Tschiller: Off Duty

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Movie
Original title Tschiller: Off Duty
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2016
length 140 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director Christian Alvart
script Christoph Darnstädt
production Christian Alvart,
Timm Oberwelland ,
Til Schweiger ,
Tom Zickler
music Martin Todsharow
camera Christof Wahl
cut Marc Hofmeister
occupation
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Tschiller: Off Duty ( English for 'out of service' or ' off duty ') is a German action film from 2016 . It is part of the series universe of the Tatort television series and is linked in terms of content to the Tatort episode Purgatory , which was first broadcast in January 2016. The main roles are Til Schweiger and Fahri Yardım in her from the crime scene as known roles Nick sealed Iller and Yalcin Gümer to see.

After Tooth for a Tooth (1985) and Zabou (1987), the film is the third Tatort episode produced for the cinema.

action

After the Kurdish criminal Firat Astan was arrested at the end of the television film Purgatory , he was extradited to the Turkish judiciary in Istanbul. In Hamburg he had murdered the wife of the police officer Nick Tschiller, among others. Tschiller's daughter Lenny sets out for Istanbul to take revenge on Astan for her mother's death. Astan overpowers her and Lenny is captured shortly afterwards.

Nick Tschiller travels to Istanbul to get Lenny back. He tracks down Astan, who is being liquidated before his eyes shortly after he was able to inform Tschiller that Lenny was sold to Moscow by the trafficker Süleyman Şeker. Tschiller is arrested by the Turkish police for killing Astan. His colleague and friend Yalcin Gümer frees him from prison, and both of them take up the chase to Moscow.

In Moscow, following Astan's advice, they come to an organ dealer ring around the German doctor Dr. Schmidt, known as The Sandman , on the track, who removes organs from girls imported from Turkey and sells them. Tschiller and Gümer find out that Lenny was implanted with a bomb that Şeker uses to plan an attack on the industrialist Alexander Kinsky. They can track down Lenny at the last second, Gümer can eliminate Şeker with the help of his Russian colleague Boris Golidzyn, and Tschiller can remove the bomb from his daughter's body just in time. At the end, the viewer sees how the three protagonists arrive at Hamburg Airport.

production

costs

The film was funded by the Filmförderungsanstalt (€ 756,000), the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (€ 800,000) and the Hamburg Film Fund (€ 200,000). The North German Radio co-produced the film and took a little over a fifth of the cost of production.

Filming

Tschiller: Off Duty was shot from July 14th to September 15th, 2015 on 41 days of shooting with a budget of eight million euros in Hamburg , Berlin , Istanbul and Moscow .

The poor filming conditions with regard to collective wages and the disproportionately weak communication and organization of the executive film production company Syrreal Entertainment, directed by Christian Alvart, were ranked second to last of all those produced in Germany in surveys of the participating filmmakers for the FairFilmAward , which is awarded annually by the Association of Professional Associations for Film and Television Film and television productions chosen. 31,000 employees were asked by the professional associations to evaluate film productions and the executing production companies with regard to tariff conformity, communication and organization.

Musical background

The first scene in the Moscow clinic is underlaid with the theme song from Our Sandman to portray the character Dr. Schmidt alias Der Sandmann to introduce. Furthermore, Nas ne dogonjat , the Russian-language version of the song Not Gonna Get Us , the pop duo tATu heard.

publication

The film opened in German cinemas on February 4, 2016 and had its television premiere on July 8, 2018 in the Tatort series in Das Erste .

The soundtrack of Martin Todsharow was released on CD and for download.

reception

Reviews

Before it was released, the film was only shown to selected press representatives, which is why many media did not report.

Susanne Sturm from TV Spielfilm rated the film positively as “big action for a small budget. Anyone who likes Nick Tschiller will love Off Duty ”.

Kinokino , the film magazine of Bavarian TV , judged against it: “ Tschiller: Off Duty is mindless man's nonsense with a lot of noise. Thank goodness there is Fahri Yardim; it makes for a bit of irony in the film. ”The film service also said that the film was designed“ as a thriller with no meaning in terms of content, but a gripping thriller thanks to dense action scenes ”and thatTschiller's“ vigilante ”and“ vigilante attitude ”are disturbing.

Sophie Albers Ben Chamo vom Stern believes that Off Duty is “great old school action cinema that has never been seen before in Germany - with a furrowed hero, his humorous sidekick, a really unpleasant villain and a ludicrous story that all chasing through several countries ”.

In the face of many improbabilities and a conclusion in which the protagonist without surgical training cuts the bomb out of his daughter's body without anesthesia, Peter Praschl fled into the irony in the features section of the world : "Only pedantic idiots insist that art should accept the principle of reality" .

Popular success

After around 117,000 viewers on the first weekend, the film Off Duty had around 67,000 viewers on the second weekend, and around 25,000 viewers on the third weekend and thus remained well below expectations, also taking into account the considerable publicity in the run-up. By the end of March 2016, the film had reached almost 280,000 viewers.

The television premiere was followed by 5.34 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 18.6 percent. These numbers are comparatively low for Tatort first broadcasts. According to media reports, Schweiger blamed ARD for this, which placed the film "in the summer slump " and parallel to the soccer World Cup. However, the ARD entertainment coordinator countered that the length of the film made it difficult to find a suitable slot. An article in Stern also notes that Schweiger's explanations for the low number of viewers (vacation time and soccer World Cup) are questionable: there was no World Cup game on the broadcast day, and a few days earlier there was a repeat of the crime scene in the third WDR program Viewers reached as Schweiger's TV premiere on the established broadcasting slot.

Award

Tschiller: Off Duty was nominated for the European CIVIS Cinema Award in 2016 .

Other aftermath

The film was indexed by the State Cinema Agency in Ukraine because the Russian agents were positively represented.

Film bug

  • On the journey towards Russia, the train is pulled by a German class 103 locomotive .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for Tschiller: Off Duty . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; theatrical version). Template: FSK / maintenance / type set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for Tschiller: Off Duty . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ a b c Susanne Sturm: Tatort Istanbul, TV feature film issue 3/2016, page 196f.
  4. ↑ Tschiller: Off Duty at crew united
  5. ↑ a b Thomas Gehringer: Around the world in 80 explosions. Die Zeit , February 2, 2016, accessed on July 6, 2018 .
  6. ↑ High funding for cinema thriller Medienboard pays 800,000 euros for Schweiger “Tatort” Der Tagesspiegel of January 14, 2016
  7. ↑ Die Filmschaffenden eV: Framework conditions for the FairFilmAwards 2015/2016 ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.die-filmschaffenden.de
  8. ↑ Evaluation of the Fair Film Awards 2015
  9. ↑ Universal Music , accessed July 8, 2018
  10. ↑ a b Nobody wants to see Nick Tschiller, Schweiger “Tatort” in the cinema a flop , n-tv.de from February 9, 2016 , accessed on February 15, 2016
  11. ↑ Til Schweiger's male nonsense with Rumms ( memento from February 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Kinokino , February 5, 2016 (accessed on February 7, 2016, currently offline)
  12. ↑ Tschiller: Off Duty , in: Filmdienst , accessed February 14, 2016
  13. ↑ Sophie Albers Ben Chamo: criticism "sealed Iller: Off Duty". Schweiger's cinema “Tatort” is a really good action film. Stern , February 3, 2016, accessed July 6, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Peter Praschl: Schweiger's cinema “Tatort” is the best of all films. Welt , February 5, 2016, accessed July 6, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Film flop: Til Schweiger's screen "Tatort" leaves cinema fans cold , abendblatt.de from February 15, 2016 , accessed on February 15, 2016
  16. ↑ filmfutter.com of February 24, 2016 , accessed February 25, 2016
  17. ↑ Insider Cinema , accessed on March 20, 2016
  18. ↑ DWDL: Schweiger's cinema "Tatort" also disappoints on TV , accessed on July 9, 2018
  19. ↑ "Beautifully sunk in the summer slump" - Schweiger and ARD argue about lousy "Tatort" quota
  20. ↑ Tschiller: Off Duty. Nomination 2016. In: European CIVIS Cinema Award . CIVIS Medienstiftung GmbH, accessed on July 6, 2018 .
  21. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Tschiller-Tatort on the index | Movies | DW.COM | 11/14/2016. In: DW.COM. Retrieved November 23, 2016 .
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