The fear is cold

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Movie
Original title The fear is cold
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2017
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Berno Kürten
script Martin Douven
production Sabine Tettenborn
music Maurus Ronner
camera Klaus Eichhammer
cut Melania Singer
occupation

Cold is fear is a German crime TV film from 2017 by Berno Kürten with Caroline Peters in the leading role. The thriller first aired on January 14, 2017 on Das Erste .

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For Claire, the bleak days finally seem to be over as her husband returns from his six-week business trip from Ethiopia. But their happiness doesn't last long. That same evening she had to find out that David was suddenly dead in his chair at a meeting. The doctor suspects an African virus, but later she learns that it should have been an aneurysm . But that doesn't comfort Claire. She has been mentally battered for a long time and now only manages to get through the day with mood enhancers. In view of the new blow of fate, her doctor now prescribes an even stronger sedative that she should take regularly. Therefore, she doesn't really know whether she can trust her senses when she sees her husband alive with a lover. However, she actually only imagines it, but that David had a lover, after long inquiries, confirms David's boss, Peter Hagedorn.

Strange things were happening in her home from the first day after David's death. First the alarm system starts up without any trace of a break-in. Then David's travel bag suddenly disappeared, and she is certain that later on she saw a dark-clad man in the house who fled immediately when Claire noticed him. The next day, however, the bag is back in its place. She suspects David's assistant, but doesn't know what he was looking for, because obviously nothing is missing in the bag. She later discovers that David's current account has a balance of a quarter of a million euros. Claire does not believe that these are supposed bonus payments. After all, David worked for development aid, for the organization VIVA SANTA, which is supposedly dedicated to the fight against poverty. She researched the Internet and found evidence that the organization was involved in land grabbing . Since David's assistant doesn't want to tell her anything concrete either, she meets the blogger through whose website she came across the topic. But she is still not satisfied. The attempt to confront Peter Hagedorn fails because he logically denies related activities. She also distrusts assistant Michael because he is suddenly allowed to occupy David's desk.

Claire cannot and does not want to imagine that David was involved in such deals. Shortly before his death he had told her that they wanted to talk to each other about everything . While searching for what Hagedorn is obviously looking for, she finds a memory stick with gruesome images on it. Presumably the residents who did not want to give up their land were killed here. She cannot open a folder at first because it is specially secured. Claire is regularly reminded by her cell phone to take her medication. When this happens again, her tablets, which were previously lying on the table next to her cell phone, cannot be found. Claire is therefore admitted to a psychiatric clinic by her doctor. Since Hawthorn cares a little about her after her release, she distrusts him the most. Apparently he just wants to help her and wash David's reputation. Hagedorn knows about the data and desperately wants it. So he does not shy away from having Claire kidnapped, but Michael can just prevent her from "succumbing" to a staged suicide. He takes her home and reports that David tried to get to the bottom of rumors of a massacre on his last trip to Africa. He was the only one at the scene and took photos. After they were back in Germany and David suddenly died before an important meeting with a minister, he would have withdrawn completely for the time being. He suspects that Hagedorn had actively initiated something, but cannot yet prove it. But when Claire tries to give him the stick, it turns out that Michael Hagedorn is also just helping. The whole kidnapping was just arranged so that she should trust Michael.

Hagedorn, who fears that Michael will not be able to get the stick, takes another means. He kidnaps the daughter of David's lover. Since Claire already knows that the girl is David's daughter too, she and the mother immediately go to look for the child. In order to deny Hagedorn any possibility of harming her or others or putting them in danger, she asks the blogger to decrypt the folder and publish the pictures and films on the Internet. These prove that Hawthorn is responsible for the massacre.

When Hagedorn answers to demand the stick, he also admits to having killed David. Claire then shoots him in self-defense. Now Michael comes out again, but this time as a special investigator of the LKA who would have been smuggled into SANTA in order to expose the machinations of the organization as a whole. Since his camouflage is still in place, he wants to continue investigating and says goodbye to Claire. The next morning she wakes up relieved in her house and finds Sabina and her child sleeping on the sofa. Since Claire was not allowed to have children, she now sees the chance to have David's daughter near her in the future. The house would be big enough for the three of them.

background

Cold is fear was filmed under the working title Sold Love from April 12 to May 12, 2016 in Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcasts of cold is the fear on January 14, 2017 arrived in first reached 4.19 million viewers and a market share of 12.6 percent.

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv praised the film and wrote: “In the ARD psychological thriller 'Kalt ist die Angst' you follow the tracks the heroine is following, identify with her, suffer with her, but also recognize the problems this woman. Strong cast with an outstanding Caroline Peters. A coherent visual concept. Above all, however, a psychologically and narrative-logically plausible book that withstands the retrospective view and does not fool the viewer. "

The critics of filmdienst.de judged: “A well-staged (television) thriller that conjures up an increasingly oppressive atmosphere in order to suggest, between paranoia and real conspiracy, that the psychologically unstable woman could even imagine the whole scenario. However, the film quickly freezes in meaningful poses, seems tense and clichéd. "

Heike Hupertz from the FAZ also wrote only positively: “Trust versus trust - that the madness in this film is given a method is assured above all by the soberly filmed images of the camera by Klaus Eichhammer and the dynamic editing by Melania Singer, both of which are certainties of seeing manipulate at will. "

For welt.de Elmar Krekeler said: “Everyone seems to have hidden behind stories. The only one who walks naked and bare through this network of a nasty conspiracy (on a world level, of course!) And searches for her story is Claire. "

Timo Nöthling wrote for quotenmeter.de : “'Kalt ist die Angst' is one of the few German television films that has the courage to stand as a genre film. The psychological thriller manages almost the entire duration of the highly demanding task of leaving the viewer in the dark about the true nature of what is happening on the screen and thus skillfully puts him in the tricky and nerve-wracking position of the main character Claire. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The fear at crew united is cold . Retrieved January 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c Rainer Tittelbach : Caroline Peters, Kowalski, Herbst, Douven, Berno Kürten. Consistent game of confusion at Tittelbach.tv , accessed on January 22, 2020.
  3. ↑ Kristina Heuer: Film review at filmdienst.de, accessed on January 22, 2020.
  4. ↑ Heike Hupertz: Is she just imagining the horror? Review of the film at faz.net , accessed on January 22, 2020.
  5. ↑ Elmar Krekeler: Be careful! This film will make you mad at welt.de , accessed on January 22, 2020.
  6. ↑ Timo Nöthling: Film review at quotenmeter.de , accessed on January 22, 2020.