Traude
After suffering a severe head injury on the job, criminal investigator Tommy Wehrschitz is being suspended - for his own good. In order to deal with the changes in his life he decides to go to southern Burgenland, to sell property he inherited from his estranged father. Barely arrived, Tommy is invited to see the circus, which is currently in the village, but the colorful spectacle is cut short when a flying knife misses its target and kills an audience member instead. But was it really just an accident? Tommy begins to dig and the deeper he gets, the darker the secrets he uncovers until he has to fear for his own life.
For months, the corrupt Viennese policeman Albert Schuh unsuccessfully investigates the murder case of his former friend and colleague. Then he gets a young, overambitious partner. The German colleague Thorsten Richter is a set of correctness and ambition, and thus the exact opposite of the Viennese, the "benefits" from the criminal scene is quite open. Since the two can not stand, the dispute does not stay out. The Austrian stops the German an unnecessary undercover job on an erotic chat line and determined alone on.
Barbara 'Betti' Fröhlich
Gisela von Rachlitz
1950년대 중반 헝가리 의거 당시의 부다페스트와 모산을 배경으로 한 이야기다. 영국인 미녀 애쉬모어(데보라커)가 그녀의 헝가리인 애인인 유명한 생물학자 캐데스(제이슨 로바즈)를 구출해내는 과정에서 소련 장교 슈로프(율부린너)의 순찰대 검문에 걸려 모산이라는 오스트리아 국경도시에 억류된다. 그러던 중 여러가지 사건에 걸려 위험한 지경에 이르는데...
