What’s the matter: The early Bundesliga years of FC Bayern Munich, from promotion in 1965 to the beginnings of the global club. The story of Munich’s rise to the heart of the world city is told almost from the hip, no wonder: Dietl’s son David is the director.
Secret star: Jan-David Bürger, Paul Breitner’s perfect image, from the lurking look to the unruly hair, first short, then flowing.
Not suitable for: Sixties. Because they could realize that football history could have turned in their direction. Holger Gertz
Six episodes, on RTL+.
Snow
Uncanny things happen, but they don’t block themselves from it: Brigitte Hobmeier as mother Lucia, Laeni Geiseler as her daughter Alma.
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What’s the matter: A family moves from Vienna to the mountain village where father Matthi comes from. The residents there don’t just want to upgrade for tourism – strange things are also happening. A fairytale mystery thriller that also deals with climate change.
Secret star: Brigitte Hobmeier plays mother Lucia Salinger initially quietly and cautiously, but later almost as powerful as the mountain range towering over the village.
Not suitable for: Realists. Some things are really difficult to explain. Carolin Gasteiger
Six episodes in which Arte media library.
Lovers
Wonderfully in love and at odds: Janet (Roisin Gallagher) and Seamus (Johnny Flynn).
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What’s the matter: About the Northern Irish supermarket cashier Janet, very grumpy and very melancholic, who falls in love with the English TV presenter Seamus, very successful and very enthusiastic about himself. They argue and get along wonderfully.
Secret star: the city of Belfast. Would you like to visit immediately?
Not suitable for: People who already didn’t like “Notting Hill.” Christiane Lutz
Six episodes, on Wow.
German house
Eva Bruhns (Katharina Stark) during the court’s on-site inspection of the crime scene: the former Auschwitz concentration camp.
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What’s the matter: Frankfurt, in the year of the economic miracle of 1963. The innkeeper’s daughter Eva Bruhns (Katharina Stark) works as a translator from Polish and would like to get married soon. She is recruited for a job for which she is completely unprepared – as an interpreter for survivors at the first Auschwitz trial. Eva’s own upright parents are also hiding something.
Secret star: The whole ensemble: Henry Hübchen, Iris Berben, Ricarda Seifried, Heiner Lauterbach – but if you had to choose one, it would be the fantastic Anke Engelke as Bruhn’s hardened mother, who doesn’t say anything for a long time. But then the whole truth.
Not suitable for: You should be prepared for the fact that not everything that takes place in the sixties and starts with a new dress is necessarily a comedy. Claudia Tieschky
Five episodes, on Disney +.
The Buccaneers
Conchita (Alisha Boe) was a misfit in America, but she doesn’t fit in with Lord Richard’s (Josh Dylan) family either.
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What’s the matter: A group of young American women travel to England at the end of the 19th century – there they are considered good matches, but they are too nouveau riche for polite society back home. The series is based on Edith Wharton’s unfinished final novel.
Secret star: The very contemporary soundtrack.
Not suitable for: Hopeless romantics – Christina Hendricks, for example, as the mother of one of the debutantes, has to endure a lot. Susan Vahabzadeh
Eight episodes, on Apple TV+.
All the light we don’t see
Aria Mia Loberti plays Marie, who listens to the radio at night with fascination.
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What’s the matter: A fairy tale from the Second World War, it takes place in St. Malo. With bombs, Nazi terror, a blind girl, a powerful gemstone and the great source of consolation of the 20th century – the voices from nowhere from secret radio stations.
Secret star: Beautiful old models or wooden replicas, dinosaurs in the natural history museum, for example, or the city of St. Malo.
Not suitable for: Viewers who have a hard time with Lars Eidinger, or who would rather just see him as a Shakespearean eccentric. Fritz Goettler
Four episodes, on Netflix.
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