Vice Squad (3 episodes)
Nominated for the Grimme Award 2003 for best series
Produced by Filmpool for RTL
Director for 3 episodes of the 1st season:
Episode 6: Blind desire
Nadja, a casual prostitute, expected a customer while being blindfolded and was then strangled with the blindfold. Her blind friend Edith seems to know more about Nadja's clientele than she wants to admit.
Episode 7: Death by the pond
Two men use a baseball bat to beat up a man walking in the park with his wife. When the man, Phillip Santer, loses consciousness, they rape his wife, Eva. Phillip's mother finds them and calls the police.
Episode 8: Silent scream
Ursula Peters is found dead after swallowing morphine tablets. However, the coroner's office finds that the pills were not the original cause of death. She had succumbed to cerebral hemorrhage after a stroke.
Director: Florian Froschmayer
Genre: Crime
Year of filming: 2002
Filming location: Cologne, Germany
Cast: Iris Böhm, Dirk Hinrichs, Cathlen Gawlich, Karin Boyd, Rike Schmid
Episode 6: Bernd Herzsprung, Michael Schenk, Henriette Heinze, Gesche Tebbenhoff, Joachim Paul Assböck, Ida Kiefer
Episode 7: Roeland Wiesenekker, Henriette Timig, Gabrielle Odinis, Antoine Monot jr., Veit Stübner, Johannes Richard Voelkel, Elmar Gehlen
Episode 8: Thomas Scharff, Clemes Löhr, Paula Kallenberg, Elisabeth von Koch, Judith Döker
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