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Based on the best-selling book by Ferdinand von Schirach, this six-part series consists of unusual cases inspired by actual crimes. Each stand-alone episodes portrays a different crime from the viewpoints of perpetrator, victims and witnesses, linked by the recurring figure of the defense attorney who seeks to obtain the most lenient sentence for his client.

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EPISODE DESCRIPTIONS
Episode 1 – Fähner

In the series premiere, a respected small-town physician has brutally killed his wife, thus ending a four-year martyrdom from which he could not escape by any other means. Will justice prevail? 2013. In German with English subtitles.

Episode 2 - Tanata’s Bowl

Petty criminals from Berlin-Neukölln steal an extremely valuable Japanese bowl when they break into a villa. They have no idea that they are up against a centuries-old Japanese tradition that reclaims what was taken with extreme brutality... 2013. In German with English subtitles.

Episode 3 - Green

The son of an important Brandenburg farmer dabbles with numerological rituals and kills the farmer’s sheep in the night. When the young village beauty disappears, he is an immediate suspect. The attorney also tries to find out why the sheep were killed... 2013. In German with English subtitles.

Episode 4 – The Hedgehog

A Lebanese man with a lengthy criminal record is accused of armed robbery, and identified without doubt by the burglarized jeweler in a police line-up. At the trial, everyone expects the man to be sent to jail – until the youngest brother of the defendant is called to the witness stand. He is the only one of the family’s nine brothers with no criminal record, which is why no one doubts his statement. But then events take a surprising turn... 2013. In German with English subtitles.

Episode 5 – Summertime

Based on the best-selling book by Ferdinand von Schirach, this six-part series consists of unusual cases inspired by actual crimes. Each stand-alone episodes portrays a different crime from the viewpoints of perpetrator, victims and witnesses, linked by the recurring figure of the defense attorney who seeks to obtain the most lenient sentence for his client. An error pertaining to the Daylight Savings Time change at the end of summer saves an industrialist from a jail sentence for the murder of his young sex playmate. 2013. In German with English subtitles.

Episode 6 – Self-Defense

A man defends himself on a commuter train against two young rowdies, and kills them with their own weapons. The identity of the man cannot be determined. He prefers to remain silent – perhaps because he is the murderer in another case... 2013. In German with English subtitles.