Tatort: What is worth living for
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | What is worth living for |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR , SRF |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1002 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 4, 2016 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Aelrun Goette |
| script | Sathyan Ramesh and Aelrun Goette |
| production | Uwe Franke |
| music | Boris Bojadzhiev |
| camera | Conny Janssen |
| cut | Saskia Metten |
| occupation | |
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What is worth living for is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by Südwestrundfunk together with Swiss radio and television is the 1002nd Tatort episode and was first broadcast on December 4, 2016 in the first program of ARD . The Konstanz investigator duo Klara Blum and Kai Perlmann are investigating their 31st and last case.
action
A corpse was found on the Swiss shore of Lake Constance that was washed up in a decorated boat. Matteo Lüthi from the Thurgau canton police is informed and starts the investigation. Not only the boat, but also the victim comes from Germany, which is why Lüthi contacted the German police. There, Commissioner Blum, who has just returned from vacation, is horrified to discover that the police station is being completely renovated and that she temporarily no longer has a real job. So the case from Switzerland suits her perfectly. According to the first findings, the victim is the xenophobic politician Josef Krist, who slowly bleeded to death from various cuts and must have suffered for a long time. He had made many enemies with his provocative speeches, and one of them probably wanted to see Krist suffer for bringing him such a death.
Matteo Lüthi and Kai Perlmann interrogate the widow, while Klara Blum is on her way to a nursery, because flowers of the small-flowered mountain mint , which is currently not blooming outdoors, were found on the dead person . In her search, Blum comes across a flat-sharing community for older women who used to run a nursery and now only tend a few plants for their fun. The small-flowered mountain mint is even included. The three ladies Catharina, Margarethe and Isolde appear very opaque to the inspector, but at the same time cast a spell over her. She visits them repeatedly in the following days and gradually discovers her secret: All three have known each other since school and have now found each other in old age. Matteo Lüthi pointed out to Blum that in one case he was working on there was a connection to Margarethe, who joined the other two here after the death of her son. Lüthi's case is about the building contractor and investment fraudster Mayer, who was poisoned. Lüthi previously suspected the young widow of killing her husband, but was unable to prove the act. According to them, it was suicide because he couldn't cope with the bankruptcy of his company. The impending bankruptcy had already driven some of his employees and the investment advisors involved to their death, which had put additional strain on him. Margaret's son was one of these investment advisors.
To clarify the matter, Klara Blum goes to the three ladies alone. But this time she is not received in a friendly way, as usual, but threatened with a weapon and locked in a cage. The trio has just brought the textile manufacturer Maximilian Heinrich into their power. He has been criticized by the media after 1,100 people died in a fire in a textile factory in Bangladesh . Cheap production abroad at the expense of security was a public issue in the past, but nothing had happened then. So the old ladies are now taking justice into their hands. Heinrich complains that he hasn't done them anything, but Isolde explains to him: Because of him, Mayers, and Krists the world is unbearable. He became rich on the ashes of the burned workers. They torture their prisoner with permanent small knife wounds and hope that he will show some insight in the face of approaching death. Blum tries to get women to give up, but they see themselves as the ones who have to see to it that the world “doesn't tip over”. The commissioner manages to get her gun and wants to fire a warning shot. But she meets Catharina. The other two then bring the person who was shot into a boat, all of them row out onto Lake Constance together and then set it on fire in order to use it to judge themselves.
What remains is the perplexed Klara Blum, who is freed from her cage by Perlmann and Lüthi. Maximilian Heinrich survived the ordeal and was taken to a clinic.
Since Klara Blum's vacation, Kai Perlmann has had the feeling that she no longer understands her. He suspects that she wasn't away from home, but in the hospital, which seems to have changed her. She had admitted to Matteo Lüthi that she had already had two heart attacks. In order to be able to enjoy the rest of her life, she says goodbye to Constance and drives away in her car.
background
What is worth living for was filmed from November 11, 2015 to December 11, 2015 in Baden-Baden , Konstanz , in the Swiss canton of Thurgau and on the island of Reichenau in Lake Constance . The premiere took place on May 13, 2016 at the SWR Summer Festival on Stuttgart's Schloßplatz .
With this episode, the investigative team from Constance says goodbye, which was announced two years ago: "After 14 successful years together between the two great actors and the station with the Tatort from Constance, we will then say goodbye to him."
With Eva Mattes, Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen and Irm Herrmann, four muses of Rainer Werner Fassbinder are in front of the camera for the first time since their last appearance together in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972).
Soundtrack
- Cold Song : Sting
- Cold Song : Klaus Nomi
- Troy : Sinéad O'Connor
- King Arthur or The British Worthy Balthasar Neumann Ensemble
- Cold Song : Nanette Scriba
reception
Reviews
“The cases that Klara Blum, Kai Perlmann and Matteo Lüthi are concerned with are strange and mysterious, but perhaps no one will ever find out whether they are related. It is about the essence of the world and the cigarette in front of it, it is about the overthrow of kings and the rights of the weaker, it is about the whole and it concerns Klara. In the end everything is different and nothing is decided. Just saying goodbye. "
“The SWR is sending its Constance inspector into retirement with a poetic parable that is well worth seeing: Klara Blum learns that she has a serious heart condition and, in her search for the murderer of a right-wing populist, investigates on demand. The encounter with three equally fascinating and mysterious old women opens her eyes to the essentials. "
“Metaphors and meaningfulness are very popular, if you expect a snappy TV thriller, you will be disappointed. Here rather philosophical theater is offered with the means of television. Outside the evil world in the form of ruthless right-wing politicians, real estate sharks and unscrupulous manufacturers who exploit people in developing countries and live with the capitalistically agglomerated wealth in this country in huge lakeside villas, inside disappointed idealists, sensitive people who want what is good and still stop there Have to live in Konstanz. "
“The avenger crime thriller staged by Aelrun Goette (' The children are dead ') is now very much a rude farewell present. The international is even hummed, very softly, but at least. Big women's theater, men just stare in shock from outside through the slit in the curtain. If they're not already dead anyway. "
“Klara Blum was always a cumbersome inspector who didn't make it easy for viewers to like her. The same applies to her colleague Perlmann. In the past, the two of them rubbed each other in political discussions, today they usually fight each other for no apparent reason - which strains the audience's nerves. Too often the people of Constance did not bother to pick up the audience. [...] There are far too many sidelines and stories - but none of them are properly followed. Some scenes seem to have been written specifically for the guest stars afterwards, but do not advance the plot. All in all, the thriller is simply not exciting enough to stay on the ball as a spectator. What a shame."
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of What It Is Worth Living For on December 4, 2016 was seen by 8.86 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 24.3 percent for Das Erste .
Web links
- Crime scene: What is it worthwhile to live in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of What It Is Worth Living For on the ARD website
- What it is worth living for with the Tatort fund
- What it is worth living for at Tatort-Fans.de
- What it is worth living for at crew-united.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: What it is worth living for at crew united
- ↑ Daniela Hilpp: Moving scene premiere at SWR Summer Festival. Südwestrundfunk , May 14, 2016, accessed November 26, 2016 .
- ^ A b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Mattes, Schygulla, Hermann, Carstensen, Goette. Murder, illness, politics, theater. Tittelbach.tv , accessed on May 9, 2017.
- ↑ Crime scene - What is worth living for. swr.de , accessed on May 9, 2017.
- ↑ Heiko Werning: Last Bodensee TATORT: What it is worth living for. blogs.taz.de, accessed on May 9, 2017.
- ^ Christian Buß: "Tatort" farewell from Eva Mattes. High noon for Klara Blum. Spiegel Online, December 2, 2016, accessed on December 2, 2016 : "Rating: 7 out of 10 points"
- ↑ Sarah Stendel: This farewell is easy. In: Culture. Stern, December 4, 2016, accessed on December 4, 2016 : "Even Fassbinder's muses cannot save anything."
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Sunday, December 4, 2016.quotemeter.de , December 5, 2015, accessed on December 5, 2015 .
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