Prague in the turmoil of the final months of the German occupation: Czech Commissioner Beran and his assistant Morava are faced with a delicate task. Together with the German Chief Inspector Buback, they are supposed to solve the murder of a German general’s widow. But what role does Buback really play? Is he merely an informant whose true assignment is not to solve the murder, but rather to find out how deeply the Prague criminal police are entangled in the resistance against the German occupiers? Meanwhile, the killer strikes again—a psychopathic serial murderer who makes no distinction between German and Czech victims. Yet when the armed uprising against the occupiers breaks out in May 1945, the story is no longer just about a murderer, but about the problem of guilt and atonement, perpetrators and victims, revenge and retribution.
A film by Christopher Schier.
Based on the novel “the widow killer” by Pavel Kohout.
With Nicholas Ofczarek, Jonas Nay, and Jeanette Hain.
Trailer
Credits
Erwin Buback: Nicholas Ofczarek
Jan Morava: Jonas Nay
Marleen Baumann: Jeanette Hain
Hauptkommissar Beran: Karel Dobrý
Antonin Rypl: Gerhard Liebmann
Jitka Modrá: Diana Dulinková
and many more
TV Series
2 x 90 min / 4 x 45 min
Directed by: Christopher Schier
Written by: Klaus Burck
Based on the novel by: Pavel Kohout
Producers: Markus Kaatsch, Nina Poschinski, Michael Grudsky
Co-Producers: Jakob Pochlatko, Dieter Pochlatko
Executive Producers: Eric Welbers, David Kratz
Line Producers: Alfred Strobl, Anna Keber, Nina Poschinski, Kirsten Frehse, Jan Gebauer
Production Manager: Louis Oellerer
Sound: Dietmar Zuson
Music: Markus Kienzl
Edited by: Charles Ladmiral, Cordula Werner
Production Design: Conrad Moritz Reinhardt
Costume Design: Amanda Frühwald
Make Up: Michaela Payer, Reinhard Kirnich
Casting: Franziska Aigner
and others
produced in 2025
first broadcasted: 26. September 2025
a production by Zeitgeist Filmproduktion
a co-production of EPO-Film, ARD Degeto, NDR, HR, Servus TV, Canal+
in cooperation with Bravado Equity, Česká televize
with the financial support of FISA+, ABA, Austrian Television Fund
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