Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
This is not how Commissioner Thanner imagined working in Berlin: Transferred from Duisburg to the river Spree, where he is to head a police task force, it's a matter of life and death on his very first day.
