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TV tips on Saturday
“The Song of the Dead Girl”: Jan (Torben Liebrecht) and “Mütze” (Lara Mandoki) are looking for a mysterious hut in the woods.
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8:15 p.m., The First, The Song of the Dead Girl, thriller
Sauerland, autumn 1995: On the Wilzenberg, a walker finds the body of high school graduate Sonja Risse (Johanna Hens). However, the fact that the killer left a music box with the lullaby “Hush Little Baby” at the crime scene does not lead to a clear explanation. In Cologne, 25 years later, the investigative journalist Stefanie “Mütze” Schneider (Lara Mandoki) makes a surprising discovery: In a closed parking garage, she films a man’s corpse, undressed – next to which a music box is playing! When her colleague Jan Römer (Torben Liebrecht), who reported on the spectacular Sonja case as a young journalist in 1995, recognizes the melody from back then, he immediately believes there is a connection.
8:15 p.m., ProSieben, War Dogs, action satire
David (Miles Teller) and Efraim (Jonah Hill) lead a relaxed life in Miami – until Efraim, who earns his living as a small arms dealer, gambles. Together with David, he lands a multimillion-dollar contract that turns them into international arms dealers. The fun stops, however, when the two suddenly have to deal with extremely shady business partners.
8:15 p.m., ZDFneo, once is never, crime comedy
Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl) is broke. After losing her job, she sees only one way out: she agrees to find one Joe Morelli and bring him to justice for $10,000. There are only two catches: First, Joe is suspected of murder, second, he is no stranger to Stephanie. The two have known each other since they were children and Stephanie had vowed to stay away from Joe forever. However, she cannot believe that he is supposed to be a murderer.
8:15 p.m., RTL two, like a single day, romance
A man reads stories from an old notebook to a woman with Alzheimer’s disease in a nursing home. These tell the story of the love between Noah (Ryan Gosling) and Allie (Rachel McAdams), mixed-race teenagers who meet in a coastal town in North Carolina in the 1940s, separated by World War II but believing they were meant for one another finally return home. At first, fate decreed that they should go their separate ways.
9:45 p.m., The First, Allmen and the Secret of Eroticism, crime thriller
Boredom is not an acceptable state for Johann Friedrich von Allmen (Heino Ferch). At a reading, the art detective spontaneously steals a famous Fabergé egg from the host’s possession. His security officer Krähenbühler (Christoph Bach) does not let the unusual robber fly, but tries to blackmail von Allmen into an even more brazen theft. For appearances, Allmen agrees and, together with his butler Carlos (Samuel Finzi), robs a unique porcelain collection.