Your mission, Father Castell
Television series | |
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Original title | Your mission, Father Castell |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German |
Year (s) | 2007 - 2009 |
length | 45, 1x 90 minutes |
Episodes | 14 in 3 |
genre | Thriller |
music | Ludwig Eckmann |
First broadcast | May 8, 2008 on ZDF |
occupation |
Your commission, Father Castell, is a crime series that was produced by Universum Film AG (Ufa) in Munich and Rome and has been broadcast on ZDF since May 8, 2008 . In the title role, Francis Fulton-Smith can be seen as the Vatican's special envoy.
action
The series “Your Mission, Father Castell” shows criminal cases in which the Church and the police have to work together because the cases could endanger the existence of the Church, but a man of the Catholic Church in Germany is not allowed to investigate alone.
background
Monsignor Simon Castell is a Jesuit who, on a special mandate from the Vatican, has to solve criminal cases all over the world that are always connected with the Church. Father Castell therefore had to acquire a wide variety of skills, such as flying airplanes, opening locked locks and doors, learning self-defense and repairing motorcycles.
Accompanying the broadcast of the 1st season, ZDF showed 4 so-called webisodes , short stories in the channel's own media library , in which the priest's history is told and how he was trained as a special representative.
Each episode is usually 45 minutes. The start of the 3rd season was broadcast in a double episode of 90 minutes because of the extensive scenario.
main actor
actor | Role name | Remarks | consequences |
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Francis Fulton-Smith | Father Simon Castell | Monsignor | 1-14 |
Christine Döring | Marie Blank | Chief Commissioner | 1-14 |
Hans Peter Hallwachs | Cardinal Scarpia | Cardinal Secretary of State | 1-14 |
Maja Celiné Probst | Lisa Blank | Daughter of Marie | 1-10 |
Lisa Kreuzer | Franziska Blank | Mother of Marie | 1-10 |
Anatole Taubman Ercan Durmaz |
Dr. Jens Deissmann | Coroner | 1-4 5-14 |
Episode cast
actor | Role name | Appearance | Remarks |
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Robert Giggenbach | Martin Enderer | episode 1 | |
Dietrich Mattausch | Abbot Francis | Episode 3 | |
Verena Klein | Andrea Hellmann | Episode 7 | |
Wilfried Klaus | Dr. Munz | Episode 8 | |
Götz Schubert | Frank Kleinert | Episode 9 | |
Gilbert von Sohlern | Prelate Zenker | Episode 9 | |
Helmut Zierl | Werner Lenzen | Episode 9 | |
Catherine Flemming | Sarah von Rothenburg | Episode 10 | |
Pure beauty | Cardinal Sanchez | Episode 11 | |
Andreas Schmidt-Schaller | Aaron Bullinger | Episode 12 | |
Rufus Beck | Sergio Spinoza | Episode 13 | |
Alexander hero | Viktor Tollar | Episode 14 |
Episode list
season 1
No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast | Director | script |
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1 | 1 | the maze | May 8, 2008 | Ulrich Zrenner | Lorenz Stassen |
2 | 2 | The corpse in the Karlsgraben | May 15, 2008 | Ulrich Zrenner | Lorenz Stassen |
3 | 3 | The 10th monk | May 22, 2008 | Ulrich Zrenner | Frank Koopmann & Roland Heep |
4th | 4th | The last pagan | May 29, 2008 | Ulrich Zrenner | Marija Erceg |
season 2
No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast | Director | script |
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5 | 1 | The lodge | Oct 15, 2009 | Axel Barth | Lorenz Stassen |
6th | 2 | The merchant's treasure | Oct 22, 2009 | Florian Kern | Lorenz Lau-Uhle |
7th | 3 | On the Camino de Santiago | Oct 29, 2009 | Florian Kern | Michael B. Müller |
8th | 4th | The Voynich manuscript | Nov 5, 2009 | Florian Kern | Lorenz Stassen |
9 | 5 | The pelican | Nov 12, 2009 | Florian Kern | Lorenz Stassen |
10 | 6th | The secret of the crusader | Nov 19, 2009 | Axel Barth | Lorenz Lau-Uhle |
season 3
No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast | Director | script |
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11a | 1a | The Jesus tablet (1) | May 13, 2010 | Florian Kern | Lorenz Stassen |
11b | 1b | The Jesus tablet (2) / The conspiracy | May 13, 2010 | Florian Kern | Lorenz Stassen |
12 | 2 | The secret of the last few days | May 27, 2010 | Axel Barth | Michael B. Müller |
13 | 3 | The priestess | June 3, 2010 | Florian Kern | Lorenz Stassen & Ralf Löhnhardt |
14th | 4th | Sodom & Gomorrah | June 3, 2010 | Axel Barth | Lorenz Stassen |
DVD release
- Season 1 - Episodes 1-4, released November 20, 2009
- Season 2 - Episodes 5-10, released December 18, 2009
The DVDs were released by “ZDF Video” as DVD-9 media type and contain a full season.
- Complete box of seasons 1–3 was released on April 15, 2016, publisher is Studio Hamburg Enterprises
Web links
- Your order, Pater Castell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Your request, Father Castell in the online film database
- zdf-enterprises.de: Description of the series