“Ein Fall für zwei” anniversary season starts
Antoine Monot and Wanja Mues study in the restaurant
Antoine Monot and Wanja Mues celebrate ten years of “Ein Fall für zwei”.
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For ten years, Wanja Mues and Antoine Monot have been solving Frankfurt criminal cases in “Ein Fall für zwei”. This is how they prepare for filming.
In May 2014, the first season of the new edition of the popular crime series “Ein Fall für zwei” started on ZFD. The two main actors are Wanja Mues (50) as private detective Leo Oswald and Antoine Monot (49) as lawyer Benjamin Hornberg. It is the new edition of the television series of the same name, which was produced from 1981 to 2013 with Claus Theo Gärtner (81) as Josef Matula, among others.
The big footsteps have long since been caught up
“Yes, of course you have respect for it, because it is also a great responsibility that we were given by ZDF back then,” says Antoine Monot in a new interview with the broadcaster about the big shoes they have been filling since filming in 2013. But it was also a “great opportunity”.
At some point, however, they consciously stopped thinking about their footsteps and “got into action” and “simply started putting one foot in front of the other. And that’s how you start running and racing. And before you know it, ten years have passed,” the German-Swiss actor sums up.
Joint rehearsals in the restaurant
The crime cases are filmed in and around the Hessian metropolis of Frankfurt am Main. And it is precisely here that the two main actors apparently rehearse their scenes together.
“We have been friends for years and we are always happy to see each other and work together. Wanja is a wonderful colleague,” Monot enthuses about his colleague. Then he says: “We always meet in the evening after filming and then in Frankfurt we usually go to the same bar and learn the lines, prepare the scenes for the next two days – and yes, we always look forward to it and spend a lot of time together.”
Monot also gets excited when he thinks about the filming location. “It’s a small city, but it has incredible wealth thanks to its banks and economy.” As a result, Frankfurt am Main “is like a big city in terms of its cultural and gastronomic offerings – and that’s great, of course,” he says.
In the interview, the actor also explains why he now writes his name without Jr.: “At some point I thought: now I can leave out the ‘Junior’, I’ve gotten so old now,” he jokes and says: “My father used to call me that because a lot of people said: I’m a visual copy of my father. That had become established at some point” and he incorporated it into the name, “but now I’m leaving it out again.”
What can viewers expect in the anniversary season?
Four new crime adventures await fans. It all starts with the broadcast of the episode “Showbiz” this Friday evening at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF. In the episode, a rapper is suspected of having murdered his sister…
The coming Fridays will see “Divided” (September 20), “The Last Delivery” (September 27) and “Disappeared Without a Trace” (October 4).