Lawyer Abel

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Television series
Original title Lawyer Abel
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) 1988-2001
Production
company		 TV60Film production
length 90 minutes
Episodes 20th
genre Detective film
idea Fred Breinersdorfer (scripts)
production Bernd Burgemeister
First broadcast December 5th, 1988 on ZDF
occupation

Lawyer Abel is a series of 20 television films based on the crime novels of the same name by Fred Breinersdorfer .

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Jean Abel is a lawyer after a failed artist career and advocates for his clients in a highly unorthodox way. He never takes the easy route and refuses to make concessions that are unacceptable in his view. For example, it is never his goal to just get a case closed, but he wants to achieve an acquittal for the accused if he is convinced of his innocence.

Abel himself rarely gets his money's worth because he is not afraid to accept major disadvantages for the consistent implementation of his uncompromising attitude. However, he always succeeds in solving particularly difficult cases. His assistant Jane Kerschbaum, whom he adored, and sometimes Commissioner Holz from the moral department, and later Detective Inspector Annabelle, help him with this.

Background / history of origin

Lawyer Abel is a TV series for ZDF . Both the novel adaptations and the original scripts and the crime novels of the same name on which some films are based are by Fred Breinersdorfer . After Südwestfunk had successfully filmed one of the Abel novels (Selfwehr, 1988, directed by Peter Schulze-Rohr ) with Uwe Ochsenknecht in the role of a lawyer, the second Abel novel was filmed on the same broadcaster with Thomas Heinze as Abel and Heinz Hoenig (Frohes Fest Lucie, 1992, the first direction by Roland Suso Richter ). For this film, however, Abel had to be renamed "Zygl" because the ZDF had meanwhile taken over the "Abel" films.

The first film with Günther Maria Halmer and Dieter Pfaff as voyeur and rapist (“Der Tuesdaymann”, 1988, directed by Frank Guthke ), was a great public success. Thereupon the program management of the ZDF decided to send detective stories with Günther Maria Halmer as attorney Abel. All 20 films were written by Fred Breinersdorfer and produced by TV60Filmproduktion GmbH and Bernd Burgemeister . Alongside “ Liebling Kreuzberg ”, “Attorney Abel” is one of the first series of lawyers on German television and, like “Kreuzberg”, is a classic of the format. The series was initially broadcast on Monday evening and established the “Saturday crime thriller” on ZDF with other formats. The films were directed by various directors, including Frank Guthke, Marc Rothemund , Christian Görlitz and Carlo Rola . Bruno Ganz , Iris Berben , Gert Voss , Dieter Pfaff, Karoline Eichhorn and Suzanne von Borsody played in guest roles . The Abel thrillers were discontinued in 2001 despite continued popular success. Studio Hamburg published all 20 episodes in the original from July 2012 on three DVD editions.

occupation

actor role
Günther Maria Halmer Jean Abel
Andrea L'Arronge Jane Kerschbaum
Vitus Zeplichal Commissioner wood
Saskia Vester Commissioner Annabelle

Episodes

episode title year
1 The Tuesday man 1988
2 Still doubts, Mr. Defender? 1991
3 You don't kill rich customers 1991
4th Cold gold 1992
5 Acquit me this murderer 1993
6th Your last will applies, part 1 1994
7th Your last will applies, part 2 1994
8th Character assassination 1994
9 Your witness, Mr. Abel! 1996
10 A judge in fear 1996
11 Extortion game 1997
12 The dirty dozen 1997
13 Death sentence for a prostitute 1998
14th The trace of the girl killer 1998
15th In mortal danger 1999
16 The murder trap 1999
17th The secret of the witness 2000
18th The voyeur and the girl 2000
19th Carrot and Stick 2001
20th Salute, Abel! 2001

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