Crime scene: death under the organ
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Death under the organ |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
ORF |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 560 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | March 14, 2004 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Walter Bannert |
| script |
Alrun Fichtenbauer , Walter Bannert |
| music | Thomas Klemm |
| camera | Duli Diemannsberger |
| cut | Michou Hutter |
| occupation | |
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Death under the Organ is a television film from the Tatort crime series . The by ORF contribution was produced on 14 March 2004 at first sent for the first time. It is the 10th case of the Viennese chief inspector Moritz Eisner , alias Harald Krassnitzer , who in this episode is appointed head of the violent crime department and admitted to the special commission of the Ministry of the Interior. In cooperation with Section Head Wolfgang Schremser, he is supposed to prevent a possible assassination attempt on a bishop and has to solve two murder cases.
action
Moritz Eisner is accepted into the special commission of the Ministry of the Interior, which takes on special criminological tasks throughout Austria. His first assignment as head of the violent crime department took him to Carinthia , to the monastery of Maria Saal . An international organ competition is taking place there and Eisner is supposed to ensure the safety of a jury member. Since several assassinations have already been carried out on the Austrian Bishop Hawranek, special personal protection is necessary for him. While the audience is still waiting for the bishop, the music student Nikolaus Kutil is already playing the first piece. Suddenly one of the heavy organ pipes comes loose from its holder and kills the musician. Moritz Eisner and his new supervisor, Section Head Schremser, are immediately on the spot. Since the bishop was supposed to play the first piece, it stands to reason that it was not an accident, but an attack. After the bishop's arrival, he gets into a dispute with Prelate Herbert Schweiger. Their views on the need in the world and the role of the church in it vary widely. Nevertheless, the prelate presented the bishop with a can of his favorite cocoa as a gift. Schremser and Eisner are now looking around the monastery, while Eisner enters into a conversation with Professor Wöss, which certainly suggests that the attack was possibly aimed at the rival competitors. An act of jealousy cannot be ruled out, as the music students had problems with each other in this regard.
When the bishop wants to drink his cocoa, he finds out that Klaus Zadera, one of the music students, has used it and is lying poisoned on the floor of the monastery kitchen. For Schremser, an attack on the bishop is now obvious, but Eisner continues to follow the trail to the students, because the elimination of competitors gives them advantages for the competition. Individual candidates also spray with envy and resentment. During their investigation, Eisner and Schremser encounter music student Paul Hofer. Confronted with the facts, he admits to having composed pieces of music for Nikolaus Kutil for a fee, which Kutil gave out for his own at competitions. Kutil was brilliantly playful, but the required original compositions did not suit him. Your competitor Klaus Zadera found that out and threatened to make it public if Kutil didn't let him win. Out of anger about not being able to win the competition this time, he wanted to "blow" it completely. So he (Hofer) helped him to loosen the pipe so that it would fall effectively to the ground while he was playing. What he could not have suspected was that the organ pipe slid along the microphone cable, which the sound engineers had stretched, and would hit him. In order to switch off Klaus Zadera, also in retrospect in Kutil's sense, he poisoned him because he knew that he liked to drink cocoa.
Locations
The shooting took place in Vienna and Maria Saal , Carinthia .
reception
Audience ratings
7.04 million viewers saw the episode Death under the Organ in Germany when it was first broadcast on January 30, 2000, which corresponded to a market share of 19.10%. In the crime scene blog, the episode reached number 758 out of a possible 911.
Reviews
The criticism from Tatort fans is consistently negative. The author writes: "The film Death under the Organ is not only not very believable in terms of the story, but what is still being sold around it as an" organ competition "is so devoid of any technical knowledge that you can tell Mrs. Fichtenbauer the script Ears should bang ". He also criticizes the technical deficits of both music theory and physics, because: “An organist [can] never be killed by a prospect pipe of the caliber shown, but at most the pipe would get a dent. And why it should suddenly become so independent with a certain note remains the author's secret. Something like that only exists in the brain of an absolute organ builder, who apparently also includes the “organ builder” in the film. It goes without saying that the prospect pipes also have to be attached from the rear, about halfway up (and of course they are), but it is completely overlooked here or does not fit into the story. "
Rainer Tittelbach comes to a similar assessment. He writes: “ Death under the organ doesn't get going despite a good book idea. A few nasty dialogues ignite, otherwise it is rather slow in this Kammerspiel monastery thriller in the semi-darkness, which the apparently intended "In the name of the rose" touch does not really succeed. A bit bland ".
Kino.de finds “the script [as] not entirely original, but always appealing” because it “is located in the monastic environment”.
Web links
- Death under the organ in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of death under the organ on the ARD website
- Death under the organ at the crime scene fund
- Death under the organ at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Location and audience rating on fundus.de, accessed on December 11, 2013.
- ↑ Filming locations on imdb.com, accessed December 11, 2013.
- ↑ Tatort ranking list on tatort-blog.de, accessed on January 28, 2014.
- ↑ Klaus Michael Zeuner film review on tatort-fans.de, accessed on December 11, 2013.
- ↑ Rainer Tittelbach Harald Krassnitzer - more "Pfarrer Braun" on tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 11, 2013.
- ^ Film review on kino.de, accessed on December 11, 2013.
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