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Bron Broen, Season 4 Formats 8 x 60' Also available 4 x 115' The Bridge (Danish: Broen; Swedish: Bron) is a Scandinavian TV crime series with storylines featuring the Øresund Bridge that links Malmö

1 Bron Broen, Season 4 Formats 8 x 60' Also available 4 x 115' The Bridge (Danish: Broen; Swedish: Bron) is a Scandinavian TV crime series with storylines featuring the Øresund Bridge that links Malmö in Sweden with Denmark s capital, Copenhagen. In the most recent, third season, the iconic Saga Norén was assigned to investigate a series of ritual killings of public figures. While dealing with private difficulties and a murder charge of her own, Saga was assisted by her talented new Danish colleague Henrik Sabroe. Now, set almost two years later, Sofia Helin and Thure Lindhardt are reprising their roles as Saga and Henrik in the heart-stopping final season. A woman is found brutally murdered on Peberholm, a small artificial island in the Danish part of the Øresund strait, at the base of the bridge. The body is that of Margrethe Thormod, Director General of the Migration Agency in Copenhagen, who was recently embroiled in a deportation scandal. Henrik begins to explore the macabre murder with his Danish colleague, Jonas Mandrup. Apart from the murder investigation, both Henrik and Saga face personal crises in this fourth series. Henrik is missing his colleague and friend Saga, who is now incarcerated in the women s prison in Ystad after being convicted of murdering her mother. Henrik visits her as often as he can and desperately wants her assistance with this new case. However, her predicament renders her unable to help. Henrik s search for his missing daughters is also frustrated by Saga s imprisonment and he comes close to giving up. But theirs is a special friendship that prevails despite the shadow of past events and survives despite when put to the test. The overarching theme of the series is identity. The plots themselves raise the practical problems surrounding false passports and identities, but in examining their own identities and those of the offenders and victims they encounter, the main characters invite viewers to ask similar existential questions. Who am I? Who do I want to be? How am I perceived by others? And how do I want to be perceived?

2 Tabula Rasa (EN) Genre ZDFE.drama Formats 9 x 50' Veerle Baetens (Broke Circle Breakdown) stars in this suspenseful eight-part Belgian thriller about a young woman with amnesia who holds the key to solving a mysterious disappearance, but the more she remembers the less she trusts the people around her or herself. What do you do if you can t trust anyone, least of all yourself? "Tabula Rasa" is a psychological thriller about Mie, a young woman with amnesia who is locked up in a secure psychiatric hospital. Mie is visited by Detective Inspector Wolkers who claims she was the last person seen with a man named Thomas Spectre, before he vanished. As a witness and prime suspect, she appears to be the sole key in this mysterious disappearance. Mie can t be released from the hospital until Thomas is found. In order to solve the puzzle and find Thomas, Mie has to reconstruct her lost memories and find her way back through the dark labyrinth of her recent past. The more she remembers, the more she starts to mistrust not only the people around her, but also herself. Are these recollections real or mere figments of her imagination in a desperate attempt to fill in the blanks? "Tabula Rasa" is a subjective story told by an unreliable narrator: our main character, Mie, is suffering from amnesia. The viewer knows as much or as little as she does. We follow her on a journey into the black holes of her mind. Two storylines are woven together in flashbacks. The present storyline starts with the winter weeks that Mie spends in the psychiatric hospital, where visits from DI Wolkers and her family members start triggering her memories. The past storyline recounts Mie s memories in chronological order, starting in autumn with the move to her grandparents house in the forest, and ending with the disappearance of Thomas Spectre, just before her committal to the psychiatric hospital.

3 Summertime Madness (Blaumacher) Genre ZDFE.drama Formats 6 x 30' What do a man in his mid-forties and his 19-year-old neighbor have in common? They re both living unhappy suburban lives and are looking for an escape. Frank (Marc Ben Puch) is so disillusioned with his marriage, fatherhood and even his success that he s contemplating suicide, while Sascha (Laura Berlin), the daughter of wealthy parents, just wants someone to care about her. Their unlikely friendship keeps them both alive and kicking, and stirring up the neighborhood.

Zarah - Wild Times Formats 6 x 45' "Zarah - Wild Times" tells the story of an ambitious journalist and her part in the women s liberation movement of the early 1970s, as she battles the entrenched

4 Zarah - Wild Times Formats 6 x 45' "Zarah - Wild Times" tells the story of an ambitious journalist and her part in the women s liberation movement of the early 1970s, as she battles the entrenched patriarchy of a popular weekly magazine. It is a time when uncharted waters are being tested in fashion, pop culture, sex and politics. is hip and with it, but the positions of power in politics, business and the media are still almost exclusively held by men. Zarah Wolf has recently joined the editorial team of a magazine, and is determined to fight outdated role models and everyday macho attitudes and behaviour. She employs devious and ruthless methods as she seeks to manoeuvre herself into the editor-in-chief s chair. Zarah risks a great deal and makes powerful enemies. As she turns the great wheel of societal change, her own life and emotions spin into turmoil.

Balaton Residence (aka: Honey Girls) Formats 3 x 90' The three-part TV series "Balaton Residence" tells the story of Maja and Catrin, two young sisters from East.

5 Balaton Residence (aka: Honey Girls) Formats 3 x 90' The three-part TV series "Balaton Residence" tells the story of Maja and Catrin, two young sisters from East. In summer 1986, full of anticipation and hope, they leave home for a holiday on the shores of Lake Balaton in Hungary. It is a place where both East and West Germans would holiday, even before the collapse of communism. A dark secret forces their mother to follow the girls to the resort in an attempt to prevent a catastrophe; but as the stakes are riding high, there are even worse things on the horizon. In the face of desperate attempts to flee to the West, the lake is patrolled the entire time by the East German secret police. Maja and Catrin, played by Cornelia Gröschel and Sonja Gerhardt, soon develop a strong and dangerous desire to explore the grandest and most enchanting hotel in the resort, which is reserved for Westerners. Innocent flirting escalates into a test of the sisters relationship and ultimately forces them to decide where their political and emotional loyalties lie.

Maltese (EN) Formats 8 x 50' Specials 4K Also available 4 x 100' Commissario Dario Maltese, a senior police officer in the drug enforcement agency, is led to uncover a complex system of corruption

6 Maltese (EN) Formats 8 x 50' Specials 4K Also available 4 x 100' Commissario Dario Maltese, a senior police officer in the drug enforcement agency, is led to uncover a complex system of corruption and lawlessness, with assassins and criminals working alongside powerful but untouchable citizens, including government figures. Maltese risks his own life, clashing with murderers who have been sent to kill him. He sees friends murdered and almost loses the woman he has fallen in love with. It is the mid-1970s. A heroin-refining operation moves from Marseille to Sicily, penetrating Italy and causing a far-reaching transformation in the largest criminal organization in the world: the Mafia. Dario returns to his hometown Trapani where he faces up to the reasons behind his father s death and painfully discovers that the long arm of crime is reaching closer to him than he could ever have imagined.

COMBINED STORY PLAN FOR A 4-ACT COZY MYSTERY

Page 1 of 8 COMBINED STORY PLAN FOR A 4-ACT COZY MYSTERY ACT ONE Steps 1 to 4 Step 1. Characters and world building. Introduce the main characters in their story worlds and situations. Start with the sleuth