The Man Without a Shadow (TV Series)

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Television series
Original title The man without a shadow
Country of production Germany
original language German
year 1996
length 75 minutes
Episodes 15 in 2 seasons
genre Crime series
idea Helmut Ringelmann
production Helmut Ringelmann
music Helmut Trunz
German-language
first broadcast		 March 4, 1996 on RTL
occupation

The man without a shadow was a short-lived crime series that was produced for the German private television broadcaster RTL in the mid-1990s .

background

Crime producer Helmut Ringelmann ( Derrick , Siska , Der Alte , Der Kommissar ) worked for the first time with a private broadcaster on Der Mann ohne Schatten . To do this, he founded a new production company called “R. Productions ". Under the working title “The Samurai”, eight 75-minute episodes of this new crime series were initially filmed, which should stand out from all previous ones. The main characters are the Kuhlins: Igor and Irina are married, Bruno is Igor's brother. They solve the most difficult cases undercover for their client Ikarus.

Producer Ringelmann hired his Derrick and Der-Alte team here: Herbert Reinecker ( Derrick , Der Kommissar ), Paul Hengge (author of several Edgar Wallace films), Volker Vogeler ( Der Alte ), on the director's chair, were the authors took Franz Peter Wirth , Gero Erhardt , Dietrich Haugk , Jürgen Goslar , Zbyněk Brynych and Günter Gräwert place.

The episode “Idealisten” (No. 11) was Zbyněk Brynych's last directorial work before he died in the summer of 1995. After broadcasting the first season, RTL decided to broadcast the second, six episodes, straight away.

Episodes

  • 1 the monster (March 4, 1996)
  • 2 regicide (March 11, 1996)
  • 3 Death drives 1st class (March 18, 1996)
  • 4 A Bagatelle (March 25, 1996)
  • 5 the rat and the girl (April 1, 1996)
  • 6 the killer (April 15, 1996)
  • 7 The Mission (April 22, 1996)
  • 8 the kidnapping (April 29, 1996)
  • 9 Only the Dead Know the Truth (May 6, 1996)
  • 10 the spy (May 13, 1996)
  • 11 idealists (May 20, 1996)
  • 12 Old Habits (June 10, 1996)
  • 13 Two Enemies (June 17, 1996)
  • 14 Our Father's Killer (June 24, 1996)

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