Crime scene: night frost

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Night frost
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 NDR
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 36 ( List )
First broadcast January 20, 1974 on German television
Rod
Director Wolfgang Petersen
script Herbert Lichtenfeld
production Dieter Meichsner ,
Karl-Heinz Knippenberg
music Nils Sustrate
camera Jörg-Michael Baldenius
cut Karin Wagner ,
Hannelore Pitscheck
occupation

Nachtfrost is a television film shot in February 1972 from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by NDR and broadcast for the first time on January 20, 1974. It is the 36th episode in the crime scene series, the fourth case for Commissioner Finke .

action

On Seiboldstrasse in Kiel, a young woman is found dead in her apartment, an apartment in a dreary residential and warehouse. She was killed from behind two to three days earlier. The new tenant and the property manager discovered them when the new tenant wanted to take over the apartment. The dead woman's name was Renate Plikat. Finke finds out that she rented the apartment a year ago, her stepfather had reported her missing shortly before. Shortly before her death, she had withdrawn DM 20,000 from the bank. A notebook only contains contact details for men and a call girl advertisement from a newspaper. Mr. Miesbach, who has his kiosk across from Renate Plikat's apartment, can confirm that men often went in and out of Plikat's apartment.

Finke informs the girl's stepfather, who is dismayed and surprised about the second home, about which he knew nothing. Nor did he know anything about the 20,000 DM that disappeared from the apartment. He claims that his stepdaughter worked as a saleswoman in a boutique and had no idea about her activities as a call girl. The owner of the boutique stated that Renate Plikat was not only a salesperson there, but also a manager. Her colleague testified that Renate intended to buy her own boutique in Hamburg. In addition, a stranger called the boutique, he was waiting for Renate Plikat in a bar. Finke's colleagues appear in the restaurant and find the man. Plikat also had a boyfriend her age, Bertram Schaarf. Finke see him. He reports on his penultimate meeting with her, when she wanted to break up with him. Then he went back to her to change her mind. He would never have been in her apartment. He only found out about her work from his mother after Renate's death.

While Finke's colleagues find Renate's other suitors, Finke also questions the father of her ex-boyfriend. He knew Renate from her visits to her house, but, like his wife, was of the opinion that Renate was below the level of her son. Finke's assistants Franke and Scheffler find another suitor, but neither one of the suitors nor the objects found in the apartment seem to reveal a trace. Finke and Franke meet a man from the health department. The prostitutes must be registered there. Through an anonymous phone call, the health department came across Renate Plikat, who was not registered and tried to disguise her activities. Finke and Franke accompany the man to the red light district. In a pub they find a newspaper clipping with Renate Plikat's advertisement.

Franke looks for the pimp Heiko Schulz, who the police suspect because of the found advertisement that he wanted to become the pimp of Renate Plikat and has contacted her. He knocks Franke down and is able to flee. Finke visits Mr. Schaarf, Bertram's father, because he suspects, based on a description of the person, that he was a client of Renate Plikat. Schaarf admits to having been with her, but states that he asked her to stay with Bertram at least until he finished high school, as he would have shown a total drop in performance at school. Finke asks about Bertram, but he is not at home. Finke has found out that Bertram made false statements about his whereabouts on the day of Plikat's death, even though he has a correct alibi. Meanwhile, the police manage to catch Schulz. When Finke says goodbye to Schaarf, Hermes, a friend of Schaarf, comes by. Finke returns to the presidium, where Schulz is questioned. He paid for his sports car with 20 DM 1,000 bills, it could be Renate Plikat's. Kiosk owner Miesbach can identify Bertram Schaarf and testify that he has often visited Plikat, so he lied on this point too. Bertram had often ambushed Plikat and harassed her. Miesbach also recognizes Schulz again that he was with her more often. Schulz was with her on the Friday she was murdered. Before that, however, she had left the house with a young man who was not Bertram.

Finke asks Bertram why he lied to him, but nothing can be got out of this. Schulz denies that he wanted to do business with Renate Plikat, he just wanted to urge her to register. He also denies having stolen her money. Kiosk operator Miesbach calls the police about a newspaper article about the murdered woman's stepfather. He is astonished that the stepfather was "shocked" by the double life of his stepdaughter, because he drove into the apartment several times. The stepfather can, however, prove that he was there for work because of his print shop to deliver print products next door. He can credibly assure you that this was a coincidence and that he did not know that his stepdaughter lived there and what work she was doing there.

Franke can report that Heiko Schulz confessed to the break-in and theft of the money, but he continues to deny the murder. Finke found out that the water was turned off from three thirty to half past three due to a pipe burst due to night frost. The corpse had been found in the apartment with the water running, from which Finke concludes that she left the tap open so that she would know when the water would be available again and she could make coffee. But she didn't make any coffee. She should have stayed in the apartment for an hour and a half before she left the house at six o'clock without turning the tap back on. Finke takes another look at Renate Pikat's cupboard in the boutique. He finds out that Pikat's colleague Monika lied to him and showed him the wrong cupboard, namely hers. Monika denies having ever been to Renate Pikat's apartment, the kiosk owner confirmed that she could have been the girl who left the apartment at six o'clock, he could not clearly identify Renate Pikat due to the darkness. Monika bursts into tears and reports that Renate would have allowed her to use the apartment if she was not there. She was in the apartment with her friend Horst on Friday and found the body there. They then fled the apartment. They were afraid they would not have told the police so that their parents would not find out about her or her boyfriend.

Heiko Schulz admits that he broke into the apartment at half past six. The radio was on and the tap was on. It is therefore certain that she was murdered when the tap was not running, i.e. before half past four. Bertram's mother tells Bertram that his father was with Renate that day to change her mind. Bertram then runs away from home, disturbed. Mr. Schaarf tells his wife that his friend Hermes told him about Plikat's work as a prostitute. He then sent his son Bertram to Plikat with 100 DM so that he could see that there was no point in shedding tears for a prostitute. Ms. Schaarf is shocked. Finke turns up at the Schaarfs because he's looking for Bertram. The police surround the forest. Bertram holed up in the forest, his mother tried to get him to give up on the loudspeaker, as did his father. The situation remains tense until the next morning. Then the police go into the forest. Bertram has a rifle and opens fire on his father, luckily he doesn't hurt anyone. He shouts that he has been there, but that Renate Plikat didn't even want to sleep with him for money. Then he killed her. Shortly afterwards he falls from the tree, but survives seriously injured.

background

The film was shot mainly in Kiel and in Jesteburg in Lower Saxony (30 km south of Hamburg ). In Jesteburg, the scenes were created in the forest, at the Schaarfs' villa and at the house or printing shop of Renate's step parents. One scene was filmed near the archway of the Heidberg hospital in Hamburg-Langenhorn , which today belongs to the Asklepios Klinik Nord .

Nachtfrost is Finke's first case without his assistant Jessner, played by Wolf Roth , who, however , is there again in the episode Kurzschluss . Instead, Franke is his assistant, played by Hans Peter Korff , who a few years later solves two cases as Berlin investigator Behnke. Franke is once again Finke's assistant in his school-leaving certificate , but then played by Rüdiger Kirschstein . At 76%, Nachtfrost had the highest participation rate of all crime scene films shown when they were first broadcast.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Nachtfrost . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2007 (PDF; test number: 110 958 DVD).
  2. ↑ Information ( memento of April 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the episode Nachtfrost . There, however, the Heidberg Hospital (with the distinctive archway or portal ) was confused with the Ochsenzoll Hospital (both Asklepios Klinik Nord ) in the bold edit . The photo of the gate that was on the website is no longer available in the Memento.
  3. ↑ Cinema : film review , as of November 1, 2008
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