Intercontinental Express

Television series
Original title	Intercontinental Express
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
year	1966
length	24:30 minutes
Episodes	13
genre	Crime series
camera	Sepp Riff / Hans Sester
German-language first broadcast	April 4th 1966

Intercontinental Express is a 13-part ARD series filmed in black and white that was broadcast every Monday in 1966 - with one exception - on the regional evening program of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk . It was made in Studio Hamburg , producer was Gyula Trebitsch . The title music was composed by Manfred Hübler.

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The series shows in closed episodes people who are on the Intercontinental Express for various reasons . 11 of the 13 episodes are about criminals on the run from the police.

Others

Contrary to the usual series practice, there were no continuous roles at Intercontinental Express , each episode showed new characters or different actors. Although only 13 episodes were produced, three scriptwriters and eleven directors were involved. The scripts were written by Fred Ignor, Christian Bock and Heinz Pauck , and directed by Claus Peter Witt and Peter Zadek , among others . Large parts of an express train were recreated in the studio of Studio Hamburg for the shooting.

Episode 12 was broadcast unscheduled on a Thursday for unknown reasons. Episodes 1 and 10 are the only two that don't tell a crime story.

Episode 1 can be seen in full length on YouTube .

Episode list

episode	First broadcast	title	Actor (selection)
1	April 4th 1966	Travel to the limit	Margot Trooger , Heinz Weiss , Kurd Pieritz , Gert Haucke , Günter Lüdke , Rudolf Möller
2	April 18, 1966	The doll with the porcelain head	Günther Schramm , Katharina Matz , Rolf Schimpf , Vadim Glowna , Ilse Bally
3	April 25, 1966	Connection to Karlsruhe	Peter Neusser , Bruno Vahl-Berg , Tatjana Iwanow , Benno Gellenbeck
4th	May 2, 1966	What do you cost, Commissioner?	Carl-Heinz Schroth , Hans Fitze , Richard Haller
5	May 9, 1966	The golden guitar	Marquard Bohm , Frank Straass
6th	May 16, 1966	The trip to Rome	Erna Nitter , Günther Jerschke , Benno Hoffmann , Kerstin de Ahna
7th	May 23, 1966	Two on the wrong train	Franz Rudnik , Verena Wiet , Karl-Heinz Gerdesmann , Gerhard Hartig
8th	June 6, 1966	Overhead locker 454	Walter Wilz , Hans Irle , Gerlach Fiedler , Jochen Blume
9	June 13, 1966	Through car to Zurich	Renate Küster , Marlene Rahn , Wolfram Schaerf , Friedrich Schütter , Manfred Reddemann
10	June 20, 1966	Mrs. neumann	Marga Maasberg , Helmuth Schneider , Karin Heym , Hans-Jürgen Janza
11	June 27, 1966	Sister nanni	Edith Schultze-Westrum , Helmut Oeser , Gerdamaria Jürgens , Kurt Klopsch , Walter Feuchtenberg , Peter Dornseif
12	July 7, 1966	The solution to the riddle	Sabine Bethmann , Ivan Desny , Charles Brauer , Kurt A. Jung
13	July 11, 1966	The key witness	Heinz Drache , Robert Graf , Gisela Fackeldey

Reviews

The crime thriller website guarantees suspense of suspense like "Hafenpolizei", "Permit my name is Cox" or "Kommissar Freytag" and especially praises the second episode ("The Doll with the Porcelain Head") as "incredibly exciting, director Zadek manages it in just 20 Minutes to tell a captivating crime story. " Kino.de comes to the concise conclusion: " Hitchcock tension in Casablanca look. "

DVD release

The entire season has been available on two DVDs since 2008. A trailer can be seen on YouTube .

Web links

• Intercontinental Express in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The crime thriller homepage (a lot of background information, details about the cast and staff, episode list and guide for all 13 episodes with brief synopsis)
• Episode 1 on YouTube
• Trailer on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} The crime thriller homepage
2. ↑ ^{a b} video.de ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.