| Director: | Manfred Stelzer |
| Assistant director: | Claudia Beewen |
| Script supervisor: | Susanne Petersen |
| Screenplay: | Stefan Cantz, Jan Hinter |
| Director of photography: | Egon Werdin |
| Assistant camera: | Tony Hofmann |
| Set design: | Naomi Schenck (Szenenbild) |
| Prop master: | Stefanie Lehmkuhl, Elke Esser |
| Costume design: | Elisabeth Kraus |
| Make-up artist: | Frauke Horn, Silvia Barthelmess |
| Editing: | Bernd Schriever |
| Sound design: | Frank Maraite |
| Sound: | Michael Felber |
| Sound assistant: | Bennet Switala |
| Audio mixing: | Frank Maraite |
| Casting: | Anja Dihrberg |
| Music: | Lutz Kerschowski, Danny Dziuk |
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| Cast: | |
| Axel Prahl | Kriminalhauptkommissar Frank Thiel |
| Jan Josef Liefers | Pathologe Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne |
| Chulpan Khamatova | Russin Larissa |
| Gerald Alexander Held | Frieder Lott |
| Tim Fischer | Tom Linden |
| Wilfried Hochholdinger | Staatsanwalt Jansen in Köln |
| Mechthild Großmann | Staatsanwältin Wilhelmine Klemm |
| Claus-Dieter Clausnitzer | Herbert Thiel |
| Friederike Kempter | Kriminalbeamtin Nadeshda Krusenstern |
| Christine Urspruch | Silke "Alberich" Haller |
| Klaus J. Behrendt | Kriminalhauptkommissar Max Ballauf in Köln |
| Dietmar Bär | Kriminalhauptkommissar Freddy Schenk in Köln |
| Joe Bausch | Pathologe Dr. Joseph Roth in Köln |
| Reso Tschikwischwili | Gastwirt Krusenstern |
| Dagmar Sachse | |
| Agnes Mann | |
| Johannes Allmayer | |
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| Production company: | Colonia Media Filmproduktions GmbH (Köln) |
| Commissioned by: | Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) (Köln) |
| Producer: | Sonja Goslicki |
| Producer (TV): | Helga Poche (Westdeutscher Rundfunk [WDR]) |
| Line producer: | Liane Retzlaff |
| Unit production manager: | Marion Sand |
| Location manager: | Philip Behrends, Daniel Leidecker |
| Post-production: | Carla Schild-Kreindl |
| Shoot: | 04.04.2005-04.05.2005: Münster, Köln |
| Length: | 90 min |
| Format: | 16:9 |
| Picture/Sound: | Farbe, Dolby Digital |
| Screening: | TV-Erstsendung: 20.11.2005, ARD |
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