Dengler — Season 1, Episode 5: Burning Cold
Crime, Action & Adventure, Drama • 90 min • 1 season, 6 episodes • ★ 8.0/10
Episode synopsis
Shortly before his son Jakob's wedding in Stuttgart, the former BKA target tracker and private detective Georg Dengler is asked for help by hacker activist Olga. Olga's friend Anne, an investigative journalist, sent her information on the darknet about secret blueprints for microwave weapons, lists of names of Bundeswehr officers and photos of tortured men. Shortly afterwards, she was shot by unknown assailants. At the same time, Anne's informant, Bundeswehr officer and Afghanistan veteran Florian Singer, is involved in a near-fatal accident in his car. Dengler and Olga get on the trail of the secret Fahrenheit program of the BND and Bundeswehr, led by Werner Kempf, and Katharina Petry's initiated research into microwave weapons at MeySis AG. Dengler and Olga stir up a hornet's nest of illegal weapons tests and international arms deals.
About Dengler
Georg Dengler is a private investigator after his unpleasant departure from the BKA. His missions, which are often very politically explosive, take him to all areas of Germany and also to other European countries. His experience and connections from his time at the BKA benefit him, and he now mostly works with the people he previously had to hunt down. The series is a film adaptation of the Dengler novels by Wolfgang Schorlau and has been broadcast on ZDF since 2015. A characteristic feature of Schorlau's works is the criticism of social and political conditions; the films in the series are often based on true events, but the specific plot is fictitious.