Cold Hell

Özge is a young woman of Turkish origin living in Vienna, where she works as a taxi driver and spends her evenings studying and training hard at Thai boxing. She keeps largely to herself. One day she witnesses a brutal murder in a neighbouring building, and the killer notices her as well. Because she could identify him, he begins hunting the only witness, turning her life upside down; the police offer little help. Investigator Christian Steiner, whose own life is weighed down by a failed marriage and the care of his father, becomes the one officer who believes her account. When the killer mistakes her cousin and closest friend, Ranya, for Özge and kills her, Özge must also take responsibility for Ranya's small daughter while the pursuit closes in around her.

Cold Hell is a German-Austrian action crime thriller directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, the sixth feature in the directing career that also includes Anatomy, Anatomy 2, The Counterfeiters and Deadfall. The screenplay is by Martin Ambrosch, and the film runs 92 minutes. Violetta Schurawlow plays Özge, with Tobias Moretti as Steiner, Robert Palfrader, Sammy Sheik, Friedrich von Thun and Murathan Muslu in support; 32 cast members are credited.

Released in January 2017, the film holds a rating of 6.5 out of 10 on IMDb from around 2,300 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6 out of 10 from 111 votes. Film critics rated it 7.4 out of 10 across 11 reviews, a more favourable assessment than that of the general audiences.