Crime scene: freezing cold

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Freezing
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SFB
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 370 ( List )
First broadcast September 28, 1997 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Kurt Ockermüller
script Henning Borgelt , Lienhard Wawrzyn
production Hans-Werner Honert
music Hans Zinkl
camera Jürgen Heimlich
cut Dirk Grau , Kirstin Geller
occupation

Eiskalt is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by the SFB and first broadcast on September 28, 1997. It is the eighth case of the investigator duo Roiter and Zorowski and the 370th crime scene episode. Roiter and Zorowski have to solve the murder of a religion teacher in a luxury hotel.

action

The religion teacher Conrad Grün meets with his lover Petra Schächter, wife of the cantor of his community, in a luxury hotel in downtown Berlin for a love weekend. When checking in, they ran into Professor Conrad, who, as an expert in cryo-recycling, was to take part in a hearing with high-ranking Berlin politicians and business representatives. Since the air conditioning fails in the lovers' room, they persuade the professor to swap rooms with them. While his lover is in the bathroom, Grün opens the door for the supposed room service, there is a killer who kills him wordlessly with a poison arrow. When Petra Schächter finds the body of her lover, she takes her things, confused, and flees the hotel without calling the police. Roiter and Zorowski rush to the crime scene and then have to deliver the sad news to the widow who identifies their husband. She claims that she did not know anything about her husband's hotel stay with another woman. In the evening, the officials visit Professor Conrad, who briefly explains his new process for quick and clean waste separation and recycling. He explains that his method would make waste incineration plants superfluous and that he has numerous opponents from this lobby . Nonetheless, Prof. Conrad cannot imagine that his opponents will seek his life. The officials warn him to be careful, however, Zorowski keeps watch in the hotel throughout the night.

The next morning the officers evaluate the material from the surveillance cameras , Sebastian Schächter let the air out of the tires of his own car in the hotel's underground car park on the day of the event. You can also determine that Schächter is the cantor of the community of Grün and lived in the same house with the murder victim, and that Schächter has a criminal record for violent crimes . A woman reports to the officials who claims that her ex-fiance, the Russian ice hockey player Igor Galkin, is threatening her over the custody dispute over their daughter, the officials do not take her seriously and send her away. In the community the officials meet Mario Strasser, who leads the choir in Schächer's place. He claims to be the man that Schächter beat up. Strasser admits to having spent a weekend in the Tathotel with Petra Schächter, Schächter caught the two there and beat Strasser. In a photo that Strasser shows them, the officials in Petra Schächter recognize the woman from the surveillance videos of the hotel and look for her. She claims to the officers that she does not recognize her husband in the photo from the underground car park, but admits that she was in the hotel with the murder victim. After the officers leave, she confronts her husband, who denies the murder, but admits to having been in the hotel and manipulating the tires.

At the hearing , at which Roiter and Zorowski are also present, Professor Conrad polarizes by presenting his method as groundbreaking and demonstrating accordingly that the waste incineration lobby is accordingly angry. Igor Galkin receives a call that he has caught the "wrong guy" and that everything is over now. The incineration plant owner Dr. Adler meets with Igor in the evening and explains to him that he has killed an innocent man and that he must still kill Prof. Conrad, otherwise he will ensure that his contract and thus his residence permit are not extended and that he will not see his daughter again . In a further interrogation, Petra Schächter claims that her husband has not yet appeared and that she has no explanation for her disappearance from the hotel. In the district she meets Prof. Conrad, who flirts with her and invites his “lifesaver” to dinner. Meanwhile, Roiter notices that the men from the waste incineration industry, despite their competition, are on the board of the sponsoring association of the Berlin ice hockey club Cristall 1990 and act as sponsors of the club. While Conrad and Petra get closer, the officers in the church are able to prevent Schächer's suicide at the last second. Schächter denies the murder of his rival, Roiter believes him and lets him go. When Conrad shows Petra a waste incineration plant, which he would like to make superfluous and convert to his recycling process, Igor perpetrates another murder attempt on him, which again fails. Roiter and Zorowski are looking for Dr. Adler and his competitors on the premises of the ice hockey club, where they are debating the future, should Conrad be successful. Roiter holds Dr. Adler suggested that Conrad would be dangerous to him, Dr. Adler denies this. After the interview, Dr. Adler Igor under pressure again to kill Conrad, because Igor wants to get out of conscience.

Petra reveals to her husband that she will leave him for another man. Meanwhile, Zorowski visits the landfill owner Brunkhorst, who pretends that he doesn't care whether the garbage is incinerated or recycled. Zorowski therefore sees Dr. Adler, as the owner of an incinerator, was the main interested party in Conrad's death. While the desperate and lovesick Schächter finds out who his wife is with now, Dr. Adler gets more and more nervous and hands over a weapon to Igor, whom he continues to put under pressure because of his daughter, and urges him to get rid of Conrad. Roiter suspects that Igor Galkin is the weak point at which he has to start in order to solve the case, he learns that he drove away, not during training. He drives Zorowski to Conrad's facility, where Schächter is attacking Conrad with an iron bar. After a fight, Schächter kills Conrad before Igor arrives, who notices Schächter and shoots him. At this moment Roiter and Zorowski arrive, Zorowski goes into the plant and arrests Schächter, while Roiter pursues the fleeing Igor. Igor is killed in the chase. Roiter and Zorowski fake a call to Dr. Adler, in which Zorowski confirms as Igor that he had successfully carried out the murder assignment, according to Dr. Adler's treacherous reaction takes Roiter and Zorowski Dr. Eagle feast. The waste incineration continues unchanged after Conrad's death.

production

The Tatort Eiskalt is a production on behalf of the SFB for Das Erste . The film was shot in Berlin . When it was first broadcast on September 28, 1997, Eiskalt had 7.08 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 23.01%.

The twelve films of the SFB with Winfried Glatzeder were not recorded on conventional film material, but with the help of Betacam video cameras, which resulted in a video clip aesthetic of the films that has been widely criticized. Police call 110: Seven Days of Freedom , produced by the SFB in 1995 , was also recorded in this format and also criticized.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film negatively as a "capital city thriller".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​Eiskalt at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ The Roiter era - 12 crime scenes from Berlin. at tatort-fundus.de
  3. ↑ Eiskalt tv feature film
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