Die Pfefferkörner (1999)

Directed by

Christian Theede

Genre

children's television series

Country

Germany

Length

22 seasons, 283 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Five friends in Hamburg solve crimes and help each other with personal problems. They use their intelligence and the internet to catch criminals while dealing with family issues and their own struggles.

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What happens

Die Pfefferkörner (English: The Peppercorns) is a German television series produced by KIKA, featuring 21 seasons. The Peppercorns are five friends from Hamburg: Jana Holstein Coutre (Anna-Elena Herzog), Natasha "Tascha" Jaonzäns (Vijessna Ferkic), Philip "Fiete" Overbeck (Julian Paeth), Cem Gülec (Ihsan Ay) and Vivien "Vivi" Overbeck (Aglaia Brix), Fiete's eight-year-old sister. After school, the young detectives meet at a high level of a spice warehouse of the company Overbeck & Associates, which belongs to Fiete and Vivi's parents in the first part, but is later given to Fiete and Vivi to look after. Here, in the historic warehouse district, the five friends have their headquarters. With smarts, combined delivery and support of the Internet, they find their cases here. The detectives convict polluters, animal dealers and drug smugglers. They also help each other with personal problems they encounter. Cem has lost his parents in a car accident and sometimes feels sad and lonely. Jana lives with her divorcee mother, a lawyer who is rarely at home. Natasha comes from Latvia. Her parents initially have very strict rules in terms of her education, that make Natasha unhappy. Fiete has problems showing his feelings and hides them behind grumpiness and hostility towards girls, until he falls in love with Natasha. Vivi is suffering from her role of the youngest member of the group. She believes that she must constantly struggle for recognition. The jointly-lined adventure and conflicts can always be resolved eventually by the peppercorns, working together and relying on each other in a dedicated community. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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