A case for the fox

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Television series
Original title A case for the fox
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) 2004-2007
Production
company		 U5 Filmproduktion GmbH
length about 90 minutes
Episodes 6 in 1 season
genre Crime, comedy
Director Episode 1: Thorsten Schmidt
Episode 3: Franziska Meyer Price
Episodes 2 / 4–6: Sigi Rothemund
First broadcast May 11, 2004 on Sat.1
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One case for the fox is a six-part television series from 2004 to 2007. It is a commissioned production for the private television station Sat.1 by Frankfurt-based U5 Filmproduktion GmbH.

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Nobody would believe that the Frankfurt antiquarian and full-time philistine Max Kerner leads a secret life as a master thief and con artist. Nobody except Inspector Breuer, who has been driving his boss, Chief Detective Schander, to white heat for years with his stubbornness, and whose investigations into the art thief, known as "the fox", always come to nothing.

Least of all his wife Andrea, a journalist with the fictional "Frankfurter Neue Zeitung", who ironically is Kerner's best informant with the results of her research. While the inspector sees the fox as just an unscrupulous criminal who needs to be taken out of circulation, Andrea discovers in the course of her investigation in the first episode strange connections between the spectacular thefts and huge sums of money, which shortly afterwards were in need for charitable projects , Children's hospitals etc. She therefore thinks the fox is more of a modern Robin Hood .

In fact, Max's life is not limited to the boring everyday life of a bookseller, who in his free time only accompanies the small and big problems of growing up for his 16-year-old son Lukas (first girlfriend, theft of porn magazines, baking of hash cookies). Together with his best friends, the beautiful and sharp-witted Sandra and the always a little nervous René, he specifically looks for flimsy real estate sharks, bankers and entrepreneurs, whom they can use with elaborate masquerades and a lot of technology to paint millions of paintings, sculptures and sometimes a rare Bugatti steal from the third floor. The profits made with the help of “des Belgians”, a likeable old fender, are then passed on to the people harassed by their victims, minus expenses, of course.

Trivia

In Gods husband and Ganove (1st episode), when the villa of the seedy auctioneer Ludwig Leclair ( Wilfried Baasner ) appears, Goldfinger by Shirley Bassey , the soundtrack from the James Bond film of the same name , sets in .

The title Above the Rooftops of Frankfurt (3rd episode) is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's classic Above the Rooftops of Nice from 1955, in which Cary Grant plays the retired jewel thief John Robie (called "The Cat").

The notebooks that Thomalla uses over and over again in the course of the series are covered with the pictogram of a (not bitten) pear , based on Apple's MacBook .

From the second episode onwards, both the Belgiers shop and the Kerner's antiquarian bookshop are in a different location. Unlike the move of the Kerners (3rd episode), these moves remain uncommented.

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