Crime scene: wages for work
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Wages for work |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
ORF and epo film |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 807 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 28, 2011 on ORF and Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Erich Hörtnagl |
| script | Felix Mitterer |
| music | Lothar Scherpe |
| camera | Duli Diemannsberger |
| cut | Ingrid Koller |
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The reward for the work is the title of the 807th crime scene crime and the 24th case by Harald Krassnitzer in the role of Austrian special investigator Moritz Eisner , which was first broadcast on August 28, 2011 by ORF .
action
The building contractor Kogl is found lifeless on a crane hanging high above a construction site. However, he was already dead - slain with a rusty iron bar, the investigation shows. Special investigator Moritz Eisner finds a striking dark cigarette butt at the crime scene.
The victim's son, Hubert Kogl, is just opening the 25th residential complex with a great public interest. The journalist Markus Feyersinger takes a striking number of photos and Eisner is also there. Even the pastor gives a cautious eulogy, but knows that a lot of foreigners did the work and before they could be paid they were deported. During the winter they almost froze to death in their unheated containers. Erwin Filzer, who is responsible for it, has been in hiding for some time. As a subcontractor, he had provided the illegal workers for Kogl's company, so that Kogl himself had nothing to do with the illegal employment and could take advantage of public funds. When he found out, however, he denounced Filzer to the tax office.
Kogl has a very young wife who will presumably be the main heir. However, the opening of the will at the notary reveals that the inheritance should go equally to the son and the divorced first wife. His widow should not receive anything because she was not loyal to Kogl. The child she is expecting cannot be from Kogl because he had himself sterilized.
A Macedonian has been sent from his village with his old father to collect the outstanding wages. They hide in the mountains and first seek advice from the pastor. Later, in their desperation, they demand her wages from Kogl's widow. But she calls the police immediately, and so they are also wanted on suspicion of murder. The journalist Markus Feyersinger helps them escape, as he has been researching Kogl for a long time, but they are ultimately found. However, there is no evidence of the murder.
Eisner listens to Kogl's answering machine and becomes aware of a call from a tax officer, Jakob Wiesner. He ordered Kogl to go to the construction site with the large crane on the very evening. Wiesner is asked about it and admits that he had a violent dispute with Kogl that evening, because he knew that Kogl was not innocent of the Macedonians' suffering. He had asked for the 10,000 euros of outstanding wages for the people, and in the dispute, Kogl fell backwards onto an iron grate. He left him there, but did not kill him with a stick. So Filzer himself remains the main suspect because of the denunciation of Kogl and possible revenge for it. Eisner lets Markus Feyersinger call Filzer with Kogl's cell phone and confronts him with explosive details about his black money accounts. He lures him to the construction site, where Eisner and his colleague Pfurtscheller wait for him and arrest him without any problems. As expected, Feyersinger also shows up on the construction site, because as a journalist he cannot miss it. Eisner confronts him with the cigarette butt that he found at the crime scene and that clearly came from him. He confesses to having been on the construction site that night and from the window he saw Kogl lying on the floor. He went downstairs to take a few more photos, but when Kogl provoked him and called him a lousy rat, he hit him with a stick. Based on the situation, he then publicly hung it up as a memorial.
As requested by Kogl, his ashes are finally concreted in on his last construction site.
background
The production company epo Film shot the episode on behalf of ORF in Hall in Tirol.
The plot is based on actual incidents that happened in 1994 in Kitzbühel around a company from Wels , but without a murder case. The attempt of the building contractor to psychiatricize the tax officer, however, is not invented.
Eisner investigates in this episode without Adele Neuhauser, as the episode was filmed before the role Bibi Fellner was introduced.
reception
The first broadcast of Lohn der Arbeit on August 28, 2011 was seen by a total of 6.56 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 20.0 percent.
“The Tatort episode 'Wages of Work' is a didactic piece about elbow capitalism. [...] Observing the processes with Eisner more and more bewildered, we get to know - after a viscous and confusing beginning - Tyrol as a mirror of the world in which we live: "Our economy is a shadow economy", they once said. [...] When this sentence is mentioned, it is already clear to every viewer that it is all about our elbow capitalism, which we not only endure but promote. [...] This hopelessness, which sticks to the victims of Europe, which is obsessed with the market like crude oil to Clouzot's protagonists, gives the film its weight. The crime elements - at some point you trust the journalist to commit the murder, the ex-waitress, the son - are hardly relevant. "
“In terms of crime drama, this is without great sophistication, but with a lot of Ösi abuse and social criticism is etched into many of the scenes told with Tyrolean redundancy. Funny, unspectacular Whodunit (without Neuhauser!). "
“The result is a crime thriller that was already dilapidated when it was first broadcast, and which wants to be socially critical, but is nothing more than a flat parody. Harald Krassnitzer in the role of chief inspector Moritz Eisner can be really sorry, not only because he (what a speaking picture!) Has got through this case on crutches, but because he is apparently the only one who is allowed to play a 'real' person among lots of caricatures - including his colleague Pfurtscheller (Alexander Mitterer). But one can also feel sorry for all (foreign) illegal workers in reality, whose plight is shamelessly exploited for such a film. "
“As touching as the sympathy for the Macedonian workers (Mustafa Nadarevic and Branko Tomovic) is, who try to catch the moment on the slopes around the city in order to claim their wages - the provincial thriller about illegal work, building sins and inheritance disputes is so lame and awkward the suspicion that one will soon wish to get away from this cursed Tyrol with its building sins. Bungle where you look. "
“In 'Wages for Work' the scriptwriter dealt with a latent problem and the visual aspect was also well implemented. The narrow streets, which were filmed from a bird's eye view, suited the depressing situation. The people moved in it like in a hopeless labyrinth. Unfortunately, the author didn't leave it to the true facts and exaggerated the clichés and actions [...] With all the injustice about the poor illegal workers, it was almost irrelevant who had killed the greedy building contractor, which had a negative effect on the tension affected. [...] A clumsy and characteristic ending in such a milieu. Somehow nobody is to blame and everyone at the same time. The murderer is caught, the injustice continues. And so «wages for work» ended as hard as a rainy Sunday before everyday life resumed on Monday. "
“[...] Mitterer-Tatort has long been a brand of its own within the series. Quality, intelligent, conclusive, exciting. This is what someone wrote that TV crime writers usually found out about at halftime. At Mitterer: Impossible. He conjures suspects like rabbits out of a hat - again and again you have someone else on your side - and does not present a 'simple' solution. The ensemble borrowed from Burg and Josefstadt acts well, especially Martin Zauner as a desperate tax officer. Harald Krassnitzer can't help but be good. His damaged knee - unfortunately real after falling down stairs - makes Eisner cynical, taciturn and ill-tempered. That suits him! KURIER rating: **** from ***** "
Web links
- Wage work in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of wages for work on the ARD website
- Pay for the work at the crime scene fund
- Pay for the work at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b http://www.tatort-fundus.de/web/haben/chrono/ab-2010/2011/807-lohn-der-arbeit.html
- ↑ Murder, Fraud and Intrigue in Hall! on mein district.at of July 21, 2010, accessed on January 2, 2018.
- ↑ a b Mitterer-Tatort: “It all went well” , kurier.at of August 28, 2011, accessed on December 30, 2017.
- ↑ a b Bad construction can be fatal , spiegel.de from August 26, 2011, accessed on December 29, 2017.
- ↑ Dieter Bartetzko : What are we doing for our smallest brothers? , faz.net of August 28, 2011, accessed December 29, 2017.
- ^ "Tatort - Wages of Labor" series on tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 29, 2017.
- ↑ Crime scene review: demolition, please! , hna.de from August 28, 2011, accessed on December 29, 2017.
- ↑ TV review: Far too blond , bernerzeitung.ch from August 29, 2011, accessed on December 29, 2017.
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