Mutterliebe - Der Usedom-Krimi

Former public prosecutor Karin Lossow is released from prison after several years in prison. She had once shot her husband with her daughter Julia's service weapon because he had slept with another woman. To the surprise of her probation officer and her daughter, she does not move into a new apartment in Rostock as planned, but returns to her home in Usedom in the "Mörderhus". Not only to the displeasure of her daughter, who has not yet been able to forgive her mother for what she did. Karin has to put up with derogatory looks and comments from the islanders. She herself sees Usedom as a second chance for her life and soon has a good connection to her environmentally conscious granddaughter Sophie, who supports her with legal tips during a protest. Karin also finds work in a bison enclosure, takes care of the animals and controls entry. Julia has to clear up the death of Thomas Krenzlin. The young paraplegic man is found drowned in the water.

A supermarket operator from Ahlbeck (Usedom) is found dead, naked, in the spa gardens of neighboring Swinemünde in Poland. Inspector Julia Thiel and her Polish colleague Marek Wozniak are investigating together. Only initially does everything look like a sexual offense. The woman wanted to meet one of her cashiers to offer her a new apartment in Poland in exchange for an old, run-down house on the German side. However, it is said that the inspection of the apartment never took place. A case that particularly challenges Julia Thiel.

High season on Usedom. Sophie Thiel has accepted a holiday job and waits tables in the café on the Heringsdorf pier. She becomes friends with her young Polish colleague Jadwiga Gryn. After work, they make their way home together on their bikes. Shortly after the girls have parted ways, Jadwiga is ambushed, drugged and kidnapped.The search for the missing person is the first job that inspector Julia Thiel takes on again after her serious accident. Jadwiga's friend Christoph Dierwald fears the worst.

A homeless is injured in a fire on a yacht docked, Julia discovers that earlier the ship was involved in an accident where a couple was murdered but their son survived, then she wonders if he's returned to the island to avenge his parents.

Participants in an illegal car race are surprised by police and try to flee, during the escape a young man is run over and dies. Former prosecutor is driving with the son of a friend when, suddenly, a car comes directly in front of her.

After her divorce from local politician Victor Braydon, Simone Eggebrecht finds stability in her work with the disabled and in her friendship with Wiebke Siehl, who is paralyzed. Simone's plan to build a hotel for the handicapped in a prime location is torpedoed by anonymous acts of sabotage. She hires Patrick Horn as a security guard. When the young man disappears, Simone blames her ex-husband and his party colleague Enno Littmann and involves Commissioner Ellen Norgaard and her colleague Rainer Witt in their War of the Roses.

Ellen Norgaard's first day back at work after maternity leave ends in disaster: her son is abducted from the care of his childminder. Inspector Witt and former public prosecutor Lossow set everything in motion to find the child.

There is a fire on Usedom: Karin Lossow's thatched-roof house is on fire. She manages to escape from the house at the last moment with Ellen Norgaard's help. Karin has suffered smoke inhalation and is immediately taken to hospital.

Ulf, Eva and Renate, all in their seventies, are partying hard during a camping trip in Poland. The next day, Ulf, confused and distraught, is found by hunters at the edge of the forest. He believes he has killed someone.

The prominent TV presenter Sandra Berger is dead. Gardening entrepreneur Britta Hausmann finds the TV lady beaten to death in her Usedom vacation home. Chief Inspector Ellen Norgaard is shocked when she meets the dead woman's husband, the equally well-known TV presenter Jonas Gomez, at the crime scene. The two are connected by the well-kept secret of a passionate affair. Karin Lossow senses that Ellen is in a bad way. The detective pours her heart out to her friend. Nobody at the police station suspects that Ellen was seeing Jonas Gomez at the time of the crime. It would mean the certain end of her career in the police force and the probable end of the career of her lover, who has no alibi for the time of the crime and is also being blackmailed.

School secretary Annett Ludwig is jogging by the sea. She discovers a dead teenager under a steep cliff: Theo Jacobsen, a pupil at her school. The 17-year-old was considered an inconspicuous outsider. Karin Lossow knew Theo from commercial school, where she led a course on legal issues as part of a project week. By chance, she had witnessed a bullying attack on Theo, who was at the top of his class, and offered to help the boy. Rainer Witt and his colleagues Holm Brendel and Dorit Martens investigate Theo's laptop. It turns out that he was engaged in a lively trade in test questions, which he sold to his classmates and made thousands of euros in profit. To do this, the alleged model pupil used access to the headmaster's surfer - only school secretary Ludwig knew the password.

Police sergeant Holm Brendel follows the trail of prominent Swedish crime writer Arvid Johansson in Ystad. Former public prosecutor Karin Lossow accompanies Holm on the private trip. On the ferry back to Usedom, she meets Dana Driest, a native of Poland. She has a conspicuous hematoma on her cheek. Was she a victim of domestic violence? The next day, Karin sees Dana's husband Jochen driving off the ferry in his SUV - without his wife.

An exploration of the revival of Nazi sentiment in Germany is the theme of the five short films gathered together in this anthology.

Post-war Germany in 1946 while people are struggling to make ends meet, the film follows Hermann, a war veteran who finds employment at a train station. As he falls in love with an agricultural worker and starts comitting thefts, his fragile psyche seems to fall more and more out of balance.

"Inspector Susanne Beckert doesn't make it easy to be liked. Thanks to her tenacity to follow through on her ""intuition"", she soon has the entire precinct on her back. Her first case involves a fire in which the mother and daughters escape but the father dies. Susanne is convinced the man was murdered. Though she still has the support of her partner Weber, she puts everything on the line when she begins to investigate into similar cases that occurred in the past - against the will of her colleagues. With the help of former pathologist Gerit, Susanne discovers a trail of cover-ups and irregularities that ultimately lead her and Weber to the serial killer's lair. Before they can seize him, however, Susanne is knocked unconscious and Weber is shot with Susanne's gun. Suspected of attempted murder, she must now prove her innocence and catch the killer - the only way to prove to her colleagues that her instinct was dead right.

A homosexual couple in Berlin, one of whom has a fervent desire to adopt, discovers that the other already has a son. They are able to track him down near Lübeck, but meeting his biological father, the owner of a travesty club, is initially a disappointment for the young man, a sportsman with professional dreams. Only slowly and with great difficulty do the two of them come closer together and consider a solution to all their problems.

After the sudden death of his wife, heart surgeon Dr. Steffen Hennings becomes increasingly withdrawn. He works a lot, but he doesn't sleep. A horrific murder is about to change his fate once again in a tragic way. All clues point to him. Why does he sit in the garden of his attractive colleague Dr. Lumis at night and watch her? Is he perhaps the brutal murderer of women that the police believe him to be? If not, why does he take the eccentric police psychologist Rosenblum hostage in the middle of the interrogation and flee? Rosenblum doesn't know whether to believe his kidnapper's claims of innocence. Pursued by the police and a hired killer, a friendship soon develops between the two men—and at the same time, Henning begins the fight for the love of his colleague Lumis. What role does she play in this drama full of lies and accusations? And who hired the killer?

On a cold Christmas Eve, a little girl is shivering in the streets. She has a bundle of matches to sell. She decides to not returns the orphanage, and ran away, in the rundown family home . "If I could light at least one, to have a little warm. Just one to warm me up." This heartbreaking version of Hans Christian Andersen's tale tells how her parents' visions gently accompanied her to death.

When a dormant volcano suddenly erupts into activity beneath Laach Lake in the Eiffel mountains, panic breaks out among the 500.000 residents.

Dr. Maria Fender makes few friends at her new workplace with her motto “Rehabilitation instead of incarceration”. At the renowned clinic for the mentally ill, only hard cases such as child molesters and serial killers are detained. When Maria defies the therapy instructions of her boss Dr. Strauss, she is suspended from duty. On her own initiative, she frees butcher Marc from the institution because she believes she can cure him...

Once upon a time there was a orphan. The new stepmother and her daughter, Annabella, treat her badly and let her sleep in the ashes. One morning, in the woods, Cinderella meets a hunter who turns out to be Prince Victor.

The true story of the Allied ship Laconia, sunk in WWII by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced against orders to rescue the civilian crew

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

A hired Santa makes promises to a little boy he can't really keep.

Charts the emotional journey of a young man who falls in love with Lotte, engaged to another man. As he realizes that his passion is doomed to failure and constant pain, Werther contemplates taking the most drastic measures.

Arne and his younger brother Malte run the scrapyard they inherited from their parents on the outskirts of Hamburg and live a rather disoriented existence. One day, Malte finds an abandoned baby. He immediately takes the little one to his heart and wants to look after the child until he finds the birth mother. His brother Arne doesn't like the idea at all, but Malte wants to go through with the plan and even threatens to sell his brother the scrapyard. Disgruntled, Arne finally agrees and, as Malte is fully occupied with caring for the baby, sets off on a laborious search for the raven mother.

Baal, a young artist whom society regards as a genius, does not want to be monopolized by the culture and business.

Franz Ferdinand von und zu Donnersberg is a charismatic, well-bred and handsome young man from a very wealthy family who sees his future in politics. His childhood friend Max Drexel is quick-witted, ambitious, quick-witted, but comes from a humble background and doesn't like to be in the foreground. But together they make an unbeatable team, as Max runs his office and writes him the tangled and grandiose speeches that Franz Ferdinand gets so much applause and recognition for. But Chancellor Angela Murkel eyes the young MP with great skepticism. Franz Ferdinand realizes that he could improve his reputation with the chancellor with a doctorate