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A young woman from southern Baden goes jogging and never comes back. After an intensive search, her body is found a few days later. Beaten to death by an unknown person. A special investigation unit is put together and begins to meticulously secure evidence - until a second murder occurs just 30 kilometers away and the team has to find out whether and how the two cases are connected. The four-part series "Spuren" is based on true events, without exploiting or dramatizing the two crimes that shook the region around Freiburg in 2016. This is not about quick sensationalism, about the bloody celebration of two terrible crimes, it is more about classic police work.

Türkisch für Anfänger is a German comedy about the Schneider-Ozturks, a German-Turkish mixed family.

The show about bizzare, wild, unusual crime cases from a coastal village Boulonnais where evil gang led by P'tit Quinquin and Eve (his girlfriend) causes a lot of trouble.

After finding out that her boyfriend, who she moved to Berlin to be with, is cheating on her, Lolle moves in with her cousin, Sven, and his friends, Hart and Rosalie.

This documentary series gives a detailed insight into the work of the fire brigades in Gelsenkirchen and Bochum.

In 1989, Alfred Herrhausen, the charismatic chairman of the board of directors of the German financial giant Deutsche Bank, was assassinated. It was a shocking act quickly blamed on the Red Army Faction (FAR), a far-left German terrorist group. who, ten years earlier, had killed a number of leading capitalist figures, including Jürgen Ponto, the director of the Dresdner Bank, and Hanns Martin Schleyer, the president of the German Employers' Association.

At a bus stop in deepest Brandenburg, where you can practically already guess the end of the Milky Way, the dissipated late-forties Hannes and his friend Ralf, called Ralle, meet to talk about God and the world. Their only connections to a world beyond the bus stop are the bus driver Kathrin and the exceptionally stupid and ugly dog Maik.

Fliegender Zirkus consisted of two 45-minute Monty Python television comedy specials produced by WDR for West German television. The two episodes were first broadcast in January and December 1972 respectively and were shot entirely on film, mostly on location in Bavaria. The first episode was recorded in German and the second was recorded in English and then dubbed into German.

At the centre of the game show are 13 candidates who try to play a dangerous game of truth and lies with the aim of exposing the hidden werewolves before they themselves are eliminated from the game. This is because three of the participants belong to the secret 'werewolf' trio, who are doing everything they can to remain unrecognised and strategically eliminate the other candidates. Who is lying? Who can trust whom? Who will be the next to go?

Ben (Benaissa Lamroubal), son of Moroccan law, dropped out of college and found himself with poorly paid mini-jobs, under one in a call center. When the BAföG office is going to collect his debts, which he has been studying for his aborted studies, he comes under pressure. She has to get money quickly, because Ben's father must never find out that his son is no longer focused. In a roundabout way, Ben ends up repeatedly in a comedy competition with prize money. From then on, Ben seeks his luck in show business.

"Being Michael Schumacher" is a documentary series about the life of Michael Schumacher on ARD Mediathek.

The anthology series tells of various life situations, always centered on the question "Why me?" Why am I in the slow line? Why am I being fired? Why is she falling in love with him and not me? The series, peppered with dark humor, features a star-studded ensemble. The format is designed as an anthology series, with each episode telling its own story.

Samuel, 31, is in search of his big love.

The occasion is sad, as Wolff-Dieter Meurer recently died. He was popular in the town of Lassahn in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, in complete contrast to his wife Gaby Krolmann-Meurer. Now his four children have come to the funeral. While Sabine Stenz-Meurer, Thorsten, Mario and Kevin and other guests at the funeral talk about their father's memory, old stories soon surface that show the past in a new light. When inheritance disputes begin to boil over, devotion is over.

The eight-part drama series "A Better Place" plays with the idea of ​​what would happen if there were a world without prisons? The series is set in a fictional city in which a revolutionary resocialization experiment is started: the local prison is closed and the prisoners are to be reintegrated into society. This is the decision of the mayor Amir Kaan (Steven Sowah), who starts the daring experiment with the scientist Petra Schach (Maria Hofstätter). Instead of their punishment, the ex-prisoners get work, housing, therapy - and are expected to come to terms with their actions. For some, this is a slap in the face for the victims of crime, for others it is a social utopia. (Text: GR / RF)