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Crime drama "Der Schneegänger" on ZDF
"Der Schneegänger": Police officer Sanela Beara (Nadja Bobyleva) and Commissioner Lutz Gehring (Max Riemelt) discovered the suspect.
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In "Der Schneegänger" (ZDF), the body of a boy of Croatian descent is found in the forest. Three students land in "The Signal" (Tele 5) in an underground research laboratory.
8:15 p.m., ZDF, Der Schneegänger, crime drama
Two years after the disappearance of the then eleven year old Darijo, the son of Croatian immigrants, his body is found in a wooded area. The boy lived in the villa of the rich businessman Reinartz, where his mother Lida (Edita Malovcic) was the housekeeper. She is now married to the landlord. When the news that the body was found is brought to her, she collapses. Inspector Lutz Gehring (Max Riemelt) reluctantly brings in the young police officer Sanela Beara (Nadja Bobyleva), who came to Germany from Croatia at the age of six and is well connected in the Berlin exile community.
8:15 p.m., Das Erste, Reindeer on Thin Ice, Documentary
Climate change has reached the Nenets and their reindeer. For millennia, the nomads have roamed the tundra in arctic Siberia with their herds. But the old hiking routes are no longer safe. Crossing the frozen Ob River becomes an incalculable risk. The reindeer move on thin ice. The huge area on the Russian Arctic Circle is in a fever. Huge craters, like the Batagai cauldron, open up in the thawing permafrost and expose prehistoric bones and prehistoric dangers from viruses and bacteria.
8:15 p.m., Tele 5, The Signal, sci-fi thriller
A hacker slipped Jonah (Beau Knapp) and Nic (Brenton Thwaites) into breaking into their university's server. Now the stranger is sending signals from the Nevada desert. To meet him, Jonah, Nic and his girlfriend Haley (Olivia Cooke) make a detour on their trip to California. And end up as prisoners in an underground research laboratory.
10:35 p.m., cable one, Shang-High Noon, adventure comedy
When Pei Pei (Lucy Liu), the daughter of the Emperor of China, is kidnapped by the traitor Lu Fong (Roger Yuan), Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) sets off for the Wild West – determined to free her. Once there, he rides from one misfortune to the next. Together with the crook O'Bannon (Owen Wilson) and his Indian bride Falling Leaves (Brandon Merrill) Chon makes the dusty road to Carson City, the headquarters of Lu Fong.
10:15 p.m., ZDF, Der Killer & sein Bodyguard, action comedy
Professional killer Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) is supposed to testify in The Hague against the Belarusian dictator Vladislav Dukhovich (Gary Oldman) and is therefore assigned the bodyguard Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds). However, the two are extremely reluctant to work together. Dukhovich does everything in his power to prevent Kincaid from making this statement and sends his best men out to get the unwelcome witness out of the way.