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Wie ein Blitz

1970 · 1 season

A cool, talky cat-and-mouse thriller that keeps you leaning in, second-guessing every alibi as the hunters become the hunted.

Created by
Francis Durbridge
Genres
Crime
Starring
Ingmar Zeisberg, Peter Eschberg, Paul Hubschmid
Overview
It all begins when the wealthy real estate shark Gordon Stuart is murdered in a lonely villa by his wife Diana and his closest collaborator Mark Paxton. When Mark wants to get rid of the corpse, it suddenly disappears. A nerve-wracking game of "cat and mouse" turns the perpetrators into victims. Inspector Clay investigates and soon stumbles across more corpses

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Created by
Francis Durbridge
Genres
Crime
Starring
Ingmar Zeisberg, Peter Eschberg, Paul Hubschmid
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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • deception
  • crime
  • guilt
  • betrayal
  • mystery
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour1
Realism7
Romance2
Tension8
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
crime
Created by
Francis Durbridge
Written by
Marianne de Barde, Francis Durbridge
Starring
Ingmar Zeisberg, Peter Eschberg, Paul Hubschmid, Horst Bollmann, Eva Pflug, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, Albert Lieven, Christine Kaufmann
Music
Sam Spence
Cinematography
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Length
1 seasons, 3 episodes
Network
Das Erste
Country
Germany
Languages
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