Sun, wine and tough nuts

Television series
Original title	Sun, wine and tough nuts
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	1979-1981
length	25 minutes
Episodes	28 in 2 seasons
genre	Thriller
First broadcast	September 25, 1979 on ARD
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Erik Ode : Eric Ott Hilde Volk : Ilse Ott Hans-Joachim Frick : Commissaire Giraud Marianne Borgo : Claudine Jean-Pierre Zola : Jeannot Flora Jacobi : Mrs. Jeannot in guest roles and a .: Ivan Desny Carl-Heinz Schroth Gert Haucke Brigitte Horney Wolfgang Kieling Wolfgang Preiss Iris Berben Edith Hancke Rudolf Schündler Andrea Rau Heli Finkenzeller Karl Tischlinger Lukas Ammann Barbara Valentin Jane Tilden Bruno Huebner Walter Richter Ernst Stankovski Ida Krottendorf Werner Berndt

Sun, Wine and Hard Nuts is a German crime series that ran from September 25, 1979 to November 12, 1981 on ARD's early evening program . It is set on the French Mediterranean coast, where a retired German commissioner (portrayed by the "commissioner" Erik Ode ) helps the local police to investigate criminal cases.

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Eric Ott was a police officer with the criminal investigation department in Germany for 40 years. After his retirement, he moved to his sister Ilse in Valbonne in the south of France . But instead of spending a quiet retirement there as he had hoped, he is immediately involved in a current crime, which Ott helps the local police to resolve. He is then repeatedly asked by his friend, the French Commissioner Giraud, for support in investigations into various criminal cases (break-ins, counterfeit money, drug smuggling, cardsharps).

background

Sun, wine and hard nuts were filmed exclusively in Provence and on the Côte d'Azur . In 1977, another retired detective investigated in the ZDF television series Zum kleine Fisch in southern France.

The participation of Erik Ode's wife Hilde Volk was a condition of Ode, because he did not want to be separated from her for so long for the filming. Since the films could not be interrupted by advertising at the time, the seven cases of the first season were shown in two parts in one evening. Erik Ode as Eric Ott gives a summary of the plot of the first part for the audience. In the second season, the episodes were then only half as long.

For scenes in which only French is spoken, Erik Ode summarizes the dialogues in German. In addition, he often talks off-screen. Reinhard Glemnitz (Ode's ex-assistant Heine from Der Kommissar ) has guest appearances ; This common past is alluded to several times in the form of inside jokes.

The French-sounding music was composed by the renowned German jazz musician Rolf Kühn . Most successful German detective novelists were responsible for the scripts, including Hansjörg Martin , Detlef Müller and Maria Matray .

Episodes

1st season (1979)

1. The thing with the suitcase, part 1
2. The thing with the suitcase, part 2
3. The thing with the Madonna, part 1
4. The thing with the Madonna, part 2
5. The thing about the shot, part 1
6. The thing about the gunshot, part 2
7. The thing with the oven, part 1
8. The thing with the oven, part 2
9. The King Harry thing, part 1
10. The King Harry thing, part 2
11. The thing about the eyewitness, part 1
12. The thing about the eyewitness, part 2
13. The thing with the racing bike, part 1
14. The thing with the racing bike, part 2

2nd season (1981)

1. The thing with classical education
2. The thing with the sad host
3. The thing with the two pensioners
4. The thing with the spring balance
5. The thing with the roulette
6. The thing with the film team
7. The thing with the mustache
8. The thing with handsome Albert
9. The morning paper thing
10. The thing about the rich farmer
11. The thing with the convict
12. The thing about Indian silk
13. The thing with the wine cellar
14. The thing about the strange smell

Web links

• Sun, wine and hard nuts in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Contents of the episodes on krimiserien.heimat.eu