Crime scene: Haunted ice age

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Ice Age Haunted
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Studio Hamburg for NDR
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 207 ( List )
First broadcast July 10, 1988 on First German Television
Rod
Director Stanislav Barabáš
script Erich Loest
production Jürgen Ehlers
music Edward Aniol
camera Günther Wulff ,
Horst Peters
cut Barbara Hennings ,
Olga Murillo
occupation

Spuk aus der Eiszeit is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and first broadcast on July 10, 1988. It is the crime scene episode 207. For the chief detective Paul Stoever ( Manfred Krug ) it is the 8th and for his colleague Peter Brockmöller ( Charles Brauer ) the 5th case in which he is investigating.

action

The pensioner Hartmut Menkhaus is out and about on foot at the Landungsbrücken in Hamburg . Suddenly, for a few seconds, he recognizes a voice that has remained unforgettable in his memory. But he does not know the name of the man who is to blame for spending eleven years in a GDR prison. To find out the name after all these years, he visits Astrid Nicolay, who Menkhaus knows she knows this man. But she is silent, even though she knows exactly that he means Martin Scholko.

Knowing that Scholko has reappeared, she demands hush money from her former boss Peter Kurbis. She also kept a tricky delivery note from the transport company she had worked for for years under Kurbi's direction. Reluctantly, he pays her a four-figure sum, but immediately goes to Scholko in Neustadt in Holstein , with whom he himself had been in contact over the years. He instructs him to get the delivery note. Then he drives to Astrid Nicolay and confronts her.

The next day Astrid Nicolay is found strangled in her apartment. Stoever and Brockmöller are investigating the case. The neighbor knows of an espionage affair that her neighbor would have been involved in years ago. Stoever researches and finds out that Astrid Nicolay is said to have been involved in the abduction of Hartmut Menkhaus in 1973. At the time, he had traded in confidential information and was therefore switched off by the GDR. After he came back to Hamburg, he tried unsuccessfully to sue Astrid Nicolay. Thus, late revenge would be a possible motive for the investigators. Hartmut Menkhaus is questioned and the investigators realize that the slender pensioner is barely able to strangle someone. He explains that he used to be well acquainted with the victim, which she then exploited to lure him into her apartment. There she would have given him an anesthetic and then put him on a truck with a helper, from whom he could only hear the voice.

Stoever and Brockmöller also question the haulier Kurbis, who still denies having anything to do with the alleged abduction. Strangely enough, after the kidnapping, his company had received a noticeably large number of new orders from the GDR. Amazingly, he offers a reward for the capture of Astrid Nicolay's murderer.

The next day Kurbis meets with Scholko, who fears that Menkhaus will recognize him. In addition, he blackmailed pumpkin and demands hush money. For fear of being found, Scholko hides. Nevertheless, Meyer Zwo manages to arrest him.

Meanwhile, Brockmöller finds a lead on Falko Kurbis, the forwarder's son. He claims that he met Astrid Nicolay after she had blackmailed not only his father, but also him. She wanted to revive the affair and that would have put his mother, who was also involved in the kidnapping, in public. He wanted to protect her from that and would have silenced Astrid Nicolay.

To Menkhaus's satisfaction, Stoever can finally tell him the name of his great stranger. But when he faces Scholko after so many years and who also mocks him, he collapses and sinks dead to the ground.

background

Spook from the Ice Age was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk in cooperation with Studio Hamburg Filmproduktion.

Author Erich Loest, who moved from the GDR to the Federal Republic in 1981, processed part of his own past in Spuk from the Ice Age . Erich Loest gave the main character of the television film, Hartmut Menkhaus, a piece of his own identity, because he himself had to spend several years in solitary confinement as a political prisoner in the Bautzen prison . In order to cast this leading role correctly for his performance, Loest had been given a say in the casting.

Matthias Esche was the editor of this crime scene episode.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm said that the ice age spook was "German-German history in crime fiction."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Spook from the Ice Age . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 027 V).
  2. ↑ Data on the crime scene: Spook from the Ice Age, background at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on October 8, 2014.
  3. ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on October 8, 2014.
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