Löwengrube
"Löwengrube – Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit" is a German television series first aired between 1989 and 1992, created by Willy Purucker and directed by Rainer Wolffhardt. It is set in Munich and follows the lives of Ludwig Grandauer and his son Karl, both policemen, covering the years from 1897 to 1954. The TV show is based on Purucker's radio play series Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit (‘The Grandauers and their time’). The series’ main title "Löwengrube", meaning ‘Lions’ Den’, refers to the address of the Munich Police Headquarters inaugurated in 1913.
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Cast
Seasons
1897-1933: Imperial period, World War I, hyperinflation, Golden 20s
1.Charivari
14-11-198960m1897 - 1907: Ludwig Grandauer is a policeman in a village somewhere between Munich and Bad Tölz. A murder occurs after his wedding party, of all things. Suspicion falls on a peddle...
2.Chasms
15-11-198960mMay 1909: Karl Grandauer's bicycle is stolen. Afraid of his father's punishment, Karl keeps quiet about the theft. But the butcher Willy has a plan to raise the necessary capital f...
3.Gentleman Driver
16-11-198960mThe Grandauer family is worried about the health of mother Agnes. While their daughter Luise takes over the housework for her mother, Ludwig Grandauer has to visit the family of a...
4.Changing of the Guard
17-11-198960m1914: The Munich police department moves into the long-awaited new building in the Löwengrube, while at home Luise Grandauer falls in love with Karl's friend Biwi. Now, of all time...
5.Coming Home
18-11-198960mDecember 1918: Germany has lost the First World War, food is running short, and the Spanish flu keeps killing large numbers of people. When Karl Grandauer comes back to Munich, he...
6.Conclusions
19-11-198960mOctober 1920: A dead woman is found at the side of a small road, with a sign labelling her a traitor to her fatherland. During investigation, Karl Grandauer comes across Traudl Sol...
7.Wedding Eve
01-01-199060m1923: Karl Grandauer and Traudl Soleder want to get married. But inflation makes the wedding dress and the suit for the groom very expensive. Then childhood friend Willy offers his...
8.Movements
02-01-199060mNovember 9, 1923: The Soleders are moving out of their expensive apartment into police seargent Karl Grandauer's new official residence, but streets are blocked due to the ongoing...
9.Bedroom Stories
03-01-199060mOctober 22, 1929: Kurt Soleder is working as a presenter at the Munich radio station, when one of his musicians is coming in late due to some sudden sickness; minutes later the man...
10.Vigilante Police
04-01-199060mAutumn 1931: A young man distributing the communist newspaper Die Rote Fahne is beaten up and deadly injured by two vigilantes, who claim that they caught him while breaking a shop...
11.Clean-up
05-01-199060mJanuary 30, 1933: Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. Chief inspector Grüner is leaving to spend a few weeks in a health resort, and r...
12.Will of the People
06-01-199060mMarch 1933: Two policemen come to the Kreitmeiers’ bakery with a search warrant for the room of their journeyman, confiscating brass knuckles and some communist propaganda posters....
13.First Day of Spring
07-01-199060mMarch 21, 1933: An elderly Jewish man has killed himself by opening the gas-tap in his apartment, apparently in despair of the rampant antisemitic agitation in Germany; the Grandau...
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