#SmallScreenScenes From Cold Cases to Hot Spy Action, Secret Histories to Convoluted Mysteries, it's on MHz Choice in April!
In April MHz Choice Brings
Long-Running Crime Comedy Homicide Hills
to North American Audiences
plus
The 1960s Classic Detective Series Maigret from the UK
From cold cases to hot spy action, secret histories to convoluted mysteries,
it's on MHz Choice in April!
German crime comedy Homicide Hills (Beta Films) brings a big city detective to lead a tiny police force in the most rural of towns. Sophie Haas (Caroline Peters, Tatort) is “promoted” out of her role as detective in Cologne and moves to a backwoods tumbleweed of a town with her father in tow. The fictional rural outpost of Hengasch in the Eifel mountains is not exactly teeming with open cases. The police department’s two officers - Sergeant Dietmar Schäffer (Bjarne Mädel, Crime Scene Cleaner) and Officer Barbel Schmied (Meike Droste) are more caretakers than overworked sleuths.
Haas’ disappointment in the lack of murders and open cases gives her plenty of time to pursue every small lead, dragging her small police department and sometimes the whole town along with her to conclusion. Crimes and murders eventually do happen and that is where Detective Haas is at her happiest. Sergeant Schäffer and Officer Schmied also seem happier when they can do some real police work - even if Haas has to show them how.
The conflicts between Haas’ big city ways and Hengasch’s sleepy demeanor are not limited to those employed as police. Dietmar Schäffer’s wife Heike (Petra Kleinert) wears her jealousy on her gossipy sleeve and clearly rules the roost at home. Haas’ predecessor, Hans Zielonka (Michael Hanemann), is still kicking around wishing he were still in charge. Haas has no time for such nonsense because there has to be a juicy case around Hengasch somewhere.
During Homicide Hills’ original run, Caroline Peters won three Best Actress awards for her role as Sophie Haas (Two Bavarian TV Awards and one German Screen Actors Award).
Also this April, Season 2 of Agent Hamilton (Sweden, Beta Films), brings Jakob Oftebro back to MHz Choice as superspy Carl Hamilton after a two-year hiatus. This season includes four multi-episode storylines, each taking Hamilton undercover in different parts of Europe: a top-secret NATO operation gone wrong in the French Mediterranean, a suspicious cargo in northern Sweden, a rescue mission in Belarus and an assignment to protect an intelligence asset in Warsaw. Agent Hamilton is inspired by the bestselling spy thriller novels by Jan Guillou.
Also premiering this April is Season One of Maigret (Kino Lorber), which first debuted in the United Kingdom in 1959 and stars Rupert Davies. For super-fans of the franchise, the episodes from the U.K. directly mirror the French version of Maigret, which is currently streaming on MHz Choice.
Returning in April is Season 3 of Italian crime dramedy Imma Tataranni (Rai Com) starring Vanessa Scalera, bringing fresh cases to beautiful Matera, Italy and Inspector Rex (Austria, Beta Films) continues with new cases for Rex to sniff out in Season 4.
APRIL 4
HOMICIDE HILLS
GERMANY, BETA FILMS, NEW SERIES
Detective Sophie Haas is transferred from Cologne to the fictional rural town of Hengasch in the Eifel mountains.Once there, she leads a comically small police force which investigates more black eyes than bodies. Disappointed by the lack of murders, she is determined to pursue every last lead.
APRIL 11
AGENT HAMILTON
SWEDEN, BETA FILMS, NEW SEASON
Jakob Oftebro stars as Swedish superspy Carl Hamilton in this TV thriller inspired by the novels of Jan Guillou.
MAIGRET
UNITED KINGDOM, KINO LORBER, NEW SERIES
The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner. Based on the Maigret novels and stories by Georges Simenon and first broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1959 - 1963.
APRIL 18
IMMA TATARANNI
ITALY, RAI COM, NEW SEASON
Deputy prosecutor Imma Tataranni cracks cases with attitude to spare in this entertaining crime series set in Matera.
APRIL 25
INSPECTOR REX
AUSTRIA, BETA FILMS, NEW SEASON
Police dog Rex investigates crime and solves mysteries on the streets of Vienna - protecting the innocent, catching criminals and stealing the occasional ham roll.
MURDEROUS MEMORIES
FRANCE, FRANCE TV, NEW SERIES
A trio of fresh mysteries mixes WWI history and modern-day forensics. Set in the locations and within the context of WWI battlefields across France, old memories are reckoned with to solve more recent murders.
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