Walter Presents

Coming Up In January

SLEEPERS (Series 1)
Netherlands
1 x ep premiere on Channel 4 on early hours of Tuesday 14 January at 00:15am
Available on Channel 4 streaming from Friday 10 January
As young boys, Martin and his friend Willem were taken under the wing of an old school criminal, Henk. Willem followed Henk down the criminal path, but Henk had other plans for Martin and sent him to a police academy with the intention to later pass on insider information.

With the murder of Henk, Martinis forced  into passing on sensitive information to a new criminal gang and is slowly being dragged further down inside the criminal underworld.

When a detective is killed, a special force team is assigned to the case led by Tarik Mesina, who finds out the murdered detective was corrupt. This puts everyone and everything on edge and under suspicion.

Being pushed into a corner on both sides, Martin has to navigate the dangerous line between his obligations as a cop and his loyalty to the criminals to keep himself clear of suspicion and to protect his family.

New in November

The Palace

Germany
Available now on Channel 4 streaming
In this new 6-part German drama, set during the Cold War, twins Christine and Marlene are separated in 1961 when their father leaves for the west.  Years later, Marlene goes to East Berlin for a business meeting and gets a major shock when she sees her doppelganger dancing in a big revue. She follows the dancer, who turns out to be Christine, the sister she never knew she had and they have an emotional encounter, before Marlene must go back behind the Wall. The two women have many questions and are determined to find out, together, the truth about their lives. How will they manage this dangerous feat in a divided Germany? Starring Svenja Jung, Anja Kling, Heino Ferch, Jeanette Hain, Luise Befort, Hannes Wegener and August Wittgenstein. In German with English subtitles.

Syndrome E

France
Available  now on Channel 4 streaming
After Lucie Henebelle, a lieutenant on the anti-crime squad shoots her own partner during a skewed homicide investigation, washed-up but brilliant detective Franck Sharko is assigned to look into why. Haunted by ghosts of his past, Sharko must unravel the mysterious Syndrome E before it’s too late. Starring Vincent Elbaz and Jennifer Decker. In French with English subtitles.

Berlin Wall

Germany
Full run on More 4 from Friday 15 to 29 November at 9pm
Set in the late 1980s in a disintegrating East Germany. Margot Spindler is a major in the security service, the Stasi. She's one of the key movers in money-raising schemes of the service, including the lucrative trafficking of people across the border to West Germany. The authorities in West Berlin justify accepting and paying for the people who are smuggled across the Wall as humanitarianism: the Stasi see it as a vital way to keep East Germany solvent. But the Wall is only permeable for the chosen; for others, restrictions are imposed brutally. Margot's sister, bookshop owner Lotte Bohla, joins the environmental resistance with the help of her lover who is an active member. Margot and Lotte have a sibling who disappeared years ago and is presumed dead, but is she? What effect will the sisters' actions have as the Iron Curtain crumbles? Starring Nadja Uhl, Barbara Auer, Nicolette Krebitz, Oliver Masucci, Godehard Giese, Angela Winkler and Joachim Król. In German with English subtitles.

Oxen

Denmark
Available now on Channel 4 streaming
After the death of his best friend on a mission headed by Major Hannibal Frederiksen, decorated war hero Niels Oxen, convinces the chairman of the Defence Committee to look into the circumstances surrounding his death. When the chairman is subsequently killed, Hannibal walks free and Oxen is falsely accused of possession and dishonourably discharged. When Hannibal is found dead along with two others, Oxen becomes the prime suspect.

The New Front

Germany
1 x episode Premiere on Channel 4 Monday 2 December at 00:45am
Available on Channel 4 streaming from Friday 29 November
Julia is a confident young trainee police officer who works hard at her demanding classes. When she meets a mysterious man called Nick, she's charmed and they become romantically involved, but Nick hasn't told her that he had previously been connected with a radical right-wing group and is now working with a member of German intelligence services who have evolved a dark plot aimed at the extremist group that Nick was once a member of, and Julia is essential to its success. When will she realise that she's being set up?