Podcast adaptation: Finally you can watch the highly acclaimed true crime mini-series “Time Crimes”. stream

“Time Crime” celebrated its world premiere. already at the Berlinale in February. The podcast adaptation was awarded the German Acting Prize for the Ensemble, the German Camera Prize, and the German Television Crime Prize as “Crime Series of the Year”. and the Bunte New Faces Award. And crime fans have been waiting ever since. Despite big names in directing and acting, the four finished episodes have not yet been broadcast anywhere. Now the time has finally come. All four films will be shown from November 6thRTL+.

The four independent films are each based on a podcast episode from “Time Crime”. The journalist and long-time court reporter for Die Zeit, Sabine Rückert, has been talking here with her colleague Andreas Sentker about major crimes and their detection since 2018. With five million streams per month, ?Time Crime? one of the most listened to and most successful () Podcasts from Germany. The fictional anthology series, produced by X Films Creative Pool (?Babylon Berlin?), consists of four one-hour episodes, each inspired by a selected case from the podcast. In addition, RTL+ is also exclusively showing four documentaries under the title ?Time Crimes? Search for clues?, which are linked to the feature films and delve deeper into certain aspects of the respective case.

We don't want to spoil too much. But this much can be revealed: every episode is completely different. In thefirst episode ?December?(by Mariko Minoguchi), a completely normal 18-year-old (Samuel Benito) ends up in a nightly nightmare full of unfortunate concatenations after a rather drunken visit to the disco. The boy's fate is staged like a horror film and is almost unbearable. That's a quicker way to tell itsecond film ?The Panther?(by Jan Bonny). A milieu study. The brilliantly eccentric Lars Eidinger plays a hopelessly crazy undercover agent who wants to free his daughter from drug addiction and rip off both the police and a criminal gang. A thrilling performance! Thethird episode “Your Brothers?”(by Helene Hegemann) is a courtroom drama with Lavina Wilson and examines the question of why five boys from Berlin killed their sandpit friend with dozens of knife stabs. Thefourth and final part ?Love by Proxy?(by Faraz Shariat) is a loneliness drama. Jan Henrik Stahlberg (?Muxmäuschenstill?) heartbreakingly plays a lonely widower who tries against all reason to save his supposed girlfriend.

The series is an alternative to Germany's popular Sunday evening "crime scene". Younger and more innovative. Certainly a bit voyeuristic too. But above all more radical and merciless. And therefore all the more haunting. The four episodes are not classic whodunit crime stories in which investigators go on a hunt for criminals. The focus is on the big why: Why do people become criminals? And why couldn't the crime be prevented? Why don't we let the cases go? See for yourself: You can stream the mini-series here now!