Major Zeman’s criminal cases

Television series
German title	Major Zeman’s criminal cases
Original title	30 případů majora Zemana
Country of production	Czechoslovakia
original language	Czech
year	1975
Production company	Czechoslovak Television (Československá televize), Prague
length	75 minutes
Episodes	30 in 3 seasons
genre	Thriller
idea	Jiří Procházka
production	Josef Císař
music	Zdenĕk Liška
First broadcast	1975 on Czechoslovak TV
German-language first broadcast	March 9, 1976 on German television
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Vladimír Brabec : Major Jan Zeman František Hanus : Lieutenant Vydra Jindřich Narenta : Winter Václav Sloup : Heinrich Miloš Willig : Colonel Kalina Vladimír Ráž : Dr. Veselý František Němec : Žitný Rudolf Jelínek : Major Hradec Ladislav Mrkvička : Lieutenant Stejskal Radoslav Brzobohatý : Pavel Bláha Renáta Doleželová : Lída Pavla Maršálková : Zeman's mother Jaroslava Obermaierová : Blanka Josef Větrovec : Major Pavlásek Emil Horváth : Martin Gajdoš Petr Jákl: Policeman Luděk Munzar : Dr. Wolf / Vicar Stanislav Fišer : Eda Sojka / Velenský Vilém Besser : Eman Zahradník / Sepp

The criminal cases of Major Zeman (original title: 30 případů majora Zemana ~ The 30 cases of Major Zeman ) is a Czechoslovak television series by Jiří Sequens , which was produced from 1974 to 1979 in 30 episodes. The German synchronization was created at DEFA . The series was broadcast on German television from March 1976 .

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The series was produced on the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the SNB ( Sbor národni bezpečnost = National Security Corps) , which was founded in 1945. Since 1948 it consisted of two departments, Public Security (Veřejná bezpečnost) and State Security ( StB = Statni bezpečnost ) . It takes place in the period from 1945 to 1973. The individual episodes are each self-contained. The episodes are partly based on authentic cases.

The hero of the series is the communist factory worker Jan Zeman , who was sent to a concentration camp by the German occupying forces during World War II . On the advice of comrades , he joined the SNB in 1945 and was promoted from simple police officer to major over the course of the series . He handles normal criminal cases as well as sabotage and espionage matters .

The series was also broadcast in the GDR from 1976 and was repeated for the last time in the winter of 1987/88. It was also performed in Hungary , Bulgaria , Romania , Poland , Cuba , Finland , Japan , Portugal , the USSR and Austria .

controversy

In 1999, on the occasion of a re-broadcast in the Czech Republic , there were public debates about the series, which was accused of conveying communist propaganda and "portraying those who think differently politically as criminals".

See also

• Every kilometer
• Rendezvous with unknown
• Three from the K

literature

• Film bibliographic annual report of the GDR 1976 , p. 159.
• Jiří Procházka: The cases of the major Zeman , Berlin (military publisher of the German Democratic Republic) 1989. ISBN 3-327-00803-5
• N / A: Major Zeman. "The criminal cases of Major Zeman" , booklet as a supplement to the DVD edition by Icestorm Entertainment , undated, undated

Web links

• Thirty Cases of Major Zeman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The criminal cases of Major Zeman on Fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Major Zeman is again allowed to investigate criminals and musicians. Dispute over old Czech TV series , in: Die Welt, September 16, 1999.