Night frost affair
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Night frost affair |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sigi Rothemund |
| script | Sigi Rothemund |
| production |
Wolfgang Hantke , Herbert Kerz |
| camera | Rolf Liccini |
| cut | Renate Engelmann |
| occupation | |
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Affäre Nachtfrost is a German agent thriller from 1989 by director Sigi Rothemund , based on the novel of the same name by Stefan Murr . The television film , which was produced on behalf of ZDF , was first broadcast on March 20, 1989.
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On January 1st 1945 the Red Army and the German Wehrmacht fight a positional war on the Vistula . After a bloodbath , a Wehrmacht colonel assumes the identity of a dead civilian and moves west. He saves a ten-year-old boy and takes him with him.
About 30 years later, the former colonel made a career with the BND , the boy from back then is a colonel in the National People's Army of the German Democratic Republic .
One day the BND employee is approached by the Stasi about his correct identity and blackmailed; his house is bugged. He reveals himself to the BND and learns that research has been done there and that his true identity is known.
The wife travels to East Berlin on a day visa and from there to the GDR , where she follows the colonel's official car by taxi. The taxi driver warns the driver of the car with a flasher . The woman asks the colonel about the story of 1945 and is asked to take a seat in the car. Apparently the colonel shows little interest and instructs his driver to drive to the nearest People's Police station . He reproaches the woman about her entry into the GDR without a valid visa , while also making notes on a piece of paper. He accompanies the woman into the police room and secretly slips her the note on which he confirms that he was saved as a boy by the Colonel of the Wehrmacht. He informs the police that the woman has got lost, accidentally left the East Berlin district, entered the GDR and must now be brought back.
On the way home, the woman in West Berlin was pushed in front of a bus by a suspected Stasi employee at the Zoo train station , and he stole her handbag with the note. The husband then reveals to his followers by phone that the BND knows and that he can no longer be blackmailed.
Reviews
The thriller homepage says: “Sigi Rothemund staged a formidable agent thriller with an excellent Hansjörg Felmy in the title role, flanked by Gudrun Landgrebe in a double role as his wife and sister-in-law. The film works entirely without music, but is unsettlingly exciting in many places. Charles Brauer credibly gives the NVA major, Heinz Moog can be seen as Felmy's father-in-law, Dietrich Mattausch plays a Nazi colonel in a long flashback (in which the young Felmy inevitably had to be played by another actor) tough and ruthless. A film that doesn't leave you bored for a second and comes up with a surprising ending, that much can be said. Excitement tip! "