Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall
Four Women and a Funeral is an Austrian crime series which was first broadcast in 2005 in the ORF. In Switzerland, the series runs at SF 1, since the autumn of 2008 she RTL Crime. In ARTE, the series was also aired french synchronized. The series has been sold but also to Slovenia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, and Ukraine and Russia.
Background & action
Three different directors have in the first season some quite different things. Constant are the rural milieu (Salzkammergut, Mondsee Land) and the main characters: Four women of different ages, the ' funeral wives ' who meet after each death in the fictional village Ilm at the funeral and with the saying " I think net, that of a casualty was! " develop their own theories on the death of the person concerned. In addition, a more or less satirical oversubscribed village community that too often wants to know nothing of the investigation of four women under the leadership of Julie Zirbner ( Adele Neuhauser ).
Initially, the series of critics, called the flop, but lay their average attendances at about 1.3 million viewers, followed by the ORF decided to produce the series continues.
Besides beautiful, touristy valuable Austrian countryside, the series also has the typical Austrian abusive and a very unorthodox image of women, with the obvious but could not do something with each of the directors. The series is filmed mostly in the Salzburger community Faistenau.
As of April 10, 2007 ran 8 new episodes of the second season on ORF 1, which was filmed from June to October 2006.
As of March 2010, the six-part third season in the ORF, which was filmed in 2008 in Mondsee country ran. This was originally intended as a final season.
Since September 2011, after three years out of six new episodes were filmed, which was on view from March 6, 2012 on one ORF. This is pulling the Season theme is the planning of a Passion play.
From 8 May 2012, the 5th season was filmed, which was broadcast from April 30, 2013. This season find preparations instead of the Passion Play, which is why many of the male performers wear long hair and beards. There is also this season for the first time not one death per episode, but a single case covers up to three episodes.
From April to July 2013, the sixth season was already shot, which is expected to be broadcast from April 2014.
Occupation
Trivia
- The name of the fictional town " village Ilm " was derived from the Austrian film production company Dor Film.
- From the fourth season Toni Steiger is no longer a postman, but a police officer. This alludes to the fact that 2009/2010 many postal officials of the exchange was offered to the police in Austria to remove the "real" police internal service activities.
- In the first episode of season 4, the Bavarian cabaret artist Monika Gruber has a guest appearance.
- In the second episode of season 4, there are many allusions to the corruption scandal of Ernst Strasser. Strasser was an Austrian MEP and was filmed in 2011 during the " cash-for- Laws " investigation, when he accepted an offer from two lobbyists (played by British reporters ); after investigation, this video was released. Towards the end of this episode is alluded to in great detail on this video. The Mayor Mitzi Nothdurfter is submitted an offer; thereby they will be filmed in the same camera angle as Ernst Strasser. In addition, his bad English is being satirized.