Hattinger and the cold hand
| Episode of the series Der Chiemseekrimi | |
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| Original title | Hattinger and the cold hand |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Network Movie |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 1 |
| German-language first broadcast |
November 25, 2013 on ZDF |
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| Director | Hans Steinbichler |
| script |
Ariela Bogenberger , Thomas Bogenberger |
| production |
Dietrich Kluge , Jutta Lieck-Klenke |
| music | Alex Komlew |
| camera | Christian Rein |
| cut | Wolfgang Weigl |
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Hattinger und die kalte Hand (alternatively Hattinger and die kalte Hand. A Chiemseekrimi ) is a German television film from 2013 by Hans Steinbichler . The crime film produced for ZDF is based on the novel "Chiemsee Blues" by Thomas Bogenberger . The script was written by the wife of crime writer Ariela Bogenberger in an adaptation of the director. The title role of the commissioner is played by Michael Fitz . Key roles are occupied by Edgar Selge , Bettina Mittendorfer , Golo Euler , Gerhard Wittmann , Hanna Plaß , Michael Fuith and Maximilian Schmidt . Ursula Karven , Daniel Friedrich and Gundi Ellert can be seen in guest roles.
action
Playing children find a male corpse on a sailing boat. Detective Inspector Hattinger is notified and begins the investigation. The dead person is Dr. Martin Gruber, an anesthetist from the local hospital. Ironically, it was connected to a breathing tube and an anesthetic machine. This was filled with carbon monoxide, so that a suicide cannot initially be ruled out.
When Hattinger comes home that evening, he finds a parcel in front of his front door. After carefully opening it, the contents reveal themselves as a severed hand. The next day, a second hand is found in a church, where the author Annette Kaufmann will soon be reading. Hattinger goes to the woman's apartment and finds her dead and without hands in her bedroom. His colleague Karl Wildmann, who is looking around the adjacent property, finds a "surveillance studio" there. The neighbor Wolfgang Pichler had secretly installed cameras in Kaufmann's house and observed them on three monitors in their privacy. Pichler is then advertised for a search. Little did Hattinger suspect, however, that the murderer lives in his immediate neighborhood and that he wants to provoke him with his actions. Pichler is being held captive in a cellar by Hattinger's neighbor Albrecht Ostermeier. After Kaufmann's murder, Ostermeier had also discovered the camera and followed the cables that led into the neighboring house. There he was horrified to find that there were recordings of him and his deed. Without further ado he had taken Pichler and the recordings with him.
The research shows that before her time as a “successful” author, Annette Kaufmann worked in the same hospital as the first victim. Here she worked as an assistant doctor 20 years ago. During this time there was an operation with fatal outcome. Since there are no patient records after such a long time, Hattinger and his team are investigating in court because the parents of the deceased girl had sued the doctors responsible. After evaluating these documents and consulting the clinic director again, it is clear that Annette Kaufmann not only took on the operation, which was an abortion, but also the anesthesia because her colleague Gruber was drunk and unable to work. However, nobody was prosecuted due to falsified OP reports. Hattinger then speaks to his neighbor Ostermeier, who turns out to be the father of the girl who died at the time, and takes a DNA sample from him.
The next day the clinic director is found dead on a bench. The murderer put a bucket of dead fish over his head to indicate that the “fish stinks from the head”, similar to how he wanted to make clear with the two severed hands that “one hand washes the other”. After Ostermeier ignored Hattinger's order to appear in the presidium, the commissioner is convinced that only Ostermeier can be the culprit. However, his neighbor has since gone into hiding. Looking for him, Pichler is found chained in Ostermeier's cellar. Based on a phone call that Ostermeier last made, Hattinger assumes that Ostermeier saved the man who once impregnated his daughter as the last victim of his murderous acts. That is the reason why he is on his way to Cart Island. When Hattinger learns that his daughter Lena is performing there with her music group, he is extremely worried that she too could be in danger, because after all, she grew up in front of Ostermeier all those years, during which his daughter had to die so early. The inspector rushes to the island and engages his neighbor in conversation. Although he had already convinced Ostermeier to give up, his eager colleague Wildmann shoots him down - but only hits him on the arm.
Ostermeier had worked on his cruel plan for years. However, he only implemented it after his wife died. Sure, now that he had nothing more to lose, he wanted to show the world what injustice had befallen him and hold those responsible to account for themselves.
Production, publication
The screenplay was written by the Grimme Prize-winning screenwriter Ariela Bogenberger based on a crime novel by her husband Thomas. Bogenberger is also a cousin of actor Michael Fitz , who embodies the title hero .
The film was produced by Network Movie Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH. Hattinger and the cold hand was filmed under the working title Hattinger - Der Chiemseekrimi from August 6th to September 7th, 2012 at the Chiemsee and in Munich . The television premiere took place on November 25, 2013 on ZDF . The film was previously screened on July 2, 2013 at the Filmfest München .
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Hattinger and the cold hand on November 25, 2013 on ZDF reached 6 million viewers and a market share of 17.9 percent.
Reviews
At the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Jochen Hieber assessed: “After less than a quarter of an hour, it was clear to viewers that the long-time neighbor Ostermeier was the culprit that Hattinger was looking for. To put the murders - by then there are two - in the scene, the ZDF Monday crime thriller goes to the best broadcast, but also early in the evening to the horror limit. All sorts of medical accessories - oxygen hose, syringe, scalpel - serve as tools. ”[…]“ The now sixty-five year old Edgar Selge gives the pensioner Albrecht Ostermeier as the berserk of evil from the very first minute. He will shed a lot of sweat in this film, sweat of fear, sweat of anger, sweat of vengeance and physical exhaustion. "
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv gave 4.5 out of 6 possible stars and wrote: Hattinger and the cold hand is “a densely narrated, multi-layered film that uses the genre to create a universal story about loneliness and homeland, about loss and despair tell."
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best rating by showing the thumbs up, two out of three possible points for aspiration and tension and one point for humor, and the result was: "Psycho thriller that gets down to business."
Alex Rühle from the Süddeutsche Zeitung stated: “Hans Steinbichler's adaptation of the novel Chiemseeblues by Thomas Bogenberger [...] becomes a really big television thriller , because you understand this killer, what is worse than the loss of your own child, and what that means we with the one who embodies the terrible and deplorable Ostermeier: Edgar Selge. He looks here as if he has been emaciated over the years except for a kind of physical core of pain, a cartilaginous soul and the absolute will to kill. Selge's murderer moves like an arrow through this film, his sinewy neck stretched out, his face scented like a fox, in hasty hatred on his mission. "
Web links
- Hattinger and the cold hand in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hattinger and the cold hand at filmportal.de
- Hattinger and the cold hand at Fernsehserien.de
- Hattinger and the cold hand at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hattinger and the cold hand at crew united . Retrieved January 22, 2019.
- ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach: TV film "Hattinger and the cold hand. A Chiemseekrimi ”. Michael Fitz, Edgar Selge, Hans Steinbichler. The killer is always the neighbor , accessed on Tittelbach.tv on January 22, 2019.
- ↑ Jochen Hieber: The murderer leads us to the horror border In: FAZ, November 25, 2013, accessed on March 1, 2019.
- ↑ Hattinger and the cold hand short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 22, 2019.
- ↑ Alex Rühle: Horror der Idylle In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 25, 2013, accessed on March 1, 2019.