Cold angel

This article deals with the GDR television film from 1986. For the Tatort film of the same name , see: Tatort: ​​Kalter Engel

Movie
Original title	Cold angel
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1986
length	83 minutes
Rod
Director	Peter Vogel
script	Peter Vogel Lothar Dutombé
production	Television of the GDR
music	Bernd Wefelmeyer
camera	Wolfram Beyer
cut	Edith Kaluza
occupation
Hans Teuscher : Captain Kurt Stein Johannes Terne : Lieutenant Berg Petra Barthel : Ilona Herfurth Ernst Kahler : Roland Gerlach Wilfried Pucher : Dietmar Freistrath René Hergert : Jimmy Nuri Feldmann : woman at reception Waltraut Maester : neighbor Dagmar Jaeger : wife Heidi Weigelt : waitress Elfriede Arnold : Vacationer Liane Düsterhöft : vacationer Cornelia Hudl : Vacationer Gisela Kell : Vacationer Christina Schwarz : Vacationer Ernst Steiner : Vacationers Ute Zschiedrich : Vacationer Norbert Braun : Vacationers Karl-Heinz Danowski : Vacationers Roman-Eckhard Galonska : Vacationers Heinz Hermann : Vacationers Günter Künemund : Vacationers Günter Maaß : Vacationers Klaus Hartmann : Dr. Klaus Horst Lebinsky : Karli Walter Michel : Old Will Thomas Pötzsch : Young man Wolfgang Sörgel : Doctor André Stuchlik : Karli's friend Peter Zimmermann : Jimmy's father Hans-Joachim Engelmann : Deputy Head of Trade and Supply Department Jana Kemmer : Milker Inge Kießig : cleaning lady Martin Löffler : Farmer Heinz Hupfer : old carver Paul Loos : Schnitzer Gotthard Hauffe : carvers Fritz Päßler : Carver Sandra Wehnert : Child Peter Borgelt : Captain Peter Fuchs (only uncut version)

Kalter Engel is a German crime film directed by Peter Vogel from 1986 . Originally it was planned as part of the crime series Polizeiruf 110 , but was broadcast as a single film.

action

Winter in the Ore Mountains : Waitress Ilona Herfurth dreams of a better life for herself and her ten-year-old son Jimmy. The divorced woman wants to buy her own restaurant and offer music and dance for the guests. However, a restaurant of her own costs several 10,000 marks, which she does not have. She developed a plan with her new friend Dietmar Freistrath, who also dreams of having his own restaurant as a bar pianist.

Ilona grew up in a family of carvers. Her foster father Roland Gerlach sticks to tradition, carves in an association and rejects commercialized woodturning with machines. However, Ilona only sees the market value in handicrafts. One day old carver Will collapses in Gerlach's house. He gives Ilona's name and is admitted to hospital shortly afterwards. He dies and the heirs search in vain for a box in what Will had kept his old carvings. It is not possible for Captain Kurt Stein to secure traces in the old attic, where the box stood unnoticed for years. The local carving association is outraged by the missing box, because Will wanted to bequeath the old pieces to the association.

Ilona stole the box with Dietmar. They store the stolen goods in an old tunnel and gradually bring the most valuable pieces back to their homes. Over time, other carvers will be relieved of their valuable pieces. When Ilona and Dietmar are in the tunnel again to hide new stolen goods, Gerlach appears, who has long suspected his daughter's machinations. He asks her to return the figures, but Ilona refuses. Suddenly a part of the tunnel collapses and Gerlach is injured. He comes to the hospital and Ilona and Dietmar claim that he fell from the roof. A little later, Ilona is surprised when Gerlach travels directly from the hospital to his brother on the sea. Shortly afterwards, through manipulation of the support beams, part of the tunnel in which Ilona and Dietmar stored the carvings collapsed. They haven't been there for half a year, especially since only the less valuable pieces are stored in the tunnel. However, the investigators find the camp and remains of previous visitors. It turns out that in 1932 Gerlach used the tunnel as a secret meeting place with other communists. Gerlach pretends not to know how the carvings got into the tunnels or who brought them there. The investigators seem suspicious that Gerlach is the only one who has been spared thefts so far.

It has become Christmas and Ilona finally wants to complete her plan. In the restaurant she serves a brigade who came to the Ore Mountains as a tourist group. The guests are driven in a bus through the snow-covered landscape with Dietmar as their guide, they visit a carving workshop and marvel at the valuable wooden works of art and finally stop at the restaurant where Ilona waits. When one of the guests asks where one can buy originals, Ilona guides him into an adjoining room. In this way she was able to sell numerous pieces for 2,000 marks each and at the end of the campaign had made over 18,000 marks. Kurt Stein meanwhile suspects that Ilona could be the thief. He goes to Gerlach, who indirectly confirms his suspicions. When Dietmar volunteers to the police and makes a confession, the investigators can also arrest Ilona. She had just gotten into additional trouble when two guests turned out to be professional carvers. They did not accept that Ilona would not sell them any more pieces and put them under pressure. The two men are also taken to the station.

production

Kalter Engel (working title: In the blue angel ) was from December 9, 1984 to February 28, 1985 a. a. Filmed in Schwarzenberg , Schneeberg , Lößnitz , Zwönitz and Vitt (Putgarten municipality, Ruegen island). In the end credits, the Schneeberg mountain safety and the Lößnitz wood carving community are thanked for their support. Waltraut Damm created the costumes, Knut Lempio designed the film . The music was written by Bernd Wefelmeyer, with the songs being sung by Anke Schenker . The film premiered on December 6, 1986 in the first program of GDR television. The film was originally produced as a result of the TV series Polizeiruf 110, but was broadcast out of series. It belongs with it, like the films

• Yellow Isn't Just the Color of the Sun (1979)
• Fall Time (1979)
• The lovely babes (1983)
• Classmates (1984)
• Outsider (1986)
• At the age of ... (1974)
• Rosi's husband (1984)

to the police call episodes produced which, for various reasons, were not included in the police call series or were not allowed to broadcast.

The film was also cut by several minutes. Among other things, a scene on Berlin's Alexanderplatz in which Kurt Stein talks to Peter Fuchs ( Peter Borgelt ) was omitted . Since December 5, 2010, the hr has broadcast the uncut version of the film, which is around five minutes longer, with Polizeiruf opening credits and the fade-in Ein Film [...] from the series “Polizeiruf 110” .

criticism

TV Spielfilm wrote that the “home-made crime thriller […] clearly suffers from the lack of spectacular opportunities for GDR crooks to develop. Conclusion: If there is nothing more to crime ... "

Web links

• Kalter Engel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Kalter Engel at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Representation according to {{Web archive | text = archive link | url = http: //www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php? Number = E07 | wayback = 20160304173542 | archiv-bot = 2018-04-18 14: 06:32 InternetArchiveBot}} (Link only available to a limited extent)
2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , pp. 94-95.
3. ↑ See program.ard.de
4. ↑ See tvspielfilm.de