The first shows the biopic "Gundermann" about the Lausitz excavator driver and musician Gerhard Gundermann. Fish dishes are in demand today at "The Taste" (Sat.1). In "Eva" (arte) a writer falls for a mysterious stranger.
8:35 p.m., Das Erste, Gundermann, Drama
"Gundermann" tells of an excavator driver (Alexander Scheer) who writes songs, who is a poet, an idealist. He dreams and hopes and loves and fights, a spy who is being spied on, a do-gooder who doesn't know any better – a torn one. A love and music film, a drama about guilt and entanglement, a story of repressing and standing up. "Gundermann" takes another look at a vanished country. It's not too late for that. It is time.
8:15 p.m., Sat.1, The Taste, cooking competition
"Fish and Friends" is today's topic in team cooking: Which creations are presented from freshwater and saltwater fish as well as shellfish and crustaceans? The second round is about the favorite spices of 2-star chef Christoph Kunz. Choose from saffron, long pepper, and cardamom. In decision-making cooking, the hobby cooks can put all their skills to the test and conjure up real delicacies from winter truffles, monkfish liver and caviar.
00:45 am, arte, Eva, psychological thriller
Bertrand (Gaspard Ulliel) publishes the last manuscript of a late writer under his own name. The piece hits like a bomb – Bertrand is hailed by the critics. Everyone expects a new work from him, but the young author does not put anything on paper. Then he meets the unapproachable prostitute Eva (Isabelle Huppert) and begins to develop an obsession for her …
8:15 p.m., ZDFneo, Wilsberg: Royal Flush
Alex's (Ina Paule Klink) first case is about murder. Thomas Winter's wife (Tobias Oertel) has been strangled. Thomas is considered a suspect, but protests his innocence. Alex helps him escape. Private detective Wilsberg (Leonrad Lansink) is appalled by her behavior. So that she doesn't lose her license, he begins to investigate. Was Thomas really struck down by an ominous third person?
8:15 p.m., NITRO, Apollo 13, drama
Houston, USA 1970: US astronaut Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) and his crew board the rocket, which is now the third spaceship to reach the moon. On April 10th, Apollo 13 takes off from the Cape Canaveral spaceport. The catastrophe happens on the third day: an oxygen tank explodes, the power and air supply to the space capsule collapses, the carbon dioxide gases are no longer extracted and poison the men on board. The NASA ground team in Houston, led by Gene Kranz (Ed Harris), is working feverishly to bring the men back to earth.