A Case of Murder

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A Case of Murder follows Vera Lanz, the determined head of Munich’s homicide division.

Renowned for her sharp instincts and unconventional thinking, she tackles the city’s most challenging murder cases with unwavering resolve. As she uncovers hidden truths and confronts complex moral dilemmas, Vera is guided by one principle above all others: when justice and the letter of the law conflict, justice must prevail.

Husband and wife Robert and Annika Thomsen are just about to sit down and have breakfast when the doorbell rings. An armed masked man forces his way through their front door, shooting Robert in cold…

A luxury apartment with a sexy young model standing at the window: washed-up photographer Carlo Ramsauer can hardly believe his luck. These are exactly the pictures he needs. But then he witnesses…

Prosecutor Sebastian Hartmann is relieved when the mummified body of Susanne Völkers is discovered. Hartmann had named gardener Alois Lichter as suspect number one in the missing persons case 15…

150 kilos of seized cocaine are scheduled to be burned, a routine police procedure. But three unknown individuals open fire on the officers, and their routine task turns into deadly chaos. One of the…

Vera Lanz and her team have every reason to celebrate: in a spectacular attempt on their own they finally caught Ingo Blume, head of the South-West drug cartel. Unfortunately, the next mission…

The homicide of Bruno Lohmann leads Vera Lanz and her team to a high school in Munich. The police detectives find out that Lohmann wasn’t very popular – neither among the students nor his colleagues…

A crying baby is found next to a dead woman under a bridge. Shortly after, the parents of the baby get their kidnapped son back. The child is saved but Vera still has to solve the murder case of the…

Vera’s team fails a mission during a strike against drugs: one investigator dies while he tries to convict the main drug distributor and another young police officer gets shot at and falls into a…

In this episode Vera Lanz investigates a bank robbery with a dead bank robber. Soon questions emerge regarding the course of the crime, as the stolen amount of money seems too small. Vera is annoyed…

Moritz Helmes, son of a wealthy real-estate agent, was kidnapped and found dead. Apparently Moritz’s father Christian Helmes was blackmailed during the kidnapping but luckily the boy could escape at…

In the fourth episode of season 1, Detective Chief Superintendent Vera Lanz has to investigate the murder case of prosecutor Marc Berger while also trying to hide her own affair with the victim…

A teenager whose serious hereditary disease left him with a very low life expectancy suddenly dies. Vera feels that his death, in spite of the particular circumstances, came about rather unexpectedly…

Judging from appearances, Nicolaus Bluhm seems to have been murdered by a male prostitute. But when Trompeter tracks down the alleged killer Tim, he finds him dead, too. Kneeling next to the body is…

It’s the first case for Munich Detective Chief Superintendent Vera Lanz, and it’s a tough one. Kim Landauer, the 24-year-old daughter of a prominent restaurateur, plunged to her death from the…

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Format

104×60’

Available

ready-made, format rights

Produced by

Network Movie Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH & Co. KG

Cast

Katharina Böhm, Stefan Rudolf, Jürgen Tonkel a. o.

Year of Production

2012 - present

Original Language

German

Broadcaster

ZDF

Writer

Georg Hartmann, Axel Hildebrand a. o.

Director

Michael Schneider, Florian Kern, Christoph Stark a. o.

Exposure

Entanglement

A Deadly Choice

Lies

Security Area

The Seitz Case

Trust

Kids

Death of a Teacher

Country Living

End Game

The small-town beauty

Beautiful Illusion

Portofino