Crime scene: Colder than death

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Colder than death
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Hessian radio
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 947 ( list )
First broadcast May 17th, 2015 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Florian Schwarz
script Michael Proehl
Matthias Tuchmann
music Florian van Volxem
Sven Rossenbach
camera Philipp Haberlandt
cut Stefan Blue
occupation

Colder than death is a television film from the crime scene television series by ARD , ORF and SRF and the first case of the Frankfurt investigators Janneke and Brix portrayed by Margarita Broich and Wolfram Koch . The report produced by Hessischer Rundfunk and directed by Florian Schwarz is the 947th Tatort episode. It was broadcast for the first time on May 17, 2015 in the ARD Das Erste program. The main guest stars of this episode are Emily Cox and Charleen Deetz , Carina Wiese and Roman Knižka .

action

In their first case, the new Frankfurt investigators Paul Brix and Anna Janneke try to solve the murder of a family. They find Peter and Lydia Sanders dead at their dining table, in the next room their son Tobias, shot through a closet door. There is no trace of the daughter Jule Sanders and her tutor Miranda Kador. Eventually the two are found on the abandoned farm of Lydia's deceased grandfather.

Brix and Janneke initially consider inheritance disputes between Lydia's siblings to be the motive for the crime. Ultimately, however, it turns out that Miranda is the perpetrator. She is the biological daughter of Lydia. In order to establish contact with her mother, she applied as a tutor to their children, Jule and Tobias, in the hope of establishing a family bond with the family. When she revealed herself to her mother, she confessed that she was the result of one of many rapes by Lydia's grandfather, who was her father and great-grandfather at the same time. Lydia told her that she did not feel able to raise a child caused by sexual abuse, so she gave her away.

Miranda never intended to harm "her" new family, but when she was in the kitchen with Lydia and the song on which Lydia had always been raped was playing on the radio, the situation escalated. Lydia had given a CD of the song to Miranda's nurse, who interpreted it as a token of her mother's love. However, the opposite was the case, because Lydia wanted to get rid of this song and the child forever. After Miranda confessed to her mother that she was her daughter, Lydia did not show the reaction she had hoped for. The motherly love for which she had longed so much failed to materialize, so Miranda took the pistol that came from the Sanders' household to shoot herself. But right at that moment Tobias stormed into the room and completely overwhelmed by the situation, Miranda just shot wildly around. Only Jule, who had just come home, remained from her longed-for family. And so she abducted the girl without further ado. Actually, she wanted to die with Jule on the farm - where it was once created. Miranda's confession was made in the Sanders' house, where Miranda had met Commissioner Anna Janneke and was actually just waiting for Jule. She wants to shoot herself again, but the situation escalates again and Miranda threatens to kill Jule and the commissioner. Paul Brix has to intervene; to save his colleague and Jule, he shoots Miranda and kills her.

background

The film was produced by Hessischer Rundfunk from March 10 to April 14, 2014 under the working titles The magic of the beginning and love is colder than death . During the filming in Frankfurt, the old Neckermann building on Hanauer Landstrasse also became a film set. The fifth floor of the building was rented to stage the interior shots of the two investigators' offices. The opening scene, which initiates the first meeting of the two investigators, was filmed in a nursery in Ober-Mörlen .

The piece on the CD called It Could Be You was composed especially for the show by Florian van Volxem and Sven Rossenbach, who were also responsible for the rest of the soundtrack, the text is by Matti Rouse . It was sung by the Dutch Margo van Bergen, or Margaux for short, and subsequently published under the band name The Point .

The audio description for the film was produced by HR itself. The speaker is Peter Veit.

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast on May 17, 2015, the episode Colder Than Death was seen by 9.89 million viewers in Germany, which corresponds to a market share of 28.4 percent.

criticism

Klaudia Wick from tittelbach.tv writes appreciatively: “For a 'Tatort' HR team, the new commissioners from Frankfurt are remarkably friendly - not egomaniacal, not eccentric, not even cynical. Margarita Broich and Wolfram Koch promise a fruitful and hopefully longer collaboration than the previous dream team Król / Kunzendorf . And anyone who expects the 'Tatort' format to be destroyed again from Florian Schwarz and Michael Proehl, the creators of ' Born in Pain ', will be disappointed by 'Colder than Death'. But that the film is anything but disappointing, the two dance the standard character of the genre crime story too perfectly. The occupation and the work of the trades are also great. "

David Freches from the Berliner Zeitung also came to a positive assessment and said: “There is little to smile about in this 'crime scene' by director Florian Schwarz and author Michael Proehl. But because they decided to implement this gloomy plot in a consistent atmosphere, they made a really good film. That leaves you wanting more."

The SWR comes to the conclusion: “It is definitely extremely difficult to find something that is new and different in all the crime scenes. Something to make this crime scene team unique. And, as sorry as I am, the Frankfurters' search is far from over. The story could be exciting, but somehow previous evening series dialogues meet the desire to do something really crazy. That can be done even better and maybe someone should slow down the dialogue writer a bit and not let the boss say such sentences: 'The case is also really crappy. Couldn't at least the weapon fall from the sky, littered with angel-white fingerprints, or an eyewitness, preferably the Pope himself. '"

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm consider the crime thriller "remarkable" and point their thumbs up. They think: “The directorial will to create runs through the film in such a consistently imaginative and risk-taking manner that even antics (SMS messages faded into the picture) do not have a disruptive effect. The ramified complexity of the case (incest, abuse, abandoned adopted children, wicked mothers, scorned lesbian love), in which even the durability of audio CDs plays a role, is certainly not everyone's cup of tea. "Conclusion:" The new ones are not from the rod and fit straight away. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Colder than death location and audience rating tatort-fundus.de, accessed on 23 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Filming locations at tatort-fans.de, accessed on 23 August 2015.
  3. ↑ We're not saying “Bingo!” FAZ, May 17, 2015, accessed on September 22, 2015
  4. ↑ Information on the CD ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Finetunes, accessed September 22, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / shopbase.finetunes.net
  5. ↑ Crime scene: Colder than death in the audio film database of Hörfilm e. V.
  6. ↑ Good start for the Frankfurt “Tatort”, but well behind the Franconian “Tatort” at meedia.de, accessed on August 23, 2015.
  7. ↑ Klaudia Wick: Margarita Broich, Wolfram Koch, Florian Schwarz, Proehl. Be nice to each other! Film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on August 23, 2015.
  8. ↑ Investigator duo Janneke and Brix whet the appetite for more at berliner-zeitung.de, accessed on August 23, 2015.
  9. ^ SWR 3: Family murder in Frankfurt: The entry for the new Tatort team is extremely brutal. Sunday evening could be correspondingly exciting - but with dialogues from the previous evening series. Film review by SWR 3, accessed on 23 August 2015.
  10. ↑ TV feature film : TV crime thriller with Margarita Broich and Wolfram Koch as the new team of investigators in Frankfurt. Film review by TV Spielfilm , accessed on 23 August 2015.
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