Die Stadt und die Macht

Die Stadt und die Macht

NR Limited Series 2016 · 6 eps · ★ 4.0

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Staged by Friedemann Fromm, this new prime time serial with main actors Anna Loos, Thomas Thieme and Burghart Klaußner is an emotional family drama, exciting political thriller and genre picture of the German capital in one sweep. The action’s central character is lawyer Susanne Kröhmer. While planning her private future with her partner, she gets the chance of becoming a candidate for the position of mayor of Berlin and prepares for competing with the city’s powerful ones. During this phase, however, she gets into conflict with her own father’s political interests, him being the leader of the conservative party.When finding out about some deceptive business practice with mayor-in-office Degenhardt, she feels urged to start on a journey back into her own past to find out truth. Alex, a journalist and good friend of hers from youth times, supports her in her confrontation with her past and her father’s criminal offences. One prime result during her search is, that transparency and honesty are hard to keep up within the political arena she is about to step into.

Directed by Friedemann Fromm

Network: Das Erste

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Anna Loos Susanne Kröhmer
Burghart Klaußner Manfred Degenhardt
Thomas Thieme Karl-Heinz Kröhmer
Stephan Kampwirth Maik Burmeister
Jürgen Heinrich Frank Griebnitz
Jule Böwe Saskia Butz
Martin Brambach Georg Lassnitz
Renate Krößner Brigitte Kröhmer
Carlo Ljubek Alex Moravek
Burak Yiğit Jussuf Antun
Rick Okon Tassilo
Ingrid Mülleder Gertrud Jansen

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