Anwalt Abel

  • Günther Maria Halmer: Jean Abel
  • Andrea L' Arronge: Jane Kerschbaum
  • Vitus Zeplichal: Commissioner Wood
  • Saskia Vester: Commissioner Annabelle

Attorney Abel is a series of 20 TV movies based on the eponymous detective novels by Fred Breinersdorfer.

Action

Jean Abel is a lawyer after a failed career as an artist and sits on a highly unorthodox manner for his clients. He is thus never the easy way and refuses to court from his point of view unacceptable concessions from. Example, it is never his goal to obtain only the termination of the case, but he wants to achieve the acquittal of the accused, if he is convinced of his innocence.

Abel himself rarely comes here at his expense, because he is not afraid to take on the execution of its intransigence great disadvantages. However, it succeeds again and again to solve a particularly difficult cases. Here he help his idolized him assistant Jane Kerschbaum, and sometimes Commissioner wood from the Vice desk, and later detective superintendent Annabelle.

Background / history

Attorney Abel is a television film series for ZDF. Both the novel adaptations as well as the original screenplays and several films underlying crime novels of the same name originating from Fred Breinersdorfer. After first Südwestfunk had successfully filmed one of the Abel - fiction ( self-defense, 1988, directed by Peter Schulze-Rohr ) with Uwe Ochsenknecht in the role of the lawyer, the film adaptation of the second Abel -Romans followed in the same channel with Thomas Heinze as Abel and Heinz Hoenig ( Merry Christmas Lucie, 1992, the first directed by Roland Suso Richter). For this film, however, Abel had been in " Zygl " be renamed because the ZDF had now become the " Abel " taken - film adaptations.

The first film with Günther Maria Halmer and Dieter Pfaff as a voyeur and rapist ( " The Tuesday Man ", 1988, directed by Frank Guthke ), was a great success with the public. Then decided the program manager of the ZDF to send in a loose series of thrillers featuring Günther Maria Halmer as a lawyer Abel. All 20 films were written by Fred Breinersdorfer and produced by the TV60Filmproduktion GmbH and Bernd burgomaster. " Lawyer Abel " belongs next to " Liebling Kreuzberg " the first lawyer series on German television and is just like " Kreuzberg " is a classic of the format. The series was first aired on Monday evening and reasoned with other paper " Saturday thriller " on ZDF. The films were directed by different directors, including Frank Guthke, Marc Rothemund, Christian Görlitz and Carlo Rola. It played in guest roles, among others, Bruno Ganz, Iris Berben, Gert Voss, Dieter Pfaff, Karoline Eichhorn and Susanne von Borsody. The Abel - thrillers were set in 2001, despite ongoing public success. Studio Hamburg published all 20 episodes in the original from July 2012 on three DVD editions.

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