Crime scene: new territory
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | New territory |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MR |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 722 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | February 15, 2009 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Manuel Flurin Hendry |
| script | Bernd Lange |
| production | Jörg Himstedt |
| music |
Fabian Römer Matthias Hillebrand Manuel Römer |
| camera | Andreas Doub |
| cut | Stefan Blue |
| occupation | |
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Neuland is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by HR and first broadcast on February 15, 2009 in the program Das Erste . For the Frankfurt investigator Dellwo , this 722nd episode of the crime scene is his 15th case, which he has to solve this time without his colleague singer . Dellwo goes on vacation to the country and is involved in a murder case, which he takes on and solves as part of administrative assistance.
action
Commissioner Fritz Dellwo wants to give his godchild Jakob a birthday present. Since his job is bothering him a lot and he only reacts annoyed to everything, he decides to take a vacation and deliver his gift personally. The way leads him from the Frankfurt metropolis to the idyllic countryside. He used to get on very well with Jacob's mother and wants to stay with them for a day or two. He takes a room in the village pub and quickly gets to know the men of the village. While everyone reacts relatively openly to him as a newcomer, he notices Gerti Plauer quite uncomfortably.
Jacob's mother talks to Dellwo about a car that she recently saw in the woods, which struck her as very strange. Dellwo looks with her there and can no longer find a car. Since there is a quarry pond nearby, he thinks it is possible that the car was sunk there. He has a look and actually a car is recovered. The owner is a property speculator named Markus Gruber, who was not popular in the village because he had tried several times to buy farms from local farmers. Gruber seems to have disappeared for three weeks and shortly before received 160,000 euros.
Jacob's mother fears that her husband may have done something because her farm is heavily in debt and Jens was not home last night. Dellwo sees it as a point of honor to help his old girlfriend and to prove her husband's innocence. But before he gets there, Jens Reuter is shot in cold blood. So Dellwo is now dealing with a murder and feels responsible. He asks his boss, Rudi Fromm, to officially transfer the case to him, which he does, albeit reluctantly. Dellwo has to come to terms with the village police officer Jochen Kaleck, who initially doesn't like it at all. But he is impressed by his new tasks as a detective assistant and both grow together into a team. Kaleck first researched Jens Reuter's phone calls. According to this, he telephoned the property speculator Gruber several times a week ago.
Dellwo takes Gerti Plauer first. He arrests him because he thinks it is very likely that he will do dirty business and will not shy away from murder. He is financially dependent on his father, who, as the patriarch of the village, wants everyone, including his son, under control. Dellwo arranges for Plauer's company to be searched and a contract is found according to which Gerti Plauer wanted to sell a plot of land to Gruber. However, the registered purchase price is only half of the amount that Gruber demonstrably had with him. So there would have to be a second piece of land that someone wanted to sell to him and for which he had obtained the money.
After the death of her husband, Katrin Reuter wants to give up the indebted farm and meanwhile sells the first animals to Stefan Kruppka, a farmer in the village. Dellwo accompanies them and finds evidence that this could have something to do with Gruber's disappearance. When Kuppka notices that Dellwo has seen through him, he threatens him with a rifle and explains that the Gruber “didn't deserve it any other way”. He also claims that his pigs ate him. Jens Reuter had noticed something and wanted to blackmail him, he couldn't allow that. Kuppka locks Dellwo in the house and tries to escape, but is caught by Kaleck.
background
The film was produced by HR in Frankfurt am Main , Wetterau, and the Frankfurt area under the working title Trauma .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Neuland on February 15, 2009 was seen by a total of 8.45 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.40 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv calls 'Neuland' the “first outstanding 'Tatort' 09. […] The heavily cast film, in which the Hessischer Rundfunk once again relied on new strengths, entered a field that Schimanski only plowed or once Wolfgang Petersen's legendary 'Tatorte' in the 1970s . 'Neuland' sounds like a pioneering spirit, like a Western, but also like a shopping center. "
Tilmann P. Gangloff comments on this impressive film: “An above-average 'Tatort': because of the story that is original for a big city thriller, but sometimes also deliberately opaque (book: Bernd Lange), because of the concentrated staging and an outstanding cast as well as because of the Jörg Schüttauf, who gets along much better without his partner than she does without him. "
Kathrin Buchner at Stern.de judges this crime scene cautiously, because "the crime thriller is solid and exciting, borrows from road movies and spaghetti westerns, and has very good actors [...] who have not slipped into good or bad drawers and lets us get a bit more into the psyche of Dellwo. [...] But otherwise there is a bit of a lack of innovative flair - 'Neuland' simply does not do justice to its title. "
The critics atquotemeter.de appraise the stylish and atmospheric production and believe that this: “Above all, it is thanks to a wonderfully coordinated soundtrack, as well as great scenes with the handheld camera and a professional acting ensemble. Insights into Dellwo's world of thought, into a crisis-ridden person whose life turned out differently than hoped, round off the film and expand the character of the otherwise so composed commissioner. "
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm think this crime scene is: "High Noon in Hessen: heated, ironic, good!"
Web links
- Crime scene: new ground in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Neuland on the ARD website
- New territory for the crime scene fund
- New territory at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on April 9, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Jörg Schüttaufs Solo: Inspector Dellwo plays the song of death in the pampas on tittelbach.tv, accessed on April 9, 2014.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Critique of the film on Kino.de , accessed on April 9, 2014.
- ↑ Kathrin Buchner: Shooting in the pigsty on stern.de, accessed on April 9, 2014.
- ^ The critics: «Tatort: Neuland» on quotenmeter.de, accessed on April 9, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on April 9, 2014.
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