Scarp

what happens

Almost all of Alt-Bützenich is deserted and boarded up. At night a security service checks on everything. It was decided that the houses and the church would have to give way to open-cast mining. Then the climate change brings new hope: the old village can stay. But the once close-knit village community has long since disappeared with the move to Neu-Bützenich. As Dr. When Christian Franzen, the local doctor, is informed that his empty house has been broken into, he immediately sets off - but never returns home. His wife Betje turns to the police, who find her husband - shot dead in the old village. Even though everyone here was a patient of the doctor, he was still not particularly popular. During their investigation, detectives Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk uncover a torn community. Time cannot simply be turned back here in the lignite mining area.

who made it

directed

Torsten C. Fischer

written

Eva Zahn, Volker A. Zahn

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

• Klaus J. Behrendt as Max Ballauf
• Dietmar Bär as Freddy Schenk
• Juliane Köhler as Lydia Rosenberg
• Roland Riebeling as Norbert Jütte
• Tinka Fürst as Natalie Förster
• Joe Bausch as Joseph Roth