Sparrow and the cold fear

Episode of the series Sperling
Original title	Sparrow and the cold fear
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Polyphonic film and television company
length	90 minutes
classification	Episode 18 ( List )
First broadcast	March 10, 2007 on ZDF
Rod
Director	Uwe Janson
script	Uwe Janson
music	Fabian Römer
camera	Philipp Sichler
cut	Florian Drechsler
occupation
Dieter Pfaff : Hans Sperling Philipp Moog : Falk Hofmann Carin C. Tietze : Marie Winter Christian Standtke : Gnieber Sheri Hagen : Carin Kai Michael Müller : Lucas Pasquale Aleardi : Barras Matthias Koeberlin : Konrad Esther Zimmering : Fatima Dimitri Bilov : Boran Klaus Sonnenschein : Kruse Pegah Ferydoni : Meral Hakan Can : Abdul Ramin Yazdani : Halid Claudia Mehnert : Sonja Ayhan Sünmiz : Zanardi Roberto Thoenelt : Tscheneko
chronology
←  Predecessor Sparrow and the Trapped Cat

Sperling and the Cold Fear is a German TV film directed by Uwe Janson from 2007 . It is the eighteenth and last episode of the ZDF crime film series Sperling with Dieter Pfaff in the title role.

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Chief Inspector Hans Sperling observes residents of a Berlin backyard in order to track down a drug ring. For security reasons, the technician Konrad provided all the apartments in and around the backyard with bugs. This gives Sperling a first glimpse of the residents and the circle of suspects is growing steadily through Konrad's photographs. For inexplicable reasons, Fatima has a bulletproof vest in her apartment and a planned terrorist attack in Berlin is named as a result of the wiretapping.

background

The film was shot from February 6, 2006 to March 9, 2006 in Berlin and the surrounding area. The episode was first broadcast on March 10, 2007 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .

Awards

Philipp Sichler was awarded the German Television Prize in 2007 for his camera work. Florian Drechsler received the award for the cut.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the film their best possible rating, they showed the thumbs up. They stated: "Explosive things from Berlin's backyards."

In the online edition of Tagesspiegel , Thilo Wydra pointed out that the episode took up the moment of involuntary or intentional voyeurism and used it as the dominant dramaturgical element. "It's all staged and acted in an oppressive way."

The media journalist Rainer Tittelbach summarized the last episode on his website tittelbach.tv : "Dieter Pfaff made the series a highlight of crime TV between 1996 and 2007."

Web links

• Sperling and the cold fear in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Sperling and the cold fear at crew united

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See crew-united.com
2. ↑ Nina Trentmann: Furtwängler and Korlberlin are the best. Welt.de, September 29, 2007.
3. ↑ tvspielfilm.de
4. ^ Bugs in Moabit. Tagesspiegel.de, March 13, 2007.
5. ^ "Sparrow and the naked fear" series . Tittelbach.tv , accessed on November 7, 2019.