# Criminal: Germany (2019)

> Detectives in a German police station break rules in interview rooms to pry the truth from suspects.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/79405

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 3
- Episode runtime: 45 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: crime, drama
- Created by: Jim Field Smith, George Kay
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: Eva Meckbach, Peter Kurth, Sylvester Groth, Florence Kasumba, Deniz Arora, Christian Kuchenbuch, Jonathan Berlin, Nina Hoss
- TMDB rating: 7.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10986056/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: mild
- Tone: tense, intimate, clinical, morally uneasy, gritty

## What critics say

Audience reception is positive, with viewers praising the taut interview-room format and the performances in this short anthology-style crime drama.

## Synopsis

Criminal: Germany (2019) is a German crime drama miniseries created by Jim Field Smith and George Kay for Netflix. Across three 45-minute episodes, detectives led by Nina Hoss as Claudia Hartmann, Eva Meckbach as Nadine Keller and Peter Kurth as Jochen Müller sit across the table from suspects in a bare interview room and push for the truth, even when that means bending procedure and risking their own careers. Each episode is built around a single suspect, so the drama lives in the shifting power between interrogator and suspect, the small tells in faces and voices, and the quiet pressure of a case that refuses to settle. Sylvester Groth and Christian Berkel add weight as colleagues and superiors whose loyalties are tested as the interrogations escalate. The style is spare and clinical, with long close framing that keeps attention on dialogue and expression rather than spectacle. Tone is tense, intimate and morally uneasy, closer to a stage play than an action show. Fans of Criminal and Spiral will find the same taut, dialogue driven procedural pleasure here, with a European sensibility and a focus on the ethics of getting a confession. It is a compact, self-contained miniseries that rewards full attention.

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