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- The true story of Angelo d'Arrigo, pluri-recordman, and his flight in a hang-glider over Mt Everest, as well as of the two Himalayan Eagles he raised to fly with him.
- After more than 30 years, an old friend of Felix Murot appears back in Germany.
- Do the Frankfurt Commissioners have anything to do with a serial killer, and if so, what motivates him?
- Chief Inspector Felix Murot gets into a time warp: he encounters the same passers-by, colleagues and criminals in a hostage operation and is killed each time in a different way.
- The Bernese city police officer has to solve a mysterious arms trade and also struggle with family problems.
- A desperate call alerts the Kiel police emergency number: he is in my apartment. It just comes through the wall.
- CICERO pays tribute to the brilliant musicians Roger and Eugen Cicero, who died tragically unexpected and far too early. 'Mr. Golden Hands' Eugen in Zurich, 1997, and his son, singer Roger in 2016 when the shooting process was already ongoing in Germany. Both were master of their trades, with their their deep musicality, their technique and impressive skills to improvise. The story reveals two remarkable biographies, enormous parallels and differences how to manage their way of life on stage and in reality. The cinema movie entails the uniqueness of the protagonists relationship and focuses on the peerless life's path of the artists: colourful, intense, varied, with humorous moments, and deeply engaging for the audience. With the dense interviews of close companions, family members and friends the film creates a great cinematic and musical experience combined with legendary archive, concert moods and recording footage. --- An homage to Roger Cicero and his father Eugen - two exceptional musicians who died too young, but left behind an inimitable musical legacy. Piano player Eugen Cicero was considered a wunderkind. But he had problems with the communist regime in his home country early on in his career. During a tour to East Berlin in the 1960s, he fled to West Germany, where he played with the RIAS orchestra and many of the era's jazz greats. His son Roger became one of Germany's best known singers. Father and son both had extraordinary music careers, both of which ended in similar tragedies. Their life stories were marked by genius coupled with passion, by surmounting obstacles, and by a balancing act between commercial success and artistic integrity. In this film, friends and colleagues give insights in the two's work and creativity. It is a portrait of special father-son relationship, accentuated with their sublime concert moments, musical cosmos and their bright personalities they left behind. --- Eugen Cicero played with fabled singers as Shirley Bassey, Ella Fitzgerald, Caterina Valente, or legend Oscar Peterson and many more exceptional musicians. He recorded at the MPS studios with tremendous success. His son Roger created sensational concerts in his career i.a. at Montreux Jazz Festival.
- Germany, 1920. First World War is lost. The peace treaty of Versailles obliges Germany to reduce its army, the "Reichswehr" to 100,000 soldiers. Influencal groups of economists and military leaders connect in the "Nationalen Vereinigung" a national convention to plan the coup d'etat. Among them the chief of landscaping and member of the board of directors of the German Bank, Wolfgang Kapp and the highest ranked commanding General Walther, Freiherr von Lüttwitz. General Ludendorf, who used to be the chief of the Supreme Army Command during the World War, pulls the strings in he background by his middlemen Pabst and Colonel Bauer. When the government wanted to dissolve the "Brigade Ehrhardt", the most powerful Freikorps, General Lüttwitz disobeys this order and orders the troupes to march against the government in Berlin. The Government has to flee, first to Dresden, then to Stuttgart. Large parts of the army follow the putschists, who however, are not united themselves. First victim is Secretary of Finances Erzberger.
- The Munich investigators Kommissare Batic, Leitmayr and Menzinger determine in the milieu of marriage trade with Thai women and child abuse.
- A rapist and murderer is on trial. Surprisingly, he is acquitted - with serious consequences.
- The everyday life of a boy coming of age, living with his prostitute mother, saving money, dreaming of a bicycle.
- The passion of Christ, based on J. S. Bach's "Johannes-Passion". Its mix of music, speech, dancing and singing re-creates the style of antique Greek tragedies.
- Fear of death.
- The Frankfurt crime scene commissioners Sänger and Dellwo are not only dealing with "heart failure", but with a puzzling series of murders.
- A package with a severed finger leads Rubin and Karow to an art film eerily paralleling their investigation.
- Susanne Elvan met her husband Tarek, a convicted violent criminal, through a penpal portal while he was in custody. The wedding took place before his release. When Susanne was found murdered, Tarek was only recently at large. The case seems clear. But when assistant Norbert Jütte sees that the murderer has tied a belt over his victim's eyes, the case takes an unexpected turn: Jütte is convinced that he has had something to do with the murderer before .
- A woman Vet tried to connect with a man neighbor in various and very odd ways.
- Auf dem Heimweg von der Schule verpasst Carla den Bus. Zuhause ist niemand, der sie abholen kann. Unterwegs begegnet Carla ihrem Mörder und steigt in sein Auto.
- Orphan crown prince Sigismund is domineered by queen-regent Freya, but manages to climb the highest tower to put something in the Falcon dynasty's eponymous falcon's nest, thanks to the sorceress Eleonor, who was prodded finally to reuse her powers by adopted daughter Rapunzel, who became friends as kids with 'Sigi' and his buddy Pip, who becomes the court jester. Eleonor, who abandoned magic after failing to save the king in battle and withdrew into the forest, refuses to return s the queen's sorceress, so is thrown into he dungeon with the girl, but Sigi helps them escape. He and Pip find the castle ruin tower Eleonor retreated into even further, only accessible by Rapunzel's magical long hair. A final confrontation is inevitable when the queen has the boys followed.
- The 14-year-old Talia has surprised a murderer in her house shortly after his crime and thus becomes the most important witness for the investigative team.
- A thirteen-year-old boy is found dead in the Isar. His cellphone track ends at a parking lot known as a hangout for anonymous sex, 20 kilometers from the Isar. The commissioners suspect that the boy may have filmed something compromising. The investigation leads to the families of the victim and his best friend.
- In the early morning of the Berlin U-Bahn, 38-year-old Mark Haessler was attacked by two young men on a platform and died shortly thereafter.
- A punch in the face puts Ballauf out of action. On the way home, he witnessed a fight in the subway station and immediately intervened. When Ballauf regains consciousness, the perpetrators have escaped. The victim, Sievers, later dies in hospital.
- Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a Jewish anarchist.
- This drama explores the grim lives of Turkish "guest workers" living in Germany.
- After a few days away from home with his girlfriend constructor Breuke from Sieverstedt hurries home to convince his wife he is not having an affair. On the road home he hits a bicyclist, but drives on instead of calling an ambulance. Arriving at his house he deliberately hits the post of the driveway gate to disguise the damage of the accident. All the while he is unaware that his wife is watching him. Hauptkommissar Finke arrives in the village after the local police has taken Peter Reichert as a suspect. His assistant wants to investigate further. Meanwhile Breuke is being blackmailed by an unknown person. Then an actual murder takes place.
- The delicatessen.
- Schimanski and Thanner are confronted with an old case that back in 1978 they were unable to solve but a "blind passenger" in Thanner's trunk change things on Christmas 1988.
- Two brutal murders point detective Lena Odenthal to a mysterious young woman who seems to have been sexually involved with both of the victims. But a motive and irrefutable proof is hard to come by.
- He is the swarm of pathology: Professor Dr. Sorensky, a music lover and a fine spirit in a class of its own. His business is death, day by day. He dissects corpses, pinpointing the cause of death. The pathologist is a man of exquisite humor - and he is a murderer, skillful and cold-blooded. At least Chief Inspector Lena Odenthal is firmly convinced of it. Stella, Sorensky's lover, has disappeared without a trace. The evidence points to a bestial violent crime. Hendryk Dornbusch, Stella's friend, has since gone into hiding. He seems strongly suspect, especially since he was seen at the scene. Lena and Mario Kopper, their smart assistant, set out to find Hendryk and the dead Stella. And face a mysterious riddle: what happened to Stella's corpse? Meanwhile, Sorensky starts a strange game. He tries to get close to the beautiful inspector, gives her hidden clues, makes her his confidante. Lena apparently lets herself be taken into confidence. She gets to know an impressive, extremely cultivated and successful man who is by no means unemotional in his craft. "This is the place where death happily rushes to the aid of life" - is written in scholarly Latin on the board in the section room. That sounds like a bad joke and corresponds to the philosophy of life of an ambitious scientist for whom life in death finds one last fascinating confirmation. Lena cannot evade the pathologist's charisma. She realizes that she has to face him, his charm, but also the dark, dangerous, dark side of this existence. Sorensky is obsessed with the abyss over which he hovers. He flirts with his downfall. Lena knows that: And she doesn't avoid him anymore.
- Ein Mann wird von der U-Bahn überrollt und tödlich verletzt. War es ein Unfall, Selbstmord oder gar ein Mord? Frau Baum, einzige Zeugin, die direkt neben dem Opfer stand, ist überzeugt: Der Mann wurde gestoßen. Doch die Frau steht völlig unter Schock und kann sich an Details nicht erinnern. Ein weiterer Zeuge meldet sich - Petzold, ein gediegener Banker. Aber es stellt sich schnell heraus, dass er mehr Interesse an der Kommissarin Charlotte Sänger hat, als wirklich etwas zur Aufklärung des Falls beitragen zu können. Amtsleiter Fromm ist davon nicht sehr erbaut. Einzig Dellwo schaut sich Petzold genauer an und stößt dabei auf Unstimmigkeiten. Doch Sänger ist dem Bösen schon zu nahe gekommen.