Wolfgang Oliver

Avusturya Alpleri'ndeki sakin bir kaçamak, uzun süredir birlikte olan iki çift arasındaki sağlam bağın kırılmaya başlamasıyla kaosa dönüşür.

Andreas, Avusturya Alpleri'ndeki ıssız vadiye dört yaşındayken yerleşen bir yetimdir. Andreas, büyüyüp yetenekli bir çiftlik işçisi olur ve vadiye elektrikle birlikte ışık ve ses getiren ilk dağ demiryollarından birini inşa eden çalışma ekibine katılır. Ayrıca hayatının aşkını -Marie'yi- bulur. Bakalım mutlulukları uzun sürecek midir?

Matthias, mükemmel bir sevgili, kusursuz bir evlat ya da evlilik danışmanı gibi davranmakta ustadır. Kendisi için başkası olmak mesleğinin bir parçası. Asıl zorluk ise kendi kimliğine bürünmesi gerektiğinde başlar.

Barely 22, Franz Klammer finds himself at the “eye of the storm” when he shows up for the men’s downhill competition at the 1976 Winter Olympic Games. Since the previous season the charismatic newcomer has won virtually every race. The pressure from the media and the public and the hopes of an entire nation are off the scales. His sponsor is pushing him to switch equipment right before the competition, the weather is getting steadily worse, and his toughest rivals know that Franz has to do better than just a flawless run. Franz senses that he has to find his own path and that only the love of his life can give him the strength to do that. This is the most important race of his life in which he skis a line that nobody even thought was possible and which will make him to this day a legend in the sport of downhill skiing.

Late summer. For Iga, a young woman in her late twenties, it is a time of daydreaming and chasing an idealized notion of happiness. She decides to drive to Scotland by car. When she meets Ethan, a 30-year-old Englishman, on the way and joins him on the journey, she begins to understand herself better and questions her goals.

Harold May, an excellent Jewish-American tap dancer, on tour in Europe with his company, receives an offer from a German that is difficult to pass up: a large sum to put on a show in Berlin. The German does not know that Harold is of Jewish origins; the year is 1937 and, once they arrive in Germany, the company discovers that he will have to perform in the presence of Adolf Hitler.

Rudolf, a bookshop salesman, Gabriel, an actor, and Nicolas, a bar waiter, share more than one common point: the three of them are thirty-something, gay and... neurotic! So what a shock when following a sentimental break-up, Rudolf decides to leave Paris (and his two friends at the same time). What he wants is to put order in his life and it seems to him the best thing to do is to move back to the village of his birth, somewhere in the Austrian mountains, far from the chaos of Parisian life. After a moment of panic, Gabriel and Nicolas decide to follow Rudolf to Styria. Little do they know how eventful their trip will be...

The film is set in the near future, in a world of perfect capitalism. Society is sustained by a class of top achievers; meanwhile, so-called minimum recipients live under sedation in Fortresses of Sleep. The great majority of top achievers view themselves as happy. An outsourced agency has been established for the rest: Life Guidance is charged with turning these individuals into optimal people as well. Alexander has internalized the system but one wrong word to his child triggers Life Guidance. He starts to rebel and encounters the horror of the system in all its brightness and affability.

Diziye konu olan olaylarda hep tanıdık temalar hakim. Almanya’da gündelik yaşamı etkileyen ya da geçmişte etkilemiş olan her konu, dizide ele alınıyor ya da alındı: Almanya’nın birleşmesi, terör, organ ticareti, küreselleşme, ırkçılık, uyuşturucu kullanımı, çevre skandalları, çocuk istismarı, işsizlik, sanayi suçları, yaşlı bakımıyla ilgili sorunlar, ya da eş bulma hizmetleri. Gerçek yaşamdakinden farklı olarak, toplumsal ayrılıklar “Tatort”ta her zaman çözülmese de, cinayetin faili her zaman bulunuyor ve pazar akşamı herkes yatağına huzur içinde gidiyor. Edebiyatbilimci Jochen Vogel’in sözleriyle “Tatort, Alman toplumunu anlatan bir roman.”