Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestThrough the suicide of a villager, Johannes Fuchs has not only and very suddenly lost an important puzzle piece to his own identity and thus to the solution of the mysteries surrounding Sophia Fink's death, but has also come to an unravelling conclusion which in return cause more questions about a water spirit, Adrian Donatius' hospitalization, and family affairs.
Between forests and hills, the river Ahr meanders through a mystical, foggy autumn landscape. Amidst this idyll a man awakens in the middle of a vineyard. He does not know who he is, where he is or how he came to be here. Next to him is a dead young woman lying among the vines. As a foreigner in the secluded town in the Ahr valley he enters an archaic village community, which seems to keep a secret from him.
Cinematography
Misty vineyard valleys that breathe menace.
Production
Ahr Valley location is basically another character.
Acting
Birnbaum's amnesic stranger sells the confusion hard.
Arved Birnbaum
Zepter
Victoria Trauttmansdorff
Regina Donatius
Friedrich Mücke
Johannes Fuchs
Laura Tonke
Christine Schreibe
Jenny Schily
Iris Reichel
Christina Große
Katharina Finck
Arnd Klawitter
Markus Schreiber
Anna Böttcher
Bärbel
Gudrun Landgrebe
Dr. Wieland
Rainer Sellien
Sven Donatius
Antje Traue
Hanna Zepter
Helga Boettiger
Elisabeth Delfi
Marcel Glauche
Matthias Schreiber
Yung Ngo
Pfarrer Anh Hung
Ronald Kukulies
Gerd Finck
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Ahr Valley is Germany's northernmost wine region; the series doubled as unexpected tourism marketing despite its sinister portrayal.
Till Franzen's background in documentary filmmaking explains the almost ethnographic obsession with village ritual and community dynamics.
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