ZDF presents its recent crime and suspense titles at Virtual Screenings

On the scripted side, Robert Franke, VP, ZDFE.drama, recommends the high-end series Freud (8x45’), coproduced by Satel Film and Bavaria Fiction for ORF (Austria) and Netflix. Freud tells the story of the young psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, in Vienna in 1886, just as his revolutionary theories are being met with strong opposition from colleagues and wider Austrian society.

Also mixing crime and suspense is Top Dog (8x45’) a series that focuses primarily on the clash between Stockholm business attorney Emily Jansson and Södertälje ex-con Teddy Maksumic. While Ottilie von Faber-Castell (2x90’) follows a brilliant young woman that navigates the pitfalls of 19th century business, family and forbidden love, and The Crimson Rivers (16x50’ or 8x100’) is a breathtaking series based on the best-selling novel of the same name which follows detective Pierre Niémans and his new partner Camille Delauney as they investigate a series of bizarre crimes in remote regions of France.

From the ZDFE.junior’s slate, it stands the live action series Heirs of the Night (26x26’), about five vampire clans in Europe that will need to learn each other’s powers to become stronger than ever and survive, and the animated series Henrietta (52x7’), about a cow that lives on a little farm together with the farmer and lots of other animals. Every episode contains a twist, a humorous change. Often the result at the end contradicts the expectations at the beginning of an episode. Lastly, from ZDFE.unscripted highlights are the science and knowledge shows Great Inventions (35x50’) and Forensics – The Science of Crime (3x50’).