Docudrama about life, career and breakdown of Erich Mielke, the former Security chief of East Germany.

Erich Mielke - Master of Fear

Lotte Jäger (Silke Bodenbender), special investigator for the Potsdam murder commission for unsolved old cases, investigates a murder case that has not been solved for 16 years in a Brandenburg village. "Lotte Jäger and the Village of the Damned" is currently being shot in Brandenburg and Berlin. The screenplay for the second case in the ZDF crime series was again written by Rolf Basedow. Franziska Meletzky directs. In addition to Silke Bodenbender, Sebastian Hülk, Hansjürgen Hürrig, Nellie Thalbach and others will play. In the summer of 2001, Manuela Kirschner (Nellie Thalbach) falls victim to a brutal violent crime after the promotion party of the SV Grün Weiß Großlühne football club. The responsible chief inspector Konrad Dahlke (Hansjürgen Hürrig) suspects a sexual murder, but cannot solve the case. Traces are blurred, potential perpetrators have no memory. The party was too long and the celebrations too intense. Suspicion grows in the village - the killer is among them, that's for sure. The files were never closed. Now, sixteen years later, Dahlke, who is now retired, is sent a video of the party at the time - sender unknown. He asks his former protégé Kurt Schaake (Sebastian Hülk) and Lotte Jäger to reopen the case. The investigations lead the commissioner into a swamp of distrust, resentment and repression. No one in the village wants to conjure up the demons of the past again, and the wall of silence seems impassable. Lotte Jäger no longer knows who to trust and what to believe, and, increasingly plagued by restlessness and panic, soon begins to doubt herself too.