Crime scene: land of milk and honey
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Land of milk and honey |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR |
| length | 84 minutes |
| classification | Episode 499 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | April 28, 2002 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nina Grosse |
| script | Stefan Dähnert |
| production | Ulrich Herrmann |
| music |
Moritz Freise Biber Gullatz |
| camera | Hans-Jörg Allgeier |
| cut | Gudrun Bohl |
| occupation | |
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Cockaigne is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The first crime scene with Eva Mattes as chief detective Klara Blum was produced by SWR under the direction of Nina Grosse and was broadcast for the first time in Germany on April 28, 2002. It is the 499th crime scene episode.
action
The Constance police are in the middle of their annual summer party when they receive news that a body has been found. Ten-year-old Butz Peters was found dead on the other side of the lake. Commissioner Klara Blum and her husband go to the scene where they are met by the patrol officer Bülent Îsi. He can also present the alleged perpetrator to her. The mentally retarded Wolfi Osburg was found sitting next to the corpse and detained. His father wants to reprimand him immediately and hits him with a stick. Blum intervenes, but Wolfi is injured and is supposed to be taken to a clinic. On the way there, Wolfi overwhelms the people accompanying him and flees. A police pistol comes into his possession.
Blum and her colleagues immediately go in search of the fugitive. Wolfi's brother, Hanno Osburg, accompanies the officers so that someone they trust is there. In itself, Wolfi is not considered dangerous, but at times he is still unpredictable. In his distress, he overpowers a driver at a gas station and takes her car. He doesn't know there's a child sleeping in the back seat. This intensifies the search for Wolfi and reinforcements are requested. But that scares him so much that he becomes even more unpredictable. Blum breaks off the chase in order not to endanger the girl in the car unnecessarily. There are differences between Klara Blum and her husband. Martin, who had only been in the office for the last few years, had been overwhelmed by Wolfi and had his pistol removed. As a result, he himself doubts his ability as a police officer.
The getaway car is now running out of gas and Wolfi continues to flee on foot with the child. It is slowly getting dark and the fires of the fruit growers, who have had to burn their trees infected by the fire blight for days , scare Wolfi. His brother uses this and lures Wolfi to him. He hides it from the police, who meanwhile find the girl unharmed by one of the fires.
Martin Blum had already returned to the station in the afternoon and had learned there that the fruit growers had reported Wolfi's father. They accuse him of infecting their fruit trees with fire blight in order to secure his turnover by selling his pesticides. The competent authority had registered an investigation with Heinz Osburg. On the spur of the moment, Martin Blum goes to Osborn's yard, secures the pathogen cultures, seals the yard and has Osburg arrested. He suspects that little Butz observed Osburg during his illegal activities and that the latter then silenced him. On the way back to the station, Martin Blum meets Hanno Osburg, who has removed the pistol from Wolfi and is now using it to shoot Blum when he learns from him that his father has been arrested.
Klara Blum, who is now looking for her husband, is stopped by Hanno Osburg. He claims his brother is shooting wildly and she should definitely come along. So he brings them into his power. Together with Wolfi he wants to kill her and throw her into Lake Constance. Blum owes her life to the timely arrival of Bülent Îsi. The ambitious patrol officer had understood a hidden message to him in time and alerted the water police.
background
In the land of milk and honey , Blum clears up a case in the crime scene for the first time. Blum and Bülent Îsi investigate here at her side before she found her permanent investigator in Kai Perlmann in 2004. For Eva Mattes, the role of a commissioner was “a leap in the deep end”. She had admitted that until recently she hadn't seen a single crime scene .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Schlaraffenland on April 28, 2002 was seen by 9.26 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.60 percent for Das Erste .
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv calls this crime scene "harmless". “A dead boy under an apple tree. Plus the most phenomenal sunrise that a television thriller has ever seen. A coherent beginning for a film that tried again and again to short-circuit the hideous with the poetic. On the one hand, Klara Blum is a woman who has both feet firmly on the Swabian soil; on the other hand, she is a person of intuition, of psychology, a woman who prefers not to open up the whole police apparatus. A primordial mother who outshines everything masculine. "
The critics of the magazine Der Wahlberliner saw it similarly and wrote: “A strong introduction for Klara Blum as an investigative figure is offset by a plot that appears constructed in important parts and is not convincing with regard to some of the figure motifs. Stylistically, the film is well done, with strong images that convey all emotions well. The steady hand of later Lake Constance crime scenes cannot be felt here, but Klara Blum is allowed to come out of herself once and only once ”.
When What was the crime scene? Lars Christian Daniels considers the film to be completely "unsuccessful". He writes: “This is at least partially compensated for by the brilliantly laid-out Alexander Beyer, who not only […] the main actress Eva Mattes […], but also the supporting cast […] plays on the wall according to all the rules of the art. Annika 'Beckchen' Beck (Justine Hauer) 's vocal performance, who uninhibitedly belts out the Madonna karaoke title Like a virgin, is one of the involuntary highlights in the 499th Tatort, which only gets going after an hour. "
Web links
- Crime scene: Cockaigne in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Land of milk and honey at the crime scene fund
- Cockaigne at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tatort: Schlaraffenland audience rating at fundus de, accessed on February 19, 2016.
- ↑ Rainer Tittelbach: Success: Nina Grosses sensual-mythical "Tatort" entry for Eva Mattes film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 19, 2016.
- ↑ Schlaraffenland - Tatort 499 / TatortAnthologie 51 at derwahlberliner.wordpress.com, accessed on February 19, 2016.
- ↑ Lars Christian Daniels: That was the crime scene: at wiewardertatort.blogspot.de, accessed on February 19, 2016.
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