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Country of origin Austria Genre Drama | 3.9/10 IMDb First episode date 22 January 2003 Networks ZDF, ORF eins | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Andrea L’Arronge, Heinz Marecek, Ferry Öllinger, Jakob Seeböck, Julia Cencig | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SOKO Kitzbühel is an Austrian television series produced by ORF and ZDF. It is a spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113. It is set in the renowned Tyrolean tourist centre of Kitzbühel. The production company "beo-Film" has produced the show since 2001. The German abbreviation SOKO stands for Sonderkommission, "special commission", a task force with specific duties.
Plot
The plot is centered on police detectives Karin Kofler and Lukas Roither. The team usually has to solve unusual and complicated murder cases occurring in and around Kitzbühel. Often enough, they involve members of the high society, Kitzbühel being a popular destination for the rich and the powerful.
Produced for a predominantly German market, the German spoken in the series is unrealistically close to High German, while in reality, the local Tyrolean dialect is predominant in the Austrian state of Tyrol, where Kitzbühel is located.