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Fateful encounter in "Wolfsland"
"Wolfsland: The child from the Finstertor": Butsch (Götz Schubert) protects the unknown boy (Louis Christiansen).
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A distraught boy in a murder victim's car poses a riddle in "Wolfsland" (The First). In "Abgang mit Stil" (Sat.1), three pensioner friends are planning a bank robbery. VOX shows the fairy tale classic "Cinderella" as a real film with a star cast.
8:15 p.m., Das Erste, Wolfsland: Das Kind vom Finstertor, crime thriller
Both "Butsch" (Götz Schubert) and Viola Delbrück (Yvonne Catterfeld) are very busy with themselves when a ten-year-old boy demands their full attention. It lies in the trunk of a car whose owner was found murdered. Ironically, at the old executioner's house at Finstertor. The boy does not speak, apparently has no relatives, is obviously deeply disturbed – and almost instantly takes a deep confidence in Butsch.
8:15 p.m., Sat.1, finish with style, comedy
When Joe Harding (Michael Caine) snows a foreclosure into the house, it becomes clear that the pensioner was ripped off by his bank. And not only he, his friends Willie (Morgan Freeman) and Albert (Alan Arkin) are also affected. The three resolutely and radically decide not to let their retirement be ruined and to defend themselves – with a bank robbery.
8:15 p.m., ZDF, The Mountain Rescuers: Beacon, Home Series
A sled race at a hen party ends for Nadine (Lena Dörrie) with a dramatic accident. Of all people, Julia (Sylta Fee Wegmann), the friend of Nadine's brother Stefan (Max Woelky), becomes a lifesaver. Nadine deeply mistrusts Julia and is all the more shocked when she learns that her younger brother has become engaged to Julia. In fact, Nadine soon discovers Julia's secret and wants to confront her. But the young woman has disappeared.
8:15 p.m., VOX, Cinderella, fairy tale film
When the father of the young Ella (Lily James) remarries after the mother's death, the stepmother (Cate Blanchett) and her daughters move in with them. From now on, Ella's life changes dramatically: The stepmother demotes Ella to a maid. When the king throws a ball to find a wife for his son, Ella wants to be a part of it. But this is forbidden for her by the new mother.
8:15 p.m., Tele 5, The Sentinel – Who Can You Trust ?, Thriller
Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) is a living legend in the Secret Service. Responsible for protecting the US President 20 years ago, he is now working as a career agent and responsible for the safety of the First Lady (Kim Basinger). When, in a murder plot against the incumbent president, he of all people is suspected of being one of the masterminds, it is a shock for everyone. When his former student and friend David Breckinridge (Kiefer Sutherland) was assigned the case, Garrison came under increasing pressure.