Ken Follett's Ice Fever

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Movie
Original title Ken Follett's Ice Fever
Country of production Germany , Italy
original language German
Publishing year 2010
length 180 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Peter Keglevic
script Beatrix Christian ,
Olaf Kraemer ,
Federica Pontremoli
music Jacob Groth
camera Theo Bierkens
cut Barbara von Weitershausen ,
Moune Barius
occupation

Ken Follett's Ice Fever is a two-part television film from 2010 . It is based on the novel Eisfieber by Ken Follett . The adaptation was produced by ZDF , Constantin Television, ZDF's own production company Network Movies, the Italian Palomar and RTI / Mediaset.

action

At the Scottish biotechnology company Oxenford Medical, an employee died on the evening before December 24th of the Madoba-2 virus, a variant of the Ebola virus with a hundred percent mortality rate, after smuggling an infected rabbit through the security gates of the high-security laboratory. The company's security officer, Toni Gallo, is under pressure, but with luck and skill can reassure the public and prove that the employee has not infected any other people with the virus.

At the same time, Kit Oxenford, the son of the company's boss Professor Stanley Oxenford, plans to steal a serum that is currently being developed there. He has £ 250,000 in gambling debt and is urged by his criminal creditors to pay off the debt with the theft. He wrote the security software for his father's company himself and plans to use this insider knowledge to overcome the security barriers.

After Kit had stolen money with rebooking tricks from the company in the past in order to pursue his gambling addiction, the then new security officer Gallo caught up with him. Thereupon, with a heavy heart, Professor Oxenford released his son from the company. With the break-in, Kit also wants to take revenge on his father and on Gallo. Its creditors decide that the break-in should take place on the night of December 25th.

During his family's Christmas party, Kit steals his father's access badge, replaces the digital fingerprint on it with his own and cracks the telephone system via the remote maintenance access. At the same time, the alarm system is no longer connected to the local police. He paralyzes all devices except for the switchboard, which he redirects to his mobile phone, and pretends to be the telecommunications company that looks after the system. Kit wants to impersonate the criminals as a technician for this company and break into the building under the pretext of repairs.

Gallo is also invited to the beginning of the Christmas party at Oxenfords to discuss the morning incident with the company boss and to observe the press reports. A romance develops between the widowed professor and Gallo. After the meeting, Gallo is driving home when the wintry weather begins to turn into a blizzard.

During the journey, she calls the security staff to check. Kit is already disguised as a telephone worker in the company and can no longer stop the call. Gallo decides to drive to the company building despite adverse road conditions. While she is fighting her way through the snowstorm, the disguised Kit and his criminal companion penetrate inside.

When he arrived at his destination, the refrigerated safe with viruses and serums, Kit had a surprise: His buddies didn't want the serum, they wanted the highly dangerous Madoba-2 virus. They fill the virus cans into a perfume atomizer and leave the building before Gallo arrives, held up by the snowstorm. The robbers do not get very far in the worsening weather conditions and go to the family home of the Oxenfords. Kit wants to steal his father's off-road vehicle, but it is not there because the housekeepers borrowed it because their own vehicle was not designed for this adverse weather. They enter the house and Kit pretends to be a stuck snowstorm victim. However, the deception is exposed and the criminals overwhelm the family.

Meanwhile, Gallo has found the criminals' getaway cars and is heading to the Oxenford estate. There she finds the professor who escaped through a back door. He explains the situation to her and goes back into the house. Gallo overpowers one of the criminals. After she frees the prisoners, it comes to a climax: Kit threatens the entire family with the virus in the nebulizer. Another criminal dies on the run and only Kit survives. This is taken away by the police and the atomizer is secured.

Publications

Immediately after the first broadcast, the film was released on January 29, 2010 on DVD by Universum Film GmbH . The DVD contains a making-of as bonus material .

Reviews

Der Spiegel wrote: "In the second, the epidemic thriller mutates into a family drama with a Rosamunde Pilcher flair."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Ms. Pilcher now has the plague" article on Spiegel Online from January 25, 2010

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