Crime scene: death on ice

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Death on ice
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Studio Hamburg film production
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 185 ( List )
First broadcast September 7, 1986 on ARD
Rod
Director Dietrich Haugk
script Wolfgang Graetz
music Hermann Thieme
camera Manfred Ensinger
cut Susanne Voit
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Death on Ice is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and broadcast on ARD for the first time on September 7, 1986. It is the crime scene episode 185. It was the fifth case for Detective Inspector Paul Stoever, played by Manfred Krug , and the second case in which they investigate for Detective Inspector Peter Brockmöller, played by Charles Brauer .

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The hotel owner Paul Rhese was murdered in the freezer room of his hotel: someone locked him up and - "for safety" - reduced the temperature from minus 18 to minus 30 degrees. The frozen corpse is only discovered the next day by one of the cooks. The inspectors Stoever and Brockmöller are faced with a complicated network of families and owners: Paul Rhese and his wife Magda have only been talking about professional matters for a long time, while Rhese has otherwise kept an eye on the attractive barmaid. Rhese's sister Helene, like his wife, demands that they finally get their share of the hotel that Paul Rhese regards as his exclusive property and runs it accordingly. However, Paul Rhese has deliberately set a corresponding offer low and therefore unacceptable. Adalbert von Plackwitz, Magda Rhese's son from his first marriage, was thrown out of the house by the hotelier when he discovered that von Plackwitz was continuously “tapping” the wine stocks in the cellar. In return, von Plackwitz submitted an extremely attractive offer for the hotel through business partners, which Paul Rhese refused. As a hotel manager, Rhese has also hired his illegitimate daughter Silvia Eichholtz, which of course especially his wife takes as an affront. Accordingly, three groups with different interests were formed: Rhese and his daughter, his wife and their son, and his sister and their son, who as a trainee in the hotel only played a subordinate role in this network.

The police officers are therefore confronted with a whole range of potential suspects, especially since some of the hotel employees leave a suspicious impression, such as the irascible cook, the mysterious barmaid or cook trainee Hilmar, the son of Rhese's sister Helene. The person whom the inspectors had the least suspicion at first, the caretaker Husemann, suddenly moved into the interests of Stoever and Brockmöller when a letter was found and the information from the night porter and two chambermaids: he had teamed up with suppliers to get parts of the load for deliveries to run in your own pocket. The hotel manager threatened to find out about him.

The commissioners confront everyone present in the cold room with the events of the night and one after the other prove to the caretaker by means of an arm injury that it was he who set the thermostat from minus 18 to minus 30 degrees, as well as Rhese's wife Magda that she was deliberately locked the door to the refrigerator, which has a safety device against unintentional locking - and not just "slammed" it out of anger, as she claimed. As soon as the two have been arrested, Rhese's sister Helene, his illegitimate daughter Silvia Eichholtz and Magda Rhese's son Adalbert von Plackwitz argue about who will take over the management of the hotel in the future ...

Production notes

It was first broadcast on September 7, 1986. The ARD broadcast reached a market share of 52 percent with 20.08 million viewers. Actress Johanna von Koczian had one of her two appearances in the series in this crime scene, the other was in the Munich Tatort " antagonist " broadcast a year later with Helmut Fischer as inspector Lenz. For director Dietrich Haugk , who directed various episodes of the series Der Kommissar , Derrick and Der Alte , it was one of only two crime scenes where he worked in this role.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Death on Ice . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ www.tatort-fundus.de: Death on Ice , accessed on July 5, 2013.
  3. ↑ www.imdb.com: Filmography Dietrich Haugk , accessed on July 6, 2013.
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