Hardness 10

Television series
Original title	Hardness 10
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	1974-1975
Production company	Bavaria Atelier Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne
length	90 minutes
Episodes	5 ( list )
genre	Crime series action series Thriller
Director	Gordon Flemyng
script	Peter Berneis Karl Heinz Willschrei
production	Karl Heinz Willschrei
music	Horst Jankowski
First broadcast	December 14, 1974 on ARD
occupation
Giuseppe Addobbati Arthur Brauss : Abdul Carraco Tilli Breidenbach : Lady Ames Peter Capell Michael Culver : Axel Olga Georges-Picot : Nadine Mercier János Gönczöl Maria Grazia Marescalchi : Mrs. Steffen Joachim Hansen : Charles Horst Janson : Piet van Straaten Jeremy Kemp : Sir Harold Ames Wolfgang Kieling : Martin Melchior Georg Marischka : Burns Marietta Meade Del Negro : Mr. Yussuf Heidi Treutler Peter Vaughan : Mr. Mackintosh Tonio von der Meden

Hardness 10 is a television series of the ARD , which was produced in 1974 and aired in this and in the following year. In the saga of the diamond business in southern Africa, a young diamond smuggler is drawn ever deeper into the tough, rude world of the diamond business, where theft and murder are not uncommon.

action

Nadine Mercier lives from diamond smuggling in South Africa . When her shady friend Abdul Carraco betrays her to the competition, she wants to get out and flies back to Europe. On the plane she meets the industrialist Martin Melchior, who falls in love with her and marries her. She soon finds out that her husband is also involved in a crooked diamond business. Back in South Africa she finds a new love in Piet van Straaten and retreats with him into the desert to develop her own mine. But Martin Melchior seeks revenge!

background

The shooting for this very complex production (budget 4.5 to 6 million D-Mark) took place in South Africa ( Johannesburg , Cape Town ), South West Africa ( Kalahari ), Belgium ( Brussels , Antwerp ), Germany and France. At the time, it was critically noted that this five-part series was broadcast over a period of almost two months and thus unnecessarily elongated.

Guest actor

Guest appearances in this series included Rolf Schimpf , Horst Naumann and Herbert Fux .

Episodes

episode	title	First broadcast
1	Nadine	December 14, 1974
2	Sir Harold	December 28, 1974
3	Piet	January 11, 1975
4th	Abdul	January 25, 1975
5	Martin	February 8, 1975

DVD release

The series was published on January 18, 2010 by Studio Hamburg Enterprises as part of the "Street Sweeper" series (Street Sweeper 18: Das Ding / Härtung 10, a total of 4 DVDs).

Web links

• Hardness 10 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Hardness 10 at Fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Reufsteck, Stefan Niggemeier: Das Fernsehlexikon. All over 7000 programs from Ally McBeal to the ZDF hit parade . Goldmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-442-30124-6 .
2. ↑ The crime thriller homepage. Retrieved December 6, 2018 .