Wood work
Hair and make-up designers Gregor Eckstein and Jeanette Latzelsberger discuss creating styles for multiple time periods in German drama Das Geheimnis des Totenwaldes (Dark Woods), which is inspired by the real-life search for a missing woman. At a time where true crime penetrates all genres of television comes German drama Das Geheimnis des Totenwaldes (Dark Woods), the story of the search for a missing woman in Lower Saxony that is inspired by one of the most infamous crimes in post-war German history. In the summer of 1989, Barbara Neder (Silke Bodenbender), the sister of high-ranking police officer Thomas Bethge (Matthias Brandt), disappears shortly after two couples have been murdered in nearby woodlands. Hans Lingner, an artist and gun enthusiast living on the edge of the forest, is quickly put under suspicion. But the links between the earlier murder cases and Barbara’s disappearance are not initially picked up by the investigators. Instead, the police begin to suspect Barbara’s husband Robert (Nicholas Ofczarek). As a Hamburg police officer, Bethge is not allowed to investigate a crime in Lower Saxony, so he so seeks support from colleagues Anne Back (Karoline Schuch) and Frank Behringer (Andreas Lust). His quest for justice continues long after his retirement as he and his team eventually, through painstaking and meticulous research, track down a suspected serial killer. Produced by Bavaria Fiction and ConradFilm for German public broadcaster Das Erste and distributed by Global Screen, the six-part series is directed by Sven Bohse (Ku’damm 56 & 59) and written … Continue reading Wood work
