A strong team: ice cold
| Episode in the series A strong team | |||
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| Original title | Freezing | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
UFA fiction | ||
| length | 89 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 77 ( List ) | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
January 5, 2019 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Jörg Lühdorff | ||
| script | Leo P. Ard | ||
| production | Lena Kraeber | ||
| music | Oli Biehler | ||
| camera | Markus Hausen | ||
| cut | Ollie Lanvermann | ||
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Eiskalt is a German television film by Jörg Lühdorff from 2019. It is the 77th episode of the crime series A strong team with Florian Martens and Stefanie Stappenbeck in the leading roles. It is the thirteenth assignment of Linett Wachow at Otto Garber's side .
action
Chief Detective Otto Garber, his young colleague Linett Wachow and Sebastian Klöckner have to solve the murder of a pensioner who fell from the balcony of his high-rise apartment. Suicide can be ruled out very quickly because someone obviously wanted to suffocate him with a pillow, which is evident from traces of fiber in the dead man's lungs. Clemens Ruttkowski probably fled to the balcony out of fear and then fell into the depths. Since Ruttkowski had a number of enemies, the investigators concentrate on finding the motive for the crime and the murderer here. Lately Ruttkowski was only on the track of the “depravity” of the people and thought he had to do something about it. He had denounced his former colleagues when he believed they had acted morally wrong, which ultimately led to his own dismissal and early retirement because no one wanted to work with him anymore. He was just as unpopular in his living quarters for spying on everyone, from neighbors who dumped their garbage in the wrong bin to small drug dealers. As the investigators found out, the police have received 103 reports of minor offenses in this regard . But the main suspicion falls on an unknown burglar who, on the night of the crime, was demonstrably broken into two other apartments in the Hochhausen and stole valuables. Perhaps the victim had surprised him when he got inside him too.
At the same time, the trickster Thorsten Schäfer spied on victims in the high-rise complex. Thanks to the helpful advice from Borgward, a private delivery service that preferably takes care of the elderly residents and knows them all well, Schäfer can be caught quickly. Ruttkowski happened to take a picture of the money handover, but Schäfer denies that he killed anyone because of it. After checking his alibi, he is actually eliminated as a murderer. The investigation is focused on the night thief who had obviously opened the doors of his victims with a key. This lead leads to Katja Schur, who is considered to be very helpful and always fetches the mail for the older residents. Fatally, she had now left an earprint on one of the doors when she had listened to see whether her victim was already asleep, which was usually the case with the older residents. They also don't hear so well anymore, are immobile due to their age, so that Katja Schur was always faster than her victims and she was never seen. However, the young woman does not look like a cold-blooded murderer to the officers. In her defense, she claims to suffer from an obsessive-compulsive disorder and to have been otherwise on a break-in at the time of the crime, which can ultimately be proven.
Otto Garber researches deaths that may be similar to that of Clemens Ruttkowski and comes across an unsolved murder of a pensioner in another district. Here, too, the door was opened with a key so that there were no signs of a break-in. Unintentionally, however, the perpetrator made a lot of noise, so that he quickly left the apartment and could not be caught. Another thing they have in common is the living conditions of the victims. They lived in seclusion and had no family. Inevitably, in this context, they meet again with the food supplier Borgward, who had contact with both victims and may have already looked for a new one. When Garber and Wachow look around Borgward's company, they find a dead pensioner in a freezer and numerous ID cards for older people in a drawer. Sebastian Klöckner compares the movement profile of Borgward's cell phones and can thus prove that he was in Ruttkowski's vicinity at the time of the crime. He is currently in the Märkisches Viertel , where Garber and Wachow can ask him. You are almost too late because he has just suffocated Theresa Agirmann here. Since she was planning to go to an old people's home, he "had" to come first. Fortunately, Linett Wachow can revive the woman with a chest compressions.
For years Borgward had faked the continued existence of the people he had killed and whose pensions he lived on. He regularly emptied the mailboxes and simulated the use of lights in the apartments with a timer. He told himself that he only redeemed the lonely people because no one would have cared about them.
background
Eiskalt was filmed from May 15 to June 17, 2018 under the working title The Sheriff in Berlin and premiered on January 5, 2019 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF . Sputnik , whose role as a businessman in the series is laid out as a running gag , this time sells men's clothing and equips the head of the department Reddemann with jackets.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast on January 5, 2019 reached 7.98 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 24.6 percent. After Broken Dreams and Beauty Price, this was the third best value in the 24 years in the series.
Reviews
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv commented on this thriller: “As a chapter separator, Lühdorff uses camera flights over the roofs of Berlin a little too often, but to compensate for the apparently inevitable information dialogues in the area that Martens referred to, there are two chases and one fast and a cleverly cut captivating finale. ”“ The film has everything you can expect from a solid Saturday thriller. But Lühdorff also has to meet expectations, and that includes the little banter between Garber and his friend Sputnik (Jaecki Schwarz), who this time is on the road in terms of men's outerwear. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rated it positively and wrote: “Between the somewhat unnecessary narrative dangling, the superimposed-exciting finale and the elderly humor of Otto […] & Co. […] lurks an atmospherically staged case of grandchildren's trick, old age and loneliness the generation gap. One would only have wished that the not uninteresting story had been approached more focused. So we console ourselves with solid TV crime thriller where the second half turned out much better than the first. ”Conclusion:“ Lukewarm can also be very pleasant. ”
Petra Koruhn from the Westphälische Rundschau criticized: “Interesting topic, but implemented implausibly. But the worst: The duo Garber and Wachow unfortunately lack the esprit. "
At Prima.de , Wilfried Geldner said: “It's always the crime writer's problem: It has to be murder, many other crimes that might be much more exciting are not suitable for crime novels. In the end, the tricks and thefts don't have that much to do with the murder. But as Otto and Linett dig for the perpetrator in the concrete building - notice: there are often ear prints on the door of eavesdropping perpetrators! - is worth seeing. Skeptical, gullible, suspicious neighbors - a desolate Berlin suburb. "
Web links
- A strong team: Ice cold in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A strong team: ice cold on fernsehserien.de
- A strong team: ice cold at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ A strong team: ice cold at crew united . Retrieved January 21, 2019.
- ↑ a b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Martens, Stappenbeck, Lohse, Lukas, Jörg Lühdorff. The expectations are met by film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on January 21, 2019.
- ↑ Short review at TVSpielfilm, accessed on January 21, 2019.
- ↑ A strong team - Eiskalt: Fight against con artists at wr.de, accessed on February 24, 2019.
- ↑ Wilfried Geldner: Loneliness and Berliner Mutterwitz at prisma.de, accessed on February 24, 2019.