Thorsten Wien

Two very different German couples meet during vacation in Kenya. A poker game takes an unexpected turn when a wife's body becomes the stake.

In 1929 music teacher Paul Leinert receives an unexpected letter from his old friend Otto Schiffmann, a young and talented composer who has moved away from Berlin after a failed marriage. The letter is an invitation for Paul to come and visit Otto in his forest cabin – and to become familiar with his new work, a long-awaited symphony. Taking along his wife Anna together with his colleague Willi, the three find Otto’s cabin but their host is nowhere to be seen. As they go looking for him, Paul notices something odd about the song of the local birds...

A woman flies to South Africa for the funeral of her younger sister, whom she loved but had rarely had a good relationship with.

Dans les jours les plus sombres de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la basilique Saint-Pierre est enveloppée de l'ombre de la croix gammée. Mais alors même que le Führer l'encercle, le pape prépare une contre-offensive secrète. Le pontife Pie XII a été raillé pour son silence public sur l'Holocauste. Mais des preuves suggèrent que son silence était peut-être un subterfuge.

John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for his failures. However, once there he stumbles upon a chemical weapons outrage that points to a sinister political-industrial conspiracy.

A Hambourg, les enquêtes du commissaire Oskar Faust, têtu mais efficace.