Story
In Hamburg’s red-light district, a special unit of the CID fights organized crime. This 5-part documentary series is set in St. Pauli, Hamburg’s red-light district, where in the 1980s brutal power struggles were carried out in the lucrative gambling, prostitution and drug businesses. From Wilfrid Schulz, the so-called “Godfather of St. Pauli” and his connections to the US Mafia, rival gangs of pimps to the Hells Angels, contract killers and South American drug barons: the “Kiez”, as the area is known, was a hotspot of criminal activity, a many-headed Hydra. Interviews, archive material and dramatized elements are conflated into a gripping true crime series, in which former detectives are interviewed, along with criminals they were investigating.
Director
GEORG TSCHURTSCHENTALER (*1974 in South Tyrol) has been producing, writing and making documentaries since 2003. CARSTEN GUTSCHMIDT (*1975) has shot over 100 music videos since 1998 and since 2013 has been making docudramas, including Leningrad Symphony (2017). INA KESSEBOHM has been making features and documentaries since 2013 for among others Arte, MDR, Spiegel TV and ZDF.Info
Reeperbahn Spezialeinheit FD65
TV Series
German
Televisionen | FF2022
Germany
2022
90 min
OV
Georg Tschurtschenthaler, Carsten Gutschmidt, Ina Kessebohm
Ina Kessebohm, Georg Tschurtschenthaler, Christian Beetz, Florian Fettweis
Christian Beetz
Matthias Bolliger, Jens Boeck
Tobias Rüping, Karsten Höfer
André Nier, Sarah-Christin Peter
Nils Kacirek
Sabine Dotzauer, Iris Trescher
Stefanie Jauß
Federführung: Marc Brasse, Barbara Biemann / NDR, Mark Willock / SWR, Christiane Hinz / WDR, Rolf Bergmann / rbb
Studio Hamburg Enterprises
gebrueder beetz filmproduktion
Studio Hamburg Enterprises, NDR, SWR, WDR, RBB für die ARD
NDR, SWR, WDR, rbb für die ARD
gebrueder beetz filmproduktion, Florian Fettweis: f.fettweis@gebrueder-beetz.de | Studio Hamburg Enterprises, Kerstin Grünwald: k.gruenwald@studio-hamburg.de
Tags
ActionAgeingWorkDocumentaryMemoriesHistorySocietyViolenceCrime and ThrillerNordicDeath and Loss