse in Frankfurt-Fechenheim.
music
Only classical music was selected as the film music for this crime scene , including pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach , Ludwig van Beethoven , Peter Tschaikowski , Antonín Dvořák , Jean Sibelius , Antonio Vivaldi , Georg Friedrich Handel , Giuseppe Verdi and Gustav Holst . Part of the music was recorded especially for the film by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra , conducted by Frank Strobel . Other recordings come from the archive.
Crime scene - the show
Around the crime scene launched the Hessian Broadcasting "crime scene - the show" an interactive Web TV and radio show with the presenter Daniel Boschmann that immediately after the movie about the radio stations You FM aired and sat audience interaction.
reception
Reviews
The critics found words of praise for the film:
“Maybe the best 'crime scene' of the year. Definitely the craziest. […] Leading actor Tukur, who as Murot stops in the crowd with a submachine gun at the end, revealed in the interview that he was skeptical even at the beginning as to whether this inflated automatic fire theater would open up. We think: yes! And follow the citation and shooting mania of those responsible every second. It is quite possible that the majority of viewers do not. It is quite possible that after this act of violence by art thriller, Hessischer Rundfunk will again receive death threats. "
“A thriller full of allusions, references and cross-references can seem ambitious, and ambition never reaches people's hearts. Director Florian Schwarz and author Michael Proehl, however, tell a story that is enriched and inspired by the many quotations, not crushed. [...] A staging full of precision, no quotation without a connection to the story. Murot cries for a moment at the end, and even the name of his assistant is more than a name. This crime scene is an imposition on the one hand. Above all, it is a gift. "
“This 'crime scene' is awesome. Heavy as a fool, dark as blood, hot as the sun, wild as a heart, floating like a snowflake. Yes, everything fits! A fantastic play that no one had dreamed of on German television, a fantasy in the literal sense of the word, that too: very sharp theater, a deep cut into the flesh of habit. [...] Matthes and Tukur deliver a chamber play that is still looking for its equal. "
In the film service it was said that the work was a "grandiose acted" crime thriller and that the countless references to theater, opera, classic paintings, westerns and thrillers subverted familiar viewing habits that were both confident and self-deprecating.
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Im Pain born on October 12, 2014 was seen by a total of 9.29 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.0% for Das Erste ; 3.11 million viewers and a market share of 22.0% were achieved in the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers .
In Austria 611,000 viewers and a 20% market share were achieved.
Festivals and Awards
The world premiere took place on June 28, 2014 at the 32nd Munich Film Festival . There, the Hessischer Rundfunk as producer, represented by the responsible editors Liane Jessen and Jörg Himstedt, won the 25,000 euro Bernd Burgemeister television award for the producers of the best feature film from the New German Television series . The jury justified the award as follows:
“Former best friends become mortal enemies because of the one’s excessive will to revenge. In no phase is this a conventional crime thriller. It is surprising TV entertainment with great narrative elegance and visual style. As a viewer, you are emotionally carried away and at the same time maintain an ironic distance. […] The productive performance consists primarily of consistent action in every phase of the project with a very clear goal in mind: future-oriented television that will excite viewers in many ways. "
Also before it was broadcast on television, the film was shown at the 10th Festival of German Films in Ludwigshafen, which awarded the Hessischer Rundfunk, as the responsible editorial staff, the media culture prize, which was awarded for the first time. Born in pain also received the audience award of the festival together with the film Jack by Edward Berger and a “special award” from the film art award jury. The reasoning of the jury said u. a. that the film "lets it crash so much that laughter, tension, and spiritual edification turn into sheer pleasure in watching total works of art".
Tatort: Born in pain won both the 3sat audience award and the television film award of the German Academy of Performing Arts as part of the Baden-Baden television film festival in 2014 .
The crime scene episode was awarded the 2015 Golden Camera as “best German television film”. Actor Ulrich Matthes also received the Golden Camera for “best national actor”.
At the 2015 Grimme Awards , the film received an award in the “Fiction” category. The trophy went to Michael Proehl (book), Florian Schwarz (director), Liane Jessen (editor), Ulrich Matthes and Ulrich Tukur (representation).
Second screen
The episode born in pain was the highest number recorded to date of the Twitter posts published by viewers during the first broadcast of a crime scene episode , according to Bayerischer Rundfunk . An average of 8461 tweets are written per crime scene, with this episode the number of posts added up to a record value of 20,557 tweets.
Web links
- Crime scene: Born in pain in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Born in Pain on the ARD website
- Born in pain at the crime scene fundus
- Born in pain at Tatort-Fans.de
- Tatort: Born in pain at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Christian Sieben: "Tatort" record: 47 corpses in 90 minutes. In: RP-online , October 11, 2014, accessed October 12, 2014.
- ↑ Matthias Dell: You have great shoes . In: New Germany . October 12, 2014, accessed November 6, 2014.
- Jump up ↑ The “crime scene” experiment with many corpses. In: Welt.de of October 13, 2014
- ↑ 53 You should be corpses. In: Tagesspiegel.de of October 13, 2014
- ↑ The bodies at a glance . In: Tatort-Fundus.de . Retrieved February 6, 2015.
- ^ A b Christian Buß: "Tatort" -Western mit Tukur: Ulrich Unchained. In: Culture. Spiegel Online, October 10, 2014, accessed July 27, 2018 .
- ^ Festival of German Films 2014: “Born in pain” - an extraordinary “Tatort” episode , Kino-Zeit.de, accessed on October 12, 2014.
- ^ The music titles for the film , daserste.de, accessed on December 6, 2016
- ↑ Filmstarts : Filmkritik , Lars-Christian Daniels, accessed on April 10, 2016
- ↑ "More is simply not possible!" , Tatort-fundus.de
- ↑ music list , tatort-fundus.de
- ^ Daniel Boschmann: Tatort - the show. In: WebZwoNull , You FM.
- ↑ Holger Gertz: An imposition? A gift! Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 12, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Rose-Maria Gropp: Rose-Marie Gropp: The devil returns to his home . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 9, 2014, accessed October 17, 2014.
- ↑ Crime Scene - Born in Pain. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Sunday, October 12, 2014.quotemeter.de , October 13, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Medienforschung ORF , data from Sunday, October 12, 2014.
- ^ Tatort: Born in pain at filmportal.de , accessed on May 3, 2015.
- ↑ Bernd Burgemeister TV Prize ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , filmfest-muenchen.de
- ^ Claus Gronenborn: Festival of German Films: Jubilee of Heimatkino . In: Culture Today . Deutschlandfunk , July 6, 2014.
- ↑ TV Today 21/2014, daily tip: Tatort born in pain . P. 135.
- ↑ "Tatort: Born in pain" wins the 3sat audience award 2014 - Martina Gedeck presents the award at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival na-Presseportal, November 21, 2014, accessed on November 21, 2014.
- ↑ Tatort "Born in pain" won on 3sat.de on November 21, 2014
- ↑ Tukur-Tatort receives the Golden Camera as the best German television film Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung; Retrieved on: February 27, 2015.
- ↑ Tukur-Tatort receives the Golden Camera as the best German TV film ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Zeit.de; Retrieved on: February 27, 2015
- ↑ "Born in pain" - Golden camera goes to Tukur-Tatort ( page can no longer be accessed , 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. hr-online.de; Retrieved on: February 27, 2015
- ^ A b Westfälische Nachrichten : After the murder, the tweet: During the "Tatort" crime thriller, the most tweeted , media, dpa , April 6, 2016.
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