In a provincial town, one girl after another disappears: who is behind the crimes? An exciting thriller with German actors in front of an English backdrop.
Berlin – high tension in front of a typical British landscape: This is how readers love the books by German bestselling author Charlotte Link.
For more than 20 years, German television – formerly on ZDF, now on Erste – has screened her crime novels and reliably reaches a loyal fan audience of around five million viewers.
In “Charlotte Link – The Search”, Scotland Yard investigator Kate Linville is now looking for a kidnapper and killer in the north of England. Henny Reents (“Nord bei Nordwest”) and Lucas Gregorowicz (“Polizeiruf 110”) will play the main roles on Thursday from 8:15 pm in the Ersten.
It’s a rainy autumn night when 14-year-old Hannah (Ava Hayes) disappears in northern Yorkshire. She waited all alone at the train station. Her father Ryan (Georg Nikoloff) did not show up, but a mysterious black van with dark letters drove up. After that, Hannah disappeared from the face of the earth. The chief inspector and alcoholic Caleb Hale (Lucas Gregorowicz) investigates – but the traces run nowhere.
Two years later, passers-by discover a girl’s body in the high moor. It’s not Hannah, it’s another missing teenage girl. She starved and died of thirst, as it turns out later. In the local media it is easy to talk about a high moor killer.
Then suddenly events roll over. Another 14-year-old girl, Amelie (Charlotte Lorenzen), disappears in the parking lot of a supermarket. Mother Deborah (Milena Dreissig) and father Jason (Alexander Perkins) desperately seek help from Scotland Yard officer Kate Linville (Henny Reents), who is a guest at their bed-and-breakfast. But that is actually not responsible. Years later, their paths cross again with those of Caleb Hale. “I wanted to call you. Often. Honestly. “, He soon admits after the first words of greeting.
Of course, Kate Linville gets deeper and deeper into the fall: “I just can’t get out of my skin. Especially when those involved mean something to me. ”Suddenly Amelie reappears. She is rescued from a life-threatening situation by two men. But she cannot provide any information at first and behaves enigmatically.
More and more opaque characters appear in this thriller – played by a consistently brilliant German-British mixed cast. Director Till Franzen staged the two-parter as a routine crime thriller entertainment with great landscape shots and a winding plot. Part two will air on Saturday on the first, again at prime time. dpa
