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Your cool aunt solves murders while smoking indoors and judging everyone.
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Rosa Roth (1994)

chain-smoking realness90s Berlin gritmessy protagonist energy

Latest Episode

90 min

Season 1 • Episode 31

Latest

Episode 31

Oct 12, 2013

Overview

Crime

Rosa Roth is a German television series.

Flag of DEDEGerman
Content warning
female detective
female autonomy in a man's worldmoral ambiguity of justiceloneliness of competencegenerational trauma in post-wall Germany

Standout Aspects

Acting

Iris Berben's exhausted brilliance carries every frame

Production

Pre-unification Berlin locations that no longer exist

Writing

Cases that stay unsolved in morally satisfying ways

Best for:Solo: Late-night spirals with wine and existential dread·Binge: Commit to 31 episodes of gloriously bleak German television·Rewatch: Notice details you missed when not emotionally devastated
Heads up:Violence: Domestic violence depicted with unflinching realism·Triggers: Suicide and child abuse themes throughout
First AiredNov 5, 1994
StatusEnded

Vibe

Paceslow
Intensitymedium
Tonedark
Feelheavy
Seasons1·Episodes31
ZDF

Top Cast

Iris Berben

Iris Berben

Rosa Roth

Carmen-Maja Antoni

Carmen-Maja Antoni

Karin von Lomanski

Gunter Schoß

Gunter Schoß

Kriminalinspektor Günther Zorn

Jockel Tschiersch

Jockel Tschiersch

Charly Kubik

Zacharias Preen

Zacharias Preen

Jürgen Roeder

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Deep Dive

Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Cultural

Rosa Roth premiered months before Germany's 'Tatort' finally featured a female lead detective, making Iris Berben a quiet pioneer.

Trivia

Creator Carlo Rola wrote Rosa specifically for Berben after she rejected every other female detective role for being 'too nice.'

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