AIRED OCTOBER 2017 ON ZDF
In an elegant residential neighbourhood on the outskirts of Berlin, children and parents roam through the November evening, singing: lantern parade. 9-year-old Janosch knows everyone – except for the inconspicuous woman (Silke Bodenbender) pushing a buggy slightly apart from the rest of the people. When Janosch looks into the buggy, he is confused: the ‘baby’ inside is a doll. At the same time, TV presenter Caroline Schäfer (Anja Kling) sneaks into her child’s nursery to take a look at her sleeping ‘angel‘, but the bed is empty! It seems impossible that 2-year-old Paulina would have left the bed of her own accord. The desperate parents call the police. The lead investigator Martin Brühl (Roeland Wiesnekker) suspects that the celebrity’s child has been kidnapped. He sees parallels with a similar case two years ago, when Martin was unable to find the child. LKA psychologist Susanne (Meike Droste) sees the moderator’s overly hectic lifestyle as a possible motive for the perpetrator. Some people – including her husband Till (Magnus Krepper) – feel Caroline is a “bad mother.” When a ransom note arrives and Janosch himself disappears, the situation seems to shaping up into a catastrophe.
DIRECTOR: Andreas Senn
SCRIPT: Christoph Darnstädt, Annette Simon
CAST: Roeland Wiesnekker, Meike Droste, Silke Bodenbender, Anja Kling, Mark Ben Puch, Magnus Krepper u.v.a.
CAMERA: Markus Hausen
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Anke Osterloh
COSTUME DESIGN: Gitti Fuchs
PRODUCER: Moritz von der Groeben
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Holger Härtel
EDITOR: Daniel Blum (ZDF)
