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Die purpurnen Flüsse: Die letzte Jagt

Cinema

„Die purpurnen Flüsse: Die letzte Jagt“ ran 2018 in the festival cinema program.

The underlying novels by Jean-Christophe Grangé are bestsellers, Mathieu Kassovitz's film adaptation of "The Purple Rivers" a classic of European thriller cinema. Now, in a lavishly staged miniseries, Grangé's investigators delve deep into occult mysteries of French and German history to solve gruesome and mysterious murders in four cases, each completed and closely following Jean-Christophe Grangé's original. No wonder: The French bestselling author is also responsible for the scripts here. We'll be showing the self-contained episode "The Last Hunt" starring Ken Duken and Nora von Waldstätten, who will also be available for a Q&A at the screening.

Inspired by Jean-Christophe Grangé's bestselling novel of the same name, The Crimson Rivers is a thrilling four-part miniseries, which follows detective Pierre Niémans and his new partner as they investigate a series of gruesome crimes in remote regions of France.