Straßenfeger 41 - Stahlnetz

Taaaaa-Ta-Dam-Tam: Drumbeats. "This case is true. It was recorded according to documents from the criminal investigation department. Only names of people, places and the dates have been changed to protect innocents and witnesses." This is how the episodes of one of the first and most successful German crime series begin, which captivated the whole of Germany in front of the television for a decade from 1958 onwards. The authentic criminal cases, borrowed from police files, became street sweepers for an entire generation. The special fascination lay in the realistic depiction of the murderers, bank robbers, thieves and victims, which had never been shown in this way before. Criminals from real life and people who could come from your own neighborhood...

Together with successful author Wolfgang Menge (see also 'A Heart and a Soul'), Jürgen Roland created the successful series 'Stahlnetz' based on the American model of the police film series 'Dragnet'. Roland also directed and became the director of the later Edgar Wallace film series. In all 22 Stahlnetz episodes, the greatest possible authenticity and attention to detail was strived for in order to portray the cases based on true events and the work of the criminal investigation department in a realistic way, with a top-class cast of the big stars of their time, including Hellmut Lange, Alexander Kerst, Wolfgang Völz, Helmut Peine, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Freddy Quinn and many more. 'Stahlnetz' is considered the predecessor of the still successful 'Tatort' series and attracted an audience of millions in front of the nation's screens from 1958 to 1968.

'Street Sweeper - Volume 41' shows these episodes 1 to 10:

01. Oberhausen murder case
02. Bank robbery in Cologne
03. The Blue Cap
04. The Dead in the Harbor Basin
05. The Twelfth Knife
06. Six under Suspicion
07. Meeting point: Bahnhof Zoo
08. The Alibi
09. File number: Welcker - among other things because of murder
10. Witness in Green Skirt