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Dark Woods

2020 · 1 season

A somber, slow-burning German crime saga that lingers on decades of quiet grief and mounting dread.

Created by: Sven Bohse
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Starring: Matthias Brandt, Silke Bodenbender, Karoline Schuch

Overview: In the summer of 1989, the sister of Hamburg's LKA chief Thomas Bethge disappears without a trace. For almost three decades, he investigates the mysterious criminal case, before he gets on the trail of a serial killer.

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Created by: Sven Bohse
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Starring: Matthias Brandt, Silke Bodenbender, Karoline Schuch

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
obsession
mystery
crime
isolation
Places: countryside
big city
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	4
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	1
Tension	7
Darkness	8
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: crime, drama, mystery
Created by: Sven Bohse
Written by: Stefan Kolditz
Starring: Matthias Brandt, Silke Bodenbender, Karoline Schuch, August Wittgenstein, Nicholas Ofczarek, Jenny Schily, Hanno Koffler, Andreas Lust
Cinematography: Michael Schreitel
Length: 1 seasons, 6 episodes, 45 min each
Network: Das Erste
Country: Germany
Languages: German

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