The BEST episodes directed by Uli Edel
#1 - Part 3: 1933-1997
Hotel Adlon: A Family Saga - Season 1 - Episode 3
Sonja visits Julian in protective custody and informs him that she is pregnant. Three years later, he is released and returns to Sonja and their daughter Anna-Maria. He wants to leave Germany. In his efforts to escape Germany Julian accepts a false British passport but the Gestapo find out and arrest him. Sebastian swears to Sonja hat he will spare no effort to ensure that Julian does not come to court, but is only deported abroad. Because he believes Sonja had betrayed him and opted for collaboration with the Nazis, Julian has disappeared with their daughter and is still missing. Sonja resists Sebastian's overtures and resigns from broadcasting. She finds a job at the Adlon on the front desk. At Hotel Adlon Louis has tried to keep out of politics, with the result that the Adlon is shunned by the Nazis, even though Louis and Hedda have joined the Party. During World War II, specially the Battle for Berlin, the Adlon is increasingly becoming a military hospital. 1945 - Louis and Hedda leave the hotel to see her estate in Fahrland. Frederick Loewe and his daughter Sonja hold the fort at the hotel. The ailing Louis Adlon is arrested and interrogated by a Russian commando. He is released, but dies on his way home to his estate of a heart attack. After the Battle for Berlin, Russians forces occupy the Hotel Adlon, which is still largely intact. There a wounded Siegfried, now an SS -Hauptsturmführer, has also found refuge and is hiding in the cellar. During a sweep by Russian soldiers a shooting causes a fire to break out, in which the hotel is mostly burned to the ground. Siegfried could not be found when Frederick Loewe tried to save him from the flames. The hotel is expropriated by the Russian occupiers and Sonja Schadt is entrusted with the supervisory commission. Sebastian, who lost a leg in the war, returns to Berlin. He is Sonya's partner and her partner in the management of the hotel. In 1952, an Israeli socialist at a congress in the German Democra
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Hotel Adlon: A Family Saga - Season 1 - Episode 2
Deeply struck by her husband's death Ottilie Schadt takes her own life. Alma returns with Undine to America but Sonja refuses to go with them and takes an apartment at the Adlon. There she meets the Jewish pianist and journalist Julian Zimmermann and falls in love with him. Against the will of his father Lorenz, Louis Adlon divorces his wife Tilly, with whom he has five children, in order to marry Hedda Berger. In 1921 Lorenz Adlon is run over by a truck at the Brandenburg Gate and dies shortly thereafter. Louis takes over the running of the hotel with his new wife and gets it through the turmoil of the inflation period. During the "Golden Twenties" the hotel blossomed, achieved world fame and was home to the most important personalities of the time. Sonja begins a career in broadcasting. She loses sight of Julian Zimmermann until she is invited some time later to his Jewish wedding to actress Tamara Lieberkoff. A childhood friend, Sebastian Antennen, brother of Siegfried Geschirr, accompanies her to the wedding. Siegfried is a member of the Nazi Party Sturmabteilung (SA – what is now know as the Brownshirts) and is a leading-man in Berlin. After an appearance in 1926 by Josephine Baker in Berlin, there are racist protests by an SA troupe under the leadership of Siegfried and there is a fatal shooting. A protest at the Berlin Police remains inconclusive. The 1930s, see Julian Zimmermann, who has separated from his wife, and Sonja Schadt together permanently. After the National Socialist seizure of power Sonja finds her broadcasting work more and more in conflict with the new rulers. Sebastian, meanwhile, is now in a leading position Broadcasting House. After the Reichstag fire Julian is arrested and sentenced to three years in protective custody.
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Hotel Adlon: A Family Saga - Season 1 - Episode 1
Restaurant owner Lorenz Adlon plans to build a large and modern hotel in the heart of Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate. He has the support of Kaiser Wilhelm II who often booked the hotel, after its opening in 1907, for state guests. Lorenz Adlon's friends and financiers include successful colonial entrepreneur, Gustaf Schadt. Alma, daughter of Gustaf and Ottilie Schadt, becomes involved with Frederick Loewe, son of the driver. To avoid a scandal, Ottilie Schadt claims the secretly born daughter Sonja as her own child. Gustaf and Ottilie arrange for Alma to marry the noble officer Siegfried Geschirr, but she refuses and turns to the American photographer Undine Adams, with whom she eventually emigrates to the United States where she remains until after the First World War. Her daughter Sonja stays with her grandparents and is raised as their daughter. The child's father, Frederick Loewe, gets a job as a Page in the Hotel Adlon, where he rises to the position of Concierge. The first part ends with the First World War and the revolution in Berlin, which eventually leads to the end of the Empire. After the loss of German colonies Gustaf Schadt returns to a fading Berlin and dies shortly thereafter. On his deathbed he shares with Sonja that in truth her supposed sister Alma is her mother. Alma returns to Berlin with her partner Undine for her father's funeral. She also contacts Frederick Loewe and is finally brought together with her daughter. Accompanying Alma and Undine is a German American, Hedda Berger, whose appearance in the Adlon arouses the interest of Louis Adlon.
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Homicide: Life on the Street - Season 6 - Episode 13
With the addition of the latest murder, the "red ball" investigation continues full force. The detectives and the returning Bayliss pose as priests in an attempt to flush out any leads. Munch's cover attracts two young thugs, but they prove to be nothing. Gee is called upstairs, where his performance doesn't sit well with Barnfather. Lewis turns up and seeks some help from Falsone. Pembleton receives a call that the two missing boys have been found. Pembleton and Stivers travel to collect them. Meanwhile, Gharty and Ballard find the pawnbroker who had accepted a stolen chalice. Cox and Bayliss prevent a drunken Kellerman from driving home. Ballard and Gharty use the pawn-receipt false address to track down the corner kid with whom they'd previously had a run-in. They bring him into the box and Gharty loses his cool. The kid is tough to crack, but Pembleton has an idea involving the morgue and a trip to the shore. While stumbling home, a drunken Kellerman decides he doesn't like the loo
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Homicide: Life on the Street - Season 5 - Episode 18
A girl complains to the desk sergeant about her father's abuse of her mother. Meldrick spends the night remembering Crosetti with the Chris and Eva Thormann. Chris reflects on his own memories of the shooting incident that blinded him, the shooter is now up for parole. Bayliss with Pembleton investigate the homicide of a man shot to death in his own house. The shooter, the murdered man's wife will testify, is their daughter. The case triggers a painful memory for Tim who goes to visit his Uncle George.
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Homicide: Life on the Street - Season 6 - Episode 12
Kellerman is trying to find Lewis, who's disappeared since his suspension. Bayliss is on vacation. Stivers rotates into homicide and Kellerman isn't happy to see her. A priest is found murdered. Falsone attends a custody deposition hearing. A tape is delivered to Channel 11 that contains some startling information from a Swami about the priest's activities involving young boys. Munch and Kellerman seek out the two boys who were at the scene of the crime; meanwhile the other detectives seek out the Swami. Both are located, though the boys do not provide anything conclusive; they are held in protective custody. Kellerman searches for Lewis. Meanwhile, church members protest in front of the station house. Falsone gets his son for a weekend. Ballard and Gharty detain a corner kid who might be identifiable as one of three who had frightened a priest. Unfortunately, that priest (a monsignor) can't make a positive ID. Because of public pressure, the boys are released from custody to stay with
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Homicide: Life on the Street - Season 5 - Episode 13
Kellerman is disappointed with his treatment in the press (or rather the lack of it). Back on the job, Mike gets his first case. There was a shopkeeper who was killed for chasing the drug dealers out of his corner. The prime suspect is Luther Mahoney. Frank tries to reconnect with Tim who is still resolved to no longer be Frank's partner. Mike is visibly on the edge, with all the pressures of the past months and his reputation tarnished, and agitated by the fact that Luther Mahoney may get away with another murder. Meldrick tries to talk him down, not anxious to lose another partner.
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Oz - Season 2 - Episode 2
Ten months after the riot, Em City re-opens. A recovered McManus creates a council of group representatives to keep order, and initiates GED classes to help inmates get high-school equivalency diplomas. Having been told by O'Reily that Adebisi was responsible for his father's death, Peter Schibetta takes over the kitchen by cashing in a favor Glynn owes the family. As Schillinger's parole hearing nears, Beecher taunts his nemesis mercilessly in an attempt to ruin Schillinger's quest for freedom. Glynn's duaghter is raped by a group of Latinos, and the warden takes out his frustations on Alvarez. O'Reily learns he may have breast cancer.
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Twin Peaks - Season 2 - Episode 14
Windom Earle has taken his first victim in the deadly chess game. Audrey tells Bobby they have to save Ben from his Civil War fantasy. Leo awakes and attacks Shelly, but Bobby is able to fend him off. Doc Hayward offers the true story of Little Nicky's past. Cooper reveals his rivalry with Earle: they were partners when Cooper fell in love with Caroline, Earle's wife. Earle went mad, killing Caroline and wounding Cooper. Mr. Marsh is killed. Donna confronts Evelyn. After a heated confrontation Mayor Milford and Lana end up lovers. Andrew Pakcard reveals himself to Pete, and tells him Josie has been working for his old enemy Thomas Eckheardt. Cooper suspects Josie in the murder of Jonathan. Eckheardt arrives in Twin Peaks, and Leo Johnson finds himself in the company of Windom Earle.
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Tales from the Crypt - Season 5 - Episode 10
In this version of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, a young woman who is also a thief is picked up by a man driving by. He takes her up to his place. There she hears a message from his wife, but also learns that there is a killer nearby. When she goes to his room she gets a big surprise.
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