The cold truth
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| Original title | The cold truth |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 89 minutes |
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| Director | Franziska Meletzky |
| script | Sarah Eßer |
| production |
Kim Fatheuer , Sam Davis |
| music | Susan DiBona |
| camera | Bella halves |
| cut | Jürgen Winkelblech |
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The Cold Truth is a German television drama by Franziska Meletzky from 2014 that is based on a true story. Petra Schmidt-Schaller plays a doctor who causes a fatal accident and tries to find out why. The film was shown for the first time at the Hamburg Film Festival in 2014 and broadcast on ZDF on March 23, 2015 .
action
Early one winter's day, doctor Helen Liebermann drove to 18-year-old Moritz Dombrowski in a wooded area, who died in the process. The preliminary investigation against her for negligent homicide is suspended. However, she would like to know the background to why the boy was barefoot and without a jacket on this street at that time, ten kilometers away from his home. She makes her own investigations, with which her lawyer Wagner helps after some hesitation. She suspects that Moritz was freezing to death and had a cold idiocy . When she returns to the scene of the accident, she meets a girl there with Moritz's best friend Thomas, whom she knows from the funeral that she has secretly overheard. It's about Nicole Hohlbein, whose father is the coach of Moritz's handball team and whom she blames for his death.
The team had celebrated in a bar the night before. Moritz was forced to pay drinking rounds because he had committed a crucial foul during the game. The taxi money that he always gets from his father for the journey home was wasted. Because of a dispute over Nicole, there was a fight with Thomas. His trainer waited in vain for him in the car and drove off without him. The drunken Moritz went to the house next to the bar, which he mistook for his family's house because of a similar door. The residents, the Sporn couple, turned him away and called the police when he wasn’t left alone. The police called the ambulance service because of his very drunkenness.
In the meantime, Helen Liebermann has met Moritz's mother in a self-help group, but does not reveal herself. She tells her that she got the things back from Moritz, but that his jacket was missing. Liebermann learned of the events at the celebration through the investigation files that her lawyer was able to see. From the police officer Simon Kerber, whom she knows from the doctor's office that he regularly visits with his demented father, she learns that he and his colleague Anton Stein are working at the bar himself. He also gives her the name of one of the paramedics, who tells her that Moritz, of legal age, refused to be taken to a clinic. In the bar, the waitress reports to her about the fight. She learns from Mrs. Sporn that her husband looked at the door again when the dogs struck. Liebermann therefore suspects that he took Moritz with him in the car and then abandoned him. In the garden she finds Moritz's blood-smeared jacket.
Liebermann confronts Hohlbein. Thomas listens and admits the fight. Father Dombrowski verbally attacked Helen Liebermann in the doctor's office. Her boss, who had asked her to keep the incident secret, reacts indignantly, whereupon she resigns. She asks the pastor who chaired the funeral service for an interview. She encourages her to tell Moritz 'mother that she killed him, which she does. The father smashes the car that they wanted to give to Moritz. From him, Liebermann finally receives Moritz's cell phone, which his mother did not want to give her because she does not think it makes sense to clarify the question of guilt. Nobody could give her son back.
Liebermann researched the conversations on his cell phone and found a call from police officer Anton Stein on the morning of the accident. The police had told her, however, that they assumed that Moritz would be taken to a clinic. Then the call would have made no sense, from which Liebermann concludes that the police officers came back and it was they who took Moritz away. Faced with this, Kerber tells Stein that he made a big mistake. This justifies himself by saying that it was so cold that night. Liebermann tells them that she will file a complaint. In the car she calls her friend Dirk, who is on his way to her from Berlin, where he works during the week. Meanwhile, Kerber has followed her and stops her. He confesses everything, but says that Moritz wanted to get out of the police car with all his might and pleads not to destroy the existence of his family. When she doesn't respond, he knocks her to the ground. Her friend, who overheard everything on the phone, arrives and stands by her. Kerber is eventually arrested.
background
The cold truth was premiered at the Hamburg Film Festival on September 29, 2014 and was nominated for the Hamburg Producer Award for German TV productions . The first broadcast on ZDF as TV film of the week on March 23, 2015, was the most watched program of the day on German television with 6.05 million viewers and a market share of 18.5%.
The film is based on an incident in Lübeck in 2002. The two police officers were sentenced to suspended sentences in 2008 on appeal.
reception
Matthias Hannemann particularly emphasized the camera work in this "perfectly assembled, unusually consequently filmed thriller" in the FAZ . The WAZ saw a "well-acted, but somewhat hard-working crime drama". Ulrich Feld from the Frankfurter Neue Presse said that the film is primarily not a crime film, but a "psychodrama about guilt and coping with guilt". Petra Schmidt-Schaller conveyed “the doubts and remorse of Helen Liebermann can be felt physically”, but the finale was “heavily exaggerated”.
Web links
- The cold truth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The cold truth at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The cold truth at the Hamburg Film Festival 2014
- ↑ The cold truth at filmportal.de
- ↑ ZDF crime thriller in front of Jauch - “#Beckmann” is still having trouble ( memento from March 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) dpa report from March 24, 2015 on Stern.de.
- ↑ Julia Jüttner: Policeman Trial: Robert S. - Exposed to Die Spiegel Online, May 30, 2007, accessed on May 26, 2015.
- ^ "No police officer will ever act like this again" T-Online, September 18, 2008, accessed on March 26, 2015.
- ↑ Had, would have, causal chain FAZ.net, March 23, 2015, accessed on March 25, 2015.
- ↑ "The Cold Truth" asks the question of guilt and atonement WAZ, March 23, 2015, accessed on March 25, 2015.
- ↑ “The Cold Truth”: In the end too simple Frankfurter Neue Presse, March 24, 2015, accessed on March 26, 2015.