48 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestFrauke Beckmann identifies the mole within the ZERV; Karo is in Wolfsburg meeting her father, who gives her an important lead into the case.
ZERV" tells of the first years after the fall of the Wall, the breaks in life courses, of completely different biographies and of the successful coming together in the common fight against crime, which knows no East and West. ZERV stands for the Central Investigation Office for Government and Association Crime, founded in Berlin in 1991 by decision of the federal government.
Acting
Nadja Uhl's East Berlin grit meets Fabian Hinrichs' West German polish
Production
Berlin 1991 recreated through grimy authenticity, not nostalgia
Writing
Cases that expose systemic rot, not just whodunit puzzles
Nadja Uhl
Karo Schubert
Fabian Hinrichs
Peter Simon
Thorsten Merten
Hajo Gärster
Fritzi Haberlandt
Uta Lampert
Leon Ullrich
Bernd Haller
Henriette Hölzel
Frauke Beckmann
Max Hubacher
Holger Bündner
Alina Stiegler
Patrizia Schäfer
Rainer Bock
Hans Thieme
Imogen Kogge
Elisabeth Schubert
Peter Schneider
Andi Schubert
Vanessa Loibl
Silvia Schubert
Valentin Kleinschmidt
Walter Kronen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The actual ZERV existed only 14 months, solving over 11,000 cases before politicians shut it down—too successful, too embarrassing.
Director Dustin Loose grew up in East Berlin; his mother's Stasi file partially inspired Karo's backstory.
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