Tough chunk

Television broadcast
Original title	Tough chunk
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	2015–
length	90 minutes
Episodes	4+ ( list )
genre	Thriller
script	Holger Karsten Schmidt
production	André Zoch
First broadcast	March 7, 2015 on Das Erste
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Aljoscha Stadelmann : Frank Koops Moritz Führmann : Heiner Kelzenberg Anna Fischer : Mette Vogt

Harter Brocken is an ARD crime film series with Aljoscha Stadelmann in the leading role, which has been produced since 2014 and broadcast from 2015. The main location is the small town of Sankt Andreasberg in the Harz near the Brocken , which gave the film series its name.

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Frank Koops is a local policeman in the small mountain town of St. Andreasberg in the Harz Mountains, which is usually quite quiet. He is well known in his area and everything is running smoothly. Nevertheless, the crime also penetrates into this hidden corner of the mountains. Koops masters these challenges in his very own, calm way and his criminalistic qualities are always underestimated by criminals. His special local knowledge, which he specifically uses, also offers him advantages. He is friends with the postman Heiner Kelzenberg and the young colleague Mette Vogt ( Anna Fischer ) from the neighboring town of Braunlage . Both are important helpers in an emergency.

Episode list

No.	Original title	First broadcast	Director	script	Audience rating
1	Tough chunk	07th Mar 2015	Stephan Wagner	Holger Karsten Schmidt	7.51 million (24.3% employees )
2	The key witness	Nov 25, 2017	Florian Baxmeyer	Holger Karsten Schmidt	6.44 million (20.8% employees )
3	The bank robbery	Dec 25, 2017	Andreas Senn	Holger Karsten Schmidt	4.50 million (14.0% employees )
4th	The secret code	19 Dec 2019	Markus Sehr	Holger Karsten Schmidt	5.01 million (16.7% employees )
5	The forger	-	Anno Saul	Holger Karsten Schmidt	-

Reviews

“With the small-town police officer Frank Koops, Holger Karsten Schmidt invented one of the most beautiful investigative characters in German television crime, a stoic who is self-sufficient and apparently happy, based on the motto: 'No wishes, no excitement'. But who at the same time acts attentively, cleverly and energetically when violence and crime find their way into his small Harz region. Aljoscha Stadelmann plays this sympathetic loner in a ravishingly casual, calm and down-to-earth manner, without slipping into cliché and certainly not into homeland pathos. With him nothing comes with a grand gesture, but with his economical facial expressions, the always slightly shuffling way of movement and his sense of timing in the laconic dialogues, Stadelmann succeeds in the almost perfect embodiment of a small-town bogus that is always underestimated and always outgrowing itself . "

- Thomas Gehringer : tittelbach.tv

“Screenwriter Holger Karsten Schmidt once again follows the principle of reduced staff in one concentrated action in order to achieve the greatest possible tension effect. [...] This Koops is no laughing stock. You can take it seriously. In any case, he is not a work-shy village bull. "

- Rainer Tittelbach : tittelbach.tv

Web links

• Tough cookie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Tough chunk at Fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Audience ratings: ARD crime thriller is too hard a chunk for ZDF “Bergretter” at Blickpunkt: Film , accessed on December 20, 2019.
2. ^ Thomas Gehringer: Stadelmann, Fischer, Canonica, Weisz, Schmidt, Sehr. The policeman and the philosopher at tittelbach.tv , accessed on January 7, 2020.
3. ↑ Rainer Tittelbach: Review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on April 16, 2019.