After the double victory at the German Television Crime Festival 2023 (special award for Julia Koch as Best Actress and main prize), the successful run of the ORF country crime drama “The Silence of the Donkeys” will continue in 2024. The third Vorarlberg film in the popular ORF series by and with screenwriter, director and leading actor Karl Markovics, which an average of 750,000 viewers with a 25 percent market share did not want to miss at its ORF 1 premiere on January 9, 2024 at this year’s TeleVisionale Film and Series Festival Baden-Baden today, Friday, November 29, 2024, as “Best Television Film 2024” was awarded the TV Film Prize of the German Academy of Performing Arts. The ORF country crime drama, which stars Karl Markovics as well as Julia Koch, Gerhard Liebmann, Valentin Sottopietra, Klaus Windisch, Tobias Fend, Julian Sark, Caroline Frank and Stefan Pohl, is a production by ORF and ARTE, produced by Superfilm with support from the state of Vorarlberg.
ORF program director Stefanie Groiss-Horowitz: “Building a bridge between regional authenticity and international relevance”
“The renewed award for our country crime series is impressive evidence of the strength and appeal of regional stories. Our success shows that as a public broadcaster we can successfully build a bridge between regional authenticity and international relevance. My thanks go to the talented authors, directors and actors who make all of this possible with their skills and creativity. Congratulations to the entire team at ‘The Silence of the Donkeys’ and to everyone who is part of this success story. This award is recognition of their hard work and dedication.”
Even more country crime thriller on ORF
After the successful ORF 1 premiere of “Steirergift” (still available on ORF ON) on November 26th with an average of 811,000 viewers (provisional weighting) with a market share of 30 percent, “The Dead Man in the Gorge” calls for Patricia Aulitzky and Dominik Raneburger on Tuesday, December 3rd, at 8:15 p.m. in an ORF 1 premiere as well already on Monday, December 2nd, at 8:15 p.m. on ORF ON in the latest Tyrol case in the series. A week later, Hary Prinz and Anna Unterberger take on rural crime investigations again on Tuesday, December 10th at 8:15 p.m. in an ORF 1 premiere and on Monday, December 9th at 8:15 p.m. on ORF ON Styria occurs when the “Styrian murder” of the fiancée of a count played by Tobias Moretti is investigated and the mourner’s entire family goes under There is suspicion of crime. Maria Hofstätter sets off “to new shores” on Tuesday, December 17th at 8:15 p.m. on ORF 1 and on Monday, December 16th at 8:15 p.m. on ORF ON as a retired investigator from the State Criminal Police Office in Upper Austria, if in the former A young policewoman is murdered in no man’s land between Austria and the Czech Republic.
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