After the last concert of a long tour, Dr. Kurt Ostbahn retires to his favorite café to relax. He is suddenly dragged into a bizarre criminal case. His vacation then fills with vice, perversion and murder. Of course, this is not just a story; Dr. Kurt Ostbahn experienced everything himself! The characters are not inventions; they are personal acquaintances of Dr. Ostbahn. Only the names and details have been changed so as to make them barely recognizable. And the story is more exciting than real life.
The Alaska Kid is a 1991 German / Russian / Polish television miniseries, based on Jack London's 1912 short story anthology, Smoke Bellew. First broadcast on the German ZDF network in December 1993, the series stars Mark Pillow as "The Alaska Kid" Jack Bellew, a newspaper reporter on his beat during the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska.
A pair of mismatched cops stumble onto a major protection racket involving a seedy restaurant.
Buddy and Bob, two gang leaders in Germany and Hong Kong, have joined forces to run a successful syndicate to smuggle drugs, arms and gold around the world. But when Buddy is killed during the escalating gang warfare, Bob has another enemy to contend with - Interpol; they bring in a team of top-ranking police officers to break the syndicate apart. Bloodshed is unavoidable before the sun rises...
Indian sheriff Thunder is transferred to a small town in the desert. He learns that the corrupt deputy is paid by the drug mob. To protect himself, the deputy sets a trap for Thunder and gets him convicted as dealer. Thunder manages to break out of the brutal prison camp and takes bloody revenge. However he cannot sufficiently protect his pregnant wife.
Teenager Raphaela was born blind into a wealthy, material focused family. Her father escapes reality into an affair with his secretary while her mother reacts to the difficult situation in an over protective and possessive conduct towards her blind daughter.
Hans Engler, a modest, reserved man, lives in Hamburg. He has never married and has no family of his own, but lives with a couple as a subtenant in simple accommodation. On Hamburg's Reeperbahn, of all places, Engler earns his living as a waiter in a shabby "establishment", in the middle of an environment in which the peaceful Engler doesn't really fit in. He usually avoids arguments; Engler knows that nobody would take him seriously as an opponent in the rough neighborhood because of his slight build.
Raimund Harmstorf (*7 October 1939 at Hamburg - d. 3 May 1998 at Marktoberdorf) was a German actor. He became famous as the protagonist of a German TV mini series after Jack London's the Sea-Wolf (which was sold into many countries) and starred later on successfully in another German TV series after Jules Verne's Michael Strogoff. Description above from the Wikipedia article Raimund Harmstorf, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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