Dead End2019

Director
Christopher Schier

Actors

Antje Traue (Emma)
Michael Gwisdek (Peter Kugel)
Victoria Schulz (Betti Steiner)
Lars Rudolph (Michael Schubert)
Fabian Busch (Lars Herbst)
Corinna Kirchhoff (Dr. Eva Diestelfink)

A bizarre, dark crime series about a brilliant pathologist from the US who helps out her father, the local coroner in a small town in Brandenburg.
A return to provincial life in Brandenburg does not look like a smart career move for the young pathologist Emma. After completing her training in the USA, however, she is more or less compelled to seek a foothold back home when her father, the local coroner, is urgently in need of help.
Peter has been acting rather strangely for some time and even taking some of his work home with him – keeping bones in the fridge, for example. In order to protect her father, Emma takes over his role. She naturally examines the bodies closely, and in more than one instance discovers a criminal background. Her research is not always welcomed – the mayor is at pains to maintain the town’s placid reputation, and the local police commissioner has grown tired of investigating crime. Only Betti, recently recruited to the police force, is willing to help Emma.
“It all has a fine rhythm of its own. The fabulous Antje Traue runs and trudges through Brandenburg with delightful idiosyncrasy as a randautistic death messenger. A macabre picture of society is drawn in which you even look at your bin with completely different eyes. Keep fingers crossed that ZDF will find the courage to continue telling the story of Emma and her dead friends from Mittenwalde.” – Welt
“The cases in each of the episodes are cleverly devised and constructed. The characters are also successfully depicted. Without exception, convincing acting performances round off the whole impression. The series is produced in the rather unusual aspect ratio for television of 2.35:1. This supports the cinematic cool aesthetics and visual quality.” – Wunschliste.de
“’Dead End’ breaks new ground in the crime genre with an unwieldy, idiosyncratic main character that is unique in its own right.” – DWDL.de